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things. We could be the go-to place if someone wants to find out anything
about the piano, they can come to us.”

Also, he believes, “people’s perception of the piano and how they consume

music generally is evolving – from just in the 24 years of this century, we’ve
gone from the CD being the prime mover to now CDs are becoming almost

niche and everybody’s consuming on Spotify and Apple Classical and all
those different platforms. Big record companies are having to adjust to a

swiftly changing environment.

“For instance, Warner Classics, less than half of their music is on CD, it’s

increasingly more on streaming. You’re getting labels like Platoon, which

works under the Apple umbrella and doesn’t offer physical CDs at all. So the
new generation of pianists are going to have to be operating in a different

way – that’s the way the world is evolving so we have to evolve with it.”

Leeds International Piano Competition finals take place at St George’s Hall,
Bradford on September 20 and 21. This year’s finalists have been announced

as:

Kai-Min Chang (Taiwan) Junyan Chen (China) Jaeden Izik-Dzurko (Canada)

Khanh Nhi Luong (Vietnam) Julian Trevelyan (United Kingdom)

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