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The piano teacher: Payam Khastkhodaei

When Payam Khastkhodaei began teaching piano to a family friend’s daughter in his Bothell home at 16, he relied on the same method he had been taught as a kid—classical songbooks, rigid practice, and ...
When starting to learn a musical instrument, one thing that can put people off is the basic nature of the tunes on hand to get you off the ground. Of course, it makes sense that the simplest music is ...
Their soothing tones and hypnotic arpeggios amass gigantic listening figures on ‘chill’ Spotify playlists, but composers such as Nils Frahm are shunned by the classical world Pitch darkness. Then a ...