Alaina Huffman

I grew up in this industry. I'm a third generation actor, and I believe strongly that life and career are two different things. Career is inside my life. I'm also a photographer, a pianist, and lots of different things, so my life consists of so many different elements that there are moments when I have to step away and be me.

Canadian Actress

Alexandra Daddario

When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done - ice-skate, carry a tune. I can't dance for my life, but I can learn, so I'll tell people I can dance. I play the piano - I'm a really good pianist, actually.

American Actress

Birdy

My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight, I started writing my own songs, and kinda started putting piano and singing together. But I'm trained classically, which is a big influence on me, I think.

English Musician

Athol Fugard

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

South African Playwright

Christopher Plummer

When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd devoted myself to it, I could have been. But it would have been too much work and a very lonely life.

Canadian Actor

Ayushmann Khurrana

Andhadhun' is the most challenging film and character. For playing the role, first and foremost I had to learn how to play the piano and then how to emulate gestures of a blind pianist.

Indian Actor

Dove Cameron

My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in ways I'm still discovering!

Carla Bruni

My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

Italian Musician

Nat Wolff

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

American Actor

Jeff Buckley

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

American Musician

Refers to someone with specific skill or training in playing the piano, not a casual player.

Musical Expertise

Often used to imply that the person earns a living by playing the piano, especially in formal settings.

Professional Context

Pianists are sometimes stereotypically seen as highly cultured and educated in arts.

Cultural Connotation

 Fantastic. Well done, Derek. So you see, in your brain, Derek, is this amazing musical computer that can instantly recalibrate, recalculate, all the pieces in the world that are out there. Most pianists would have a heart attack if you said, "Sorry, do you mind playing 'Flight of the Bumblebee'

Derek Paravicini and...

 their brains while they're doing musical things lim has examined lots of impressive musicians we were able to scan the brain of gabriella montero the amazing venezuelan pianist who can improvise an entire classical music concert you know night after night she does the second half of

The Secret of Musical...

 about their judgments, studies show you will make them make worse judgments. If you tell the pianist to think about how she's hitting the notes when she's playing the piece, she can't play the piece. Self-consciousness is the enemy of accomplishment. Edison stated it best. He said,

Philip Howard: Four ways...

 which is why I call it one-buttock playing. It can be the other buttock. You know, a gentleman was once watching a presentation I was doing, when I was working with a young pianist. He was the president of a corporation in Ohio. I was working with this young pianist, and said,

The transformative power...

 and we bring everything we've learned to every new area we pursue, so we're rarely starting from scratch. Nora Dunn is a full-time traveler and freelance writer. As a child concert pianist, she honed an incredible ability to develop muscle memory.

Why some of us don't...

 this world would agree with that another example would be ylang-ylang the concert pianist dare dazzling Flair charisma youthful barato bravado daredevil extremes these are two very different personalities but they've got the same

Love and hormones PIPE...

 It's called "Kaleidoscope." And Hofmann is a Polish pianist and composer of the late 19th century, and he's widely considered one of the greatest pianists of all time. I have another piece that I'd like to play for you.

Jennifer Lin:...

 in the last year of the composer's life. He was dying of leukemia and he knew it, and he dedicated this concerto to his wife, Dita, who was herself a concert pianist.