Lars Gunnar Victor Gullin ( 4 May 1928, Sanda, Gotland – 17 May 1976, Vissefjärda ) was a Swedish jazz baritone saxophone player, occasional pianist and composer closest in playing style to United States Cool school players, with a full tone, but also a lightness uncommon with baritone saxophonists and an influence from Swedish folk music, which helps make his music unique.

The sostenuto pedal gives the pianist an ability to create what is called an organ pedal point by keeping a specific note's damper, or notes ' dampers, in their open position ( s ), allowing those strings to continue to sound while other notes can be played without continuing to resonate.

" This is an assertion that his ability as a pianist is fair, perhaps in need of improvement.

Although a considerable pianist himself, he was undoubtedly assisted by Yvonne Loriod's formidable piano technique and ability to convey complex rhythms and rhythmic combinations ; in his piano writing from Visions de l ' Amen onwards he had her in mind.

He would soon develop a fluid sight-reading ability, but his teacher rated his brother as a better pianist.

Recordings two years later of works by Chopin, Grieg, and Poldini demonstrate, according to music historian Michael Broyles, " a pianist of sensitivity, prodigious technical ability, and artistic maturity.

Early distinguished by her excellence as a pianist, organist and singer, she also showed considerable ability in painting and illuminating ; but a lively poetic imagination led her to the path of literature, and more especially to poetry, folk-lore and ballads.

At an early age, Hughes developed such musical ability that he is reported to have attracted attention of Herr Hast, an eminent German pianist in America who procured for him a professorship of music at St. Joseph ’ s College in Bardstown, Kentucky.

This soon led to the discovery that translating literature employed the same faculties that she utilised as a pianist — the ability to present artistic works to an audience in a manner acceptable and satisfying to the composer or writer and honest in their interpretation.

Though formally trained as a classical pianist, he also has the ability to play by ear, and used both skills to the benefit of the act.

She was the band's pianist as well, until guitarist Annelies Kuijsters was forced to take over this position, having lost her ability to play guitar after a severe injury.

Bainton later moved with his family to Coventry and he showed early signs of musical ability playing the piano ; he was nine years old when he made his first public appearance as solo pianist.

Miss Schwarzkopf and her excellent pianist, John Wustman, often achieved the highest lyrical ideals of the lieder tradition.

Her father, Joaquín Nin, was a Cuban pianist and composer, when he met her mother Rosa Culmell, who was a classically trained singer in Cuba of French and Danish descent.

Jazz pianist Jim Martinez, who organized her birthday celebration at the Cypress Inn at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, claims that according to Doris Day's current assistant, when Day was a teenager, she added two years to her age so she would be old enough to sing with big bands.

She attended Loreto Community School in Milford, County Donegal and then moved away to attend college wanting to become a classical pianist, continuing her studies in music and also studying watercolour painting.

Blyton was a talented pianist, but gave up her musical studies when she trained as a teacher at Ipswich High School.

Davis ' mother, Cleota Mae ( Henry ) Davis, wanted her son to learn the piano ; she was a capable blues pianist but kept this fact hidden from her son.

Sakamoto then married popular Japanese pianist and singer Akiko Yano in 1982, having collaborated with her on some of her recordings.

His childhood was marked by the musical life provided by his mother and aunt: Maria was a singer who could boast of having performed in Vienna at the Imperial Court, while her sister, Agathe, who lived with them, had made a name for herself as both a singer and pianist.

In 1967, she learned that her ex-band mates Andy Silvester and Stan Webb were forming a blues band, Chicken Shack, and were looking for a pianist.

Ella in London recorded live in 1974 with pianist Tommy Flanagan, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Keter Betts and drummer Bobby Durham, was considered by many to be some of her best work.

Bridgewater's album Dear Ella ( 1997 ) featured many musicians that were closely associated with Fitzgerald during her career, including the pianist Lou Levy, the trumpeter Benny Powell, and Fitzgerald's second husband, double bassist Ray Brown.

Neither rumor was ever proven, but Edith proved to be bored with her marriage very early on and focused her energy on Norma, who she decided would one day become a famous concert pianist.

Initially, for his first year under Leschetizky, he was given rigorous preparatory technical tuition from Anna Yesipova ( Leschetizky ’ s second wife and a famous pianist in her own right ) and also from Malwine Bree who was Leschetizky's assistant.

Aimée was an accomplished pianist, while her brother François Delsarte was a distinguished singer and teacher who performed at the courts of both Louis Philippe and Napoleon III.

In the summer of 1930 she went to Scandinavia where she met the Finnish pianist Kosti Vehanen who became her regular accompanist and her vocal coach for many years.

His mother had wanted her son to be a concert pianist but he stopped playing in July 1946 when she was killed in a car crash, together with his sister, after his father fell asleep at the wheel of the car in which the family was traveling and crashed into a culvert wall.

Tutin was also a talented pianist, but chose acting rather than music as her vocation.

Raitt, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt and his first wife, pianist Marjorie Haydock, began playing guitar at an early age, something few of her high school female friends did.

* Hazel Harrison: American pianist, known as the premiere black pianist of her time

1998 saw the release of Parks ' first live album, Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove, which shows a love of the work of 19th-century American pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk as well as performances of several of Parks ' better ( and lesser ) known songs.

In some of his other roles during the 1960s and 1970s, Bogarde played opposite renowned stars, yet several of the films were of uneven quality, down to demands or limitations set by the studio or their scripts: The Angel Wore Red ( 1960 ), playing an unfrocked priest who falls in love with cabaret entertainer Ava Gardner during the Spanish Civil War ; Song Without End ( 1960 ), as Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt, a flawed film made under the initial direction of Charles Vidor ( who died during shooting ), and completed by Bogarde's friend George Cukor, the actor's only disappointing foray into Hollywood ; the campy The Singer Not the Song ( 1961 ), as a Mexican bandit co-starring John Mills as a priest ; H. M. S.

He studied to be a concert pianist, but developed a love for the theatre at an early age.

Set during World War II in occupied Paris, and inspired by the romantic novel The Lady of the Camellias ( by Alexandre Dumas, fils ), Marguerite is about the mistress of a high-ranking German officer who attracts the love of a pianist half her age.

His mother was a classical pianist, and Griffin acquired his love of music from her.

I love his music a lot, and I respect him as a pianist and as my great friend ”.

Although primarily known as a pianist, he had an abiding love for the organ, both Hammond and theatre pipe.

" She falls in love with a talented pianist, Philip Alder, and marries him.

As he progresses through his studies, he meets and falls in love with the painter, Erminia Aglietti and becomes a close friend to a young pianist named Richard.

Comparisons which might be drawn between Ross and the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould ( e. g., due to their common love of Baroque music and their unconventional approaches ) are put into a fuller context by these comments from Ross in a documentary film made toward the end of his life:

She fell in love with her pianist, Myrl Alderman, but in 1938 he was shot and injured by her ex-husband.

She had numerous adulterous love affairs within the elite Melton Mowbray hunting clique and had a long affair with the renowned pianist Arthur Rubinstein, whom she said she slept with on his wedding day.

His mother was Cordelia M. Kearns ( née Peterson ) ( 1877 – 1962 ), a concert pianist, from whom Kearns derived his love of music.

The plot concerns Michael, a professional violinist, who never forgot his love for Julia, a pianist he met as a student in Vienna.