Nick van Bloss

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‘Immaculately-articulated authority…thunderous grandeur’

The Independent

In 1994, aged 26, Nick van Bloss played a televised recital in Poland at the Chopin Festival. This proved to be his last public appearance before he retired from playing completely for 15 years. During these years van Bloss rarely touched a piano, but he did write his autobiographical memoir ‘Busy Body’, which was published, to much acclaim, in 2006. The following year he was the subject of a BBC ‘Horizon’ documentary, inspired by his book, exploring his creativity. This documentary led to interest in his piano playing and, in 2008, he began a series of recordings with award-winning producer Michael Haas, beginning with Bach’s monumental ‘Goldberg’ Variations, and including a recording of Bach’s Keyboard Concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra.

Producer Michael Haas, says that ‘in polyphonic music, such as Bach, Nick offers a superhuman degree of precision and individuality with each voice, while never losing overall transparency,’ and who feels that van Bloss’s Chopin and Rachmaninov are characterised by a ‘crystalline solidity’ which enables him to build and shape works with total security and ‘achieve a near-perfect balance between vibrancy of keyboard playing and sweep of musical vision.’

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