“an important voice in the piano world”
Peter Donohoe, CBE, conceert pianist
F M Wilson is a publicist, writer and pianist. She is the creator and editor of The Cross-Eyed Pianist, one of the UK’s leading websites devoted to classical music and the piano. Since founding the site in 2010, she has written extensively on music, performance and musicians for an international readership, and in 2012 she launched Meet the Artist, a series of interviews with musicians and composers. Featured artists include Sir Stephen Hough, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Maxim Vengerov, and Steven Kovacevich, as well as many young and emerging artists. Her writing has also appeared in Pianist, Classical Music, International Piano, The Schubertian, and InterludeHK, and from 2011 to 2018, she was a concert reviewer for Bachtrack.com.
….the best music writing I have read in ages. You combine your perfect prose with fine-tuned erudition and history
Michael Johnson, journalist
knowledge allied to a lightness of touch
HS
She writes programme notes for leading concert venues, has appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters to discuss the effect of the internet on music criticism, and is co-editor, with Michael Johnson, of Lifting the Lid, a collection of interviews with leading international pianists of today. She serves as Concerts Manager for Chamber Music Weymouth, a popular monthly lunchtime concert series, founded in 2002 by pianist and teacher Duncan Honeybourne, and is a Trustee of Hertfordshire Festival of Music.
An advanced amateur pianist, F M Wilson returned to the instrument after an absence of some twenty years, gaining professional performance diplomas with distinction in her late 40s. Her lifelong love of classical music, together with her experience as a pianist and piano teacher, inspired her first novel, Facing the Music.
F M Wilson lives in Dorset with her husband and a much-loved 1913 C. Bechstein grand piano.
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