Preparing the ground

Jonathon Brown admires the maturity and individuality of the Israeli pianist Ido Zeev, and meets him to find out more about the musician behind the performer

Does it make sense to say of Ido Zeev that he is one of the oldest of young pianists? Or that he is one of the youngest old pianists? He is 25 but has remarkably been playing the piano only since he was 10. His interest in the instrument came out of a passage of activity in ancient music, which seems to have coloured his approach: hard to pin down what may seem an obvious basic premise, but I came away from our sweltering afternoon refreshment at La Roque d’Anthéron sensing that here is a young man animated by judicious balance of music in a wider culture and of sheer youthful exuberance, a balance between a duty to behave and a duty to misbehave, to create, to celebrate. Tall and…

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International Piano (Digital) - 1 Issue, Spring 2025

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