{"id":2123675,"date":"2025-10-29T23:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2123675"},"modified":"2025-10-29T23:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:17:59","slug":"kings-arts-humanities-acquires-two-new-steinway-pianos-for-the-department-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kings-arts-humanities-acquires-two-new-steinway-pianos-for-the-department-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"King’s Arts & Humanities acquires two new Steinway pianos for the Department of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Steinway models B and D, considered the gold standard in piano making, are already in use by Music students at King\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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The Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King\u2019s has funded the purchase of two brand new Steinway grand pianos, and the full refurbishment of a third, for the Department of Music<\/a> at King\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The new Steinways are an absolutely magnificent new addition to the Department of Music. They have already been fondly nicknamed Alice \u2013 the Model D, after musician Alice Coltrane \u2013 and Bruce \u2013 the Model B, after Bruce Wannell, late friend of the Department. In the short time they have been with us, they have completely transformed performance, education and research. I and the whole Department are deeply grateful to the University and the Faculty for their fifty-year investment in the future of Music at King\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Professor Katherine Butler Schofield, Head of the Department of Music<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In an educational context, instruments act as teachers in themselves, says Dr Joseph Fort<\/a>, Senior Lecturer and Director of Performance in the Department of Music at King\u2019s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These new pianos have had a transformative effect on the Performance education that we offer here at King\u2019s. The instruments are teachers in themselves: our students learn from them what is needed to coax out the best sound, and they are an inspiration to attain the highest possible standards in performance. Whether as professional performers or in other roles, so many of our students have gone onto careers that involve playing the piano, and we are equipping the next generation of pianists to do the same.<\/p>\n

Dr Joseph Fort, Senior Lecturer and Director of Performance, Admissions Tutor<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Department of Music alumnus Rohan Godfrey<\/a> (MMus, first class honours) played Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2 by Johannes Brahms, on the new instrument. \u2018A good piano makes a good pianist, and these Steinways provide students with a platform to grow their musicianship,\u2019 Rohan says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n