One of the most exciting pianists of his generation
— The Daily Telegraph
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CYRILL’S STORY

Cyrill, a Royal College of Music graduate, is a British-Dutch pianist who has performed at a number of major venues including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, St John’s Smith Square in London and the Philharmonie in Berlin. His CD, ‘Dialogue’, is played on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3. He appeared on ‘The One Show’ and BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’, and has been featured on the cover of Gentleman’s Journal as ‘the future of British music’, in Attitude magazine as Rising Star and in Tatler in the ‘Best Dressed in Britain’ list of 2022.  His CD, ‘Dialogue’, is played on Classic FM and BBC Radio 3.

Cyrill is passionate about bringing classical music to a wider audience and helping the next generation to get engaged with classical music in his educational platform.

Cyrill has worked with renowned pianists such as Maria João Pires and Steven Osborne.

FEATURES

Piano Practice: Sooth Your Soul in Your Search for Expression
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Piano Practice: Sooth Your Soul in Your Search for Expression

To carry emotional depth from the page to the audience, we have to practice, practice, practice. Music and performance can only become fine-tuned with dedication and patience. We must achieve clarity in the mind and allow our bodies to become the vehicle.

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Cutting Through the Noise
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Cutting Through the Noise

Listening is a very difficult thing. And every day comes this process, the process of trying to listen even more carefully. As a concert pianist, you’re not only listening to yourself, your inner thoughts, but you’re also listening to your surroundings.

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Never Stop - How To Keep The Young Performer Playing.
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Never Stop - How To Keep The Young Performer Playing.

Learning to play an instrument can be terribly difficult as I doesn’t only entail being able to read notes and aiming for a flexible coordination, but also an emotional involvement. In many cases I have seen over my years in education a difficulty in the upkeep of a solid and continuous practice scheme. I have seen t

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Why do we practice scales and arpeggios?
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Why do we practice scales and arpeggios?

Practising scales and arpeggios can be tedious and time consuming. It can seem pointless as the goal is to play pieces and songs that are stimulating to the young performer. What can be hard as well is the patterns that need to be learned. The fingering is sometimes hard to get especially when we play with both hands at the same time.

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DIALOGUE

Dialogue, the debut album of pianist Cyrill Ibrahim, features Bach’s second Partita, Schubert’s A major Sonata (D. 664), Debussy’s first book of the Images, and Schumann’s Allegro, Op. 8. These pieces from the core piano repertoire show the different approaches to the instrument and explore the enormous potential in sound, color, and expression. Cyrill has selected these works because, at different times in his life, they all played an important role. Cyrill has performed both as soloist and a chamber recitalist on the national and international stage for such halls as the Berliner Philharmonie and Concertgebouw in Amsterdam