Not only was I fiddling around at the keyboard but there were all these other children of all backgrounds wanting to play every sort of music bits of… - Joanna MacGregor

It's a life of planes and trains.

I got my apprenticeship, with the Young Concert Artists Trust, playing all these warhorses in Raymond Gubbay concerts. Some are not for me anymore, but I'd still play the Grieg at the drop of a hat; it's so fresh. I'm very careful to keep on playing a lot of mainstream repertoire. I'm not into being the court jester who just does the wacky stuff. Making the connections and taking people down new paths is what I enjoy.

I quite like shutting the door, putting the answering machine on and sitting at the piano for six or seven hours.