Review - 29th April 09
There are professional pianists who are violently sick before every performance. There are those who have to be physically pushed on stage to make it happen at all. It's a terrifying business. Imagine, then, what it's like when you've been absent from the platform for 15 years, and it's your first night back...
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There are professional pianists who are violently sick before every performance. There are those who have to be physically pushed on stage to make it happen at all. It's a terrifying business. Imagine, then, what it's like when you've been absent from the platform for 15 years, and it's your first night back...
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Review - 29th April 09
Pianist Nick Van Bloss achieved a personal triumph after a nervous opening in this show at Cadogan Hall...
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Pianist Nick Van Bloss achieved a personal triumph after a nervous opening in this show at Cadogan Hall...
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28th April 09
For 15 years the celebrated concert pianist Nick Van Bloss played to an empty room...
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For 15 years the celebrated concert pianist Nick Van Bloss played to an empty room...
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28th April 09
A British classical pianist who suffers severely from Tourette's syndrome will tonight give his first public performance for 15 years...
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A British classical pianist who suffers severely from Tourette's syndrome will tonight give his first public performance for 15 years...
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20th April 09
Next week, a British pianist will return to the concert platform for the first time in 15 years. When Nick Van Bloss last performed to a live audience he was 26. Then he retired...
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Next week, a British pianist will return to the concert platform for the first time in 15 years. When Nick Van Bloss last performed to a live audience he was 26. Then he retired...
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18th April 09
Every minute of every day, Nick van Bloss involuntarily yelps, shakes or blows raspberries. Tourette's syndrome made his life a misery - until he found the one thing that would calm him...
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Every minute of every day, Nick van Bloss involuntarily yelps, shakes or blows raspberries. Tourette's syndrome made his life a misery - until he found the one thing that would calm him...
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17th April 09
Neurologically speaking, Amadeus has a lot to answer for: it was largely thanks to its fanciful treatment of genius that people started thinking that Mozart had Tourette's syndrome. He didn't, of course, but the connection between music and Tourette's is sometimes very real...
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Neurologically speaking, Amadeus has a lot to answer for: it was largely thanks to its fanciful treatment of genius that people started thinking that Mozart had Tourette's syndrome. He didn't, of course, but the connection between music and Tourette's is sometimes very real...
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12th April 09
Comeback for pianist who beat Tourette's. Caroline Davies talks to Nick van Bloss, who has stopped treating his condition as a disability and is back on stage for the first time in 15 years...
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Comeback for pianist who beat Tourette's. Caroline Davies talks to Nick van Bloss, who has stopped treating his condition as a disability and is back on stage for the first time in 15 years...
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8th April 09
A professional pianist is to go back to performing in public, 15 years after his Tourette's syndrome forced him to leave the stage...
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A professional pianist is to go back to performing in public, 15 years after his Tourette's syndrome forced him to leave the stage...
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8th April 09
Pianist Nick Van Bloss tells the PM programme how Tourette's syndrome affects his musical prowess.
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6th April 09
'Superhuman' Tourette's pianist returns to stage after 15 years. Nick van Bloss, 41, described by award-winning music producer Michael Hass as the most exciting pianist in years, retired from life as a professional musician as his Tourette's got worse...
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