Browse: Susan Tomes (author)

This is a hugely stimulating book that inspires and enlightens. The overall message is positive, highlighting the huge surge in the piano's popularity during the Covid pandemic. A fascinating... — International Piano More…

Susan Tomes's insights as a performer and teacher are fully matched by her literary eloquence: at the piano or on the page, her style is marked by undemonstrative, perceptive and elegant turns... — BBC Music Magazine More…

[Susan Tomes's] penetrating intelligence is refreshing in a discourse often reduced to cliche and lazy generalisation ... One has only to think of Tomes's exceptional playing to understand why... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Packed full of fascinating material reflecting upon the difficult and sometimes intangible issues that face a busy professional pianist...what emerges from these pages is Tomes's strong sense... — BBC Music Magazine More…

This book reveals [Tomes'] talents as a writer, too, one with a capacity for imaginative enquiry and a gift for the telling phrase... as natural and compelling a communicator in words as she... — BBC Music Magazine More…