Gwilym Simcock

Jazz pianist and composer, Gwilym Simcock gives a riveting and honest interview in which he reveals difficult experiences of performance nerves he’s had both as a child and as a professional, and the impact they have had on his performing life. He admits that he is in part a jazz musician because of the stress he had playing classical music. He talks about the challenges he has with memorizing and explains how he managed to climb out of a tough rehearsal, finding a way to play at his best in the concert itself.