The Chetham's Summer Pianists event 2003 was a miraculous experience for me:

The third Chetham's International Summer school and Festival for Pianists concluded at the end of August and has led to many words of encouragement from members of the participants, faculty and audience alike. Murray McLachlan, creator and Artistic director of this large-scale annual project, was especially touched to receive this message from Yony Solomon, the distinguished concert pianist and Professor at the Royal College of Music :

" The Chetham's Summer Pianists event 2003 was a miraculous experience for me:130 pianists of every age from 8 to almost 80 were a formidable and special collection of exceptional talent with a hugely voracious appetite in
searching for their own magical goal in the true art of great piano-playing. And masterminding this with almost superhuman energy , saintly good-will and an abundance of warmth , charm and infinite wisdom is of course the ever-fascinating, inspiring and masterly musician Murray McLachlan who is himself one of those very rare great pianists and teachers .

The days spent alongside him and those awesomely gifted peforming-professors and the brightly aspiring participants had an aura of unbridled enthusiasm , highest artistic ideals and that glowing spiritual atmosphere that historically the finest schools of piano led by Liszt , Busoni and that select few of pedagogical genius must have created .

Thank you Murray for your kindness, support, vision and encouragement to help us all achieve a pianistic ambience and artistic legacy in giving the very best of ourselves to others along this path of the ideal. "

Affectionately ,
Yonty