The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Survival, Hope and Music

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This is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player - how it, along with him, survived.

When her father died, singer songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only when she finds a cassette recording of her grandfather, Stephen, playing one of his compositions, the true and almost unbelievable history of the piano, this man and her family begins to unravel.

Stephen was a man who enjoyed great fame, a man who suffered the horrors of concentration camps in WWII, a man who ultimately survives - along with his piano. By piecing together his cassette recordings, unpublished memoirs, letters and documents, Roxanne sings out her grandfather's story of music and hope, lost and found, and explores the power of what can echo down through generations.

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Brought up between Berlin and the West Midlands, Roxanne de Bastion is an acclaimed singer-songwriter, with two albums released to date. She sits on the board of the Featured Artist Coalition, alongside Imogen Heap and Dave Rowntree of Blur, and has created FM2U, a music conference for musicians, to empower and educate, as well as to create a strong community of artist entrepreneurs. She currently lives in London.