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A Journey Through Music and Passion
A Conversation
For Aidan, a concert is never just a performance. It’s a conversation.
In addition to performing at concert venues, he enjoys performing for students and younger audiences — not playing at them, but talking with them. What makes this piece move the way it does? Why did Scriabin write like someone on fire? What are you actually hearing right now?
Once after one concert, a man came up to him — not a regular, just someone who had wandered in. He wanted to say thank you for the Scriabin. “I would have spent my whole life,” he said, “not knowing this great mind ever existed.”
The Shape of a Tale
The same curiosity shapes everything he programmes. He likes to mix things up — pairing music with literature, bringing in film scores, building an evening that has a thread anyone can follow, whether they grew up with classical music or have never been to a recital in their life.
That connection between music and storytelling goes back a long way. When he was twelve, Dan Brown’s Dutch publisher called — one week before the writer himself was appearing at the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam for the launch of Inferno:
Music for Everyone
“Could Aidan arrange Liszt’s Dante Symphony for solo piano and perform it on the night?” He said yes. The audience hadn’t come for a piano recital. They came for Dan Brown. And somehow, Liszt and Dante fit right in.
🎥 Watch the Dante arrangement
Essentially, you don’t wait for people to find music. You bring it to them — by playing at street festivals, community celebrations, such as Gay Pride — because music connects when it meets people where they already are.