Nicholas McCarthy
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| Created | Aug 2011 (13 years old) |
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Born without his right hand, award winning international pianist, Nicholas McCarthy, only began to play the piano at the late age of 14 after being inspired by a friend playing Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata.
Having once been told that he would never succeed as a concert pianist, Nicholas would not be discouraged and went on to study at the prestigious Royal College of Music in London. His graduation in July 2012 drew press headlines around the world, being the only one-handed pianist to graduate from the Royal College of Music in its 130 year history and in 2018 he was given honorary membership of the RCM by King Charles III.
Nicholas is a champion of the dynamic and brave world of left hand alone repertoire, a repertoire that first came into being in the early 19th Century and developed rapidly following the First World War. Paul Wittgenstein was responsible for its 20th Century developments with his commissions with Ravel, Prokofiev and Benjamin Britten.