Those Daring Young Pianists On The Flying Trapeze

Piano competitions are a grand old classical music tradition, but in recent years, it’s become harder and harder for some of the smaller events on the circuit to raise enough money to keep it all going. A case in point is Canada’s Esther Honens competition, run by Andrew Raeburn, who has been employing every technique he can think of to generate interest, and cash. Inlcuding, believe it or not, trapeze artists.