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Danny Turner

“I failed because a term has been created around the type of music I make”: Nils Frahm on struggling within the classical music space and navigating the live world

Nils Frahm.

A student of classical piano who began his career as a jobbing musician, Berlin-based Nils Frahm has spent the last two decades blurring the lines between classical and contemporary music alongside peers such as Max Richter, Ólafur Arnalds and Sigur Rós.

Owing to his unconventional blend of piano and ambient electronic minimalism, Frahm has also had to push back at the industry’s exploitative attempts to pigeonhole him as a ‘neo classical’ artist.

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