Princess Kate and Princess Charlotte surprised everyone watching the Princess of Wales’s Christmas Carol Concert on Christmas Eve with a poignant piano duet, including the classical music composer responsible for the song. Erland Cooper, the 41-year-old Scottish composer who wrote “Holm Sound,” told BBC Breakfast that “it was a big surprise.”
“I’d had a chat with the princess earlier in the year and I knew she enjoyed playing this piece of music with family,” Erland said. “It was a big surprise to be invited to Windsor Castle just last week and hear it performed by a pair of princesses.” At Windsor Castle, Princess Kate and Princess Charlotte “played [the song] several times and then they asked me to have a wee go as well,” said Cooper. “I gave a few pointers, but I didn’t need to. I think I was there as a cheerleader.”
