A 15-year-old piano player who was encouraged by his father to perform wowed crowds at an airport in Switzerland three years ago. Now he’s studying to become a composer.
Christian Blandford, now 19, lives in the town of Sevenoaks, in Kent, South East England, and studies film music composition at Leeds Conservatoire.
(Courtesy of Christian Blandford)
He remembers feeling tired and nervous when sitting at Geneva airport in Switzerland in early 2019. However, his dad, Peter, started nudging him to play the piano for the crowds.
“We heard that there was a piano in the airport somewhere,” Christian told The Epoch Times. “He’s such a funny dad, he was just going around, like, ‘Is there a piano here?’ and I was like, ‘Dad!’ But we found this café and he got his phone out.”…