Michael Houstoun, Piano
Michael Houstoun was born in Timaru, New Zealand in 1952. He became interested in the piano when he was a small child and began lessons at the age of five, under the tutelage, first of Sister Mary Eulalie in Timaru, and then of the great Maurice Till in Christchurch and Dunedin. Michael moved through the examination grades and by the age of eighteen had won every major competition in New Zealand. In 1973 he entered the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition where he placed third. Other ...
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