Jennifer Pike: Life Lessons

Lockdown has been like returning to the time before life got so busy with performing. I feel like a student again, practising without a particular concert date in mind. It’s helped me to sympathise much more with my younger self and, like many others, I’ve used the time to reconnect with people I haven’t spoken to in a long time, like one of my first teachers, Gillian Bradley. I was only about seven when I started with her, but she took it very seriously! Her sense of humour and firm but fair approach worked really well for me and laid the foundations for what was to come.