Watch the moment a piano-playing boxer won the hearts of judges and on-lookers with a magical Chopin recital at Manchester Piccadilly train station, in Channel 4’s The Piano.
Leeds boxer, Ellis, 23, wowed Claudia Winkleman, Mika and Lang Lang with his magical rendition of Chopin’s Ballade No.4 at Manchester Piccadilly train station for the second instalment Channel 4’s The Piano. Ellis grew up on a council estate and says he fell in love with classical music after taking free music lessons and being introduced to the instrument through a local council scheme.
” The Leeds lad, who comes from a low-income family, also said he works so hard at the piano is because he has ‘nothing to fall back on’. “I don’t come from privately education, it was all done through schemes from the council.” Hidden above the station, stunned by Ellis’s performance, Mika asked, “Do you think he is aware of how difficult this piece really is?” Lang Lang replied, “Not really… that’s what I love about him, he’s fearless.
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