This much I know: Barry Douglas, pianist

Growing up I was more on the shy side, but music enabled me to find a great way of self-expression.

My first ambition was to become a long distance truck driver.

But from the age of about 14 music enmeshed me and then I was hooked for life. I thought of doing medicine for a brief period of five minutes when I was 12, but from then on my life was consumed by studying, listening, researching music.