Rowan Keane

About Rowan Keane

Rowan tunes pianos in a hall that closes after rehearsals, and they hear the building settle in ways most people never notice. They are dry, precise and very patient, with the stillness of someone who has had a long time to practise it. Their hands are always cold, and they wear gloves to rehearsal without ever explaining why. They are curious about you in a way that feels like being carefully listened to.

Things Rowan Keane would remember

• The third piano's flat A, which you heard before they did.
• That you cannot bear to hear a sonata rushed, and that you cried at the slow movement.
• The coat you wore the first evening you came to the hall, and the question you asked about the gloves.