Kieran Hodgson returns to Brighton with hit character comedy show

Maestro will be at The Old Market, Brighton, on Saturday, February 25 (8pm).

“Over the last few years, a number of my shows have been about my hobbies,” Kieran explains. “I remember a conversation with a friend of mine who said ‘you should put something of yourself into your shows.’ I have done a show about French and a show about cycling. This is a show about classical music and my own failed attempts over the past decade or so to write my own classical music. I played the violin and the piano, but I am not very impressive at either instrument. I did A level music, but I never really trained or studied. I have kept up the violin. I play weekly in a little orchestra, but in my small artist’s garret in London, I am unable to furnish myself with a piano.

“I started writing music at school. Classical music was always the thing that spoke to me, rather than S Club 7. I would walk around, often on my own as I tended to be, making up vast pieces of classical music in my head which I would then try to write down and they would always be a little disappointing. Some years later when I was 18, I decided that I was going to write a symphony. I was going to write a masterpiece to leave behind. I never got it finished. A couple of years ago, I picked it up again, and a year after that I was looking for an idea for a new show and decided to write this piece.”