JAN PRESTON began her career playing classical music. It was later in life, after hearing WINIFRED ATWELL playing the honky tonk piano music, boogie woogie and ragtime, that Jan taught herself to ...

Image: She combined classical music with boogie-woogie and ragtime ... Songwriter and lyrist Sir Richard Stilgoe owns Winifred Atwell's 'other piano' - the one which she used for her honky-tonk ...

Una Winifred Atwell was a prominent pianist ... Eventually, Atwell quit pharmacy for a career in music, uprooting her life and moving to New York to take up piano studies. From 1946 she studied ...

EVEN superstars like Elton John have an icon and his was Winifred Atwell. But just who was the ... At age three, he began playing the piano on his own, and shocked his family by playing by ear ...

He encouraged her to play ragtime music; she was so exceptional at it that after a 1948 concert at the London Casino, her star was on the rise, thanks as much to her warmth and style as to her ...

"It's lovely to see you all here, to know that you still remember Winifred Atwell, to know that she ... for your extraordinary contribution to piano music history. "She was phenomenal." ...

If the pharmacy industry had claimed her first, the world would have missed out on the incredible musical talent of Una Winifred Atwell ... had learnt to play the piano and became very popular ...

She said Atwell moved into pop music because at the time it was a more acceptable ... Songwriter and lyrist Sir Richard Stilgoe owns Winifred Atwell's 'other piano' - the one which she used for her ...