Hans Zimmer: And there is the other side, which was my dad who was an extraordinarily appalling jazz clarinetist, but with great enthusiasm. In the middle of his work day, he'd get out the clarinet.

Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer plays the ‘Seaboard keyboard’ – a tech forward re-imagining of the piano that allows players to ‘bend’ pitch like a guitar ...

Composer and double Oscar winner Hans Zimmer has said playing piano makes him feel like a failure. The German music producer told the BBC: "I'm not a great player, I’m a composer" ahead of the ...

Maybe it didn’t seem like music would stick as a career, back in post-war 1950s Germany, when a rebellious young Hans Zimmer lasted the duration of exactly two professional piano lessons.

Hans Zimmer "The first two, three weeks are just complete agony of, 'oh my God, I don't know how to do this anymore. Maybe now I should phone the director and tell him he should hire someone else.' ...

Fast Facts. As a child in Germany Hans Zimmer tried piano lessons but quickly gave up. Instead he taught himself music and, convinced the piano could continue to ‘evolve’ as an instrument ...

When Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer stepped on stage last year, he almost ran right off again. He was performing in public for the first time in 40 years, and as he sat down at the piano to ...

Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer plays the ‘Seaboard keyboard’ – a tech forward re-imagining of the piano that allows players to ‘bend’ pitch like a guitar ...