Hi Everyone! I'm Sam Kemp, and have only just started to subscribe to this list. I'm an amateur pianist of fairly good standard (I hope - though the neighbours might disagree!:-) with an interest in Romantic music, particularly Beethoven and Mahler. I have yet to meet anyone else who shares that particular esoteric preference! I also indulge myself in a bit of compoisition, although I haven't really found my feet in this particular field yet - someday, perhaps - and so my work is mostly limited to piano pieces with a few experimental orchestral works. I hope that I've found some people with similar interests to myself here, as being a fourteen-year old at secondary school in the UK I seem to be in a minority of one! Sam Kemp