Mika was 'fascinated by a guy called Sean. 'He put his spanner down on top of the piano, started playing and the whole place exploded.' 'He came along to St Pancras in oil-stained denim shorts on his break from fixing trucks,' she said. For Winkleman, it was Jared, a 21-year-old mechanic. Speaking to The Guardian, Winkleman, Lang Lang and Mika revealed their favourite contestants. The contestants, whose ages span from 6 to 95, come from all walks of life, and play all sorts of music, including jazz, pop, classical, boogie-woogie and hip-hop. The show starts at 9pm on Wednesday 15 February on Channel 4 and will air across 5 weeks. The official teaser goes: 'From nonagenarians who have been playing for 80 years to 12-year-olds who have never played in public before, those who taught themselves to play the classics in lockdown to players who feel the music, composing pieces about their life experiences, and someone with no sight who against all the odds has mastered Chopin, commuters in train stations across the country will be stopped in their tracks as heartfelt, emotional and uplifting performances take place.' The contestants are secretly being judged and the four best of them - one from each station - will perform at the Royal Festival Hall to an audience of thousands in the final episode. Unbeknown to the contestants, though, it's not just a documentary: it's also a competition. The Piano is a new talent show that will profile the best amateur pianists in the UK, performing on pianos at four stations around the country: London St Pancras, Birmingham New Street, Leeds and Glasgow Central.
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