From the classical archive September 1963: Michael Roll wins the first ever Leeds Piano Competition

23 September 1963: The Guardian reports on the final of the first Leeds Pianoforte Competition, won by a local boy and, at 17, the youngest of all 94 competitorsDelight was exceeded only by surprise in Leeds at the victory in the International Piano Competition of a local boy, Michael Roll, who, at the age of 17, was the youngest of the 94 competitors accepted, and who, until this victory at Leeds, was not yet committed to a career as a pianist, but was intending to follow in his father’s