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What sort of work do you do? https://www.surreyreusenetwork.org.uk/stmap_4cef84.html That remark makes him seem the model hot-house virtuoso, who would turn out to be not much interested in anything else. In fact Giltburg has a huge hinterland of interests. He has five languages, and for a bit of relaxation he likes to translate poetry between the three he feels he knows best. “Right now I’m working on Rilke’s Book of Hours,” he says, “because there isn’t a good Hebrew translation. Also I’d like to translate all the poetry in Winnie-the-Pooh into Hebrew. That’s hard too, but I have the Russian version to help – it’s really good, better in some ways than the original.” Then he goes off into a long disquisition about the difference between Hebrew and Russian stress-patterns. I ask whether he would have been a linguist if he hadn’t been a pianist. “No I would have been a computer programmer. I’m a bit of a geek, I love to do coding.” It turns out he’s also a gifted photographer, and spends every spare minute in London hunting out photography exhibitions. You get the sense he could excel at anything he turned his hand to.