Ross Bolleter

Ross Bolleter is an Australian composer, pianist and improviser, born in 1946 in Subiaco, Western Australia. He is known for playing ruined pianos, instruments left to decay through sun, flood and weather, and in 1991 he co-founded the World Association for Ruined Piano Studies (WARPS) with Stephen Scott. He is also a poet, an author and a Zen teacher. Bolleter found his first ruined piano at Nallan sheep station near Cue, and in 2005 he set up a Ruined Piano Sanctuary on an olive farm near York, where about forty pianos decay in the open.