If the music of Fryderyk “Frederic” Chopin lights your soul, Warsaw beckons you to walk, sit and listen. The Polish capital, home of the great composer, is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the ...

Since the pandemic began, playwright-pianist-performer Hershey Felder has been using his time off the road turning many of his well-traveled solo plays about famous composers into increasingly ...

Eight-year-old Gary Rue would be very excited about the show that Rue, now 63, will get to see performed this weekend. Called “Chopin’s Heart,” it’s an original musical for which Rue wrote the songs.

A few hundred people gather in front of a large white tent in the peaceful spa town of Duszniki-Zdroj, nestled on the Polish-Czech border. Inside, the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra is ...

Musicologist Iza Smelczyńska and music critic Filip Lech discuss the agitation in the final round, the orchestral imperfections, and conclude that no matter what, the verdict of the Chopin Competition ...

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For last year’s Sanibel Music Festival, National Chopin Competition winner and pianist William Yang was hosted by Mark and ...

Among record collectors there are desert-island discs –the handful of discs you’d take to said isolated island. Now, Mikhail ...

Impeccable Artist Michael Williams writes that Adam Zamoyski, Chopin's biographer, thinks the composer "ranks with Bach and Debussy as one of only three composers who never wrote a bad piece of music- ...

The 13th annual Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford returns live to the Asylum Hill Congregational Church March 9 to 13, with dozens of pianists competing for thousands of dollars in ...

A Swiss musical scholar has rediscovered the grand piano Frederic Chopin took on his last concert tour nearly 160 years ago. Prof. Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger traced the instrument to an English country ...