Pianist Edward Auer has had a fine career, spanning more than 40 years now. He's always had a special place in his heart for Poland, and Poland's favorite musical son — Frederic Chopin. Auer won a ...

"It's my little secret, but it also helps me focus," Prokopowicz said, referring to the long moment of silence which preceded his performance in the second round of the competition. "I'm glad I had ...

If there’s one genre that captures the essence of Chopin, it’s surely the Mazurka. These triple-time dances seem modest on the surface; usually there’s an opening melody, a contrasting middle bit ...

A pupil of a pupil of Liszt came to the Irvine Barclay Theatre on Tuesday night to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth. Charles Rosen will turn 83 on May 5. These days, he wears hearing ...

Frederic Chopin was a Polish-born pianist and composer of matchless genius in the realm of keyboard music. As a pianist, his talents were beyond emulation and had an impact on other musicians entirely ...

Finding different programming formats during a bicentenary year awash with Chopin CDs has doubtless been a challenge to any pianist, but Cédric Tiberghien has devised a telling mix on this disc. He ...

Richard Goode styled his absorbing recital Sunday at Orchestra Hall as a homage to Chopin, surrounding eight of the Polish master’s mazurkas, nocturnes and a polonaise with music by composers who ...

The young Korean pianist Klara Min's critically acclaimed CD of Chopin is John Brunning's Drive featured album from 20 May. With her new CD, the outstanding Korean pianist Klara Min surveys 17 of her ...

The upcoming semi-finals introduce Chopin’s two mature piano sonatas and his Preludes Op 28 into the competition’s repertoire mix, along with groupings of Mazurkas by opus number. If you’ve read my ...

The mazurka, a traditional Polish dance, acts as a siren to Poles far and wide. Janina Fialkowska, born in Canada but half-Polish, says that in playing the mazurkas of Chopin she has been afforded “a ...

The 19-year-old pianist was born in the Israeli city of Netanya, where he spent the first four years of his life. His older sister was his first music teacher, and he began his formal music education ...