How a Chopin piano competition helped me find joy in a dark world - FIRST PERSON: It’s called the Olympic Games of the piano – the Chopin Competition, which takes place every five years in Warsaw.

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Before I embark on my marathon reporting from the trenches during Stage 1 at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, I’m laying down one ground rule: no predictions. Instead, I’ll ...

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In a solo recital for the San Francisco Symphony’s Great Performers Series, Kissin shows his deep affinity for two radically different composers. Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin, seen here at Italy’s ...

Since “Nobu Fever” entered the piano world’s vocabulary after Noboyuki Tsujii’s gold medal at the 2009 Van Cliburn competition (shared with Haochen Zhang), the elephant in the room has been when or if ...

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