In 2010 we celebrated the bicentennial of Chopin's birth. He left more than 230 fantastic compositions, often described as romantic, emotional and poetic. Chopin composed almost exclusively for piano ...

Before I was born, Clara, a second-generation Canadian, gave a single solo classical piano concert, somewhere in downtown Montreal. My mother Clara was a fine pianist, a “CONCERT PIANIST” as ...

The Friends of the Carmel Valley Library will present pianist Ines Irawati in a free concert titled “Souvenirs” on Tuesday, ...

To begin the second in this season’s series of concerts by the Spokane String Quartet, Helen Byrne, its cellist, stepped to the microphone to explain some changes that had been made in the program.

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 ...

Chinese pianist Wang Zitong, 26, takes third place at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw on Tuesday, along with the Krystian Zimerman Award for the best performance of ...

Chinese pianist Wang Zitong plays Polish composer Frederic Chopin's Piano Concerto No 1 in E Minor, Op 11, during the final of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition on Monday. She ...

Japan's Miyu Shindo, one of the finalists in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, has said she was drawn to the Piano Concerto in E minor as she loves the many colours and ...

Christian Kaszewski got up at 3 a.m. Sunday and lined up outside Warsaw’s Philharmonic Concert Hall in the hope that he might score one of the hottest tickets in town. By noon, it wasn’t looking good.

Four pianists representing Japan, China, the United States and Poland are to perform in the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall on Sunday, the second day of the finals of the 19th International Chopin ...

Internationally acclaimed Australian-British pianist Jayson Gillham turns his artistry to the Etudes of Chopin: music written to take pianists to the extremes of virtuosity while enchanting listeners ...

‘The first final stretch’ sounds like an oxymoron worthy of the American baseball legend Yogi Berra (‘It’s so crowded nobody goes there anymore’, ‘the future ain’t what it used to be’, etc.). But ...