Musical preferences offer fleeting glimpses into the interior lives behind the white cassock where memory, culture, and prayer converge.

Born in 1945, in Dublin, to a pre-eminent family of the Anglo-Irish gentry, Richard Alexander Charles Cobbe is one the ...

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

Rosenthal explains how he reimagines classical melodies, builds bridges between genres, and prepares for his Tanglewood ...

This past month, three Oberlin pianists participated in the esteemed 18th Chopin Piano Competition, an international competition held this year from Oct. 2–23 in Warsaw, Poland. Among the participants ...

Adolphus Hailstork is one of America’s most respected living composers. He once said he wanted his First Piano Concerto to ...

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 ...

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 Alliance Française auditorium in Nairobi was filled with anticipation on Thursday evening as the renowned pianist Svetlana Smolina, who is one of the best pianists of the 21st century, graced the ...

Alan Walker, the esteemed biographer of Liszt and Chopin, explains his singular approach to history. He reveals why he remains an ‘analogue person‘ in a digital world, and argues that the best path to ...

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.

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 ...