Emanuel Ax could easily have celebrated the joint 200th anniversaries of Chopin and Schumann with a series of solo piano recitals. Instead, in three programs at Carnegie Hall, he tried something ...
I remember where I was, what I was eating and what I was reading the first time I heard Chopin’s Nocturne in C Minor, Op 48 No. 1. It was the early 1990s. Simply Red, Kylie and PM Dawn dominated the ...
The second Nashville International Chopin Piano Competition hosted 40 pianists from over 20 countries. Guangbin Wang, a 23-year-old blind pianist from China, won first place in the Artist category.
Japanese pianist Tomoharu Ushida on Thursday opened the third and final day of the semifinals at the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Japanese pianist Tomoharu Ushida performs ...
The final round of this year's contest will feature 11 participants: Piotr Alexewicz (Poland), Kevin Chen (Canada), David Khrikuli (Georgia), Shiori Kuwahara (Japan), Tianyou Li (China), Eric Lu ...
No sooner had Bruce Liu been awarded first prize at the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, than Deutsche Grammophon, the world's most prestigious classical music label, announced it ...
An alternative version of Chopin’s famously morose piano work, but less solemn and more… trippy. The famous third movement of Chopin’s Piano Sonata No.2 actually began life as a ‘Funeral March’, or ...