Against the lustrous backdrop of Lake Michigan, pianist Yulianna Avdeeva took the Galvin Recital Hall audience on a journey of imagination and rumination through the music of Frédéric Chopin and ...

Opening the program was Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, which calls for the composer-pianist’s characteristic virtuosity and technique. At the Steinway, Nobuyuki Tsujii brought ...

Kazuki Yamada, from Japan, is the music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, in England. That position has proven a stepping-stone to yet bigger podiums. But it is a big and ...

Natasha Kislenko, continuing lecturer of keyboard at UCSB, and a revered performer in most of our major venues (Music Academy, Santa Barbara Symphony, Santa Barbara Music Club, UCSB concert halls) ...

Pianist Helene Grimaud likes to relinquish control, at least a little, when she plays. She says it gives her the freedom to take risks. From a recital she gave at Emory University in Atlanta, Grimaud ...