Kimmo Pohjonen: A Very Cool Instrument
By NENAD GEORGIEVSKI, View All1234Next » Certain instruments have yet to place themselves beyond how the public and most musicians perceive them, but that hasn't stopped some musicians from...
View ArticleLugansky displays technique and authorative Rachmaninoff interpretation
Nikolai Lugansky, the Russian pianist perform at Orchestra Hall Sunday in a varied program which included Cesar Franck's Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, Prokofieff's Fourth Sonata, and Rachmaninoff's...
View ArticleInterview with tenor Noah Stewart
In the coming months, we will be featuring interviews with musicians of various backgrounds. If you are a musician and would like to be featured in our series, please contact us at...
View ArticleInterview and Review: Yuja Wang and the San Francisco Symphony
Friday evening at Davies Symphony Hall, the sensational rising star Yuja Wang joined Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony in one of the most arduous piano works ever written. Wang, 25,...
View ArticleANDRÁS SCHIFF RETURNS TO SYMPHONY CENTER PRESENTS PIANO SERIES WITH ALL-BACH...
(Source: Chicago Symphony Orchestra) For Immediate Release: Press Contacts: October 15, 2013 PR@CSO.org Rachelle Roe, 312-294-3090 Photos Available By Request Maggie Berndt, 312-294-3092 ANDRÁS SCHIFF...
View ArticleSFP to feature Jonathan Biss in multiple settings
Last year, when the 2011–2012 season for San Francisco Performances (SFP) was announced, I chose to single out three events of particular personal interest. However, the plans for the 2012–2013 season...
View ArticleInterview with Richard Rodzinski (Part I)
In the coming months, we will be featuring interviews with musicians of various backgrounds – aspiring artists at top-conservatories, professors and winners of various international competitions. A...
View ArticleInterview with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott
In the coming months, we will be featuring interviews with musicians of various backgrounds. If you are a musician and would like to be featured in our series, please contact us at...
View ArticleInterview with pianist Roman Rabinovich
In the coming months, we will be featuring interviews with musicians of various backgrounds. If you are a musician and would like to be featured in our series, please contact us at...
View ArticleDiscover a suite of piano programmes on the BBC this Autumn
Piano Season on the BBC is a major six-week season celebrating a single instrument. The season will explore the piano's wide-ranging influence from the 1700s to the present day, as well as delve into...
View ArticleExtravagant virtuoso piano music by Alkan and in Lisztian style
Classical Antonio Pompa-Baldi, “After a Reading of Liszt: works of Lyapunov, Chopin, Liszt and Piana” performed by pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi (2 Pianists live); Charles-Valentin Alkan, The Complete...
View ArticleInterview with pianist Kirill Gerstein
In the coming months, we will be featuring interviews with musicians of various backgrounds. If you are a musician and would like to be featured in our series, please contact us at...
View ArticleA revived interest in Albéniz
The Spanish composer, who also made his career as a virtuoso pianist, Isaac Albéniz was relatively popular during my student days. This was a time when his music was championed by the Spanish pianist...
View ArticleReview: Garrick Ohlsson at the Marines Memorial Theater
Rating for Garrick Ohlsson at the Marines Memorial Theater 4 “Most of Chopin’s melodies are really not very sing-able because of their range. The funny thing about him is that he invokes the feeling of...
View ArticleAn Alchemist's Secrets
By STUART ISACOFF New York The gap between a gifted student and a genuine artist can seem as wide as the Grand Canyon. Talent and skill are great starting points, but they don't generate the magic. As...
View ArticleCOMPOSER/CONDUCTOR ESA-PEKKA SALONEN RETURNS TO CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TO...
(Source: Chicago Symphony Orchestra) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Press Contacts: March 28, 2014 pr@cso.org Rachelle Roe, 312.294.3090 Eileen Chambers, 312.294.3092 COMPOSER/CONDUCTOR ESA-PEKKA SALONEN...
View ArticleESA-PEKKA SALONEN, THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC AND SONY CLASSICAL JOIN...
ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC AND SONY CLASSICAL JOIN FORCES TO PRESENT "LUTOSŁAWSKI THE SYMPHONIES" Anniversary 2-CD Set Features a New Recording of Symphony No. 1 and Reissues of...
View ArticleBrian Connor returns to Noontime Concerts™ with another ambitious program
Most important is that Opus 17 may be regarded as a retrospective reflection on past compositions that provided the foundation upon which it was constructed. Of greatest significance the first movement...
View ArticlePianist Barbara Nissman to Open DePauw's Faculty Select Series Wednesday...
(Source: DePauw University) September 18, 2014 Email On Wednesday, September 24, local audiences have the opportunity to hear one of the great proponents of romantic pianism perform in the intimacy of...
View ArticleInterview with pianist Stewart Goodyear
In the coming months, we will be featuring interviews with musicians of various backgrounds – aspiring artists at top-conservatories, professors and winners of various international competitions. If...
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