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Warsaw is once again gearing up for one of its annual musical highlights. The 21st edition of the Chopin and His Europe Festival kicked off on 20 August and runs until 6 September, packing in 29 concerts featuring a mix of world-renowned soloists, orchestras, and chamber ensembles. Read more
For piano lovers, the Verbier Festival 2025 again shaped up to be a dream come true. This summer, the festival was rolling out one of its most interesting piano lineups yet, blending household names, rising stars, and even a little jazz for good measure. This compilation video provides a captivating glimpse into the festival’s diverse performances, featuring 20 minutes of piano excellence. Read more
The piano world is buzzing with excitement this summer. As we predicted, recent media channels have been dominated by news and updates from three of the world’s most prestigious piano competitions: Chopin, Cliburn, and Queen Elisabeth. In its recent issue, the magazine “The World of Piano Competitions” dedicated a special feature to the Queen Elisabeth Competition Read more
A new recording of Florence Price’s Piano Concerto shines new light on the pioneering composer’s legacy. In this interview, Piano Street talks to pianist Han Chen, who reflects on Price’s fusion of Romantic and African American idioms, and the personal journey of interpreting her music for modern audiences. Read more
The World of Piano Competitions is a magazine initiated by PIANIST Magazine (Netherlands and Germany) and its Editor-in-Chief Eric Schoones. Here we get a rich insight into the world of international piano competitions through the eyes of its producers and participants. Read more
Piano News Flash
2025-10-02
Acclaimed American pianist Garrick Ohlsson, who made history as the first American winner of the Chopin Competition in 1970, will return to Warsaw as jury chair for the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition - the first non-Polish head juror.
Read at culture.pl
American Chair in Warsaw
Acclaimed American pianist Garrick Ohlsson, who made history as the first American winner of the Chopin Competition in 1970, will return to Warsaw as jury chair for the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition - the first non-Polish head juror.
Read at culture.pl
2025-10-01
George’s latest release as a Warner Classics exclusive artist is his 2024 album Movements, featuring dance-inspired works by Ravel, Schumann, and Stravinsky. A 2019 graduate of Harvard and NEC, George discussed literature’s influence on his musical approach and balancing technique with intuition.
Read at interlude.hk
Talking with George Li
George’s latest release as a Warner Classics exclusive artist is his 2024 album Movements, featuring dance-inspired works by Ravel, Schumann, and Stravinsky. A 2019 graduate of Harvard and NEC, George discussed literature’s influence on his musical approach and balancing technique with intuition.
Read at interlude.hk
2025-09-30
In the “A Life for Piano” category, the 2025 Cremona Musica Award will go to Italian pianist Bruno Canino. Other honorees include violinist Midori, Franco Scala’s “Incontri col Maestro” Piano Academy, and composer Francesco Filidei.
Read at cremonamusica.com
Cremona Musica Award to Bruno Canino
In the “A Life for Piano” category, the 2025 Cremona Musica Award will go to Italian pianist Bruno Canino. Other honorees include violinist Midori, Franco Scala’s “Incontri col Maestro” Piano Academy, and composer Francesco Filidei.
Read at cremonamusica.com
2025-09-29
While loudness and tempo are known to relate to musicians’ movements, subtler aspects like tonal quality are less understood. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analysed expert pianists’ subtle movements and how these motions correspond to perceived changes in timbre.
Read at cosmosmagazine.com
Origins of Timbre in Piano Performance
While loudness and tempo are known to relate to musicians’ movements, subtler aspects like tonal quality are less understood. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analysed expert pianists’ subtle movements and how these motions correspond to perceived changes in timbre.
Read at cosmosmagazine.com
2025-09-28
The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia has named pianist and alumna Yuja Wang as Artist Collaborator, Piano, starting in the 2026–27 school year. She will mentor piano students and collaborate with instrumental and vocal students.
Read at theviolinchannel.com
The Mentor Yuja Wang
The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia has named pianist and alumna Yuja Wang as Artist Collaborator, Piano, starting in the 2026–27 school year. She will mentor piano students and collaborate with instrumental and vocal students.
Read at theviolinchannel.com
2025-09-27
World War II shattered his dreams; Warsaw was reduced to ruins, his brother and father perished, and his early works were lost in the 1944 Uprising. Exiled in 1954, Panufnik found solace and expression through the piano.
Read at interlude.hk
Panufnik and the Piano
World War II shattered his dreams; Warsaw was reduced to ruins, his brother and father perished, and his early works were lost in the 1944 Uprising. Exiled in 1954, Panufnik found solace and expression through the piano.
Read at interlude.hk
2025-09-26
He has achieved half of his dream. After performing Jin Eun-sook’s Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2021, Kim Sun-wook will collaborate again for their November concerts in Seoul, this time with chief conductor Kirill Petrenko.
Read at chosun.com
Kim - the Pianist Conductor
He has achieved half of his dream. After performing Jin Eun-sook’s Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2021, Kim Sun-wook will collaborate again for their November concerts in Seoul, this time with chief conductor Kirill Petrenko.
Read at chosun.com
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From Lighthouse, Poole. Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Thierry Fischer.
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Latest Piano Albums
2025-09-27
Luis Fernando Pérez:
As a boy, Luis Fernando Pérez shared a yearning with his father for familiarity with the piano repertoire. They listened together to great pianists, developing a taste for the bonuses, the encores, from the artist’s personal, intimate universe. Now he presents a choice collection of short works, compiled with so much love over many years. Aiming for an authentic and spontaneous recording, the pieces were played through only once.
Listen on NML >
Luis Fernando Pérez:
Encores
As a boy, Luis Fernando Pérez shared a yearning with his father for familiarity with the piano repertoire. They listened together to great pianists, developing a taste for the bonuses, the encores, from the artist’s personal, intimate universe. Now he presents a choice collection of short works, compiled with so much love over many years. Aiming for an authentic and spontaneous recording, the pieces were played through only once.
Listen on NML >
2025-09-24
Yunchan Lim:
Yunchan Lim became the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2022 at the age of 18, and experienced a meteoric rise to worldwide fame. On his new album, he presents one of Tchaikovsky's most intimate piano works, The Seasons, recorded live. Lim views the twelve pieces not just in the classical series of months, but as a story describing the last year of a person's life.
Listen on NML >
Yunchan Lim:
Tchaikovsky – The Seasons
Yunchan Lim became the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2022 at the age of 18, and experienced a meteoric rise to worldwide fame. On his new album, he presents one of Tchaikovsky's most intimate piano works, The Seasons, recorded live. Lim views the twelve pieces not just in the classical series of months, but as a story describing the last year of a person's life.
Listen on NML >
2025-09-21
Ingrid Fliter:
A previous silver medalist at the International Chopin Competition, Ingrid Fliter has recorded the composer's Concertos, Nocturnes, and preludes for the Linn Label, and several all-Chopin albums for EMI. She is also the only woman to have received the Gilmore Artist Award. The first volume of Mazurkas features both early and late examples, including some published posthumously.
Listen on NML >
Ingrid Fliter:
Chopin – Mazurkas, Vol. 1
A previous silver medalist at the International Chopin Competition, Ingrid Fliter has recorded the composer's Concertos, Nocturnes, and preludes for the Linn Label, and several all-Chopin albums for EMI. She is also the only woman to have received the Gilmore Artist Award. The first volume of Mazurkas features both early and late examples, including some published posthumously.
Listen on NML >
2025-09-18
Arielle Beck:
Moons and Flames is Arielle Beck's first album, recorded at the age of 15. Already in 2018, she received special recognition for her precocious talent as a recipient of the First Grand Prize at the International Young Chopin Competition in Switzerland, chaired by Martha Argerich. Alongside Schumann's Humoresque and Brahms' Op. 76, she performs her own set of Variations on a theme by Schumann.
Listen on NML >
Arielle Beck:
Des lunes et des feux
Moons and Flames is Arielle Beck's first album, recorded at the age of 15. Already in 2018, she received special recognition for her precocious talent as a recipient of the First Grand Prize at the International Young Chopin Competition in Switzerland, chaired by Martha Argerich. Alongside Schumann's Humoresque and Brahms' Op. 76, she performs her own set of Variations on a theme by Schumann.
Listen on NML >
Piano Street Site Updates
29 March 2025:
piano Street celebrate the 10th anniversary of World Piano Day.
17 November 2023:
The sheet music library now contains the complete solo keyboard pieces by J. S. Bach.
12 September 2023:
Rachmaninoff's complete piano works are now available in our sheet music library.
26 January 2023:
The complete piano works of 12 composers are now available in our sheet music library.
1 February 2022:
We celebrate 20 years online with an updated webdesign of pianostreet.com and a special bonus package for all our memebers!
10 January 2022:
Pages about composer have a new design with additional content and the best solo piano pieces listed separately for composers such as Beethoven and Chopin.
26 November 2021:
A new issue of the magazine about the world of piano competitions is available for free download at Piano Street.
8 October 2021:
Piano Street's multimedia tool for watching the Chopin Competition has been updated.
24 September 2021:
Piano Street participated in the annual Media Lounge of Cremona Musica.
15 January 2021:
Urtext editions of Debussy Clair de lune, Chopin Prelude in E minor and Major Piano Scales are now available to download for free at Piano Street.
24 October 2020:
New pieces by Bach and Mozart with piano practice tips have been added to the line of Instructive Editions.
10 April 2018:
Visit Piano Street at the Frankfurt Music Expo.
piano Street celebrate the 10th anniversary of World Piano Day.
17 November 2023:
The sheet music library now contains the complete solo keyboard pieces by J. S. Bach.
12 September 2023:
Rachmaninoff's complete piano works are now available in our sheet music library.
26 January 2023:
The complete piano works of 12 composers are now available in our sheet music library.
1 February 2022:
We celebrate 20 years online with an updated webdesign of pianostreet.com and a special bonus package for all our memebers!
10 January 2022:
Pages about composer have a new design with additional content and the best solo piano pieces listed separately for composers such as Beethoven and Chopin.
26 November 2021:
A new issue of the magazine about the world of piano competitions is available for free download at Piano Street.
8 October 2021:
Piano Street's multimedia tool for watching the Chopin Competition has been updated.
24 September 2021:
Piano Street participated in the annual Media Lounge of Cremona Musica.
15 January 2021:
Urtext editions of Debussy Clair de lune, Chopin Prelude in E minor and Major Piano Scales are now available to download for free at Piano Street.
24 October 2020:
New pieces by Bach and Mozart with piano practice tips have been added to the line of Instructive Editions.
10 April 2018:
Visit Piano Street at the Frankfurt Music Expo.