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Alexandre Kantorow Wins Tchaikovsky Competition
The 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition concluded at night on June 27. In the piano category the Gold Medal went to the French pianist Alexandre Kantorow and an unexpected special prize was awarded to Chinese pianist Tianxu An. Read more...
What’s Inside Steinway’s Secret Vault?
To get inside Steinways’s new secret addition to their New York Factory, you must be invited. “The Vault” has over $3 million in exotic veneers, waiting for the right buyer at the right time. Read more...
Alexander Gadjiev – To Save the World
Our meeting took place in Krefeld, at Kawai – the Japanese make of piano with which Alexander Gadjiev has become so familiar since his success at the Hamamatsu competition. Now his career is really taking off in Europe too: Gadjiev is a BBC New Generation Artist until the end of 2021 and is also one of the 25 chosen contestants at the upcoming 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition, 17-29 June in Moscow. Read more...
Through Nupen’s Eyes: Young Legends Play Mozart
On 11 March 1966, two great young pianists appeared together in public for the first time: Daniel Barenboim and Vladimir Ashkenazy played Mozart's Concerto for two pianos at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon. Looking in the back mirror we realize the unique importance of this performance hi-lighting the two young pianists in the middle of building world famous careers. Read more...
German Piano Award 2019
Frankfurt Musikmesse kicked off its 2019 edition by presenting the 9th edition of The International German Piano Award’s Grand-Prix-Final Concerts. This year’s winner in the finals at Alte Oper Frankfurt on March 31 was South Korean pianist Jeung Beum Sohn. Read more...
Build a Paper Piano with Nintendo Labo!
Not enough space for a piano? A foldable paper piano may solve that particular problem but don’t expect to play your favourite piano pieces on it. Read more...
Keep Track of the Latest Piano Albums with Piano Street
Piano Street’s mission is to promote classical piano music, and we are always looking for new ways to enable you to listen, learn, and play. There’s no question that piano playing is thriving all over the world, and on the World Wide Web – just look at the flood of new recordings, videos, and streamed concerts constantly available just a few clicks away. Read more...
Chopin and His Europe
The whole piano world is teaming up for the 18th International Chopin Competition to be held in Warsaw, 2 to 23 October 2020. Stanislaw Leszczynski of The Chopin Institute talked to Piano Street’s Patrick Jovell at the Philharmonie in Warsaw. Read more... More articles >> Top picks: 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
2019-07-16
Kanneh-Mason's Clara Schumann The young pianist's release is a boldly assertive celebration. Two centuries after her birth, this tribute to Schumann is a muscular argument for her music, which is influenced more by Chopin than her husband Robert. Read more at theguardian.com
2019-07-15
Ghostly e-Piano Competition It begins with a haunting image. A grand piano sits on a Twin Cities stage. Beautiful music pours forth from it. The keys move, but there's no pianist to be found. Read more at twincities.com
2019-07-14
Angela Kim Plays Chopin Angela Kim visited IPR's Studio A to perform Chopin's Nocturne Op. 62, No. 1. She talked about Beethoven, as well as her work as both soloist and collaborator. Read more at interlochenpublicradio.org
2019-07-13
Kenner, Music and Humor "Humor helps us escape harsh realities of the world," Kenner said during a press event Tuesday in Insa-dong, central Seoul. "I feel that humor is very important. It can change the way that we look at life. It can really transform an entire life - more important than aspirin." Read more at koreaherald.com
2019-07-12
Jeremy Nicholas Remembering George Gershwin George Gershwin (Jacob Gershowitz) died of a brain tumor at the age of 39 on July 11 in 1937. While Gershwin's music was first sold in the form of sheet music, piano rolls, and records, by the time he achieved national attention in the 1920s, a new revolution had emerged: public broadcast radio. Read more at gramophone.co.uk
2019-07-11
Never Too Late! According to NAMM Global report, 82% of adults who don't play a musical instrument wish they did. Instead of wishing, hoping, thinking and praying, adults should realize that it is never too late to learn to play the piano. Read more at cmuse.org
2019-07-10
Legend Wakeman's Odyssey His latest round of concerts are based on tracks from both Piano Odyssey and Piano Portraits, and showcase music that reflects his personal musical journey. The shows are all accompanied by Rick's memories and anecdotes about the songs, as well as some musical surprises. Read more at hastingsobserver.co.uk
2019-07-09
Young Pianists at WRTI Join us for part two of our special live performances by regional winners of the second annual Steinway Junior Piano Competition on Wednesday, July 10 at 12:10 PM on WRTI 90.1. Our guests include: 14-year-old Jason Liu, 13-year-old Hannah Wang, and 16-year-old Angeline Ma performing works by Liszt, Prokofiev, and Ravel. Read more at wrti.org
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2019-06-21
Julia Rinderle:
Schubertiade on Piano
 On her debut album, Julia Rinderle made a world premiere recording of Anselm Hüttenbrenner’s “Ghost Variations”. Now she has turned to his much more famous friend, Franz Schubert, whose depth, maturity and songfulness she says has had a strong impact on her musicianship. Listen on NML >
2019-06-21
Yerin Kim:
First and Last Words
 Yerin Kim has long been interested in differing styles within a composer’s works and how it should be understood and performed. Here she presents a broad spectrum of the music and humanity of Schumann and Schnittke, contrasting youthful pieces with works written during the composers’ late years. Listen on NML >
2019-06-14
Joanna Goodale:
Bach in a Circle
 Bach in a Circle proposes the unexpected encounter between the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and the whirling dervishes. Original Bach pieces enter into a dialogue with Goodale’s Sufi-inspired rewritings of Bach’s music and transcriptions of Sufi chants from Turkey and Iran. Listen on NML >
2019-06-14
88 Squared:
Falling Pieces
 Daniel Ott's Falling Pieces is an intriguingly modern take on an instrumental setup that nearly got lost in the surges of modern music production. The piano duo who performs the works on the album, Karen and Jeffrey Savage of 88squared, are close friends of Ott who also commissioned the second work on the album, Fantasy on a Falling Line. Listen on NML >
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