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Pianist Claire Huangci, winner of the Geza Anda Competition 2018, just played in New York celebrating the launch of her new Rachmaninoff Preludes album on Berlin Classics. Like her complete Chopin Nocturnes album before that – for the same label – the complete Rachmaninoff 24 Preludes has been received with great acclaim internationally. Piano Street asked the ever touring pianist a few questions about her latest release. Read more...

What happens when innovative acoustical ideas come across a vintage broken piano? Well, Ukrainian musicians transformed it into a unique and completely analog hybrid of 20 different instruments that are each connected and controlled by the piano keys. Read more...

Igor Levit’s acclaimed album “Life” has attracted a lot of attention and its selected works have also been included in Levit’s recent recital programs worldwide. This is a profound, versatile and firm reaction to the death and loss of his best friend reflecting inner calm elaborating on an existential level. Read more...

We start the new year with a list of highly recommended reading from Piano Street. These are the 12 most read, discussed or shared articles of 2018. Read more...

The celebration of the holidays is not complete around NPR without the sounds of a jazz piano sprinkling joy and good cheer. This year’s intergenerational program of accomplished pianists reflects both the history of the music and its future. Read more...

As a collaborating partner, Piano Street is proud to present the first issue of ”The World of Piano Competitions”, a new 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. Contributing Editors: Gustav Alink (Alink-Argerich Foundation), Stuart Isacoff, Patrick Jovell (Piano Street), Mario-Felix Vogt, KaJeng Wong. Piano Street is happy to share this first issue with our readers free of charge! Read more...

Sabine Liebner’s unfaltering decision to only play music to which she feels an inner affinity has led to her being primarily active as an interpreter of new music. She has premiered many works by contemporary composers and made important contributions performing and recording the music of 20th century composers like John Cage, Morton Feldman and Galina Ustvolskaya. For Liebner, music making is the solitary exploration of unknown terrain. She tries to listen to a score with no preconceptions, to discover its innate musical language. The results are often intriguing, and can sometimes even prove addictive, as in her recording of Stockhausen’s Klavierstücke I-XI. Read more...

A rare item that belonged to Glenn Gould has sold at auction in New York on December 5th for $100,000 US. The score of Bach’s Goldberg Variations contains the Canadian pianist’s detailed markings used while making his iconic 1981 recording of the piece. Read more...

2019-02-20What should you know about pianist Hazel Scott? At the 2019 Grammys, while Alicia Keys was showing off her fire piano playing skills while playing two pianos, she shouted out the artist Hazel Scott. Read more at jezebel.com

2019-02-18The longest piano in the world is in Dunedin. Builder Adrian Mann talks to Jim Mora about the giant instrument and the concert pianists who visit to play it from all over the world. Read more at radionz.co.nz

2019-02-19Pianist Olga Kern tells her story how Sergei Rachmaninoff became a strong part of her family and her personal musical upbringing. Read more at abqjournal.com

2019-02-17A guide to noteworthy recordings of the groundbreaking piano sonata Beethoven evidently composed on the enhanced 1803 Erard grand piano which had been sent to him from Paris. Read more at gramophone.co.uk

2019-02-16Steve Luck is a piano teacher from Newcastle Upon Tyne. Read his guest post for Pianodao which originally appeared as a forum post within the Piano Network UK group. Read more at pianodao.com

2019-02-15Dive into music history. Denk's new album begins with a quiet song by the medieval poet and composer de Machaut and ends one hundred minutes later with a ¨whiplashing" etude by Ligeti. Read more at nonesuch.com

2019-02-15Prior to his recent concert with Berlin Philharmonic, Evengy Kissin talks about the Liszt concertos and how much playing together with this particular orchestra inspires him. He also talks about his passion for poetry. Read more at digitalconcerthall.com

2019-02-14Which are the 20 greatest pianists of all times? Impossible to answer perhaps but here classical-music.com offers their choices with accompanying film clips. Read more at classical-music.com