Music Education Expo is the one event in the year when thousands of people involved in music education come together to share ideas and celebrate good practice. Taking place on 25 & 26 February 2016 at London’s Olympia Central, both days of the show will be packed with hours of useful CPD, fun practical workshops, inspiring keynote lectures, high-quality performances […]

Now retired from the stage and the piano and recently turned 85, Alfred Brendel remains regarded as a serious intellectual with a mischievous sense of humour. In a wonderful 70-minute documentary that reflects his childhood and early influences, Brendel reveals his stature as a performer, expresses his admiration for the work of other artists and shares his views on life […]

One of today’s most celebrated conductors, Franz Welser-Möst led the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the Nobel Prize Concert on 8 December in a programme comprising Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben. This year’s soloist was the young sensational pianist Daniil Trifonov. Read the short Nobel interview here and listen to Trifonov playing the ossia […]

We wish you a Happy New Year with a list of highly recommended reading from Piano Street’s Classical Piano Blog. These are the 10 most read, discussed or shared articles of 2015. Yearly top lists: 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2014 2013 Hollywood Greats Explore the Piano Grammy-winning pianist Gloria Cheng invited some of the most prominent film composers […]

Are you tired of choirs singing carols? If so, get into Christmas mode with some solo piano instead. Enjoy Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride performed by American pianist Jeffrey Biegel: Hear more of these holiday classics on “A Steinway Christmas Album”. Samples from amazon.com The album on Spotify NEW! Click the album cover to listen to the complete album: (This is […]

As a part of the world teaming up for the great Beethoven anniversary celebration in 2020, German and Bonn based pianist Susanne Kessel is continously inviting composers from all over the world to write a piano piece for Ludwig van Beethoven. All pieces will be played by Kessel within public concerts in Bonn until the year 2020 along with radio […]

Free tickets for Piano Street’s members Thanks to a continous collaboration with the Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall, all Piano Street members enjoy free access for 48 hours to the Digital Concert Hall. Log in to your Piano Street account to get your free voucher code which gives you instant access to the Digital Concert Hall. Take the opportunity to […]

“What he does with his hands is technically incredible – and then there is his touch – so gifted with tenderness and, at the same time, he has the demonic element. I have never heard anything like this before.” Martha Argerich A new double-DVD release contains two films by Christopher Nupen about the brilliant young pianist Daniil Trifonov: ‘The Magics […]

Protecting and Expanding Chopin’s Legacy Every five years the whole pianistic world moves to Warsaw and the International Chopin Piano Competition. Since the first which took place during the winter of 1927, the Competition now presented its 17th edition which highlights the grand Polish composer’s works and rewards its best interpreters. The legendary Polish initiative has helped to discover such […]

When I boarded the flight from Stockholm to Los Angeles on February 19, 2015, I knew that renowned, Grammy-winning pianist Gloria Cheng had been working on a unique project since 2010. After receiving a set of contrasting character pieces from Bruce Broughton named ¨Five Pieces¨ as a gift for her that year, Ms. Cheng invited five more of the most […]

In March of 1924, Vladimir Horowitz was a 20-year-old pianist ready to storm the gates of heaven with his soon-to-be-famous combination of bravura technique and passionate emotion. Alexander Samoilovich Petrokovsky was already an established music critic when their paths crossed in the capital of Soviet Georgia, Tiflis, which is now known as Tbilisi. Petrokovsky, himself from Tiflis, was awed by […]

That a recording exists of the voice of Tchaikovsky tantalizes the imagination. If there is a Tchaikovsky recording on an Edison cylinder, might there not also be, hidden away in a dusty shoebox in an attic somewhere, another cylinder with Liszt at the piano? It’s not outside the realm of possibility. After all Liszt lived for almost nine years after […]