Simone Dinnerstein is trying to boost awareness and appreciation of classical music in both children and adults in places as different as New York City and Havana, Cuba. On her recent trip to Cuba, she noted how the string players in Cuba’s National Youth Orchestra couldn’t afford strings. Despite the handicap of using telephone wires as a substitute, the young […]

Sir Thomas Beecham once described the harpsichord as sounding like “…two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof”. To harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, the famed British conductor who compared Beethoven’s music to frolicking yaks, couldn’t have been more wrong. NEW! Click the album cover to listen to the complete album: (This is a new feature available for Gold members of pianostreet.com) […]

Pierre-Laurent Aimard again conquers the iconic keyboard repertoire by Johann Sebastian Bach after his hugely successful The Art of Fugue recording 2008. A recently released double CD includes the entire The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1. NEW! Click the album cover to listen to the complete album: (This is a new feature available for Gold members of pianostreet.com) As part of […]

Free tickets for Piano Street’s members Thanks to a collaboration with the Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall, all Piano Street members can 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 […]

Engineering and drafting students at a Virginia private school are pushing the envelope by attempting a project that no one else is currently doing in a school setting: building a piano from scratch. The two teachers in charge of the project have both said that not even colleges are taking on such an ambitious task. With the help of a […]

A new issue of the magazine International Piano is out! Contents: Comment: In defence of Liszt One to Watch: Célimène Daudet Diary of an Accompanist: In which Michael Round samples the ‘Cor!’ factor Competition report: The tenth International Franz Liszt Piano Competition Helping Hands: How to select your first piano Masterclass: Developing rhythmic awareness, by IP’s resident tutor Murray McLachlan […]

Welcome to watch the live broadcast of the recital with pianist Juliana Steinbach at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm starting today, May 11, at 17.00 GMT. Program: Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita nr 2 in C-minor Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition Darius Milhaud: Saudades do Brasil Heitor Villa-Lobos: Ciclo Brasileiro The recital series has been launched in Stockholm this […]

More than 3 million people visit Warsaw each year. Of those, about 200,000 visit the museum dedicated to Poland’s national music hero: Frédéric Chopin. Officials from the Warsaw Tourist Office have set in motion a plan to bolster both existing and future tourism numbers. Along with tour businesses and vacation planners, their goal is to market Chopin himself as a […]

Visit piano maker and experimentalist David Klavins’ workshop in Stuttgart and climb the stairs up to the world’s biggest piano: The Klavins-Piano Model 370 In October 1987 the Klavins-Piano Model 370 (370 cm high) was introduced to the public. Until today this instrument represents an absolute novum by several means, being an unique example of substantial progress on a field […]

A challenge for both the intermediate pianist and the professional, Debussy’s Clair de lune seems to contain specific qualities which both instrumentalists and listeners find attractive. The piece, which is a part of the composer’s Suite Bergamasque, is the most downloaded piano score in Piano Street’s sheet music library. Due to its popularity it appears in many re-arranged versions for […]

Music Education Expo takes place on March 12-13 2015 at The Barbican in London. It is the largest national music education conference and exhibition in the UK, and it’s completely free to attend if you register in advance. Piano Street will present new educational material at our stand D31 at the exhibition. We hope to see you there!

A new issue of the magazine International Piano is out! Swiss pianist Andreas Haefliger speaks to IP about Beethoven, Berio and his passion for kung fu; we discover how Hungary’s new instrument looks set to change the face of piano manufacturing; IP’s panel of experts reveal the secrets behind the art of accompanying; and your guide to 2015’s piano festivals. […]