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Verbier Festival 2011 on Medici.tv

July 20th, 2011 in Piano News by | 2 comments

The Verbier Festival is considered as one of the most important European festivals. Every July, the greatest names of classical music gather during two weeks, among the wonderful landscape of the Swiss Alps for an exceptional concert series. The festival gives the artists the opportunity to perform original programmes with other musicians that they admire and with whom they have […]

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Robert Schumann’s Small and Large Universes

February 4th, 2011 in Articles by | 3 comments

Creativity measured in small and large form piano compositions 
In 1834 Schumann founded the music journal Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik. For a decade, he edited and wrote music criticism for this publication. He championed the work of numerous young composers. (Read his first published article, a review on Chopin’s Opus 2) His writings embodied the most progressive artistic aesthetics of […]

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Argerich in Nobel Prize Concert 2009

December 30th, 2009 in Piano News by | 7 comments

Nobel Media, in association with the Stockholm Concert Hall, present this year’s Nobel Prize Concert ­ an event of world class stature. The concert took place on 8 December as part of the official Nobel Week programme of activities. Martha Argerich, headstrong, charismatic and technically brilliant pianist, was this year¹s soloist at the Nobel Prize Concert. Yuri Temirkanov, Music Director […]

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Argerich Documentary on DVD

August 6th, 2008 in Piano News by

Martha Argerich (born June 5, 1941) is an Argentine concert pianist. Her aversion to the press and publicity has resulted in her remaining out of the limelight for most of her career. She has given relatively few interviews. As a result, she may not be as well known as other pianists of similar calibre. Nevertheless, she is widely recognized as […]

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