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2025-12-13

Iconic Rhodes New Models

Rhodes unveils two limited MK8 editions - Glacial and Monolith - blending winter-inspired and brutalist design. Hand-built in Leeds, they share the MK8’s expressive sound and are available until 9 January 2025 for collectors.
Read more at mixdownmag.com.au

2025-12-12

Pianist Tony Siqi Yun in Conversation

Toronto-born pianist Tony Siqi Yun debuted at Koerner Hall last month with a program from Baroque to avant-garde; the 2019 China Competition gold medalist also received the Rheingau Music Festival’s 2023 Lotto-Förderpreis, prestigious award.
Read more at ludwig-van.com

2025-12-11

Zimerman Interviewed in Korea!

Krystian Zimerman, who seldom grants interviews, has remained a leading figure since winning the 1975 Chopin Competition. Given a strict one-hour slot, The Chosun finally posed long-held questions to this famously private pianist, who also highlighted Korean talent and urged young musicians to pursue true originality.
Read more at chosun.com

2025-12-10

A French Music Canon

Alexandre Tharaud transforms overlooked French music into something more vivid than the canon, restoring forgotten voices from Baroque to modern Paris. For decades, he has broadened pianists’ repertoire and deepened public appreciation of France’s musical heritage.
Read more at interlude.hk

2025-12-09

Haydn's Great London Success

Following these successes came two notable sonatas - C major Hob XVI:50, with its comic finale, and the noble E-flat Hob XVI:52 for Therese Jansen - where Haydn vividly explored the colours of the newest Broadwood pianos, alongside trios and canzonettas.
Read more at gramophone.co.uk

2025-12-08

Piano for Beginners Happy Forecast

The beginner digital piano market is growing as music learning rises, driven by demand for affordable, space-saving instruments with tutorials, app connectivity, and realistic sound. Expanding e-commerce and user-friendly, lightweight designs are further boosting adoption worldwide.
Read more at openpr.com

2025-12-07

The Blue Rhapsody Sequel

Gershwin insisted his Concerto in F proved Rhapsody in Blue wasn’t a fluke; its 1925 Carnegie Hall premiere drew a sold-out crowd, eliciting public enthusiasm but mixed critical reactions ranging from dismissal to high praise.
Read more at interlude.hk

2025-12-06

Montero's Nobel Prize Performance

Venezuelan artists resisting their nation’s authoritarian regime will appear at the Nobel Peace Prize concert, with the committee announcing pianist Gabriela Montero, singer-songwriter Danny Ocean, and Norwegian folk performer Vera Joner as part of lineup.
Read more at asiae.co.kr

2025-12-05

Poon's Nature Release

Pianist Tiffany Poon’s Nature revisits French music’s vivid portrayals of the natural world, recorded at Miraval Studios and featuring Ravel, Debussy, Rameau, and Daquin in an intuitive program celebrating fluid, atmospheric soundscapes and evocative textures.
Read more at wpr.org

2025-12-04

About Buchbinder's Beethoven

Buchbinder approaches Beethoven symphonically, shaping phrasing and dynamics as if leading an orchestra rather than playing a piano. His conductor-like perspective prioritizes Beethoven’s architecture, uniting scholarship and imagination to create interpretations grounded in clarity, structure, and truthful expression.
Read more at interlude.hk

2025-12-03

Pianist Sumino's Guinness Record

Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino set a Guinness World Record for the highest ticket sales at an indoor piano recital, selling out Yokohama’s 18,564-seat K-Arena on November 29, 2025, with attendance officially verified.
Read more at theviolinchannel.com

2025-12-02

Desert Grand Piano Sounds

Classical music entered Marfa’s art-driven landscape as two Yamaha grands were hauled from Los Angeles, rebuilt at four sites, and tuned to perfection—turning the desert town into a resonant soundboard over three immersive days.
Read more at lithub.com

2025-12-01

Piano Concertos We Probably Missed

Seven overlooked piano concertos that deserve far more attention, chosen by pianist Clare Hammond as works truly worthy of more frequent performance. Seven composers from Tippett, Carwithen to Le Beau. What do you think?
Read more at classical-music.com

2025-11-30

Jazz Pianists Discussing

If you want to trace jazz piano’s evolution from Monk, Jarrett, Evans, and Hill to today’s voices - Lex Korten, Miki Yamanaka, Aaron Parks, and Sean Mason, all with new albums - this guide offers a clear path forward.
Read more at jazztimes.com

2025-11-29

Lang Lang Plays the Pyramids

Lang described the night as a dream, grateful to perform at the historic site. He said music unites people, noting audiences embraced his rearranged pieces that highlighted connections between Chinese and Egyptian cultures beyond language.
Read more at news.cn

2025-11-28

New Festival Curator in Lucerne

Lucerne’s new “Pulse” festival, running May 8–17, reflects the rhythm of thought and emotion. Director Nordmann chose pianist Olafsson to curate, praising his creativity and belief that music meaningfully unites diverse artistic forms for him.
Read more at lucernefestival.ch

2025-11-27

Psychiatrists' Take on Mozart

Some suggest ADHD-linked dopamine and noradrenaline differences shaped Mozart’s novelty-seeking, reward-driven focus. His intense hyperfocus enabled rapid composition, yet debates persist over psychology versus history in understanding his humour, creativity, and enduring musical genius today.
Read more at classical-music.com

2025-11-26

Pianist Muscle AI Reader

Scientists created an AI model that infers hand-muscle activity using regular video. Learned from professional pianist data, it reproduces activation without wearable sensors, delivering noninvasive information for motor evaluation, therapy, skill development, and human-machine collaboration.
Read more at isct.ac.jp

2025-11-25

Eric Lu's Last Chance

American pianist Eric Lu returned to the 2025 Chopin Competition a decade after placing fourth, echoing classical music's pattern of artists revisiting the stage, motivated by competition, expectations, and a desire to advance a career.
Read more at koreaherald.com

2025-11-24

Olafsson in E Major and Minor

Olafsson pairs Beethoven’s Op. 109 with Bach, Schubert, and the earlier E-minor Sonata, creating an album unified by the key of E, whose green-hued character, to the synaesthetic pianist, suggests vivid, luxurious color and energy.
Read more at theguardian.com

2025-11-23

Reviving the Music of a WW2 Prodigy

A gifted young pianist, Josima Feldschuh wrote and performed music in the Warsaw Ghetto before dying in 1943 at 13. Her surviving manuscripts inspired Non Fiction, a new 40-minute piano concerto by Polish composer Hania Rani.
Read more at ft.com

2025-11-22

Brahms and Dukas with Chen

Pianist and UMKC professor Sean Chen performs Brahms’s Four Ballades and his arrangement of Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice in a Kansas Public Radio program, highlighting his work as both performer and arranger.
Read more at kansaspublicradio.org

2025-11-21

A Guinness World Record Piano Relay

Nearly 200 pianists will perform in an 11-hour relay at Sunderland’s Fire Station on 7 December 2025, as Keys of the City attempts to surpass Hong Kong’s recent record of 169 consecutive performers.
Read more at sunderlandmagazine.com

2025-11-20

In Concert: Argerich, Pires and Mozart

When two singular artists meet, their contrasting energies spark fresh life in familiar music; so it was as Argerich’s fire and Pires' lyricism fused in Geneva, turning Mozart’s elegance into something deeply human and moving.
Read more at arte.tv