10 known contemporaneous composers and 10 popular classical piano pieces

[faa2010]

Greetings,

My teacher has assigned to our class to find the 10 most popular piano pieces and 10 known pianists in our current era.

I have been navigating through Internet, but I see that the rankings are no the same. Well, it is less difficult with the composers (Glenn Gould, Barenboin, Rubistein, Argerich, Horowitz, I will need 5 more). Nevertheless, I have more problems with getting the 10 most popular piano pieces because each web page I go, the top changes.

Could you give me a hand with those tasks please?

[outin]

Which ones do you need, pianists or composers? And what does current era mean here? Because 3 of the pianists you listed are dead.

And of course the lists change because you've been given an impossible task. Are you really supposed to find out what are the 10 most popular pieces?? If so just list 10 well known pieces.

[faa2010]

Which ones do you need, pianists or composers? And what does current era mean here? Because 3 of the pianists you listed are dead.

And of course the lists change because you've been given an impossible task. Are you really supposed to find out what are the 10 most popular pieces?? If so just list 10 well known pieces.

OK, ok, I need piano interpreters which are still alive.

About the pieces, I know it is a very impossible task, it is just that I don't want to give a homework where I am subjective and I choose them because they are my favorite ones.

[outin]

Just a random list of contemporary pianists that come to mind:
Stephen Hough
Boriz Berezovski
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Krystian Zimerman
Idil Biret
Arcadi Volodos
Garrick Ohlsson
Evgeny Kissin
Alicia de Larrocha
Maurizio Pollini
Emmanuel Ax
Hélène Grimaud
Mikhail Pletnev
Angela Hewitt
Ivo Pogorelich
Yundi Li

Oh, almost forgot one of my own favorites:
Andras Schiff

[cbreemer]

Alicia de Larrocha, sadly, is no longer with us. She died a couple of years ago.

[mjames]

goddammit Outin...you have failed us

[outin]

Alicia de Larrocha, sadly, is no longer with us. She died a couple of years ago.

Ooops...the memory thing...often asking people if someone already died since I'm not sure if I have forgotten it