Gig Alert: Vicky Chow
Vicky Chow"Etudes For Piano: i. Digital Sustain" **This song was available for download for a limited period and is now stream-only.**Playing on Tuesday at The Stone (Ave. C and 2nd St., East...
View ArticleVan Cliburn's Musical Diplomacy Eases Tense U.S.-Soviet Relationship
Texas, Moscow, and New York meet in this extended coverage of Van Cliburn Day, May 20, 1958, after Cliburn's unexpected victory at the Tchaikovsky Competition.With tensions running high between the...
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The Top 10 Photos of Pianists Showing Off Their Hands
New album covers by the pianists Lang Lang and Alessio Bax raise an age-old question that pianists face when confronted with a camera: What should they do with their hands?The solutions, it turns out,...
View ArticleTeddy Wilson Contemplates the Future of Jazz
Pianist Teddy Wilson discusses his career and speculates on the future of jazz in this 1950 interview.Growing up in Tuskegee, Alabama, Wilson only heard classical and spiritual music for the first few...
View ArticlePianist Ah Ruem Ahn
Pianist Ah Ruem Ahn recently won the 2012 Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition. On Thursday, Jan. 31, she makes her American debut at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall. Ahn was born in Suwon,...
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Piano Legend Van Cliburn Dies at 78
Van Cliburn, one of the most celebrated American pianists of the modern age who also became one of its more enigmatic public figures, died on Wednesday in Fort Worth, TX. Cliburn had been...
View ArticleRemembering Jazz Pianist Mulgrew Miller
Jazz pianist and pedagoge Mulgrew Miller died Wednesday of a stroke in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was 57 years old.Miller left a big mark on the careers of others: As a well-traveled sideman, Miller...
View ArticleLang Lang Foundation Gala Raises $1.2 Million
The Lang Lang International Music Foundation raised $1.2 million on Monday night, with a gala concert at Carnegie Hall followed by a dinner at the Time Warner Center. The charitable venture, co-founded...
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Marking Martha Argerich's Birthday
Today is the 72nd birthday of the fiery Argentine pianist Martha Argerich and we’re celebrating with a Showdown that offers three great Argerich interpretations.It was a super close race all morning...
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Marking Bernstein's Massachusetts Debut
On June 12, 1938 — 75 years ago today — a 19-year-old Leonard Bernstein gave his first performance as a composer-pianist in Brookline, Mass., performing his Music for the Dance Nos. 1 and 2 and Music...
View ArticleWebcast: Pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii in The Greene Space
Nobuyuki Tsujii, the blind Japanese pianist who tied for the gold medal at the 2009 Van Cliburn Competition, came to The Greene Space on Tuesday, Jan. 14 for an evening of music and conversation. He...
View ArticleVideo Webcast: Lang Lang and Young Pianists in The Greene Space
On Thursday, October 23 at 7 pm, flamboyant pianist Lang Lang returned to The Greene Space to share the stage with young performers from his Lang Lang International Music Foundation. The archive of...
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One Pianist, Two Keyboards: Christopher Taylor's Bach Variation
When Christopher Taylor took the bronze medal at the 1993 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, he played J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations, in an adventurous program that also included Pierre...
View ArticleClaude Frank, Patrician Pianist Specializing in Beethoven, Dies at 89
Claude Frank, a pianist known for his elegant, patrician renditions of the Austro-German repertory, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89 and had been suffering from dementia. His death...
View ArticleQ&A: Stephen Hough on Grieg, Piano Shopping and the Death of Record Stores
Free Download: Stephen Hough plays Grieg's Lyric Pieces, Book 10, Op. 71, No. 3 "Puck" *Stephen Hough stands out about among classical pianists partly by virtue of the fact that he's seemingly always...
View ArticleA Pianist Played Until Her Fingers Bled – and the Internet Takes Notice
In what looks like an image from a horror movie, a photo of a blood-stained piano keyboard has been making the rounds on social media since Friday, a souvenir of an apparently intense performance...
View ArticleThe Neuroscience of Jazz
Charles Limb is a professor of otolaryngology at Johns Hopkins Medicine who has a sideline in brain research; he’s also on the faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. He wants to know what...
View ArticleWei Luo
Still just 19 and a student at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute, Wei Luo has taken first prize in multiple competitions in her native China and is the recipient of the 2018 Gilmore Young Artist Award. A...
View ArticlePianist Janice Carissa
Tonight on the Young Artists Showcase features a visit by pianist Janice Carissa, a student at the Curtis Institute of Music. She's performing at Caramoor in Katonah, NY, this coming weekend as a part...
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Joyeux Anniversaire! Mario Braggiotti, host of WQXR’s "To France—With Music"
It’s the birthday of Mario Braggiotti, the late pianist, composer and host of WQXR’s To France—With Music. The New York Public Radio Archive is celebrating the occasion with a recently acquired...
View ArticleRegina Spektor, In-Studio (From the Archives)
Songwriter, pianist, and singer Regina Spektor was born in the then-Soviet Union and moved to the States on the cusp of her teenage years. She began playing small cafes and clubs, before moving up to...
View ArticlePianist Aaron Diehl
[REBROADCAST FROM DECEMBER 20, 2018] Pianist Aaron Diehl joins us to discuss his unique path in the music world and his ability to straddle the worlds of jazz and classical music. On November 17, Diehl...
View ArticleSimone Dinnerstein: An American Mosaic
NO NEED TO RSVP — JUST COME BACK TO THIS PAGE ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1 AT 7PM ET AND TUNE IN TO THE CONCERT.Over the course of the pandemic shutdown, internationally-renowned pianist Simone Dinnerstein...
View ArticlePlaying This Weekend: Vijay Iyer
[REBROADCAST FROM April 21, 2021] Uneasy is the latest album from pianist, MacArthur fellow, and Harvard professor in the departments of music and African and African American studies, Vijay Iyer,...
View ArticleFire ravages migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez
Dozens of migrants are dead after a fire swept through a detention center in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says the fire was started by...
View ArticleA New Doc About Nazi-Occupied Amsterdam; Christian Sands Performs Jazzy...
Steve McQueen's new documentary, "Occupied City," takes the book Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945), written by his wife Bianca Stigter, and turns it into a film by exploring various...
View ArticlePianist Donald Vega Performs Live and Talks Grammy Nomination
Pianist and Juilliard professor Donald Vega is nominated for his first Grammy as a bandleader this year for his album, As I Travel, in the Best Latin Jazz Album category. Vega performs live with his...
View ArticleBONUS TRACK: Donald Vega Performs 'Disturbios'
Grammy-nominated pianist Donald Vega performed live on our show last week and discussed his album, As I Travel. Donald recorded an extra bonus track for us, titled "Disturbios," about his connection to...
View ArticleEqualizers: Patrice Rushen
Singer, pianist and producerPatrice Rushen holds the distinction of being the first woman musical director of the Grammy Awards, the Emmy Awards, and the NAACP Image Awards. A producer of her own...
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