How a Chopin piano competition helped me find joy in a dark world - FIRST PERSON: It’s called the Olympic Games of the piano ...
For Pollini, Chopin has been part of his life since his triumph in the 1960 Chopin Competition in Warsaw. And yet his new set of the Nocturnes, ‘complete’ (apart from the posthumous C sharp minor ...
13-year-old Lucy is blind and neurodivergent, and left judges speechless with her incredible performance of a Chopin nocturne on Channel 4 show ‘The Piano’. Lucy, who is blind and neurodivergent, is ...
FORT WORTH — Every so often a concert feels particularly special, one you’re grateful to be experiencing. That’s how it was with pianist Piers Lane’s recital Saturday night at Texas Christian ...
In Paris, far from his Polish homeland, Chopin gave his soul to the piano, creating for it music of unearthly beauty. Into the Nocturnes, he poured the greatest brightness of his genius. Chopin was ...
First-stage auditions continued on the third day of the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, with seventeen contestants performing their recitals consisting of an etude, a nocturne, ...
It seems counterintuitive to hold a solo piano recital in an orchestra hall. There’s something distinctly imbalanced in having the more than 1,000 patrons in attendance at Symphony Center’s Orchestra ...