Listening to pianist Jocelyn Swigger's new album The Complete Chopin Études isn't like hearing these famous pieces for the first time again. But it is sure to give listeners a fresh perspective on ...

Chopin’s etudes are a kind of finishing school for pianists. Learning to play them at all gives a performer technique enough to handle most difficulties; learning to play them well leaves one with a ...

For a test of artistry, courage and endurance, together with an obsessive focus on one composer, there is nothing quite like ...

Every great pianist learns the Chopin etudes and many pianists venture to play a few of them in public. But it is the rare keyboard athlete who dares to play them all in one sitting and before a live ...

The International Chopin Piano Competition is entering its final round, with performances that attract millions of viewers.

Individually and collectively, the Chopin etudes represent a formidable mountain that several famous pianists have refrained from climbing. In his new Grammy-nominated album of the Opp. 10 and 25, ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Seulki Susie Yoo, DMA, is an internationally recognized pianist, whose interpretation is distinct in Romanticism music in the 19th ...

Nor could jury members avoid reckoning with Kevin Chen’s freakish virtuosity in the Chopin Etudes Op. 10, musical considerations aside. Although I don’t find Miyu Shindo’s artistry particularly ...

Chopin’s ‘Waterfall’ Étude? Talk about jumping in at the deep end... “What Happens When I Play Chopin’s ‘Waterfall’ in the Water?” this musician asked himself one day, as lockdown began to take its ...

Internationally acclaimed pianist Jayson Gillham turns his artistry to Chopin’s Etudes: written to take pianists to the ...