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American Eric Lu is the newest winner of the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition held in Warsaw, Poland.

In his recent album Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes, Tom Hicks brings historic insights and artistic intuition to a cherished part of the piano repertoire. In this Sonatas & Soundscapes interview that ...

A Los Angeles strip mall has been forced by the city’s throngs of drug-using vagrants to blast music overnight to keep them away— and some neighbors admit the obnoxious din is necessary. The classical ...

This story is being updated daily through June 1 with reviews of the semifinal round. FORT WORTH — The first two rounds of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition ended Sunday, May 25, with ...

A recital by Evgeny Kissin in Carnegie Hall is a regular event—and “event” is the right word. A Kissin recital is an event because of the stage seating (the overflow crowd on the stage). But also ...

When Lucas Debargue shot to fame, winning fourth prize at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, he took many listeners by surprise. He had followed an unconventional route and was a late ...

At least two things become readily apparent during an Evgeny Kissin recital. First, the man’s musicianship is immense. His playing is not limited by issues of period, style, or genre. Second, he ...

In a solo recital for the San Francisco Symphony’s Great Performers Series, Kissin shows his deep affinity for two radically different composers. Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin, seen here at Italy’s ...

Since “Nobu Fever” entered the piano world’s vocabulary after Noboyuki Tsujii’s gold medal at the 2009 Van Cliburn competition (shared with Haochen Zhang), the elephant in the room has been when or if ...

"Nocturne Op27 Nº1 in C# minor" is the first track on Chopin Project, the debut album from Dead Composers Club. Dead Composers Club, formed by saxophonist Noah Preminger and drummer Rob Garcia, also ...