The pianist's revealing memoir takes us behind the scenes into the developing mind of a music student as he becomes a mature virtuoso.
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Music Review: Simone Dinnerstein – ‘A Character of Quiet’ (Philip Glass, Franz Schubert)
Dinnerstein's masterful and thoroughly adult interpretive force makes her new album a balm for the soul, especially in such troubled times as these.
Read More »Interview with Pianist Jason Solounias
Accomplished classical pianist Jason Solounias on his early interest in music, teaching music, performing, and why he's releasing his first commercial recordings on the works of Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Read More »Music Review: Lisa Hilton – ‘Escapism’
There is a poetic lyricism in Hilton's arrangements that pairs jazz with classic symphonies.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Carlo Grante’s ‘Masters of High Romanticism’ Brahms Program – Lincoln Center, NYC (2/10/15)
The pianist's intellectual approach to the music was loving and respectful as well.
Read More »Classical Superstars Lang Lang and Joshua Bell Both Releasing New Albums September 30
Pianist Lang Lang's new double album is dedicated entirely to Mozart, while Bell's recording is all Bach.
Read More »Interview: Pianist Yoonie Han on Her Debut Album ‘Love and Longing’
The pianist explores love and longing on her debut release on the Steinway & Sons label, with music by Schubert, Liszt, Prokofiev, Granados and more.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Yoonie Han at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery, NYC, 3/21/13
The pianist devised an unusual program of piano transcriptions of great composers' works by other composers.
Read More »Interview: Yoonjung ‘Yoonie’ Han, Winner of the Washington Piano Competition and Fulbright Concerto Competition
Life for an up-and-coming concert pianist is an endless cycle of practicing and marketing...and yet more marketing.
Read More »Music Review: Lang Lang – Live in Vienna
Lang Lang plays Beethoven live in Vienna
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