(Courtesy Ena Barton) When she was a teenager, Barton was sent to New York City to study with Claudio Arrau, considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Soon after arriving in the U.S ...

The piano, as we know it, dates back hundreds of years.The instrument was key in many seminal compositions, from the classical era to modern times. Pianists have learned to play exquisite pieces ...

Pianist Loren DiGiorgi quite humorously and musically reimagined famous classical composers such as Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart ...

Everything you need to know about Víkingur Ólafsson – the Icelandic pianist who won his first Grammy Award for his recording ...

Alexander Malofeev and Alexandre Kantorow, both winners of the Tchaikovsky competition, forge two very different paths as a ...

Rachmaninoff considered Hofmann the greatest pianist in the world. However, the brilliant musician had many other talents to show. He gave us windscreen wipers, paperclips, adjustable piano stools, ...

Popular for her bold outfits and active social media presence, at the same time she is hands-down (sorry…) one of today’s greatest pianists. She can do speed and precision like possibly no ...

At eighty, the brilliant pianist Claudio Arrau plays passionately on, but successors in the Romantic tradition are hard to find. Is Claudio Arrau the greatest pianist in the world? He turned eighty ...

In whats been called the Super Bowl of Jazz, five of Americas most promising jazz pianists compete in the 2019 American Pianists Awards Gala Finals. Hosted by NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater ...

The author of many famous symphonies was himself not the best example. He married his wife Clara Wieck when she was just 14 years old – at the beginning of their relationship, he helped her to develop ...

This year has added two more names, the Aguilar Lutanists (TIME, Dec. 2) and José Iturbi, famed throughout Europe and South America as Spain’s greatest pianist. José Iturbi was born in ...

It made no difference that the then-20-year-old pianist, who has Ukrainian relatives, had opposed the invasion and moved to Berlin. Alexandre Kantorow became a YouTube sensation last summer thanks ...