Kevin Chen, 20, will perform a concerto with the Warsaw Philharmonic to vie for the competition’s coveted gold medal.

Pianist Ingrid Sala Santamaria has performed all the romantic piano concertos in the repertoire and in all unimaginable settings. She was soloist in the Rachmaninoff (second) concerto and Tchaikovsky ...

Pianist Natasha Paremski says she has trouble keeping Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in hand.

Williams is best known for his grandly symphonic, Oscar-winning film scores. But his latest concert work is quieter, and more haunting. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Lenox, Mass. You could be ...

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

It is only a fortnight ago that a disc of Rachmaninov’s orchestral music performed by the RLPO and Vasily Petrenko featured here as CD of the Week. But these things happen, and it would be quite wrong ...

A Rachmaninov concerto movement, with soaring orchestral lines, and breathless piano notes, but it’s all on a single instrument. Here’s a performance that is a true feat of musicianship and dexterity.

The re-emergence of Janina Fialkowska after her recovery from cancer has been one of the joys of this Chopin bicentenary year, and here she gives lustrous, limpid performances of the two piano ...

Lutosławski's Piano Concerto, whose four movements are to be played attacca, was commissioned by the Salzburg Festival and was premiered during that event on 19th August 1988 by the pianist Krystian ...

The black and white keys move so fast it’s hard to tell if Jenny Lin is even touching them. Lin, a classical pianist known for virtuosic speed, is sitting at a grand piano in Steinway’s New York ...

In 1914, the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein was shot in the elbow and his right arm amputated. Wittgenstein resolved to continue his career as a performer and asked some of the most famous ...

During his early twenties, DJ was working towards his dream of becoming a concert pianist. Things were looking promising, and he was even doing postgraduate studies in Russia, one of the highly ...