Alexewicz is one of four Polish contestants who have qualified to the second stage. During his performance on Thursday, he played all 24 preludes from Opus 28. Reflecting on how his interpretation of ...

Since his last Schubert Club solo recital in 2006, Norway’s Leif Ove Andsnes has emerged as one of the 21st century’s premier pianists. So it’s no surprise that St. Paul’s Ordway Music Theater was ...

High on a mountainside, in an abandoned monastery on the Spanish island of Majorca, Frédéric Chopin worked at a small upright piano. His room resembled, in his words, “a tall coffin, the enormous ...

The pianist couldn’t hold back tears as she played one of the world’s most moving pieces of music. A 24-year-old Japanese pianist was moved to tears during her own performance of Frédéric Chopin’s ...

It’s possible that more people might have come to great music through Chopin than from any other composer. It’s equally likely they came to Chopin through his 24 piano preludes, the ultimate in ...

Chopin at Christmas with Fionnuala Moynihan in Concert at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, on 12 Dec. A musical journey through Nocturnes, Waltzes, Preludes and the beloved Berceuse, plus some of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Few pianists today elicit the kind of eager expectation, borne of star-power and reputation, that Evgeny Kissin does the moment he takes the stage. There is a quality to his presence ...

A humble piano that birthed some of composer Frédèric Chopin’s greatest pieces is the peg for a meditation on romanticism in this beguiling study. Composer and pianist Kildea (Benjamin Britten) ...

Joining Bruce Adolphe and Fred Child on stage is pianist Riko Higuma, who demonstrates the Piano Puzzler by playing the Prelude in E minor by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849).

We can never get enough of Isadora Duncan, the original modern dancer, the trailblazing modern woman -- and an artist who inspires such continued passion that, more than 80 years after her death, she ...

“Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel.” It has been almost 175 years since Frederic Chopin’s soul was snatched away into the ether by tuberculosis at the age of 39. However, the complexity ...