A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

She became one of the most famous concert pianists of the century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The more intimate gatherings are typically accompanied by Chandresh’s personal pianist, a beautiful young woman who plays continuously throughout the entire evening and never speaks a word to anyone. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As Mr. Neck opens his mouth to speak, David presses the Play and Record buttons at the same time, like a pianist hitting an opening chord. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

As Francie walked in, the pianist drifted into another song inspired by Francie’s new gray fall suit and her gray suede pumps. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also studied the games of Mark Taimanov, the 1956 champion of the Soviet Union—and a concert pianist—who introduced novelties in opening play that Fischer found instructive. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Clara Wieck Schumann was the wife and muse of Robert Schumann, and a talented composer and pianist in her own right. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A pianist or xylophone player only gets one note from each key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

His fingers were long and nimble, and as he moved, his hand quitting the piece with a flourish, he looked like a classical pianist playing a concerto. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stranger things have happened at la maison Lefèvre than unexpected entertainment, and the pianist does sometimes send a replacement when she is unavailable for a dinner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I’m a famous pianist, I’ll make sure the name written in fancy script on the program says my full name—Isabella Badia Thornton. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Then the pianist let loose a sequence of rising and falling syncopations and a man’s crooning voice stretched over it all. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The pentatonic aspect of Debussy’s piano music provided much inspirational fuel for later generations of jazz pianists. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The pianist stopped what he was playing and started something new. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was replaced as Anderson’s accompanist by Franz Rupp, a Jewish pianist who had fled from Nazi Germany with his family after Adolf Hitler came to power. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s a shame Henry here was too busy signing papers with Auntie Pezza all week to learn some sheet music or we could have fired our pianist.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was the headliner, performing after six other gifted young pianists. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I miss her laugh, the way it starts like a pianists solo, soft and low and then crescendoing and filling the room. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He thought of all her stories, how she’d complimented his fingers and said he should be a pianist, and how she taught him about Pah and the Stone Boy and the Sun Queen. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She teamed up with an energetic young accompanist, a pianist named William “Billy” King. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you have beautiful hands. You have the hands of a gifted pianist. We should put you in piano lessons. Li!” she called to Virgil’s mother. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

On arrival, however, he learned that all the club had provided for music was a lone pianist who had no idea what kind of piece might accompany such an exotic dance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“We do need a pianist,” Taylor says slowly. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I sat in the very back one time when Dad took me to a concert by some famous Polish pianist. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Aunt Anne was an accomplished pianist and gave music lessons at her house at 26 Cabot Street. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to emulate a whole band - bass, accompanying chords and tune - the solo pianist had to leap about the keys frantically, resulting in a rather virtuoso left-hand motion from bass to chord and back. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m also supposed to rehearse with some pianist from the college that Professor Christie dug up.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bet this chaos is what a first-time skydiver feels as she’s plummeting out of a plane, or a pianist playing his first concert. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was also an accomplished pianist, a devotee of Fats Waller, and capable of pulling off anything from swing tunes to Mendelssohn. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ragtime’s syncopation was drawn from a relatively limited menu of possible variations, and could therefore also be written down and mastered, in time, by any competent pianist. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Rule Rasmussen, a Norwegian concert manager, and Kosti Vehanen, a Finnish pianist, were traveling through Europe in search of talented performers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“I was always a very good pianist when I was younger. Remember all those recitals I had?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A young pianist sat on his piano stool, relaxed, smiling, smoking. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

On Sunday mornings the whole family attended Central Christian Church, where Nellie was the principal pianist and Harry sang in the choir. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Though she was a member of Farmville’s Beulah AME Church, it was the First Baptist Church that enjoyed her esteemed piano playing come Sunday morning, because they had hired her as their pianist. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then he’d grab the Bull’s shirt collar in his skinny little hand, the one with the fingers of a gifted pianist, and shove him against the nearest tree. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She’s actually really good, but there’s this twelfth-grade guy who’s been the main pianist since he was a freshman, and he’s not about to get booted by a middle school girl in his senior year. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was misty, with heavy, lowering atmosphere, one afternoon, when Edna climbed the stairs to the pianist’s apartments under the roof. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pianist isn't prepared to play it in any other key, but you really don't like those thin-sounding chords in A flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“The pianist? I know her by sight. I’ve heard her play.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagines a diminutive pianist, dressed in a tuxedo, playing inside the machine. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In smaller cinemas a pianist or organist would provide a similarly live accompaniment; Russian classical composer Dmitri Shostakovich supported himself in Leningrad in 1924-5 by doing just that. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Ericsson and his colleagues then compared amateur pianists with professional pianists. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Beethoven’s Fifth, if you please. Do you see what a magnificent magician I am, ladies and gentlemen? I just made a pianist appear out of thin air!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Most pianists never get the chance to play in the great out-of-doors,” she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She made the first change effortlessly, and she made her face look like a concert pianist—all solemn and stuff. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

On top of this accompanying oompah the rag pianists wove a catchy tune that pulled the rhythm around, a technique called syncopation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I wondered if it helped his French horn playing to have such long fingers, like a pianist. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lee, a church pianist, mother of two, and bank bookkeeper, had gotten pregnant after an extramarital affair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Could it have been a pianist—with sensitive, long fingers that drew magic sounds from the shining ivory keys?” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pianist sat down and played the first note and foomp!, all this foam exploded out of the piano. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For guitarists, pianists, and other chord players: Get some practical practice. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She had been a great concert pianist, the doctor said, until illness forced her to retire. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a great concert pianist once,” she said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A concert pianist turned stage actress, Weber had entered movies as a writer. Lois Weber, Eloquent Filmmaker of the Silent Screen 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

To include live music, by two pianists, two dances were swapped out, which meant that about half the dancers were also replaced, largely by principals. On the Road With Ballet Theater. Who Needs Red Velvet Seats. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

He told the New York Times that he might be “the oldest pianist still working steady in the world,” a claim that could not immediately be verified, although it could not be disproved, either. Irving Fields, bandleader who fed postwar mania for Yiddish mambo, dies at 101 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

The next year he served as the fiery eminence on “Black Stars,” an acclaimed album by the 26-year-old pianist Jason Moran. Sam Rivers, Jazz Musician, Dies at 88 2011-12-28T00:24:59Z

For a while, therefore, it was Gibbs's regular pianist Hans Koller – who knows the material intimately – who drifted most comfortably between support for the band and roving solos, until the other soloists found their feet. Mike Gibbs Band – review 2012-12-13T12:28:08Z

Hanick, a brilliant pianist more often heard in thorny contemporary scores, played with crispness, nuance and grace. Review: For Armory Recitals, a Modest but Memorable Return 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

The owner opens a wooden cabinet and skims through a library of vinyl, selecting jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita’s version of It’s Easy to Remember. 'My best travel discovery of 2016' 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

Johnny Maddox, an aspiring pianist who had been a clerk in the store, cut Dot’s first single, “Crazy Bone Rag.” Randy Wood, Founder of Dot Records, Dies at 94 2011-04-15T01:17:54Z

The first half of the program ended with Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D flat, which the pianist and scholar Charles Rosen once described as “the least respectable side of Liszt.” Music Review: Steven Lin Shows His Confidence in Recital 2014-02-12T22:13:35Z

The Cliburn, defying pressure to ban Russian competitors after the invasion of Ukraine, had invited six Russians to take part, as well as two pianists from Belarus, which has supported the Russian invasion. Russian and Ukrainian Pianists Meet in Texas at Cliburn Competition 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

By 17, he was the pianist at a church with thousands of parishioners. A Month of Robert Glasper’s Experiments at the Blue Note 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

So he’s excited to meet Beau, a pianist who accompanied Mercer in the 1960s, via an online dating site. Review: ‘Gently Down the Stream,’ a Romance and a Gay History Tour 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

He is also an excellent concert pianist and on May 12 will be giving his 36th annual recital at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. Bridge: Augie Boehm at Honors Bridge Club 2014-05-01T04:46:10Z

Henderson, a trumpeter, and Reed, a pianist, are a generation apart — but both play with understatement and grace, placing an emphasis on where funk and swing converge. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

The two others, on Thursday and Saturday, featured the Scottish pianist Steven Osborne, who was the soloist in a Mozart concerto in the orchestral concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings. Review: Steven Osborne Is Joined by 2 Collaborators at Kaplan Penthouse 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

I expected beautiful Chopin from this young Russian pianist, a brilliant virtuoso with poetic sensibilities, in two programs early this year that were part of his Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The ensemble includes some of Mr. Ashley’s most enduring collaborators, like the pianist Gene Tyranny and the sound designer Tom Hamilton, as well as a promising array of younger artists. The Week Ahead: Nov. 13 ? 19 2011-11-11T14:58:50Z

Hargus Robbins, an accomplished session pianist known as Pig who played on Smith’s debut single, the new album and countless sessions in between, said Smith comes to the studio well prepared. 54 Albums Later, Connie Smith’s Defiant Heart Has Plenty to Say 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

The Vienna-born Gulda, one of the 20th century's greatest pianists, was so determined to smash musical boundaries as a virtuoso and composer, he was labeled an eccentric. Symphony season breaks boundaries 2011-09-15T01:09:42Z

Is it possible for a pianist to be too good? Flourishes From Denmark, Stockhausen’s ‘Stimmung’ and Marc-André Hamelin 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

As a pianist, Mr. Kauflin, 28, favors a clarity of touch and ideas, rarely spinning into an orbit he can’t control. New Releases From Justin Townes Earle, Liam Hayes and Justin Kauflin 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

By jazz standards, the solo is a slight one: The pianist vamps on the groove, bangs out chords on the accents. In the year jazz went avant-garde, Ramsey Lewis went pop with a bang 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

This week’s presentation features the storied pianist Fred Hersch, whose lucid and harmonically lush playing often graced the stage at the Standard, and his trio. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

One perennial challenge pianists face is making a percussive instrument sing, as Ms. Uchida does seamlessly. Music Review: Intense Communication, via the Piano 2011-02-14T04:43:16Z

When the Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt asserts that her journey with Bach began when she was born, if not before, she is hardly exaggerating. Review: A Pianist Reveals Bach’s Inner Dancer 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bennett maintained a fluid, easygoing relationship with the group: his musical director and pianist, Lee Musiker; the guitarist Gray Sargent; the drummer Harold Jones; and the bassist Marshall Wood. Music Review: Tony Bennett at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-09-19T22:54:03Z

True, Carter was a special case: How many of his political contemporaries had even heard of the improvising pianist Cecil Taylor, whom Carter invited to play at the White House? ‘Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President’ Review: A Musically Enlightened Commander in Chief 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Next came a trio with the pianist D. D. Jackson and the tenor saxophonist Kidd Jordan. Music Review: Milton Graves at Center of Vision Festival’s Opening Night 2013-06-13T21:03:09Z

Balances between the pianist and orchestra were on the dot. At the L.A. Phil, hearing John Adams through the man who made him famous 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

LUCERNE, Switzerland — “It has been a success in a small way,” the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim said in an interview at his hotel here on Monday. Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Delivers 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Adams has been exchanging emails and recordings with the pianist: "I'm very curious, with the soloist, about what his take on it is." John Adams to conduct own 'Harmonielehre,' Beethoven's 'Emperor' with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z

Along similar lines, the pianist Vijay Iyer recently became director of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music in Canada. Pop: Jazz and Its Changing Apprenticeship Systems 2012-07-20T17:21:28Z

She has a separate history of duologue with Mr. Blake, her former mentor at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and a venerable pianist adept at fostering harmonic intrigue. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

In “Thelonious,” written, directed, and choreographed by Sarah Petronio, friends gather in a Parisian apartment to listen to a radio program about the jazz pianist Thelonious Monk. Review: ‘Thelonious’ is a Tap Tribute to a Musician 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The musical is based on the film "Once," which follows the love story of a Czech pianist and an Irish guitarist in Dublin. 'Once' star Elizabeth A. Davis celebrates Tony nod 2012-05-10T11:18:10Z

This Canadian pianist, who specializes in contemporary music, will perform the premiere of her Seven Studies for Augmented Piano. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in January 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Writes Swed: “If there was still any doubt that Levit has the making of a great pianist, Saturday’s recital put that to utter rest.” Essential Arts & Culture: Leonard Bernstein at 100, MLK tribute, peeling back the White House facade 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

On Night 1 of this engagement, he’ll perform the “Old Locks” suite with an expanded ensemble of improvisers, including three pianists. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

But the next day, not as part of the festival, Mr. Harding conducted the orchestra in a Beethoven program, including the Fourth Piano Concerto with the pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, who played beautifully. White Light: Is It Driven by the Soul or by Sales? 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z

Fittingly, Earshot presents 10 Seattle pianists at Town Hall playing one solo Monk piece each, plus a “10-tet” organized by pianist Wayne Horvitz, which will play transcriptions of Monk’s 1959 “Live at Town Hall” concert. 17 highlights of the four weeks of Earshot jazz fest 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

On the night I went the trio performed wordless jazz for the most part, though the pianist, Loston Harris, added vocals for “I’m in the Mood for Love.” The Tipsy Diaries: Getting a Kick From Piano Bars 2010-09-30T21:00:00Z

“Luis Russell, a Panamanian pianist, was with Louis Armstrong for years,” Blades also pointed out. Rubén Blades, a Salsa Legend, Swings in a Different Direction: Jazz 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

In an interview, Finckel, a cellist, and Wu, a pianist, discussed that criticism, as well as the impact of the pandemic and the return of live concerts. Chamber Music Society’s Leaders on Balancing Old and New 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Not for him the mysteries of the classical temple, the air of haze and emotion surrounding a performance: He’s one of the most no-nonsense pianists around. Review | Yefim Bronfman, a pianist who lets the music speak for itself 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

While her pianist Tedd Firth bathed her in lush harmonies, she couldn’t find a relaxed, dreamy style that would allow her to float happily downstream under the stars. Review: Melissa Errico Laughs, but Can’t Let Go, at 54 Below 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

This was largely because pianist Zoltan Fejervari, perhaps unable to gauge the balance from the back of the stage, made much of the work into a piece for “piano vs. string trio.” Touring Marlboro string quartet delights in first half of program 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Felder, pianist, composer and playwright, plays the role of Leonard Bernstein in this show that combines narrative and Bernstein’s compositions to tell his life story. 59E59 Announces Season 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Even when the pianist swept down to the lowest reaches of his instrument, Mr. Graves seemed to stay underneath him, a ballast in constant flux, offering only the guarantee that he would listen, and change. For Milford Graves, Jazz Innovation Is Only Part of the Alchemy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The pianist Bradley Moore will be the accompanist for all of the concerts. ArtsBeat: Met Opera Announces Park Series 2011-04-18T20:07:44Z

Chick Corea, the ebullient and eternally youthful pianist, bandleader and composer, turned 70 this year. Critic?s Notebook: Chick Corea, Jazz Chameleon, in All His Colors 2011-10-31T22:28:02Z

The final piece – in which Reich returned as one of four pianists underpinning Ensemble Modern's clean-cut realisation – was the large-scale minimalist masterpiece Music for 18 Musicians. Prom 36: Ensemble Modern/Reich ? review 2011-08-11T16:56:11Z

Film star Michael Douglas broke down in tears at a news conference in Cannes while discussing his role as flamboyant pianist Liberace. Tearful Douglas hails Liberace role 2013-05-21T12:47:21Z

As the former lead singer and pianist of the duo The Dresden Dolls, she was signed with Roadrunner Records—but, in 2010, after more than a year of disputes, she left the label. Amanda Palmer on Her $1 Million Kickstarter Campaign: “This Is the Future of Music” 2012-07-27T14:30:43Z

The MacDowell Colony was founded in 1907 by Edward MacDowell, a composer, and his wife Marian MacDowell, a pianist, at their farm in New Hampshire. MacDowell Colony Chooses Sundance Veteran as New Executive Director 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

McDonald interacts with her pianist and is accompanied by a small jazz band, but it is essentially a solo performance. Singer Audra McDonald transforms into Billie Holiday on Broadway 2014-04-14T16:41:20Z

The marquee name, of course, wasn’t Tchaikovsky, but the pianist Emanuel Ax, who could sell a ticket or two in his day, but is evidently no longer the attraction he once was. Review | A light Ax, a ponderous Fate: NSO plays Mozart and Tchaikovsky 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

About a year ago he played a week at the Village Vanguard with the tenor saxophonist Chris Potter and the pianist Jason Moran, younger musicians of steady intellect and acute perception. Playlist: Making Mischief Along With the Melodies 2010-02-27T03:47:00Z

You even get to hear him as a pianist accompanying his songs. Richard Strauss Recordings Recommended by Critics 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

The sprawling, fictionalized Civil War-era account of the life of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a blind savant pianist born into slavery and exploited by a string of characters, doesn’t fit neatly into any one speculative genre. Dear Match Book: Genre Fiction by Black Writers, About Black Characters 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

When the jazz pianist Chick Corea celebrates a milestone birthday, he doesn’t hold back. Chick Corea’s 75th Birthday Celebration Will Make Music for Months 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

I teach many pianists at Juilliard, and it doesn’t mean they will ever be artists or even musicians.” King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z

This time Ms. Netrebko will stay on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera for her New York recital debut, a program of works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, accompanied by the pianist Malcolm Martineau. Classical Music Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The evening will be capped by a rendition of Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto by the beloved American pianist Emanuel Ax. Seattle Symphony brings homelessness inside the concert hall 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

An internationally famous pianist, he toured the world giving concerts, including an American tour in the 1870s that stretched from Kalamazoo to Mobile. It Was Russia’s Most Popular Opera. Then It Disappeared. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

He initially enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University as a pianist, but ended up a composer, obsessed with bringing words to musical life. One Opera Opening Would Make Any Composer Happy. He Has Two. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Allison, who grew up in the blues heartland of the Mississippi Delta, began his career as a jazz pianist in the 1950s before developing his own brand of ironic, blues-flavored music. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

On Saturday at 8 p.m., he will lead a trio with Mr. Smith and the pianist Craig Taborn; the 10 p.m. set will focus on music from “Unfold Ordinary Mind,” his excellent most recent album. Jazz Listings for Feb. 28-March 6 2014-02-27T22:57:44Z

This paradox is not lost on Adès or his collaborator in the recital, pianist Gloria Cheng, who both sat down for tea on a recent afternoon. Composer Thomas Adès devotes his downtime in L.A. to ... rehearsing 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

This he demonstrated once again in a recital heard Friday night at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland, performed with American pianist Jonathan Biss as collaborating artist. Mark Padmore, Jonathan Biss give intoxicating performance

Four decades after diffidently sending an album called Free At Last by the American pianist Mal Waldron out into the world, he produces outstanding works at what seems like an increasing rate. Manfred Eicher: the sound man 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

They sold hundreds of thousands of records and drew the admiration of musicians including pianist Glenn Gould, violinist Yehudi Menuhin and singer Ella Fitzgerald. Ward Swingle, musician who made Bach swing, dies at 87 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

He was strongly influenced by the New Orleans pianist Henry Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair. Allen Toussaint, songwriter, musician and producer of pop hits, dies at 77 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Still, he secured the respect of fellow musicians thanks to his unshakable talents as a pianist and composer, and his supportive but rigorous manner as an educator. Ellis Marsalis, Jazz Pianist and Music Family Patriarch, Dies at 85 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

And US classical pianist Van Cliburn passed away aged 78, two years after being honoured by President Obama with the National Medal of Arts. In pictures: Stars we lost in 2013 2013-12-30T01:27:27Z

Three of the six young pianists that night chose Chopin’s “Winter Wind” Étude. Critic’s Notebook: Exploring Bavaria and the Busoni International Piano Festival 2012-09-07T23:47:51Z

Weary of one-off collaborations and special projects, the great jazz pianist Chick Corea has formed a new band, the Vigil, and composed new material for it. A&E highlights: Opening Day, Chick Corea, Paul Havas show 2013-04-29T22:08:48Z

The pianist was at his best in his Russian virtuoso mode, tearing through the scherzo in a white-hot performance. Review: In ‘With You, Armenia,’ Kissin and Others Honor the Slaughtered 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

The pianist Justus Zeyen was a splendid accompanist throughout the recital, in every instance providing precisely the necessary support and atmosphere. Music Review: Michael Schade and Luca Pisaroni at Alice Tully Hall 2012-03-26T22:25:13Z

Best known as a pianist but also a man of boggling versatility, Norris clearly had fun. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z

But listen a little to this wonderful recording of Mr. Boykan’s piano music, played by the brilliant and sensitive pianist Donald Berman, and the captivating qualities of the music will soon grab most people. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. McBride is a bassist of wide renown; Mr. Marsella, a pianist, and Mr. Marshall, a drummer, are young musicians on the rise. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Like all this pianist’s recording projects, “Fantasia” is daringly yet elegantly programmed: Eight works from across some 200 years, with four meaty masterpieces each set alongside a smaller companion. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z

Check, as the ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr. — played by a splendid Kevin McAllister, whose sunny disposition gradually turns to cold fury — refuses to give in as white supremacists trash his shiny Model T. Review | ‘Ragtime’ sings with purpose at Ford’s Theatre 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

She had her own class, which the regular company pianists didn’t want to do because it started later — but also they considered themselves rehearsal pianists, not class pianists. Ballet Theater Gives the Stage to This Pianist’s Drag Persona 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

A compelling pianist and an increasingly active conductor, Mr. Formenti has gained attention for programs that boldly juxtapose music of different styles and eras. Marino Formenti, Fully Engaged, at NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

The way she follows his lead, usually stepping a hair’s breadth later than he, has its own musical beauty, like a pianist allowing his left hand to follow his right hand in Romantic music. Dance Review: Gabriel Missé and Analía Centurión Dance Tango 2013-08-12T21:40:10Z

Soyeon Kate Lee, 42, a Korean American pianist, said a conductor once described her in front of other orchestra leaders as “cheap and good” and suggested she perform a lap dance. Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

“Only the greatest artists are able to maintain the freshness of discovery with the depth of thoughtfulness,” said Daniel Barenboim, the conductor and pianist, in a recent email from Europe. Martha Argerich is a legend of the classical music world. But she doesn’t act like one. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Still, he insists, he will never beg famous pianists to use his instruments. Piano nobile 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

I worked as a pianist in a burlesque bar called the Slipper Room. ‘The East Village is one of the few places in Manhattan hanging on to some character’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

His original compositions were recorded by the pianist and composer Aaron Robinson and released in 2015 as “Max Morath: The Complete Ragtime Works for Piano.” Max Morath, Pianist Who Staged a One-Man Ragtime Revival, Dies at 96 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

But then he sat down to begin the solo part, and the intelligence and brilliance of his playing was an immediate reminder of why we need him so much as a pianist. Beethoven From Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

A pianist, he holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Boston University. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

In the scene, shown above, Ms. Rice, a former secretary of state and classically trained pianist, challenged Mr. Baldwin, a Lincoln Center regular himself, to a musical face-off. ArtsBeat: What Was Condoleezza Rice Playing on '30 Rock'? 2011-04-29T19:51:50Z

Over the last decade, its fraternal order of contributors — the pianist Ethan Iverson, the bassist Reid Anderson and the drummer David King — have held fast, patiently refining their brand of superhero jazz. Music Review: Together for 10 Years and Still Totally Committed 2010-09-17T20:08:00Z

After intermission, though, in an account of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with the young Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin, there were moments of dicey ensemble in the orchestra and poor coordination with the soloist. Music Review: St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Denis Kozhukhin Perform 2014-02-14T22:30:29Z

Certainly as a pianist it makes sense to me; but even in filmmaking, though it is a highly collaborative endeavor, the director is in an extremely lonely position. Blogging "City Island": My movie's a hit! Why am I up all night? 2010-04-19T16:30:00Z

And there is a part of Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg, declared winner on June 1 of one of the world's most prestigious and grueling music contests, that agrees. Prize-winning pianist caught between anger and ecstasy 2013-06-24T17:29:12Z

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and pianist Jan Lisiecki concluded a European concert tour together, punctuated by a final stop at the Library of Congress Saturday night. Review | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Jan Lisiecki close tour with Library of Congress concert 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z

His father, a judge and amateur pianist, introduced his son to music. Jiri Belohlavek, Czech Conductor, Dies at 71 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Crump is most recognized for his work alongside the pianist Vijay Iyer, but he is also a quietly industrious bandleader, with a range of his own projects. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

The pianist Víkingur Olafsson talks about feeling naked onstage when he plays Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16, “a piece we all have to face as pianists.” Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

I wanted to pay homage to this tradition of pianists being transcribers. At 150, Rachmaninoff and His Music Are ‘Here to Stay’ 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

Among pianists, Uchida is our reigning interpreter of his music — returning to it repeatedly, revealing ever more layers of mystery, wit and aching beauty. Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Tan is, of course, among the most thoughtful, elegant and refined of pianists. Melvyn Tan ? review 2011-08-17T17:43:06Z

The pianist Mr. O’Farrill is an irrepressible synthesizer and a conceptual long-distance runner. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

“Quite a bit of a pianist’s distinctive tone is determined by what we do,” Brady said. Piano technician in tune with industry award 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

Days and evenings poring over spinning vinyl, and tape-recording the classical repertoire, were the beginnings of a career that has made Paul Lewis the most illustrious and talented British-born pianist for generations. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z

Toradze is one of the greatest pianists alive, and one of my favorites. Schwarz takes podium to conduct 'Pictures at an Exhibition' with SSO 2010-03-24T23:20:00Z

I worked with a teacher four or five times in this cramming crash course of what do professional pianists do, how do they sit and hold their hands and breathe. Simon Helberg Trades His ‘Big Bang’ Geek for Meryl Streep 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

From the emphatic opener to the scherzo’s heroic chords, the pianist’s versatility and inventiveness were evident. Review | Zoltan Fejervari shows off his technique with a program of gems 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

These days, however, Cho no longer listens to other pianists, as he develops his own artistic voice. Winning a renowned piano competition put Seong-Jin Cho on road to stardom 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Yeah, and The Monster is another great gay club that has a pianist there. Dr. Drew is worried about the "impact of pornography" and reveals his COVID-19 fears 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

He excelled in the "locked hands" technique, in which the pianist plays parallel melodies with the two hands, creating a distinctly full sound. Jazz great George Shearing dies at 91 2011-02-14T18:05:00Z

So let’s say you started further back, with “Live at Bradley’s,” a study in expressive, idiomatic hard-bop, made with the pianist James Williams and the bassist Robert Hurst. Kevin Eubanks Begins Life After ?The Tonight Show? 2010-05-30T21:03:00Z

As it happens, the Gould estate and the Gould Foundation also were interested in demystifying the pianist’s image as an ascetic recluse. Film: Seeking the Ordinary in the Eccentric 2010-09-03T15:14:00Z

A reason that pianists are getting technically stronger is that as in sports, teachers and students are just learning to practice the craft better, becoming better conditioned and getting better results. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

You are truly, truly the greatest pianist I’ve ever seen onstage.” Music Review: 2013 N.E.A. Jazz Masters Are Honored 2013-01-15T22:24:48Z

The vibrant pianist and Gershwin devotee Kevin Cole gave a scintillating account of this adventurous work. Music Review: Baltimore and Albany Symphonies at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T21:11:30Z

Ms. Yamamoto, a scrupulous and graceful pianist, released a beguiling album this year, “Piano Solo: Live in Benicàssim.” Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

His job is an endless "search for the perfect sound," as he works with pianists to help them find just the right instrument and tone. 'Pianomania' documentary may have sounded like a good idea 2011-07-14T19:33:03Z

It’s during a starlit tap dance in the Hollywood Hills that Sebastian, a jazz pianist, and Mia, an aspiring actress, try to ward off their feelings for each other and then succumb to them. Triumphant ‘La La Land’ demonstrates the power of dance to tell a story 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Kai is a tough orphan from the provinces and a gifted pianist. Review: In ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing,’ a Portrait of Souls Snuffed Out 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Eastern time, he will play a program of boleros, or slow dance numbers, alongside Luis Perdomo, the pianist in his quartet. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Over a few years, the bit evolved to its current format: two acts, with soprano and pianist. A mix of opera and sketch comedy: Meet The Drunken Tenor 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

He was at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, and he wandered into a rehearsal for Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy,” with the eminent pianist Rudolf Serkin sitting at a Steinway. A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

A program on April 11th, given by the cellist Matt Haimovitz and the pianist Christopher O’Riley, is a case in point. Jacob Lawrence, Audra McDonald, and Rockaway Taco 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

There were two songs from the new album in Mr. Person’s set, which featured a working quartet with the pianist Stan Hope, the bassist Nat Reeves and the drummer Chip White. Music Review | Houston Person: Cruising or Fired Up, an Unchanging Language 2010-03-05T22:08:00Z

There are other primary characters in “Southern Cross the Dog,” notably Eli Cutter, a blues pianist who has been in prison for manslaughter. Books of The Times: ‘Southern Cross the Dog,’ a Novel by Bill Cheng 2013-05-21T21:36:57Z

It bears noting that these are all live recordings: jazz is a music of interaction even in its strictest form, and a lone pianist playing to an audience isn’t, in the end, really alone. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z

But if Liszt never lacked champions among master pianists, why is he not considered as important as other Romantic composers, like Schumann and Chopin? Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

Dr. Kogan was one of two main speakers at the Tuesday symposium, along with Dr. Claudius Conrad, a surgeon at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and also a pianist. ArtsBeat: On Music and Medicine: A Performance by L'Ensemble M?dical 2011-02-17T17:30:07Z

No pianist is without weakness; no one is perfect. Seattle Chamber Music Society winter festival starts with a big Lizst 2011-01-19T22:48:05Z

‘LIAISONS’ This ongoing project, conceived by the pianist Anthony de Mare, has corralled notable composers to arrange for him solo-piano versions of Stephen Sondheim songs. Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

The pianist Blind Tom began drawing crowds to his performances as a child in the 1850s. Recalling Blind Tom, an Autistic Pianist Born to Slavery 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Other highlights of his career so far include playing for members of the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, being accompanied by pianist and composer Michael Nyman and performing with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Orchestra recruits trombone prodigy 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

And if solo playing elicited anxiety for a pianist like Evans, it has been nothing but liberating for Mr. Bley, who is now 78 and has a body of highly regarded solo albums behind him. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z

The pianist settled in Japan in 2002 after living for many years in the Los Angeles area. Sir Charles Thompson, jazz pianist who bridged swing and bebop, dies at 98 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

In all of this, pianist Wendy Chen was a true collaborative artist, with a broad range of delicate touch at the keyboard to enrich Ueno’s tone. Flutist Seiya Ueno’s local debut performance sells itself 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Among Mr. Graves’s signal achievements are his work with the pianist Paul Bley and his being a co-founder of the New York Art Quartet, an ensemble small in discography but enormous in influence. Review: ‘Milford Graves Full Mantis’ Delivers a Lot of Heart 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

The streaming numbers for his latest album — “Muse,” with the excellent pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, his sister — are much smaller so far. Review: The Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason Makes an Entrance 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

James grew up hearing family members reminisce about the fabled guitarist’s days at Garfield High School and his mother’s cousin married pianist Robert Green, who played in Hendrix’s Seattle band, the Rocking Kings. 1 remarkable guitarist powers 2 of Seattle’s hottest bands 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

They will be joined by the excellent young pianist Joyce Yang for Dvorak’s popular Piano Quintet. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 13-19 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Stage left, Condoleezza Rice, the former Republican darling, a classically trained pianist and academic perhaps better known as George Bush's enforcer. Condoleezza Rice and Aretha Franklin perform duet 2010-07-28T09:05:00Z

Schiff the pianist was on outstanding form, giving the melodic lines a firm but delicate profile, varying textures with imagination, and voicing inner parts with spellbinding skill. Philharmonia/Schiff ? review 2011-03-24T21:45:01Z

But Schiff is, at heart, a modern pianist, and Wednesday's slower performance than on the new recording was both sharply defined and gorgeous. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sands, a young pianist, studied under Billy Taylor and has put in years as a sideman with the bassist Christian McBride. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

In a recent interview posted on Vimeo, the pianist held forth eloquently and sometimes mischievously about his connection to Bach. 'Clavier' Redux: András Schiff brings Bach's masterpiece to Benaroya 2012-10-10T22:23:03Z

To end Mr. Langrée conducted the orchestra, the Concert Chorale of New York, the Young People’s Chorus, six vocal soloists and a brilliant pianist, Kit Armstrong, in Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy.” Review: A Youthful Experiment Kicks Off Mostly Mozart 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

But it might as well describe the dual aspects of the great jazz pianist Barbara Carroll, who began an engagement at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on Tuesday evening. Music Review: A Classicist Who Enjoys Wild Flights of Imagination 2011-06-23T21:58:13Z

Well, pianists can play like a whole orchestra, so not in that sense, but at least in the melodic sense, playing lines. Creating Uncommon Vibes 2011-07-22T20:52:11Z

The Guardian praised his poise, maturity and purity of tone in its review, proclaiming him “the real deal, and definitely a pianist to watch.” The Pianist of the Resistance Captures a Surprise Award 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Brook pared Mozart’s opera down to a streamlined 100-minute version, performed by just seven singers, two actors and an onstage pianist. Some Ground Rules for Revising Operas and Musicals 2012-03-11T05:41:51Z

And the soloist in the concerto is the brilliant and probing young Italian pianist Beatrice Rana, in her Philharmonic debut. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

She was supported by a quintet that included her regular pianist, Tedd Firth; Tom Hubbard, on bass; and Albie Berk, on drums. Music Review: Michael Feinstein and Marilyn Maye at Feinstein’s 2012-09-05T22:09:12Z

Aimard was at his best, and worst, in the Brahms, which was genuinely engaging on a musical level though also slightly terrifying when the pianist suffered from strange technical lapses. French pianist Aimard delivers strange recital at Library of Congress

That particular lapse is not a problem for the pianist Eric Reed. Music Review: Eric Reed at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2012-05-30T22:28:08Z

This pianist’s trio is one of contemporary jazz’s proven entities: They’ve got a distinctive, unified polyrhythmic language, fueled by clean energy but full of magnetism and purpose. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The cello soloist was David Finckel, who recently left the Emerson String Quartet and — with his wife, the pianist Wu Han — established an annual chamber music program at the school this summer. Critic’s Notebook: Aspen Music Festival Embarks on New Era 2013-07-29T21:49:03Z

Mr. Adès, a most compelling conductor and pianist, leads the Orchestra of St Luke’s and plays piano with the Calder Quartet at all three performances. Dance This Week: From Modern to Tango to Flamenco 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

He was an outstanding singer and pianist, but for years he put his own career as a performer aside as he wrote and produced a staggering number of hit songs for others. Allen Toussaint, songwriter, musician and producer of pop hits, dies at 77 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Few other pianists around today play Chopin with as much understanding and poised mastery as this. Chopin: The Complete Waltzes ? review 2011-07-21T20:40:01Z

I am particularly anticipating the imaginative program that the elegant Israeli pianist David Greilsammer will present. The Hot List: David Greilsammer at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-06-21T21:28:20Z

The pianist Emanuel Ax performs on Feb. 9 in the next Peoples’ Symphony Concerts event. Music Review: Brentano String Quartet Plays Hadyn, Mozart and Bartok 2012-12-17T22:55:08Z

The program opened with Franck’s Sonata for Cello and Piano in A in an ardent, bold performance by Mr. Müller-Schott and the formidable pianist Michael Brown. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Thomas Sauer, a pianist and the director of the Mannes Beethoven Institute, said Liszt’s observation provided a structure for the opening concert of this year’s series, presented on Tuesday evening. Music Review: Mannes Beethoven Institute Opens With ?Moonlight? Sonata 2010-06-03T22:22:00Z

MacDowell, which was founded in 1907 as the MacDowell Colony by the composer Edward MacDowell and the pianist Marian MacDowell, dropped “Colony” from its name in July 2020. MacDowell Names Chiwoniso Kaitano Its Next Executive Director 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

The music is performed by Mr. Stevens, on keyboards and electronics, and Yarn/Wire, a contemporary chamber group of two pianists and two percussionists. Sufjan Stevens Brings the Rodeo to BAM 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Tao is only twenty-four, and also has a flourishing career as a pianist. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Her output is dominated by works for her own instrument, but she was also a fine pianist, and recorded her own Second Piano Sonata, included here. Bacewicz: Piano Sonato No 2; Piano Quintets Nos 1 & 2 ? review 2011-02-17T22:10:01Z

“It’s not music that’s virtuosic for virtuosity’s sake — which is something I’m not really interested in, as a pianist or a composer,” he said. For a Composer, the Final Minutes Are Critical 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Tudor has been taken up by a new generation: Last week the young Southland Ensemble mounted the pianist and composer's electronic installation "Rainforest IV" in Pasadena. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

When the pianist did a solo, she turned toward him, dancing from the pelvis up. Contemplating Molly Ringwald 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

The interview was supposed to start, but pianist Seymour Bernstein was not quite ready. Ethan Hawke 'Seymour' documentary is intimate portrait of pianist 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

The strong, spare arrangements of her pianist, Nate Buccieri, left room to savor the remarkable subtlety of her interpretations, in which every word and inflection in her deceptively light, girlish voice is made to count. Review: Marissa Mulder Trusts Her Intuition at the Metropolitan Room 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

“No, no, no, no,” he gently chided one of the pianists, adding, consolingly, “It’s difficult also for the conductor, believe me.” 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z

Fans of Tchaikovsky’s beloved First Piano Concerto will notice something different at the start of this exciting new recording, featuring the formidable pianist Kirill Gerstein. Classical Playlist: Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein and More 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

The jazz pianist Marcus Roberts has had success with his improvisatory approach to orchestral works by Gershwin and James P. Johnson, and he ought to be a frequent guest soloist with top classical ensembles. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

The wild card Thursday was the Bowl debut of French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who is best known as a champion of contemporary music. Beethoven speaks, boldly, with help from a French pianist in his Hollywood Bowl debut 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Her choice of pianists was another canny step. Mastering the art of entertainment: Renée Fleming in recital 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

The pianist has impressed critics with his handling of Liszt's Transcendental Étude No. 11, and audiences will hear the piece for themselves when Sudbin visits this week. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the week ahead 2011-04-13T23:42:04Z

Unlike those technically brilliant young pianists who dazzle briefly and disappear, Levit is pre-eminently a real musician who seems built to last. Igor Levit – review 2013-04-03T17:47:45Z

The first movement, which moves from contemplation to anger, comes to a climax with the pianist hitting the keys with his forearms, an old California composer trick. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Like Mr. Serkin, whose father was the great pianist Rudolf Serkin, C.P.E. was the son of a famous musician: Johann Sebastian Bach. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

A performance this weekend by British pianist Leon McCawley was another strong offering in the Phillips Collection’s excellent Sunday concert series. British pianist Leon McCawley shines in program at the Phillips

The only difference between Thad and myself is that I think he’s actually a talented pianist whereas I’m a complete disaster. Why Michael Ian Black Doesn’t Like Mystery Novels 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

In anticipation of Michael Douglas’s turn as the flamboyant pianist in HBO’s Behind the Candelabra, I went down a rabbit hole of clips of Liberace’s performances from the 1940s through the ’80s. Liberace: Our Favorite YouTube Moments 2013-05-26T09:45:58Z

Her cycle of the 10 Beethoven violin sonatas with pianist Shai Wosner incorporates a new work written for each of the four programs. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Duke Ellington and his big band performed; the pianist Mary Lou Williams performed solo; Max Roach was there with a quintet that included the bright-toned and innovative twenty-year-old trumpeter Booker Little. A Classic Jazz Documentary That Honors and Insults the Art Form 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

The club’s artistic director, James Pearson, my next pianist, turns out to be a broad-shouldered man with some Dickensian foppishness and a radically unleashed presence on the piano. A ‘Girl Singer’ and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

The dinner party is for fiction writers what the étude is for pianists: a high-stakes showcase for their many talents. Akil Kumarasamy’s “Half Gods”: A Début Collection Explores Strife, Trauma, and “a Lifetime Loving Strangers” 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

After Van Cliburn won the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition and became a household name, every young pianist saw competitions as the route to fame and success. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

In Iyer’s afternoon talk Thursday, the elegant, soft-spoken 45-year-old pianist and Harvard professor cattily noted that he found music critics to be homogenous, no doubt a term of some disparagement for this multitasker. Vijay Iyer jazzes up the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

There’s another solo concert on Sunday, at 4 p.m., when the pianist Beth Levin takes on Schubert’s late A major sonata, Brahms’s Handel Variations and David Del Tredici’s “Ode to Music.” Classical Music Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

But two pianists who are mainstays of the New York musical scene are scheduled to give intriguing recitals at popular alternative concert sites. Week Ahead: Aug. 22 ? 28 2010-08-19T14:57:00Z

But as the opening chords play, she stops the backing pianist. 10 Best Moments From Adele Live in New York City 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

After the interval, pianist Steven Osborne continued his cycle of Beethoven concertos with a radiant account of The Emperor. BBCSSO/Manze – review 2013-05-03T13:16:09Z

A superb pianist, performing made him sick with nerves. Benjamin Britten biographies by Paul Kildea and Neil Powell – review 2013-02-16T14:30:01Z

Winner of three Grammy Awards, Argerich, who is 75, is described as brilliant and mercurial and considered one of the greatest pianists of her time. James Taylor, Al Pacino, Mavis Staples selected for Kennedy Center Honors 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

She was backed by an all-female band, which includes, among others, two saxophonists, a sinuous guitar player, a seven-piece string section, a peppy pianist and a superfluous conductor. Music Review: Closer to Her Fans and Further Away From Her Past 2011-08-15T22:00:35Z

He then invited ASO pianist Sophie Cook to perform Fanny Mendelssohn’s “Notturno in G Minor” as a prelude to the symphony. Review | Ross emphasizes the new and the forgotten with Alexandria Symphony 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

Mena faithfully followed each and every rhapsodic rubato, and the young Uzbek pianist chipped in a lovely encore, Tchaikovsky's Nocturne in C-sharp minor. Pianist Behzod Abduraimov again proves to be a super sub 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

Here, in a nod to his impending move to the West Coast, Mr. Dicterow opened with excerpts from Korngold’s “Much Ado About Nothing Suite,” joined by the communicative pianist Gerald Robbins. Music Review: Farewells Begin for New York Philharmonic’s Glenn Dicterow 2014-01-20T22:26:57Z

This recital, available only as part of the Peoples’ Symphony’s bargain subscriptions, features Mozart, Debussy, Schubert and the pianist’s own “Variations on a Theme by Paganini.” Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 9-15 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

And on Sunday afternoon, Carnegie presented the first Isaac Stern Memorial Concert, with the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the pianist Emanuel Ax playing a program of Brahms. Music Review: Isaac Stern Memorial Concert, With Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax 2014-02-24T22:40:33Z

He proved an inspired educator and first-rate pianist. Leonard Bernstein at 100: Why the music world is making this the Year of Lenny 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

An accomplished pianist and decent crooner, he made even the vaudeville larkiness of National Express seem commanding. The Divine Comedy ? review 2011-07-27T17:48:00Z

The self-financed album will be released on June 22 through the pianist's own Hancock Records label, and will be promoted with what a spokeswoman called an "extensive" world tour. Jazz star Herbie Hancock goes global with album 2010-02-26T17:23:00Z

With Johnson Zhongxin Li, a 9-year-old pianist of striking technical prowess and an almost untenable maturity, Mr. Lang played Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in D for four hands with an appropriately prim energy. Music Review: Lang Lang International Music Foundation Gala at Carnegie 2013-06-04T22:07:16Z

The eminent ­Hungarian-born British pianist carries himself like a high priest of Viennese classicism, communing with the musical gods with an air of becalmed reverence. Review | Andras Schiff graces the faithful with a recital akin to a religious experience 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Carnegie Hall remains the most eminent home for pianists in New York, but the 92nd Street Y is making a strong play for silver in its 2017-18 season. Pianists Dominate Next Season at the 92nd Street Y 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

And it can also serve as a compelling introduction to the inimitable style of this composer, singer and pianist. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

One of the things he loves about the pianist is his playfulness. China's Lang Lang and Germany's Hans Zimmer come together in America to score 'Ku Fu Panda 3' 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

"I was not a good student and was interested in other things besides music," although he had become an accomplished pianist and begun to win composition prizes already in his teens. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The other major musical influence in his life was pianist Anisia Campos, with whom he studied from ages 13 to 21. Born to Conduct: Film charts Met music director’s ascent 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

I wouldn't have survived the life of a professional classical pianist. Ottessa Moshfegh on becoming a writer and her buzzed-about novel, 'Eileen' 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

He then tried Granada, giving the executives a taster by singing all the parts himself, accompanied by a pianist. Maclom Arnold's The Dancing Master finally comes in from the cold 2012-10-11T10:57:48Z

Mixing Urgency and Relaxation THE first time I heard the English pianist Paul Lewis perform live was at the Risor Chamber Music Festival in Norway in the summer of 2002. Recordings: Mixing Urgency and Relaxation 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

The follow-up to last year's Charlie Parker tribute, Beloved Bird, and just as good, a set by freewheelingly virtuosic pianist Bates – this time mixing some poignant originals with Parker classics. Best jazz albums of 2012 2012-12-13T22:01:22Z

Leave it to Stephen Hough, the British-born pianist and composer, who also happens to be an inveterate blogger, painter and author of spiritual tracts, to discover a mother lode in an all but abandoned mine. Stephen Hough twists the kaleidoscope of Edvard Grieg’s moods 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

That much was evident from the adoring capacity crowd that turned out for his recital debut at Zankel Hall on Friday with the pianist Martin Katz. Review: In Piotr Beczala’s Recital, Melancholy Mixes With Defiance 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Matt Mitchell, the group’s pianist, has upped his use of electronics. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Nowadays, he’s embracing his identity as a producer and a connector as much as a pianist. A Month of Robert Glasper’s Experiments at the Blue Note 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

That Mr. Freire was indeed a master pianist had never been in doubt. Nelson Freire, Piano Virtuoso of Warmth and Finesse, Dies at 77 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

All the performances on this album, featuring the brilliant pianist Orion Weiss, are excellent. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

There are bound to be pianists and percussionists there who will want to play it. Music Review: Philharmonic’s ‘Symphonic Sondheim’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-01-30T23:29:07Z

If the audience senses that a pianist is struggling to play it, the effect is lost. Music Review: Lang Lang?s Bartok With the New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-19T23:29:36Z

Hearing three great works that do that in a single evening is asking too much of the audience and the pianist. Steven Osborne ? review 2011-04-10T21:45:01Z

The question that lingered throughout this arresting recital was what kind of a pianist Levit really is. Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

When I profiled the composer and pianist Anthony Davis in May, before Detroit Opera’s revival of his 1986 bio-opera about Malcolm X, no recordings of this music were in print. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

“Whether Mr. Freire is shy or merely introspective, it is impossible to say,” Allen Hughes of The New York Times wrote of the pianist’s New York recital debut in 1971. Nelson Freire, Piano Virtuoso of Warmth and Finesse, Dies at 77 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Veteran actor Michael Douglas won best actor in that category for his portrayal of the pianist, besting his co-star Matt Damon, who played his young lover. 'Breaking Bad' finally makes good with best drama Emmy 2013-09-25T01:11:09Z

“Bugle Boy” was a near-duplicate to another Raye song for the trio, “Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar,” about a Texas pianist “but the way he likes to play is eight to the bar.” The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

The International Contemporary Ensemble will perform Mr. Benjamin’s chamber opera “Into the Little Hill”; the pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard also offers works by Mr. Benjamin in one of the delightful, candlelit “Little Night Music” concerts. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Thanks to the informal commentaries from both pianists, especially Mr. Blier, the evening was like a music appreciation class. Music Review: ?New York to Paris, Paris to Paradise? at Merkin Hall 2012-03-14T22:11:32Z

After arriving in New York, he modernized his harmonic approach partly through an apprenticeship with Herbie Nichols, a maverick pianist and composer. Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

After an injury sidelined his college football career, he worked odd jobs and sat in at local clubs, with guidance from a music mentor, the saxophonist and pianist Kamau Kenyatta. Gregory Porter: A Fist Raised in Sweetness 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, the most alluring work is the local premiere of Daniil Trifonov’s Piano Concerto, a wonderfully over-the-top piece in the idiom of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff played by the pianist himself. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Eubie Blake, the American composer, songwriter and ragtime and jazz pianist, lived until he was 100. Mick Jagger: still dancing at 70 2013-07-26T08:00:03Z

But pianist Matthew Bourne, at least, was admirably succinct: "I sit down and let it tell me how it wants to be played." Fluid Piano Launch | World music review 2010-03-31T21:00:00Z

History tells us that he was a skillful composer, a star pianist and a dominant pedagogue. Music Review: American Symphony Orchestra Presents ‘Hungary Torn’ 2013-05-03T22:12:20Z

While her regular pianist was not going to play the now-questionable Jazz Alley gig, due to health reasons, Matassa said she felt Dimitriou’s precautions made returning to the stage feel “as safe as possible.” Jazz Alley announces first concert since coronavirus shutdown, state says not so fast 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

He cultivated a rapport with its players in the most direct way: by performing with them in chamber music programs both as a pianist and a conductor. Taking Stock of James Levine’s Tarnished Legacy 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Ohio kidnappings It’s a big month for Russian music, with a “Russian Spectacular” at the Seattle Symphony through next week — and a spectacular Russian recital Wednesday evening by pianist Jon Kimura Parker. Jon Kimura Parker’s ‘Rite’ packed with power | Classical review 2013-05-09T17:32:36Z

The pianist was 18 when Ridley Scott's epic came out featuring Zimmer's popular, Oscar-nominated score. China's Lang Lang and Germany's Hans Zimmer come together in America to score 'Ku Fu Panda 3' 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

It’s an instrument so equally subtle and pronounced that even one of the most celebrated pianists in jazz still has trouble assessing it. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

Most pianists would choose this piece as a heroic and virtuosic conclusion to a recital. Review: Roman Rabinovich Plays Bach and More at SubCulture 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

The brilliant pianist Yefim Bronfman, artist-in-residence with the orchestra this year, will be the soloist in three programs over three weeks, performing the five Beethoven piano concertos and his Triple Concerto. Classical & Opera Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Among those named in the montage was jazz pianist Chick Corea, who won two Grammys on Sunday only about a month after his death. Grammys’ in memoriam especially long, grim in pandemic year 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

About a half-hour after master American pianist Richard Goode completes a telephone interview to talk about his upcoming recital at Meany Hall for the Performing Arts, he calls back. Pianist Richard Goode to play ‘kaleidoscopic’ program in Seattle 2014-03-12T19:33:18Z

His side musicians, the pianist Matthew Shipp and the bassist Michael Bisio, have been playing together consistently for over a dozen years. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

With the rigor of a poet and the flair of a magician, Bidini, an international concert pianist, is one of the most intense teachers in classical music. Fabio Bidini, 'last teacher' to Colburn School's pianists, thrives 'inside the music' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

In time, the novel’s Roxane discovers that one of the guests, another Japanese executive, is a good amateur pianist. Review: ‘Bel Canto’ Opera Arrives at an Unsettling Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

For all the intriguing themes and appealing ambience I may remember this concert most for a feat of old-fashioned derring-do by the Israeli pianist Ran Dank. Music Review: Chelsea Music Festival Features Debussy and Cage 2012-06-17T22:11:49Z

This weekend, celebrating the release of an album recorded on this bandstand, that means the saxophonist Abraham Burton, the vibraphonist Steve Nelson, the pianist David Bryant and the bassist Dezron Douglas. Jazz Listings for May 16-22 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

She also helped the university acquire the collection of pianist and composer James P. Johnson. Noted Duke Ellington archivist Kuebler dies in NJ 2012-08-17T22:31:04Z

In addition to his writing and teaching, Mr. Zinsser was a skilled jazz pianist who occasionally performed in clubs. William Zinsser, author of the classic guide ‘On Writing Well,’ dies at 92 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

And for listeners in search of fresh experiences, it is devoting most of this week to new music, starting with a Monday night performance by the composer, pianist and theremin player ROB SCHWIMMER. The Week Ahead: Aug. 29 ? Sept. 4 2010-08-26T15:25:00Z

Another prominent pianist, Robert Glasper, dipped a toe into the art world with the abstract painter Mark Bradford. Jason Moran, From the Venice Biennale to the Village Vanguard 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

We’re also happy to remind you of one of the more striking responses, from an 8-year-old pianist with his own firm ideas about the Top 10. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: A Young Reader Who Responded Is Now on Video 2011-02-18T18:12:59Z

Working by day as a piano tuner, Doc teamed up with local pianist and railroad worker Jack Williams and the two played a variety of styles at parties – from country to jazz to pop. Arthel 'Doc' Watson dies 2012-05-30T02:19:00Z

The “Träumerei” arrangement was innocuous, and the two pianists matched their sound and phrasing nicely. Music Review: Sting and Trudy Styler as Robert and Clara Schumann 2010-07-01T18:13:00Z

Still, he was indeed a master, a probing musician incapable of expressive indulgence, a pianist with a brilliant and admirably unflashy technique. Classical Playlist: Bruckner, Igor Kamenz and More 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

“When he first started hanging at Smalls, he’d just sit at the piano and play, and there’d be about 10 piano players gathered about him,” said Spike Wilner, the club’s owner and a pianist himself. After Vanishing, Johnny O’Neal Has a New York Following Again 2014-05-01T23:30:47Z

Paul Jeffrey, a saxophonist who was a mainstay of the great pianist and composer Thelonious Monk’s last working group and later a prominent jazz educator, died on March 20 at his home in Durham, N.C. Paul Jeffrey, Saxophonist Who Worked With Thelonious Monk, Dies at 81 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, Leon Fleisher, the venerated pianist and conductor, leads a performance of Bartok’s Divertimento for Strings in a program that also includes music by Mozart and Vaughan Williams. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Aug. 15-21 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

In an interview at his home here, the pianist Kirill Gerstein recalled being told that anniversaries are “a lazy man’s programming guide.” At 150, Rachmaninoff and His Music Are ‘Here to Stay’ 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

The imposing bronze Beethoven monument on the Münsterplatz, which the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt helped pay for, remains one of the city’s defining images. From Bonn to Vienna, in Search of Beethoven, the Man 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

“People are always trying to categorize me as blues or jazz or folk. Some say I’m a jazz pianist that sings the blues.” Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Played with the sensitive pianist Stephen Gosling, the work’s single movement quotes and deconstructs strands of the master’s Cello Sonata in A, with flashes of idiosyncrasy: frenetic bursts and then passages of pristine calm. Music Review: Jay Campbell Plays a New Jonathan Dawe Work 2014-05-09T21:20:19Z

In all three pieces the pianist Joseph Kalichstein anchored the group with elegance and subtlety. Music Review: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio With Sting - Review 2011-09-15T22:01:22Z

The jazz-infused arrangements of the spirituals were played vibrantly by the stylish pianist Joel A. Martin and, in some pieces, the pianist Cyrus Chestnut. Review: Kathleen Battle Returns to the Met After 22 Years. It Was Worth the Wait. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

On this veteran avant-garde pianist’s second album with Snowy Egret, the quintet moves with tenuous grace. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

He was a good player, in the relaxed, melodic vein of the great swing pianist Teddy Wilson, with whom he briefly studied. George Wein, Jazz Festival Trailblazer, Is Dead at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

“There’s the old saw that Mozart is too easy for children and too difficult for adults,” the pianist Garrick Ohlsson recently said by phone from San Francisco. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Endangered Blood appears on a double bill with Seattle pianist Wayne Horvitz at 8 p.m. Former Seattle-area jazzmen bring Brooklyn band back home 2010-12-03T21:44:00Z

In fact, it was only during Franck’s Piano Quintet, which concluded the program, with the excellent pianist Ursula Oppens joining the ranks, that there was a sense of cohesion and common purpose to the music. The Cassatt String Quartet at Bargemusic 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

I was talented, but I didn't want to be a pianist. Ottessa Moshfegh on becoming a writer and her buzzed-about novel, 'Eileen' 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Among Yiddish mambo’s most exuberant exponents was Irving Fields, a pianist, bandleader, arranger and songwriter who made a winning contribution to the genre with his 1959 album “Bagels and Bongos.” Irving Fields, bandleader who fed postwar mania for Yiddish mambo, dies at 101 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

He seemed a different pianist, though, in the next work, Beethoven’s “Les Adieux” Sonata. Alexander Schimpf and Alon Goldstein at Mannes Festival 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

These songs are equal partnerships for singer and pianist, and Mr. Hampson had an excellent collaborator in Wolfram Rieger, who played with limpid poetry and seething tension. Music Review: Thomas Hampson Sings Schumann, Uncut, at Alice Tully 2010-04-12T22:36:00Z

After studying philosophy and literature at Columbia University, he spent two years at a music conservatory and tried to make a living as a professional pianist. Peter Mendelsund, Book Designer, Debuts as a Writer 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Jazz’s most influential showcase of rising talent, the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, returned on Monday from a hiatus, crowning the 24-year-old Israeli pianist Tom Oren as this year’s winner. Israeli Pianist Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

She is an accomplished pianist, having attended music college in Tbilisi since she was 5, graduating last year at 12. Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z

Mr. Corea, one of jazz’s most influential pianists and keyboardists, featured Mr. Gadd’s drumming on a few albums in the 1970s, including the classic fusion excursion “My Spanish Heart.” Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

A formidable trio album from one of the more versatile and underappreciated pianists in experimental music. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Coleman, a pianist, sources his inspiration widely: from Jewish folk music, free jazz and Western minimalism, among others. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

But the main event may well end up being the performance of Brahms’s galvanic Piano Concerto No. 1, with the exhilarating British pianist Paul Lewis. | Classical Music: How the Centuries Will Play Out 2014-04-04T20:16:16Z

As a teenager seeking a place at a school for young pianists, Nicholas McCarthy was refused an audition and told he would never succeed. One-handed pianist achieves dream 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Like Falla’s “Nights,” it is a concerto-like work, and the eminent Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire, on hand for both, presumably made the best possible case for it. Review: Two U.S. Orchestras Get a Rare Chance at Carnegie 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

Michael Feinstein is perhaps best known as a singer and pianist and the owner of a cabaret on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that bears his name. Archive of the American Songbook Finds a New Home in the Heartland 2011-02-05T00:03:28Z

Written in 1979, her Symphony No. 2 begins with a pianist traversing the length of the keyboard, hammering tone clusters, with punctuation coming in the form of massive bass drum hits. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Sullivan Fortner, a pianist born in New Orleans, has an extravagant amount of talent and a hyperactive flow on the keyboard. Live Jazz: 3 May Standouts, From Sullivan Fortner to Dana Murray 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

That is why the finale of her residency on Sunday at Avery Fisher Hall — a recital of Debussy, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Sarasate, with the nimble, subtle pianist Lambert Orkis — was such a letdown. Music Review: In a Finale, Comfort Trumps Provocation 2011-06-06T22:06:28Z

Good reviews, he adds, “didn’t help to allay the horror that I felt before and during a concert. . . . I felt inadequate as a pianist.” An introduction to the artiste as a terrified performer 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

He said the piece is technically demanding for both the pianist and the orchestra. Forgotten work gets Grammy nomination 2011-02-11T18:54:07Z

He was a self-taught pianist who couldn’t read music, but he began to devote himself to writing songs. Michael Masser, top songwriter of 1970s and ’80s, dies at 74 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Later in the month Mr. Barken intends to present the pianist Cedar Walton on a bill with the saxophonist and flutist Frank Wess. ArtsBeat: Jazz Impresario to Present Shows at Iridium 2012-12-06T18:46:07Z

“I think really the foundation of our relationship was our friendship and our passion for music and making music together,” Mr. Yeager, a pianist and composer, said. A Dynamic Duo, on and Off the Stage 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

He became a proficient musician and enrolled at the University of Southern California with ambitions of being a pianist and composer. Frank Sinatra Jr., who lived in the shadow of his famous father, dies at 72 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Almazan, 30, was born in Cuba and raised in Miami, and his style as a pianist rings of multiplicity. Fabian Almazan Takes ‘Rhizome’ Project to Village Vanguard 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Boom, there’s a flower pot that gets hit, and every time the flower pot gets hit, the pianist switches to this kind of thing.” Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Both dancers are extremely musical — he is also a very good pianist — and essentially sunny. How Dance Partners Create Chemistry Onstage 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

The pianist Jacob Sacks is what you might call an inner-workings musician, drawn to the subtler, deeper mechanics of harmony and form. Jacob Sacks and Friends in Concert at Weill Recital Hall 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

As a result, there are a lot of class pianists, but not a lot of good ones.” Finding the Keys for the Right Ballet Steps 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

A pianist and middle-school band teacher, Joe, is on the brink of death when his spirit sneaks into the Great Before, where uninitiated souls prepare to enter bodies upon birth. Jazz Onscreen, Depicted by Black Filmmakers at Last 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

First of all he and Wang share a love for glitter, although it proved hard for her to compete with the older pianist since her dress was so skimpy. L.A. Phil throws a Mozart gala with Dudamel, Wang, Thibaudet and fly chocolate balls 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

We’re talking about one of the only pianists with a more comprehensive outlook on the repertory, which can inspire young people to play beyond the restricted repertory that exists. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z

Some pianists still choose to retrain entirely, practicing rotation movements with slow scales that echoed throughout the practice rooms at Princeton. Critic’s Notebook: Golandsky Institute Helps Musicians Avoid Pain 2012-07-19T21:52:06Z

Then came one of the day's highlights: pianist Joanna MacGregor's exceptional interpretation of the Goldberg Variations. 5 stars for 9-hour Bach Marathon 2013-04-02T10:24:08Z

Accompanied only by the pianist Liam Noble, Tobin has played the songs straight. Christine Tobin weaves a new Tapestry 2010-06-24T22:30:00Z

By the time the pianist and MacArthur fellow Vijay Iyer became tenured at Harvard University — a first for a jazz musician — he had already set about changing the place. The Decade in Jazz: 10 Definitive Moments 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Piotr Anderszewski Enigmatic, unpredictable but never ever dull, the Polish pianist frames his own arrangement of delectable rare Schumann, the Six Canonic Etudes for pedal piano, with another of his specialities, Bach's English Suites. The best classical concerts for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z

His father was a violinist and painter, his mother a pianist. Emanuel Vardi, a Champion of the Viola, Dies at 95 2011-02-07T05:02:48Z

There were splendid singers and a guitarist, and pianist Carlos Cesar Rodriguez, the work’s music director, fully transformed the atmosphere with a fluid but light touch, in selections from Brahms and Liszt.  The intimacy of dance, brought even closer​ 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

A half-hour later, Mr. Lang took the makeshift stage before more than 500 loudly welcoming visitors and announced, “I’m your pianist for tonight.” Review: Lang Lang at the Metropolitan Museum in the Service of Eastern Art 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

All conceivably might have the motive, opportunity and moxie to murder a concert pianist living upstairs from the joint. 'Shear Madness': long-running, but short on laughs 2012-06-07T23:04:04Z

The middle movement’s exotic night music duet between piano and percussion was less the exercise in mystery and menace that mortal pianists may seek and more the enchanting glitter of the starry sky. The importance of being the L.A. Phil 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

Instead Mr. Weinstein, joined by the pianist Tedd Firth and the bassist Tom Hubbard, played a medley of three Irving Berlin tunes: “Cheek to Cheek,” “Slumming on Park Avenue” and “Russian Lullaby.” Music Review: Making Standards Swing, With a Wink for Jack Benny 2011-04-22T22:56:03Z

It was satisfying and beautiful to be able to revisit my identity as a pianist. ‘I Savor Everything’: A Soprano’s Star Turn at the Met Opera 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

Because so many pianists are so good, many concertgoers have simply come to expect that any soloist playing the Tchaikovsky First Concerto with the New York Philharmonic will be a phenomenal technician. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

Strings skittered and squealed; woodwinds huffed almost inaudibly; a viola croaked as if stretched on a medieval rack; a pianist tried, again and again, to restore calm. Music Review: Contact!, New York Philharmonic Series at Met Museum 2012-12-26T22:31:15Z

It was presented in collaboration with Liquid Music, the group that helped the pianist develop the show over multiple years. Review: A Pianist’s Inheritance Inspires Little Masterpieces 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

The brilliant pianist Blair McMillen appears in Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, a terrific but seldom performed piece. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Monk, a pianist, was more than a decade past his most famous recordings and near the end of an unfruitful run at Columbia Records when his manager got the request from Mr. Scher. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist. Linda Lavin: The First Time I Sang in New York. (It Was a Bar Mitzvah) 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

This tribute, led by a former associate, the pianist George Cables, features Abraham Burton and Craig Handy on saxophones; Joe Locke on vibraphone; Gerald Cannon on bass; and Lewis Nash on drums. Jazz Listings for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

The poet Dana Gioia and the jazz pianist and composer Helen Sung will demonstrate how verse is linked to all kinds of music, from Bach to bop. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

A Cole Porter Songbook Tenor Jonathan Mack, accompanied by pianist Vicki Ray, shares songs by and stories about the legendary songwriter. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 24-31: 'Dream Catcher' and more 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

The surviving family of Don Shirley, the Jamaican American pianist played by Mahershala Ali in the movie, had vehemently disputed the film’s accuracy. Perspective | The 10 most baffling Golden Globe wins and nominations of the millennium. (Remember ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’?) 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Why is Liszt so important to pianists in general, and to you in particular? After deaths of his daughters, ages 1 and 5, pianist Vadym Kholodenko returns to the stage 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

But I’m not really a jazz pianist, which makes this award unique.” Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z

Beginning in a slow, unmetered cadence with the pianist Chip Crawford, as on the album, Mr. Porter then brought in the rest of his band, with two saxophones, bass and drums. Music Review: A Big Man Who Can Belt a Tune Isn?t Afraid to Show a Mellow Side, Too 2011-06-03T21:57:13Z

It seems odd that a pianist as accomplished as Dmitri Alexeev does not perform in New York more often than he does. Music Review: A Russian Who Ignores Those Old Stereotypes 2011-07-28T22:07:30Z

“Now he wants to earn American dollars and American prestige,” the eminent pianist Arthur Rubinstein said at the time. Putin’s Maestro, and the Limits of Cultural Exchange in Wartime 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

But as a solo pianist Mr. Blake likes to move slowly and darkly through his music, sounding both implacable and open to anything. Live Jazz: Three August Standouts, From Gilad Hekselman to Rebolú 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

His jacket lapel Thursday was ornamented with I'm not sure what, but the pianist looked to be draped in a bejeweled keyboard. Pianist Yundi adds some flair, but his Beethoven still lacks drama at Bowl 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

So on the fly, she performed while lip-syncing both lyrics and dialogue, her words spoken or sung by others, primarily Mr. Castle, the pianist, and, offstage, by a directing intern, Vanessa Lancellotti. Fiasco’s ‘Into the Woods,’ at McCarter Theater 2013-05-07T21:44:11Z

The appointment is something of a homecoming for Ginstling, who grew up in New Jersey, the son of a Juilliard-trained pianist and a tax lawyer. New York Philharmonic Chooses Arts Veteran as Leader 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

Virelles is a Cuban-born pianist who uses understated dissonance and darkness to interrogate — and, sometimes, explode — the sacred traditions of his home country. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Jonathan Kelly, from the Met’s music staff, accompanied most of the program, though the pianist Julie Gunn, Mr. Gunn’s wife, also played stylishly, notably in the offbeat fare her husband sang. Music Review: Met?s Summer Recital Series Kicks Off in Central Park 2010-07-13T22:57:00Z

A polished, amusing host and all-around entertainer, Mr. Caruso and his sidekick, the formidably talented pop-jazz pianist and singer Billy Stritch, are true believers in old-fashioned vaudeville-descended entertainment as panacea and escape. Music Review: ‘Jim Caruso’s Cast Party Goes to the Movies!’ in Songbook Series 2014-03-09T21:04:08Z

The pianist made an album of standards with saxophonist Sidney Bechet, a New Orleans contemporary of Louis Armstrong's with a blazing tone, who was almost canonised in his adopted France. Piano legend Martial Solal on jazz, France and Godard 2010-05-20T21:00:00Z

The next three programs offer some remarkable pianists in free admission preconcert recitals, starting at 7 p.m.: Premiere of ‘Inland Seas’ generates buzz at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s summer festival 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

This admirable French pianist took a nine-month sabbatical to hone his interpretation of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Randy Weston was the pianist for his own “African Sunrise Suite,” sometimes explosive and sometimes puckish as the music evoked Africa, the Caribbean and hints of Thelonious Monk. Music Review: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space - Review 2012-01-22T23:03:12Z

The 28-year-old pianist, who was competing against four other finalists, will receive $50,000, a recording contract with Mack Avenue Records, and two years of professional services. Emmet Cohen Wins the American Pianists Association’s Grand Prize 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

The night’s highlight, “Utopia,” was set to Rachmaninov, performed by the pianist Melody Fader, and it featured handsome costumes by City Ballet’s Janie Taylor. Dance Review | Avi Scher & Dancers: Marcelo Gomes Among Guests of Avi Scher Troupe 2010-04-04T21:42:00Z

The warmth and shadings of his voice were aptly mirrored by his excellent pianist, Keun-A Lee. ‘The Song Continues’ Celebrates the Art Form at Zankel Hall 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Praising her gift for reflecting musical phrasing in her dancing, Clive Barnes wrote in The New York Times, “Just to see her phrase music is an experience akin to hearing a great pianist.” Violette Verdy, Ballerina With Flair, Dies at 82 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

The University of Washington emeritus faculty pianist was famous for his elegance and taste — and also for the wry humor and pointed observations that shaped the generations of players who followed in his footsteps. Bela Siki, internationally renowned UW emeritus faculty pianist, dies at 97 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

In one corner, a pianist played a grand piano built by Tom Sachs. Scene City: Ferragamo Celebrates Release of New Fragrance 2012-03-21T22:28:02Z

Originally commissioned by the pianist and Hollywood celebrity Oscar Levant, it is a concerto with a kick in its step as it modernizes an old Mozartean tradition. Gustavo Dudamel celebrates his 36th birthday with some Schoenberg 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

The drama of playing from memory is at the crux of a scene involving the elegant French pianist Alexandre Tharaud, who, portraying himself, has a small but crucial role. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z

“The fingers are the most expressive part of the portrait. Each is articulated differently: fully extended, half bent, fully bent. If asked to guess the man’s profession blind, we might think him a virtuoso pianist.” Julian Barnes, Playing Against Character, Writes About a Character of Action and Appetite 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

A concert pianist, Miss Stein, known as Marion, was the daughter of an Austrian Jewish family that had fled the country after the Anschluss. George Lascelles, Lord Harewood, Dies at 88; Wrote Opera Reference 2011-07-26T22:29:27Z

In a brief Q. & A. with Anderson following the film’s début, Kent Jones, the festival’s director, joked that he’d heard Greenwood compared to Schroeder, the precocious, hunched pianist from Peanuts cartoons. Jonny Greenwood Surrenders to the Drone 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

To watch a hurdle maker at work, he says, is “almost like watching a concert pianist at one with her instrument.” Before Glitter and Glue Sticks, ‘Craeft’ 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

The American pianist Nicholas Angelich performed works by , Chopin and Schumann on Friday night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that consistently challenged my thinking about this repertory. Music Review: Conceptually Challenging in Familiar Repertory 2011-03-06T22:46:11Z

She had fine support from the pianist Julius Drake, with both musicians conveying the contrasting character of each section, from the eerie, plaintive nature of “Where Corals Lie” to the turbulence of “The Swimmer.” Music Review: Alice Coote Offers Plenty of Flair at Zankel Hall 2010-04-06T22:38:00Z

Steinway must vacate the 57th Street space by the end of next year, and many pianists are sorry it is leaving. Notes of Sorrow in Changes at Steinway 2013-07-12T22:10:28Z

Response pieces are evidence that institutions do want to program more new music: An orchestra or pianist could always just play Mozart alone. Got a Classic Piece? Here Comes the Sequel. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

A down-in-the-mouth Dublin guitar player who mends Hoovers for a living is befriended by an ultra-pure Czech pianist who heals his heart and soul and leaves him. Narrative; Cannibals; Once – review 2013-04-13T23:06:25Z

And imitating a pianist as idiosyncratic as Gould may not be a good idea for impressionable young musicians. Glenn Gould’s Every Detail. But Why? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Describing his affinity for Yiddish verse recently, the pianist Evgeny Kissin closed his eyes, bowed his head slightly and in a mellifluous, expressive baritone began to recite a poem from memory. Evgeny Kissin Will Indulge His Love of Yiddish Poetry at Carnegie Hall 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

It is also the animating magic behind the work of Allen Toussaint, the New Orleans-based songwriter, pianist, and bandleader who passed away earlier this month, at the age of seventy-seven, while on tour in Madrid. The True Gladness of Allen Toussaint 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

The job of Kennedy Center jazz director was created by another pianist, Billy Taylor , who held it from 1994 until his death, at age 89, in 2010. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Further recitals and broadcasts presaged a glittering future, leading the international pianist and fellow Australian Leslie Howard to recommend, in 1990, that he compete in that ultimate test, the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition. Pianist Angelo Villani: 'It's easy to lose sight of sharing moods and emotions' 2012-10-02T16:16:25Z

He says his classical approach, with prime meats, tuxedoed captains and a solo pianist tickling the ivories, will ultimately win over meat eaters, even the young ones. If D.C.’s steakhouse days are over, why do so many new ones keep opening? 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

The Chinese pianist has become a Bowl sensation ever since her debut in the amphitheater three years ago in a small orange dress. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The Third Concerto, which Bartok wrote for his wife, Ditta Pasztory, is actually less relentlessly demanding for the pianist than the Second, which he wrote for himself. Review: Gergiev Leads London Symphony Orchestra at David Geffen Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

In parallel with all this, Bennett sustained and developed a prolific career as a jazz pianist and, latterly, singer, an interest dating back to his student years, when he earned much-needed cash playing jazz. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 2012-12-26T18:24:33Z

In 1943 he became a rehearsal pianist and vocal coach at City Opera, which then performed at City Center. Music: Julius Rudel, Still Keeping Tabs on City Opera 2010-03-17T21:03:00Z

At the end of June, Brown’s Brooklyn-based company, Evidence, will perform the world premiere of “The Equality of Night and Day,” set to an original score by the composer and jazz pianist Jason Moran. Jacob’s Pillow Announces Lineup for 2022 Season 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

He oversaw the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, replete with sky divers, break dancers and 84 pianists playing music by George Gershwin. David L. Wolper, Producer of ?Roots? for TV, Dies 2010-08-12T04:30:00Z

The pianist Orrin Evans was the first on the scene, his sparsely darting intervals evoking the trace of a flashlight beam. Music Review: Tarbaby, Featuring Oliver Lake, at the Jazz Standard 2013-09-04T20:52:20Z

He was a smart kid and a talented pianist, but shy, overweight and socially inept. Samuel D. Hunter’s Own Private Idaho 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The evening opened with Mozart's crisp and deceptively melodious Piano Trio in B-flat Major, the highlight of which was pianist Ran Dank's crystalline tone, especially in the opening Allegro. Review: Stiff shot of dissonance vibrates at Seattle chamber-music fest 2010-07-22T21:49:00Z

His balanced but assertive style was a model of fluency, lucidity and bounce, and it influenced more than a generation of younger pianists. Mulgrew Miller, Jazz Pianist, Dies at 57 2013-05-29T16:06:23Z

Mr. Adès, an accomplished pianist, pays tribute to Chopin by writing modern-day, harmonically spiky, rhythmically fractured mazurkas that imaginatively span the keyboard. 2010-02-11T23:33:00Z

A 1920 painting of Renata Borgatti, a pianist, sitting at her instrument also pushes androgyny to the point that one wonders whether that, in fact, is the subject of the painting, not the pianist. Romaine Brooks painted her circle of friends, but were they portraits? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Throughout the recital, pianist Anthony Manoli was her accomplished and deeply sensitive collaborator. Sondra Radvanovsky triumphs in dynamic recital 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

The Philip Glass ensemble, for instance, will make a long-overdue Kennedy Center debut with the film “Koyaanisqatsi,” and Glass and four other pianists will play his “20 Etudes.” Ballet and Bernstein: Kennedy Center reveals more of 2017-18 season 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

The next thing she knew, she was in a recording studio at 30 Rockefeller Plaza with a pianist and a writer, both provided by the network. Phyllis Creore, ‘Canteen Girl’ on Wartime Radio, Dies at 100 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Kris Davis Over the last couple of years in New York one method for deciding where to hear jazz on a given night has been to track down the pianist Kris Davis. Playlist: CDs From Guillermo Klein, Kris Davis and the Body 2010-08-08T00:47:00Z

Mozart’s Concerto No. 7 in F, originally for three pianists and revised for two, was a frolicsome lark for its soloists, Ms. Toth and Dongsok Shin, who elsewhere played in the ensemble. Music Review: Artek, an Early-Music Orchestra, at Immanuel Lutheran Church 2013-01-01T22:41:21Z

The Monk institute started the competition in 1987, and for its first three years it focused on rising pianists. Israeli Pianist Wins Thelonious Monk Contest 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

On weekends, he sang at the Cosmopolitan Club in East St. Louis, Ill., with a group led by pianist Johnnie Johnson, who later played on many of Mr. Berry’s records. Chuck Berry, wild man of rock who helped define its rebellious spirit, dies at 90 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

In Chicago, Rutter tactfully oversaw the departure of another well-known European pianist turned music director who wasn’t always connecting with audiences: Daniel Barenboim. Eschenbach to leave NSO, Kennedy Center music directorship in 2017 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

The pianist Gilbert Kalish, who has long championed this music and will perform in both concerts, spoke in an interview about Mr. Crumb’s expansion of the piano’s color palette through novel techniques. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

“There’s a demand, a hunger for new stuff, for culture,” says Yaron Herman, a stellar Israeli pianist who settled here in 2002. The best jazz clubs in Paris 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

But he offered far more than mere virtuosity, which is now common among young pianists showing ever more dazzling technique. Music Review: Daniil Trifonov in Piano Debut With New York Philharmonic 2012-10-01T21:49:39Z

In his conversations, he is animated and forthright, his friends say, reminiscing about his encounters with the eminent pianist Arthur Rubinstein, or passionately explaining rhythmic styles in the music of Chopin. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

His pedaling is drier than other pianists’, letting his elegantly efficient fingers do most of the work. Vladimir Feltsman, formidable pianist in program of Schumann, Mussorgsky 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

After this riotous music came the mellow “At the River,” performed by the pianist Timothy Andres, who composed it as part of a series influenced by Charles Ives. Music Review: 13 Hours of Sounds and Psychedelia 2011-06-24T21:33:31Z

The pianist Tatjana Rankovich, who runs the series in the style of a salon with food, drinks and conversation, organized Monday’s concert — the third — around the theme “Husbands and Wives.” Review: Music & More Series Explores Artistic Marriages 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Brian Zeger, a prominent collaborative pianist, has assembled the songs, which will be performed by gifted Juilliard students under three headings that represent various elements of Liszt’s life: Landscapes, Looking Inward and Love. Classical Music Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hamelin grew up listening to recordings by golden-age pianists, many of whom — like pianists in the 19th century — played their own arrangements and compositions. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z

The Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen's "Triptych" for three cellos plays with Postmodern tropes sounds old and new at the same time, moody and exuberant also at the same time. Music ensembles Hocket and Sakura bathe Monk Space in an acoustical glow 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Her third husband, who adopted her child, was a genius pianist, she says, but “very abusive.” The Unsinkable Marilyn Maye 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

He started as a pianist and worked his way up through European opera houses as a coach and conductor: a time-honored path that has come to seem a bit old-fashioned. Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z

It received a compelling performance on Friday by the cellist David Finckel and the pianist Wu Han, the society’s artistic directors. Music Review: Chamber Music Society at Alice Tully Hall 2013-05-12T21:55:55Z

One of the leaders, Ms. Foley said, was a former concert pianist named Gertrude Foster Brown, who organized a Woman Suffrage Study Club that met for teas at her home. | Long Island: ‘Bellport: Summer, 1900’ Exhibition Is at the Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society 2013-07-12T18:43:57Z

Where some pianists use the right-hand octaves to crown the motion of the first movement, Fujita dispatched them efficiently, as if they too were caught in the swirl of Schumann’s wildness. Review: A Young Pianist Finds His Way to Carnegie Hall 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Like most jazz pianists near his stature Mr. Hersch has history with the club, some of it preserved for posterity. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio, Live and Recorded, at the Village Vanguard 2012-02-08T22:51:48Z

The festival, which focuses on opera, classical music, dance and film screenings, will also include solo appearances by artists like the pianist Krystian Zimerman. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Workman was the evening’s only representative of the label’s glory years; the pianist Eric Reed, who opened the concert, represented its revival in the 1990s. Music Review: Reggie Workman and Eric Reed at Rose Theater - Review 2011-10-30T22:55:47Z

He was part of a wave of young artists who defined the label’s forays into experimentalism, including the pianist Andrew Hill and the alto saxophonist Jackie McLean. Bobby Hutcherson, Vibraphonist With Coloristic Range of Sound, Dies at 75 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

But on Apple Music Classical, it is easier to quickly locate his recordings because the app can distinguish between Rachmaninoff the composer and Rachmaninoff the pianist or conductor. Apple’s New App Aims to Make Classical Music More Accessible 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

“There’s very little official training for dance pianists,” said Nancy Umanoff, the executive director of the Mark Morris Dance Center. Finding the Keys for the Right Ballet Steps 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

None of this, of course, was out of character for the Chinese pianist. The draw of Yuja Wang and Bartók brings surprising consequences 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

When the pianist and composer Fazıl Say was called to court in Turkey in June for insulting "religious values" on social media, PEN Turkey condemned the move in a statement on its website. Turkish writers' group investigated for 'insulting state' 2013-01-11T13:21:43Z

However mightily the violist Elizabeth Weisser and the pianist Stephen Gosling labored, their exertions seemed lost in a compressed mix, overshadowed by assaultive digital squelch. Music Review: Talea Ensemble Performs in Vienna: City of Dreams Festival 2014-03-05T20:44:43Z

These excellent musicians — including the pianist Alexander Melnikov performing on a restored 1828 Graf piano — offer a powerful and insightful interpretation of Beethoven’s marvelous “Archduke” Trio. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

The absence of a pianist in the group is good strategy, one way to establish a useful distance from Byard’s distinctive sound. Music Review: Honoring a Jazz Pianist and Mentor (Without Using a Single Jazz Piano) 2010-10-11T21:54:00Z

Compare this to the situation facing Clara Schumann, one of the most celebrated pianists of the 19th century. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Female Factor 2011-01-18T20:58:10Z

At a recent Sunday afternoon performance in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood, the pianist Francisco Haye sat behind a piano at Emmanuel Baptist Church, leading his quintet through a number of recognizable jazz standards. Cisco Swank ‘Is Black Music. All of It.’ 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Paul McCartney can do as many takes as he wants, which was great for the musicians in the room, including jazz pianist and vocalist Diana Krall. John Pizzarelli talks Beatles and bop before Seattle appearance 2012-07-18T22:10:05Z

Morlot and the orchestra provided sensitive and musically intelligent partnership to both pianists. A knockout Night One of Rachmaninov fest 2013-01-04T16:38:19Z

A lot was at stake for the pianist Dmitry Masleev when he made his New York recital debut on Jan. 30 at Carnegie Hall. How Should a Musician Make a Debut? Try Going Low-Key 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

A saintlike patience is necessary, even with a committed and focused performance like that given by the Eclipse Quartet and the pianist Vicki Ray at Roulette on Monday evening. Music Review: Eclipse Quartet Performs at Roulette 2012-05-22T22:05:04Z

“Flowers” requires the pianist to speak as well as play, in this case a text from Dickens’s “Little Dorrit,” music and text interweaving in a poignant portrait of loss. Pianist Frederic Rzewski, Del Sol Quartet perform at Library of Congress 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

The drummer Antonio Sanchez will lead a quintet, the tenor saxophonist Dayna Stephens and the pianist Shai Maestro will each bring a trio, and the pianist Aaron Parks will perform a solo set. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

But Rouse’s tenure, which ran through 1970, coincided with a slowdown in the pianist’s musical expansion, which became stepwise and incremental. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

He plays the same material and works with some of the same musicians, but pianist George Burton is nonetheless a different beast in concert than he is on record. Review | George Burton takes the audience on a wild ride 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

But the real spotlight was on Fain, a sunny and affable player who poured himself into the “Grand Duo,” in particular, along with the accomplished pianist Michael Boriskin. PostClassical Ensemble shows a new side of Lou Harrison 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

Unplanned, shared streams of consciousness like this sprouted when the pianist Conrad Tao played Frederic Rzewski’s fiery variations on “The People United Will Never Be Defeated” in his apartment. When Opera Entered the Chat 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Musicians more and more are using iPads and laptops instead of traditional paper scores, especially pianists. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic Using iPad 2011-11-23T23:13:25Z

Many pianists emphasize the ornery, audacious qualities of the piece. Review: Murray Perahia Takes a Majestic Approach to Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier’ 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

It regularly hosts major soloists including the Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, who plays Bartók in Taipei with the ensemble later in the season as she will with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Taiwan Philharmonic comes to America 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

“The concerts we recorded happened without the public. It was weird, it was surprising, for us and for the pianists. They were playing and there was no audience, no applause at the end,” said Matusiak. Warsaw's open-air Chopin concerts move online due to coronavirus 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

The distinguished pianist performs a mix of the expected and the surprising on this program, with Bach’s English Suite No. 6 and Beethoven’s Op. 8 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Parks left Seattle 20 years ago as a 16-year-old piano prodigy, and is noted as one of the most innovative pianists in jazz today. Seattle’s jazz scene spawned a number of this year’s Grammy nominees 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

First, it entailed the breakup of his great mid-sixties working group, a quintet that featured the saxophonist Wayne Shorter, the pianist Herbie Hancock, the bassist Ron Carter, and the drummer Tony Williams. The Best Jazz Reissues of 2014 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

A little sullen and shy, Hopkins was a contest-winning classical pianist who also adored the ineffable mystery of electronic pop production, huddling near the stereo to wonder how exactly Depeche Mode or Abba worked. Jon Hopkins’s Psychedelic Journey to a New Way of Creating Music 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

“He wrote about these pieces in the same way I would hear pianists talk about the classic pieces in their repertoire,” said Ian Rosenbaum, a member of the quartet Sandbox Percussion. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

Gathered around Ms. Cook was a quartet led by her brilliant musical director and pianist, Lee Musiker. Review: Barbara Cook Sang Standards, With Audience Members as Acolytes 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The pianist starts a looming octave chime in the upper register and the band fixes upon a sequence of obscured, sometimes-mucky harmonies, until he finally breaks out into a lyrical solo. PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

And there’s one composition apiece by the older jazz pianists James Williams and Donald Brown, who both preceded Mr. Keezer in the Jazz Messengers, and have had an influence on his style. New Music: Skylar Grey, Okkyung Lee and Geoffrey Keezer on New Releases 2013-07-08T21:37:49Z

When a pianist plays “….. sofferte onde serene…,” not only is she playing a work written for Mr. Pollini but she cannot exist without his shadow, his sound in the hall with her. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, March 15, the velvety-voiced British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly presents an enticing recital of songs by Copland, Berlioz, Schumann and Poulenc, accompanied by the pianist Joseph Middleton, in this inviting setting. Julia Bullock and Sarah Connolly Offer Enchantments New and Old 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Recorded on the day of the solar eclipse in 2017, it finds the pianist sounding uninhibited, letting some sweat fly. The Playlist: Christina Aguilera’s Bizarre Puzzle, and 13 More New Songs 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Intriguingly, his trio features the pianist Bill Carrothers and the bassist Billy Peterson, an Upper Midwest crew adept with melodic abstraction. New Music: New Albums From Bad Plus and the Dave King Trio 2012-09-24T21:53:19Z

But it is also a return to his roots: His first professional gig, while he was still studying at the Juilliard School, was as the onstage pianist for one of Rudolf Nureyev’s Broadway shows. The Conductor Andrew Litton, Finding a Different Tempo 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Indeed, looking at Variations for Judith as a whole, one could say that the unifying feature is that all the pieces are written for amateur pianists. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z

It’s hard not to hear echoes of another Argentine composer, the pianist and bandleader Guillermo Klein, but Mr. Giraudo’s music has its own character. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Perhaps more than any other pianist, Ms. Allen’s style — harmonically refracted and rhythmically complex, but laden with inertia — formed a bridge between jazz’s halcyon midcentury period and its stylistically diffuse present. Geri Allen, Pianist Who Reconciled Jazz’s Far-Flung Styles, Dies at 60 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Rich was born on the cusp of the Great Depression, to a former concert pianist and a doctor, who took a fanatical interest in her development as a poet. ‘Essential Essays’ Show Adrienne Rich’s Vulnerable, Conflicted Sides 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

The fondest of several warm remembrances was of Marvin Hamlisch, who was a rehearsal pianist when Ms. McKechnie met him and whom she credited with preparing her for her first major auditions. Music Review: Donna McKechnie in ‘Same Place: Another Time,’ at 54 Below 2013-01-03T21:17:02Z

Never more so than in the current minifestival Bach and Polyphonies, which — conceived by the pianist and conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard — juxtaposes examples of Renaissance and Baroque polyphony with works of modern vintage. Music Review: Bach and Polyphonies Minifestival at Lincoln Center 2010-08-15T21:47:00Z

The program also features Beethoven’s “Egmont Overture” and Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini,” with the impressive young pianist Conrad Tao as soloist. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

It was a pianist’s worst nightmare: By 1979, the ring and little fingers of Mr. Graffman’s right hand had grown so weak that he could no longer play as he used to. Piano Stars Gather for a Legend’s 90th 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

The next night, as part of the festival, I heard a recital by the master Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov, an uncompromising artist with strong interpretive ideas. Critic’s Notebook: Exploring Bavaria and the Busoni International Piano Festival 2012-09-07T23:47:51Z

Then, looking at me a little suspiciously, he said: “You know, pianists don’t think I’m a real pianist.” Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

I heard Rudolf Serkin, widely held as one of the 20th century’s great Beethoven pianists, play this same program twice at Carnegie Hall decades ago. Aiming for a musical summit but falling short 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

His recital, featuring works by Debussy, Chopin and Schubert, and a composition of his own, was part of a series at the Y introducing rising talents, assembled by the pianist András Schiff. Review: Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula Displays Both Delicate and Robust Tones 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Allen, a pianist, lived a bold musical life, ignoring the lines of demarcation that were so closely guarded in jazz during the 1980s, when she was emerging. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Appearing in a jazz vespers service at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, he leads a band featuring Cyrus Chestnut, a jazz pianist with a strong foundation in gospel music. Jazz Listings for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Near the end of a performance on Sunday evening, nine people emerged from the audience to join the four pianists playing. A Long-Lost Composer Is Raised From the Dead 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

There are still some naysayers and skeptics, and still a few famous conductors, pianists, violinists of my generation who think it is all a load of rubbish. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

On Thursday, Schwarz and the orchestra will be joined by the celebrated pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn in a performance of Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1. At SSO: Two nights of Shostakovich, two Schwarzes 2013-05-09T22:02:20Z

“Why is there a pianist on this recording?” Rearranging Ideas About Alternate Arrangements 2010-06-11T14:18:00Z

The group typically interrogates compositions by all three members: Ms. Laubrock, a saxophonist, Ms. Davis, a pianist, and Mr. Sorey, a drummer. Jazz Listings for July 3-9 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

A pianist by age 9 and a songwriter by 13, Epps — the daughter of a guitar virtuoso and a community college instructor — finished high school early. | Newcomer King Avriel Makes Neo-Soul That Doesn’t Shy Away From Big Ideas 2014-04-21T15:37:38Z

Lang Lang, celebrated as one of the greatest pianists of our time — if sometimes knocked for excessive showmanship — was originally booked by Seattle Symphony to play as part of the Distinguished Artists Series. Pianist Marc-André Hamelin fills in for Lang Lang in Seattle Symphony series 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

His father ran a chain of cinemas and his mother was a pianist. Obituary 2011-01-31T12:25:26Z

Beginning in the late 1960s Ms. Smith sang with the pianist Big Tiny Little’s band, and later with a sextet led by the trombonist Tyree Glenn. Carrie Smith, Singer in ‘Black and Blue,’ Dies at 86 2012-05-27T05:16:12Z

“The Story of Christmas: An Evening of Readings, Christmas Carols and Song,” with works by Williams, Courtney, Ballet and others; with soloists; Paul Stephan, organist, pianist and music minister. Not Just Festive; Funky, Too 2013-12-12T23:43:49Z

So did a host of other artists whose work addresses racial oppression, like the pianist Samora Pinderhughes, who presented his “Transformations Suite.” Review: A Jazzfest Marathon With Protest at Its Heart 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Heading off to college at Columbia University, he thought he would be a jazz pianist, before the realities of the talent pool caught up with him. Ebon Moss-Bachrach Gives ‘The Bear’ Its Abrasive Edge 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

Many non-pianists, already prejudiced against Chopin because he didn’t care much for their instrument, think this is wasteful, or fussy — but pianists know. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

But he wields his jaw-dropping technique, impressive even alongside the technical wizardry of many contemporary pianists, entirely in the service of insightful, passionate music making. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z

Despite Beach’s early promise, her domineering mother at first refused to sanction a life as a touring pianist. Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

With those words, Peterson captured the essence of Drew's personality and character, defining the qualities that prompted the pianist to engage the drummer to work with his trio. Martin Drew obituary 2010-08-12T17:24:00Z

Accompanied by her partner of 36 years, the pianist Martin Katz, she offered a varied program filled with songs of personal significance. Music Review: Frederica von Stade?s Farewell to Carnegie Hall 2010-04-23T23:54:00Z

Beethoven's concertos are, and have always been, in the repertory of nearly all concert pianists. Dudamel, L.A. Phil scale down amid Andsnes' elegant Beethoven 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

The pianist Murray Perahia took to the stage of Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday for a performance of works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin. Music Review: Murray Perahia’s Powerful Sound Unfurls at Avery Fisher 2014-03-10T20:54:55Z

The project formed as a collaboration between Mr. Klein and the pianist Aaron Goldberg, whose friendship dates back to their time in Boston as students in the early 1990s. Music Review: Where Hearing the Parts Whirl Is the Point 2011-08-19T21:33:35Z

Donison was writing as a male pianist who, due to his smaller than average hands, had struggled for years with traditional keyboards, but he could equally have been writing as a woman. The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

“Knowledge of Good and Evil” has a cool pace and craggy theme that recalls the music of the pianist Danilo Perez. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z

Although mostly panned by classical critics, the album had a notable champion in the pianist Glenn Gould. music: Ren?e Fleming?s Crossover to Rock, ?Dark Hope? 2010-05-28T14:47:00Z

This pianist is taking a gamble by devoting a sizable chunk of his career to a largely unknown composer. A Friend of Beethoven, Now Rediscovered in His Own Right 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

On Sunday, a music story is unfolding that involves three beloved local institutions: Canlis restaurant, Sub Pop Records and pianist Walt Wagner. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Each generation in jazz produces a small number of significant vibes players, as opposed to scores of pianists, saxophonists, trumpeters, drummers, bassists, even trombonists. Creating Uncommon Vibes 2011-07-22T20:52:11Z

It was in that capacity that Mr. Keepnews, in 1948, wrote one of the first profiles of Monk, the influential pianist and composer, who at the time was relatively unknown. Orrin Keepnews, Jazz Producer and Record Executive, Is Dead at 91 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

The pianist's mission is to create the illusion of one note connecting to the next, artistic magic convincing us that we can hear what physics says we can't. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

But he didn't really play like a bop pianist. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z

Ms. Webber, a saxophonist and flutist, will celebrate the release of “Simple,” a deceptively named trio album featuring Mr. Hollenbeck and the pianist Matt Mitchell. Jazz Listings for Sept. 19-25 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Only now and then do we get to hear the pianist around the corner. Dinner cruise on the Potomac: A moveable feast with unbeatable views

Trained as a classical pianist and raised around the music of folk singers like Woody Guthrie, Mr. Okun recorded his own versions of folk songs before he turned to developing the music of other artists. Milt Okun, Who Turned John Denver Into a Pop Star, Dies at 92 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

“We are here and things work,” said Igor Levit, the German pianist who is performing a complete cycle of Beethoven’s 32 sonatas throughout the festival. It’s (Almost) Business as Usual at the Salzburg Festival 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

But Mr Hilmes is illuminating on the emergence—and continuance into old age—of Liszt’s preternatural gifts as a pianist. Piano man 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

And we didn’t know any gay people, except a pianist that my father hired. Joel Grey, a Broadway Eminence, Comes of Age at 83 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

An active chamber music pianist, he was one of the earliest members of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, which was founded in 1964, and worked regularly with the Juilliard String Quartet and other leading ensembles. Claude Frank, Pianist Admired for Performances of Beethoven, Is Dead at 89 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z

A thought-provoking recital from one of our most distinguished pianists pairs Bach and Chopin, two composers who don’t instantly spring to mind as natural partners but might well turn out to be. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Since that book was published, the fiery pianist has dabbled in musicals and classical compositions, and spoken even more frankly about feminism and motherhood. 13 music memoirs we’d like to read in 2017 by women and artists of color 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

One of the women on the bench was Melody Fader, a vivid pianist and the troupe’s longtime accompanist. Dance Review: Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet at City Center 2013-09-08T21:50:52Z

If there were still any doubt that Levit has the making of a great pianist, Saturday’s recital put that to utter rest. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Geniushene, the Russian pianist, who left Russia for Lithuania after the invasion and has been critical of the war, said she felt uplifted to see a mix of countries represented among the winners. At Cliburn Competition, Pianists From South Korea, Russia and Ukraine Triumph 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

Israeli pianist Anat Fort offered a heartfelt introduction for Weston, describing his life and music as a profound source of inspiration. Portland Jazz fest wraps Friday-Sunday with Regina Carter and others 2011-02-24T21:50:14Z

Usually, when a 13-year-old prodigy like pianist Joey Alexander performs, the focus is on the wow factor — how can this little guy play so fast? Piano prodigy Joey Alexander proves he has all that jazz 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

The pianist composed his own cadenza for the first movement, using Beethoven's famous one in the finale. A surprising L.A. Chamber Orchestra concert features two Wolfgangs' music — and a rare clarinet 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

He uses the damper pedal with restraint, even in music by Debussy and Scriabin where many pianists envelop the notes in a blur of pedal. Welsh pianist’s infallible technique, calm authority hold the audience 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

Walls, who has no children, describes herself as the “world’s worst cook” and a “lousy pianist” who has taken up photography. Nicole & Co: Jeannette Walls — ‘Dysfunctional families are what I know’ 2013-06-20T00:00:07Z

Tsujii also made history as the first blind pianist to win. Ukraine pianist wins Cliburn piano competition 2013-06-10T01:11:08Z

Mr. Rodríguez, a pianist, was the son of a famous singer and became a star student at a Havana conservatory. Two Young Cuban Jazz Players Arrive at the Standard 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

The pianist Emanuel Ax brought his unfailing taste and effervescence to his assignment; Mr. Gilbert was a diligent collaborator. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruckner at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-04-25T21:50:09Z

At that time, when pianists still played the role that jukeboxes would soon take over, Pittsburgh was turning out future jazz stars as reliably as it was generating steel. A Pair of Ahmad Jamal Live Albums Capture an Innovator in His Prime 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Live music by the Mosaic String Quartet and the pianist Aaron Wunsch was classy. Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Performs at BAM 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

While the pianist thrashes away at a collection of pitches, her mobiles and their shadows twist calmly in front of the lights, creating a potent contrast with the instrumental ferocity. Six Hours and 24 Minutes Later, a Minimalism Classic Is Back 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

When the two pianists joined in, they did so first in unison, resulting in a bright and warm sound. Review: A Composer Inspired by Quarks and Chromosomes 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Try for returns to this supreme British pianist’s sold-out, late-night Mostly Mozart recital. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

He was a friend of Glenn Gould’s and edited “The Glenn Gould Reader,” a posthumous volume of the pianist’s writings. Books to Kindle Children’s Curiosity About Classical Music 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lang, too, has motives beyond setting pianists at one another’s throats. Music: Orpheus, Hilary Hahn and David Lang Start Competitions 2012-02-12T15:24:35Z

The music is brilliant but if you play a piano concerto of Beethoven, that's already been done a million times by brilliant pianists. Scala & Kolacny brothers: How Creep made a choir go global 2011-07-14T20:29:01Z

Mr. Salgán remained active as a composer, pianist and bandleader, working with the major figures of his day. Horacio Salgán, Argentine tango composer and musical pathbreaker, dies at 100 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Onstage next to Yevgeny Sudbin, a prodigious Russian pianist and a noted Scriabin advocate, Mr. Crawford triggered lights from an electronic keyboard. Music Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in Newark - Review 2012-01-09T22:57:25Z

Written by the late-Romantic Russian pianist and conductor in 1934, the “Rhapsody” was one of only a handful of compositions he completed after moving to the U.S. Stephen Hough, polymathic pianist, will return to Seattle bearing Rachmaninov 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

Accounts from two of Sondheim’s longtime collaborators, the musical director Paul Gemignani and the pianist Paul Ford, were both in the works well before 2021. Getting Close to Sondheim: New Books Try to Capture His Essence 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

It’s not often that one gets to sit so close to a major pianist at work. Richard Goode Plays Bach and Schubert 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Some people welcome the night: hotel managers, nightclub pianists, “Saturday Night Live” interns. Cold Cases and Hot Emotions: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Though this celebrated ambient artist arrived in New York as a classically trained pianist, his big break came not from playing in concert halls, but from busking in Washington Square Park. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Whenever possible, Ms. Uchida brings her own piano, which is unusual among pianists, even major ones. Why Do Pianists Know So Little About Pianos? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

This year 140 pianists applied to compete, and 73 were chosen to play in Fort Worth. Hail the Amateur, Loved by the Crowd 2011-06-10T14:21:36Z

Also, more pianists are up to the challenge now. Renowned pianist to play once-again-popular Prokofiev concerto with Seattle Symphony 2010-09-16T22:21:00Z

Jason Moran, a jazz pianist and composer, said he was elated and that the grant would fuel many of the projects that have lain dormant in his mind. MacArthur Foundation reveals 2010 'genius grants' 2010-09-28T11:47:00Z

Google the phrase “superstar concert pianist,” and Mr. Lang’s name pops up right away. Why Lang Lang’s Return Is a Big Deal for Classical Music 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Between her last two performances of the Britten Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic, played a Monday evening recital at with the pianist Inon Barnatan. Music Review: Violinist Adds Intimate Stage to a Concert Hall Week 2011-03-02T23:02:56Z

Tom is smooth and opportunistic, a pianist, a mother’s boy and, with deliberate dissonance, a dedicated wolf. Review | ‘Actually’ anatomizes a he-said/she-said case of campus sexual assault 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Wood, 28, was trained as a jazz pianist and works with a rotating cadre of musicians to produce songs in wildly different genres. L.A. band tries to cash in with free monthly album 2010-03-22T15:46:00Z

The performance lagged, but the lively pianist Mark Bebbington added a touch of spirit in his lucid cadenza. American Symphony Orchestra Presents ‘Marriage Actually’ 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

His fellow musicians admired his imagination, his versatility and his distinctive style, which blended the urbanity and rhythmic drive of the Harlem stride pianists, the dexterity of Art Tatum and the harmonic daring of bebop. Hank Jones, Versatile Jazz Pianist, Dies at 91 2010-05-17T15:40:00Z

His latest offers him as pianist and conductor in sensitive, articulate accounts of Mozart’s Piano Concertos 22 and 24, with the Suedama Ensemble. Music: Two Young Pianists, Forging Connections 2010-02-25T22:49:00Z

Kutik and the imposing pianist Anna Polonsky moved together effortlessly through thickets of dissonance in the first movement and the playful, percussive jabs of the second. Review | Violinist Yevgeny Kutik’s debut at the Kennedy Center has its highlights, and its lowlights 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

With hip-hop momentum and attitude, jazz pianist Glasper has catapulted himself into the popular arena with an original, hard-hitting style. Bumbershoot daily highlights 2013-08-29T20:39:56Z

The program opened with Mozart’s Concerto No. 23 in A; Angelika Fuchs, a Ukrainian pianist who is a student of Solomon Mikowsky’s, was the soloist. Philippe Entremont Conducts; Simone Dinnerstein Performs; Music by Ezequiel Vi?ao 2012-02-03T23:02:08Z

The festival concludes its run at Benaroya with Dvorak's sensuous Piano Trio in F minor, with pianist Ran Dank. Review: Schwarz ushers in world premiere at Seattle's summer chamber-music festival 2010-07-29T20:33:00Z

His first important job in the theater was as rehearsal pianist for the Broadway production of "Funny Girl" with Streisand in 1964. Marvin Hamlisch, who composed 'Chorus Line,' dies at 68 2012-08-07T23:28:03Z

The beauty and purity of his smooth timbre were matched by the refinement of the pianist Gerold Huber, his longtime collaborator. Review: Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’ With Christian Gerhaher 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

The circle of deck chairs surrounding the pianist looks at first, perhaps, democratic, and less hierarchically structured than the usual concert hall. Hand over your cellphone, and obey the gong. Marina Abramovic reinvents Bach. 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

The classical pianist has performed with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the NIH Philharmonia, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. At Nationals Park in Washington, Van Hoose hits all the right notes 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Her musical director, pianist and sometime vocal partner, Todd Almond, was a critical collaborator on a show that reflected her personal musical taste. Review: Laura Benanti Shows Range With Songs and Stories 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

For Paul, their pianist, it's a mortal threat. "Half-Blood Blues:" Jazz musicians in the jaws of the Nazis 2012-03-15T20:52:03Z

A cerebral and illuminating pianist, especially in contemporary repertoire, he’s not a player who dazzles you with pianism per se, instead reaching through the music to find expression and communication. Review | Even a great orchestra needs a great conductor: Concertgebouw pales at Kennedy Center 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Their technical demands — the more remarkable since Ligeti was not a virtuoso pianist — afford a full evening’s worth of difficulties and, you would think, exhaustion. Music in Review 2011-02-20T23:48:45Z

This is evidently the American pianist William Wolfram's second contribution, and it is strikingly good. Liszt: Bellini Reminiscences and Fantasy; Hexam?ron 2010-06-17T21:15:00Z

You could sense history in the various dances of the pianists’ left hands: the slinky syncopations of habanera; the manic but metronomic bounce, in swing, as if between two trampolines. Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

Schumann rewards the pianist with a touching piano postlude to his cycle, reworking material from the opening song. Review: Renée Fleming, a Voice With Wardrobe Changes 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

“It’s a really special place,” Kevin Hays, another acclaimed pianist, said of the Falcon, where he will appear with a trio on April 2. Swinging on the Hudson: An Unlikely Haven for Jazz 2010-03-04T22:38:00Z

And Mr. Gray, a drummer, celebrates the release of “Relative Resonance,” with Mr. Speed, Mr. Tordini and the pianist Kris Davis. Jazz Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gerstein, for his part, observed that no pianist he knew was equally eloquent in both styles, so he chose to focus on classical music. Music: Kirill Gerstein Balances Classical Music and Jazz 2012-04-13T20:24:11Z

The Decemberists closed Saturday night with a Seegeresque singalong of “This Land Is Your Land,” and the New Orleans jazz pianist Jon Batiste banged out a set in tune with Seeger’s spirit of exuberant inclusion. Newport Folk Festival Pays Tribute, With a Jolt, to Dylan and Seeger 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

The message of the latest Pixar feature — a lyrical, metaphysical tale of a jazz pianist’s adventures in the afterlife — is that it’s good to be alive. Best Movies of 2020 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

How did independence at such a young age shape your development as a pianist? | H J Lim: H J Lim, Classical Pianist and YouTube Phenomenon 2012-06-29T20:48:45Z

The arrangements by Ms. Buckley’s pianist and musical director, Christian Jacob, allowed her enough room to develop her interpretations without interference. Review: Betty Buckley’s ‘Dark Blue-Eyed Blues’ Has Hardly Any Blues at All 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

It contained seven piano pieces written for me, or any amateur pianist. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z

A nonpareil composer, pianist and bandleader, he arrived in New York from Washington, D.C., just as the Harlem Renaissance was getting underway; soon, the Duke Ellington Orchestra had become the soundtrack to an epoch. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

The Tchaikovsky concerto performance, featuring the seasoned pianist Stephen Hough, was not altogether unwelcome despite its redundancy. Music Review: Minnesota Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-30T22:51:59Z

There she studied with the influential pianist Paul Bley, renowned for his wandering, dreamlike approach to improvising. Satoko Fujii, a Pianist Who Finds Music Hidden in the Details of Life 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

A tireless advocate for bebop and an unfailingly entertaining improviser, Harris has been a stalwart jazz pianist, organizer and educator since the 1960s. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

So it’s no wonder McCabe thought it would be nice to assign designated practice rooms and times for the talented young pianists participating in this July’s innovative Seattle Piano Institute, held on the UW campus. Seattle Piano Institute draws students from around the world for piano and life lessons 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Robert's early desire to become a virtuoso pianist ended when he mysteriously injured a finger on his right hand. 200 candles and lots of music for Robert Schumann 2010-10-14T20:50:00Z

Music runs in Milligan’s family: Her parents met when her father, a pastor, started singing for the gospel group her mother performed with as a pianist. Meet Four Theater Artists to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

The band’s pianist, Kral, did not think much of “girl singers” warbling to bebop music. Jackie Cain, sparkling jazz singer in duo with husband for decades, dies at 86

The concert began with a magisterial account of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, with the pianist Andras Schiff. Music Review | Riccardo Muti: Seldom-Heard Symphony Resurfaces as a Novelty 2010-03-05T21:23:00Z

Even if the pianist’s myth rests on just a handful of published songs and memories of other performances and impromptu sessions from the early ’60s, his whispered artistic largess continues to pervade Philadelphia’s jazz scene. The Pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali’s Lone Album Arrives, 56 Years Later 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

Sparks flew when he joined the violinist Jessica Lee and the pianist Inon Barnatan for a passionate rendition of Ravel’s sensuous trio, influenced by the folk music of that composer’s Basque heritage. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Plays Turina and Ravel 2011-10-07T23:30:07Z

Some pianists emphasize the work’s teeming Romanticism and episodic nature. Music Review: Manfred Honeck Leads New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher 2013-01-05T00:58:01Z

As a pianist, Mr. Goldsmith was best known for his recordings of the Beethoven sonatas, Mr. Goode said. Harris Goldsmith, Critic and Classical Pianist, Dies at 78 2014-04-21T03:11:20Z

That a young pianist has come along who can seemingly play anything, and easily, is not the big deal it would have been a short time ago. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

In 2011, when he was 20, the Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov took the top prize in two prestigious international piano competitions: the Arthur Rubinstein in Israel and the Tchaikovsky in Russia. Daniil Trifonov at Carnegie Hall and ‘Salome’ at the Met 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Among this summer’s students are pianists from China, Ireland and Bulgaria. Seattle Piano Institute draws students from around the world for piano and life lessons 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Written by her close friend and fellow pianist Billy Taylor, the tune became a staple in Williams’s repertory after 1957. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Its subject seems a perfect match for a pianist of such encyclopedic leanings. Review: Ian Hobson, Powerful and Persuasive in First of Six Concerts 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Towering above them in stiletto heels and snugly fitting snow-white lace that matched her bobbed hair was Maye Musk, escorted by Marina Arsenijevic, a Serbian concert pianist. Elon Musk’s Model Mother, Maye, Prepares for Met Gala Debut 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

Finally, the jazz pianist Dan Tepfer brings the version he recorded, which intersperses the familiar variations with his own improvisations, bracing, startling, like sea air in the face. A celebration of ‘theme and variations’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

In his youth he was an aspiring pianist, and in the early 1950s he danced with the National Ballet of Canada until an arm injury curtailed that career. Brian Macdonald, Eclectic Choreographer and Director, Dies at 86 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

There Carlo Grante, an Italian pianist, played all of Brahms’s variations for solo piano, the grandest being the Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel. Review: Richard Egarr and Carlo Grante on Keyboards 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

As on his most recent album, “City of Asylum,” he leads a trio featuring the fearlessly introspective pianist Kris Davis. Jazz Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

He was born in Stretford, Lancashire, in 1887, the only child of an estate agent and his difficult, aspirant wife, a failed concert pianist. LS Lowry: the people's artist comes in from the cold 2013-06-08T23:05:10Z

Chicago’s Infinite Spirit Music, a band led by the pianist Soji Ade, recorded the album “Live Without Fear” in one day on May 31, 1979, for an obscure independent label, Ancient Afrika Records. 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

Liszt, the Hungarian pianist who retired at 35 from a wildly popular career as a recitalist to become one of the most important of post-Beethoven, German Romantic composers, was born 200 years ago. Rachmaninov, Liszt and Mahler coming up at symphony 2011-09-29T20:03:09Z

Following the Seventh Symphony fragment, composer/pianist/arranger Joachim Horsley took the stage to do his own version of the second movement, as a sort of piano concerto a la cubana. Review | Ben Folds’s second Kennedy Center concert features . . . everything 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z

It’s Schubert and nothing but Schubert in this recital by Andras Schiff, a pianist who tends to expose the composer’s psychological torment. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Another pianist, the young Russian Daniil Trifonov, gets a major stage in the city starting on Wednesday: three weeks with the New York Philharmonic playing Rachmaninoff. Classical Music This Week: Modern Baroque, ‘Workers Union’ and Rachmaninoff 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Historian Rick Altman has found that smaller cinemas may have dispensed with the pianist altogether: a cost-cutting measure that may have been a mercy if the alternative was a hapless Harpo. Pianists play it again at the silent movies 2011-04-12T14:25:01Z

George Cables, a pianist, is the rare performer who can produce scintillating, even ecstatic, music that doesn’t need to compromise itself in a room as starched and proper as the Kitano. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

The pianist and pop-rock superstar released 31st album “The Diving Board” last year. Your week in Seattle music: Sam Smith, Elton John and more 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

When serious pianists tour, though, they almost never bring their own instruments, which require professional movers to transport. Why Do Pianists Know So Little About Pianos? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

But he left pianists some astonishing scores, especially the Piano Sonata and the Serenade in A, along with many smart shorter works and charming miniatures. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Jenny Lin, Joshua Rubin, David Aladashvili and More 2014-02-19T17:00:09Z

He hasn’t released an album in six years, but he has been busy; most recently he’s put a lot of effort toward furthering the legacy of his mother, the jazz pianist and harpist Alice Coltrane. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

In the first movement the tension between tradition and the avant-garde seems to play out explicitly in the solemn, regular chords in the pianist’s left hand and the bursts of energy in the right. Music Review: Olga Vinokur in Recital at Bargemusic 2013-01-04T22:37:50Z

Yet he also suggests — with the help of a pianist played by Olga Kurylenko and the example of his movie — that art is one sure path to resistance. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Like the momentary lifting of a pianist’s fingers while a chord still resonates, the classic novelistic chapter evokes time by dwelling in a pause rather than a strong ending. The Chapter: A History 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

The pianist was on the piano at home, and somehow, even with all the distance between us, I saw 12 girls in my gallery view, keeping time with the music and taking corrections. A Dancer’s Quarantine Diary: Coming Full Circle 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Some pianists lean on the factory-machine regularity, the bright lucidity, of those parts to hammer home a contrast with the slow movement. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Taste of Holiday Bounty 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

As a pianist, Gulda collaborated with Chick Corea and was a noted interpreter of Mozart, so he came by his wide-ranging affections honestly. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

Kazan played an alcoholic concert pianist, Dano one of three dysfunctional brothers. Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan on their new creations - an acclaimed film and a baby daughter 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

“I’m told by classical pianists that my technique looks very real to them,” he says of his piano playing. Ben Folds, unlikely poster boy for orchestras, brings millennials to late-night series 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

The pianist and educator Gary Graffman, who taught Wang at Curtis, said it was quickly apparent that she intuitively understood the composer’s style. Yuja Wang, Daredevil Pianist, Takes on a Musical Everest 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Under Mr. Levine, the musicians, including the elegant young pianist Bryan Wagorn, an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, played with color and confidence. Review: Met Chamber Ensemble Salutes Boulez With a Less Complicated Piece Than Planned 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

Those qualities also enlivened a vivid interpretation of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 on Sunday, in which the French pianist Lise de la Salle matched Mr. Luisi’s penchant for touching on extremes. Music Review: Vienna Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall - Review 2011-11-15T23:15:18Z

He is a physically undemonstrative player, but his performances of works by Liszt and Scriabin -- two composers and great pianists for whom sensationalism was not a foreign concept – were emotionally draining. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Her mother, Alberta G. Lee, was a classical pianist and teacher. 2010-01-12T06:44:00Z

Any disappointment in missing Stravinsky’s pellucid orchestral writing was mitigated by the sparkle of the pianists, Pedja Muzijevic and Steven Beck, and in the brilliant singing of the choir and the Trinity Youth Chorus. Music Review: The Trinity Choir’s Stravinsky Festival 2013-04-30T20:03:18Z

Perhaps they wanted as much spontaneity and electricity from the audience as the jazz pianist and DJ/rapper appeared to be generating onstage. Jason Moran and Q-Tip usher in the Kennedy Center’s hip-hop era. 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

In a brief conversation after the 30-minute performance Mr. Roden volunteered that the work is not technically challenging, and that he expected different pianists to bring their own nuances to it. Music Review: Time for Sharing the Love and the Record Labels 2011-07-20T22:28:31Z

The program also offers Mr. Adams’s sequel to his Chamber Symphony, “Son of Chamber Symphony,” inspired by B-movie music, and Stravinsky’s tart, bracing Concerto for Piano and Winds, with the dynamic pianist Jeremy Denk. The Week Ahead: May 9 ? 15 2010-05-06T18:46:00Z

In a recent article in the New York Times, the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim identified the lack of education among audience members as “the main problem with music in the world of today.” ‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman

To avoid conflict and to protect the pianist, Mortensen’s character uses the Green Book — a mid-20th century guide for black travelers with tips on safe places to eat, visit and sleep while on the road. Mahershala Ali takes supporting actor Oscar for ‘Green Book’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

His father was a pharmacist, and his mother was a classical pianist who began teaching him to play when he was 6. Van Alexander, Composer of ‘A-Tisket, A-Tasket,’ Dies at 100 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

What might she, at 29 our most rhythmically explosive young pianist, make of it? Classical Music Listings for May 13-19 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

I got his address and would regularly send him updates on my musical education, how I was learning to play like the great boogie-woogie pianist Pinetop Perkins and Chuck’s original pianist, Johnnie Johnson. Perspective | It was my dream to meet Chuck Berry. Then I got to perform with him for 30 years. 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

It is not easy to achieve stardom as a concert pianist these days, with competitions and the recording industry fading as launchpads. The Pianist of the Resistance Captures a Surprise Award 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

The pianist Cecil Taylor was a world-altering talent, a hero of modern American creativity whose only loyalty was to the promise of invention. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

He will have a chance to test that theory again firsthand: He’ll be at this year’s festival, July 29 to 31, performing in a trio led by the pianist Chick Corea. Christian McBride, Newport Jazz Festival Star, Becomes a Backstage Player 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Among the most remarkable solo piano statements of this millennium, “Avenging Angel” bespeaks the passions of an irrepressibly studious and quietly soulful pianist. ECM’s Catalog Is Finally Streaming. Here Are 21 Essential Albums. 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

A pianist and composer, Bobbie Nelson died last year at the age of 91. "I'm not quiet, but my voice still warbles": Amanda Shires on her new album and owning her strength 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z

His jazz pianist father found work scarce as audiences turned to rhythm and blues. Jazz legend Wynton Marsalis to perform in S.Africa 2011-08-23T11:02:12Z

Farrenc laid the groundwork for a generation of female pianists to succeed as interpreters in Paris, a group that included her daughter Victorine. Louise Farrenc, 19th-Century Composer, Surges Back Into Sound 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Our ideas about programming music, in concerts and on recordings, would have seemed strange if not laughable to 19th-century pianists. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

His prose, agile as a pianist in full flow, dances across the page. Debut Novels by Jesse McCarthy, Gabriel Krauze and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

Like Wagner, in this work Saint-Saëns believed that more is better, including the organ and even two pianists as part of the orchestration. At SSO, remarkable Wagner, majestic Saint-Saëns 2013-06-28T19:54:33Z

Mr. Pace’s textures were crisp and bright and never so heavy that you regretted Mr. Zimmermann’s decision to play the works with a pianist instead of a harpsichordist. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann, Alan Gilbert and Enrico Pace - Review 2011-10-13T22:20:12Z

This one, which officially closes this year’s Blue Note Jazz Festival, includes the pianist Aaron Goldberg, the bassist Larry Grenadier and the drummer Gregory Hutchinson. Jazz Listings for July 1-7 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

David Neumann’s muscular choreography, set to the emphatic beat of a seven-member band conducted by pianist Cody Owen Stine, helps potently in maintaining the evening’s seductive vibe. Review | ‘Hadestown’ ushers Broadway back to the Kennedy Center in style 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

The new three-year production pays tribute to Old Hollywood, with a 31-person orchestra dressing the stage, including an entourage of guitarists, back-up singers, drummers and a pianist, all clad in black tuxedos and gowns. Dion returns to recession-hit Vegas with new show 2011-03-16T10:49:18Z

Mr. Corea, a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, is equally well known as a pianist, composer and pioneer of jazz-rock fusion. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

This marks the first year for the Cliburn Junior, a spinoff of the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, which is held every four years and is named after the late Texas pianist. Kazakhstani teen wins inaugural Cliburn Junior piano competition 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Three years later, he started his professional career when Professor Longhair, a singer and pianist, hired him as a last-minute replacement for the 1950 Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Charles Connor, drummer for Little Richard, dies at age 86 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z

He performed the Ukrainian national anthem last year with the pianist Emanuel Ax and the violinist Leonidas Kavakos before a concert at the Kennedy Center. Yo-Yo Ma Makes His Encore a Call for Peace, With a Nod to Casals 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Other early influences included jazz pianists Fats Waller, Earl Hines and Nat King Cole — better known in his early years as a pianist than as a singer. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

The investigation began in July, when Pletnev, 54 – the celebrated pianist who is the founder and conductor of the RNO – was arrested in Pattaya, a resort in Thailand, where he owns several properties. Child molestation investigation against Russian classical musician dropped 2010-12-03T17:30:00Z

This superb pianist plays the four Chopin ballades magnificently. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

With Prokofiev’s Sonata in D, here accompanied by the pianist Jacob Greenberg, we are back in the familiar world of melodic and vivacious flute music. A Flutist Steps Into the Solo Spotlight 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

The film, which stars Michael Douglas as the pianist, with Matt Damon as his long-time partner, was rejected for funding by multiple studios before finally finding backing from TV studio HBO. Cannes 2013 lineup: Ryan Gosling, Coens and Polanski 2013-04-18T10:53:20Z

His mother was a pianist for silent movies. Ralph Sharon, Jazz Pianist Who Accompanied Tony Bennett, Dies at 91 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

Bagorro, a Zimbabwean classical pianist, left Zimbabwe in 1983 to pursue a music career abroad, partly because of what he describes as a sense of isolation in his country. Zimbabwe culture festival battles against the odds 2010-05-14T12:22:00Z

He revealed details in music that other pianists tend to dissolve in a reverberant haze. Review: A Rising French Singer Makes a Delicately Brilliant Debut 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

A 24-year-old pianist named simply Ji led off with Mozart’s Concerto No. 23, giving a fluid reading with crystalline articulation, his fingers dancing over the keys. Review: Young Concert Artists Gala Features Three Rising Soloists 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The soprano has a young son and daughter with her husband, pianist Serouj Kradjian, who will accompany her on Thursday and who arranged some of the music on the program. Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian hopes to give voice to her Armenian ancestors 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Those who think that view wrong, as I do, would be wise to hear this pianist at every opportunity. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

He became famous across Europe as a pianist. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z

Her Piano Concerto will be performed later this month by the pianist Aaron Diehl and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. A Rediscovered African-American Female Composer Gets a Publisher 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

At one London concert during the 1820s, the audience was treated to demonstrations of electric eels, according to the pianist, conductor and historian Joel Sachs, who is on the faculty of the Juilliard School. Bar and Bathroom Lines, Molto Adagio 2014-04-18T20:59:14Z

Daniel Gillen, 26, a pianist and longtime student at the music school, said the texture of the tulle surprised him. Studying ‘The Nutcracker,’ Students Listen, Touch, Move Like Snow 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z

“I think that this will do something that we haven’t quite seen in a jazz space,” said Jason Moran, the jazz pianist and composer, who was the Center’s inaugural exhibition curator. Secret No More: Louis Armstrong Center Amplifies Satchmo’s Vision 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

She is also a classically trained pianist and recording artist whose latest album “The Conduit” was released in the fall. Parents of actor Alicia Witt found dead in their home 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

And it feels like a guarantee that we’ll be talking about the pianist Sam Harris for a long time. The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

That celebration went online this year, with events including a spirited recital by the young pianist Frank Dupree. Kurt Weill’s Path From Europe to Broadway Was a Straight Line 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

And in recent years, the pianist Aaron Diehl often seemed like gleaming proof of that idea, an embodiment of jazz historicism at its most earnest and refined. Review: Aaron Diehl’s ‘Space Time Continuum’ Is a Jubilant New Album 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

“My father’s sister was an extraordinary pianist,” Ms. Ellsworth explained. For Michelle Ellsworth, Practice Makes … More Practice 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

This gala concert, a benefit for Harlem Stage, will feature the pianists Jason Moran and Geri Allen, two of his many grateful heirs, with generous interpolations of poetry and dance. Jazz Listings for Nov. 13-19 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

For a percussive pianist, some of Taylor's lightly tripping runs are surprisingly dainty, and Ensaslayi and Corn in the Sun are full of jazz's melodic and rhythmic notions, albeit tightly compressed. Cecil Taylor: Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! – review 2012-07-05T21:45:01Z

Mr. Berne just released a fine new album, “Angel Dusk,” in duet with the pianist Matt Mitchell; he appears at Korzo with a different partner, the cellist Hank Roberts. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

The spirit of Thelonious Monk appears on “Erroneous Love,” a track—written by Mr. O’Farrillto to celebrate the Monk centennial in 2017—that uses the great pianist and composer’s “Eronel” as a point of departure. ‘El Maquech’ Review: Big Sounds From a Small Group 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

But after the singer goes silent, Schumann uses the pianist for an astounding catharsis. Robert Schumann: A Hopeless, Brilliant Romantic 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

His father was a pharmacist, and his mother was a classical pianist who began giving lessons to her son when he was 6. Van Alexander, songwriter and prolific TV music arranger, dies at 100 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

Goldblum, Hollywood’s patron saint of droll humor and artful corniness, also happens to be a serviceable jazz pianist, who first started gigging as a teenager. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

He could fill the role of a pianist in terms of melody and harmony and also play percussively with a driving rhythmic attack. Brilliant, inventive jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson dies 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Speaking to the audience that packed Lincoln Center’s Kaplan Penthouse on Wednesday night for his adventurous recital titled “Liszt Inspections,” the probing Italian pianist Marino Formenti ended his introductory comments with two words of encouragement. Marino Formenti, Fully Engaged, at NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

He has managed to pursue this line of inquiry without losing stream or inspiration, partly by surrounding himself with effervescent younger talent like the pianist Dan Tepfer on piano and the drummer Matt Wilson. Jazz Listings for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

In each of the sonatas, the pianist set the tone, a grand and glowing and flowing one that was a challenge to the violinist. Itzhak Perlman revisits moments of early greatness with pianist Emanuel Ax 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

It was Aretha Franklin, the pianist on Mr. Rice’s demo of the song, who persuaded him to rename it. Mack Rice, Who Wrote ‘Mustang Sally,’ Dies at 82 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

The celebrated concert pianist returns to Seattle for a solo recital that includes his own transcription of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” A&E highlights: ‘Iron Man 3,’ Seattle Maritime Festival, Schwarz at Benaroya 2013-05-01T20:51:05Z

It helps to imagine myself radiating out to the listeners, especially because, as a pianist, I don't actually face them and therefore don't have a natural chance to establish a rapport. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z

As the pianist stopped and resumed, over and over, Ryan went on botching . Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z

A trained pianist and singer, Ms. Lilienstein was an American Midwesterner who in 1966 moved with her husband, Ernest, to Toronto, where she began performing for and teaching music to preschoolers and other children. Lois Lilienstein, of the Children’s Trio Sharon, Lois & Bram, Dies at 78 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Specifically, a recital concert from a classical pianist, full stop. A Pianist Strolls Her Harlem History, and Scott Joplin’s 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

“There’s concern any time there’s a shift,” the pianist Gary Graffman said. Notes of Sorrow in Changes at Steinway 2013-07-12T22:10:28Z

“He was much more than a pianist; he was a student of the whole literature. He knew the Beethoven symphonies and quartets by memory.” Harris Goldsmith, Critic and Classical Pianist, Dies at 78 2014-04-21T03:11:20Z

The pianist Wu Han, one of the artistic directors of both Music@Menlo and the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center, recalled her first reaction: “I said, ‘I can’t babysit, I’m very sorry.’” Bow Aquiver, a Calligraphic Violinist Comes to Lincoln Center 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

One of the musicians he discovered in the 1950s was pianist Bill Evans, whose early and most noteworthy albums appeared on Riverside. Orrin Keepnews, producer of milestone jazz albums, dies at 91 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Two years ago, Daniil Trifonov won prizes at three of the most prestigious international piano competitions — a third, two firsts and a grand — from judges who themselves adorn the pantheon of pianists. Technique, musicianship: Daniil Trifonov has it all | Classical review 2013-04-10T17:00:37Z

His most recent album as a leader is “Serenade for Horace,” from 2017, a tribute to the pianist Horace Silver. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

On Wednesday the pianist Kate Shipway played a record number of wrong notes; she improved at later performances but not completely. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z

Powers was also a pianist, composer, and vocalist – a skill he often incorporated into his comedy routines. 'Good Times' Star Ben Powers Dies at 64 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

The resident pianist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars ensemble, Ms. Chow has performed works by some of the most venerable living composers, including Steve Reich and Meredith Monk. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in November 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

We would traditionally say that they were simply “accompanied” by a pianist. Review: A Cellist Accompanied by His Sister. Or Vice Versa? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

This quickie survey offers a dozen classic glimpses at the magic of jazz pianist Guaraldi and his trio. Throwbacks: Summer reissues of strange surf music, gay proto-punk, 'Robocop' and more

He envisioned a career as a concert pianist and made his debut in 1945 at Town Hall in New York, as the first black instrumental soloist there. A Composer’s Final Work Contains ‘Visions’ of an American Master 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

All four of the first day’s performances, which start at 6 p.m., include music by the pianist and composer Billy Childs. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Hancock is Mr. Hancock: not just a brilliant pianist but a grand elder and crossover pioneer, just the sort of guy to earn the loyalty of voters in the Recording Academy. Critic?s Notebook: Best-Kept Secret Now Has a Grammy 2011-02-14T23:24:02Z

“We were just really thankful,” said Isaiah J. Thompson, a jazz pianist and recent Juilliard grad, who performed in the series. They’ve Given $6 Million to the Arts. No One Knew Them, Until Now. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

Liszt, most prophetic of the Romantic composers, paradigm of the virtuoso pianist, proto-modern conductor and promoter of musical talent wherever he found it, was involved with opera all his life. Review | Franz Liszt’s unfinished ‘Sardanapalo’ opera makes its U.S. premiere at Library of Congress 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

He trained as a pianist, making a couple of recordings, but his fascination was always with the magic men of the podium. To the Conductor Claudio Abbado, the Orchestra Was a Collective 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Hinterhaeuser, a concert pianist and former interim director of the festival, will take over from the 2017 summer season, the festival organizers said in a statement on Wednesday. Markus Hinterhaeuser to direct Salzburg Festival 2013-09-25T16:01:04Z

Most pianists are content simply to reach that top note, but Mr. Grosvenor sang them with a gossamer caress. Review: Benjamin Grosvenor, Boy Lord of the Piano, Takes Carnegie Hall 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

The pianist Gerald Moore, one of the great accompanists of the 20th century, called his memoir “Am I Too Loud?” Memo to the New York Philharmonic: Louder Isn’t Better 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

But Gerald Finley sings them all with such an unwaveringly beautiful tone and attention to every syllable, and pianist Julian Drake is so wonderfully attuned to the baritone's inflections that it hardly seems to matter. Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, etc 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z

Though he rose to fame in his Emmy Award-winning role as Jack McFarland, the irrepressible “Will & Grace” sidekick, Hayes has his own complicated history as a pianist. To Become Oscar Levant, Sean Hayes Revisited His First Role 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z

British pianist Paul Lewis on Sunday night played his first recital in Washington since his debut here a decade ago. Aiming for a musical summit but falling short 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

But it is being an amateur pianist that is perhaps the central obsession of his long life. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z

But for this occasion, accompanied elegantly by the pianist Pavel Nebolsin, she presented lighter material, mostly intimate songs by Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Richard Strauss. Its Musicians Are Out of Work, but the Met Is Streaming 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

But at his core Mr. Andsnes is a thoughtful, unflashy pianist who plays with consummate skill and self-effacing dedication to music. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes Playing Haydn, Bartok, Debussy and Chopin 2012-02-16T23:01:45Z

Mr. Hersch is among the rarefied group of jazz musicians, mostly pianists, whose very identities are bound up with the Village Vanguard. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

The limited rehearsal time available to the competitors with their assigned pianists precludes the kind of in-depth interpretation the work requires. A mixed bag from six young musicians (and from the judges) 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

He settled on becoming a composer, rather than a pianist or an arranger, doing graduate work at Georgia State University, which he followed with a doctorate at the University of Michigan. The Composer Carlos Simon Is Busier, and More Honest, Than Ever 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

For Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3, the orchestra was joined by Mr. Lupu, an enigmatic and almost willfully individualistic pianist. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-04T21:59:54Z

She makes her debut at the Village Vanguard, which rarely books vocalists, with a trio led by Mr. Diehl — a pianist of refined erudition, who has been her musical director for the last several years. Jazz Listings for Sept. 9-15 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

In Liszt’s Dante Sonata, the pianist, whose technique is already well formed, showed a mature sense of drama and timing, projecting clarity in the thunderstorms and ranging freely through the music. Prize-winning pianist Jun Hwi Cho at the Phillips

Lien became a dancer, meeting her partner, a German musicologist and concert pianist, before the war. How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

“Seeds” is technically the third album by Leo Genovese, a 34-year-old Argentine pianist, but it has the momentous urgency of a debut — and, in its own way, meets every qualification noted above. New Music: CDs From K. Michelle and Leo Genovese 2013-08-12T21:08:44Z

Originally from Detroit, Johnny O’Neal is a jazz singer and pianist, whose sets run through Fats Waller, Bill Evans and Blue Mitchell, sometimes putting words to instrumental compositions. Beyond Popping Corks, the Sounds of the New Year 2010-12-23T23:06:06Z

Following the Williams outfit into the Alley is Vijay Iyer, easily one of the most creative and original pianists on the scene. Tony Williams Tribute Band and Vijay Iyer rock Jazz Alley 2011-02-03T20:42:03Z

The only significant difference was the musicians—including six pianists, five singers, four flutists and three guitarists—practiced their instrument for an average of 1.8 hours per day. Playing music may lower your blood pressure 2013-01-26T16:00:00Z

A pianist onstage will mark the changes in time. A playwright on the rise: Quiara Alegria Hudes 2013-01-11T16:17:19Z

On Valentine’s Day, as on her most recent album, “State of the Art,” she plays with a band that includes the pianist Cyrus Chestnut. Jazz Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:34:35Z

But his primary inspirations were birds, his Roman Catholic faith and the pianist Yvonne Loriod, his wife, muse and former student, who died in May at 86. CD Review: OLIVIER MESSIAEN: ?Visions de l?Amen? 2010-07-16T15:02:00Z

Still, there were no particular insights on Karen Carpenter’s life and music, and the songs themselves were delivered in a fairly straightforward manner, in overly tasteful arrangements by the pianist Matt Ray. What Makes a Songbook American? Justin Vivian Bond and Rosanne Cash Have a Few Answers 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

He was a gifted pianist who sometimes played publicly, and he wrote music criticism for The Nation. A Study of Edward Said, One of the Most Interesting Men of His Time 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

The resources allowed Sunday's program to employ 19 young singers and 10 young pianists. L.A. composers, singers take center stage at SongFest 2015 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

“I Want to Live!” combines Ms. McKay’s virtually unlimited gifts as a singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, ukulele player, mimic, satirist and comedian into a show that is much deeper than its surface might suggest. Music Review: Bringing Out the Bad Girl for Some Tough Times 2011-03-24T22:06:02Z

Here, for an instant, he seems like all dedicated pianists, trying hard to bring clarity, a particular touch, lyrical shape or rhythmic bite, to a phrase. 5 Hours of Glenn Gould Outtakes. Why? Listen and Find Out. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

On Saturday and Sunday, the Silk Road Ensemble and Brooklyn Rider violinist Johnny Gandelsman pairs up with the pianist Ethan Iverson — a fascinating team for all three of Brahms’s Violin Sonatas. Classical Music Listings for June 24-30 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

His preoccupation with Beethoven, whose complete solo sonatas the pianist is recording, extends to a popular online course on the piano sonatas. Jonathan Biss reflects on ‘late style’ in piano masterworks by Beethoven, Brahms and Kurtág 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Last season, the pianist Paul Lewis played Brahms with these younger players, with Andris Nelsons at the helm; this year, it’s Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 from the same forces. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Last month, at a New York Philharmonic Nightcap concert organized by the composer Tania León, the pianist Jason Moran played a thrilling version of James P. Johnson’s “Carolina Shout,” a Harlem stride classic. When Classical Composers Did the Fox Trot 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

“The Silver Album” commemorates a quarter century of a symbiotic relationship of a different kind: that of the German star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and her preferred chamber partner, the pianist Lambert Orkis. Classical Playlist: Bruckner, Richard Reed Parry, Brahms and More 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet was the soloist in a powerhouse performance that followed Bartók's requested platform layout with the pianist surrounded by the orchestral percussion. Prom 15: LPO/Jurowski ? review 2011-07-27T09:54:07Z

But since “Traveller” also has a part for a human pianist within the chamber group, you had to pay close sonic and visual attention to discern which pianistic choices were Voyager’s. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

When I showed up at Lincoln Center on Tuesday, a fluid jazz pianist, Adam Bonomo, was playing breezy, vibrant music. Critic’s Notebook: The Sing for Hope Pianos Project 2013-06-06T21:07:24Z

In 1997, Mr. Crosby reunited with the son he had put up for adoption, James Raymond, who had grown up to become an accomplished pianist. David Crosby, Mainstay of Two Classic Rock Bands, Dies at 81 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

“His thought about the music was really apparent in how he played it,” the pianist Ursula Oppens, a longtime friend and collaborator, said. Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

That same instinct had also helped make for a satisfying interpretation of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, in which pianist Paul Lewis contrasted the dynamic, virtuoso passages with a more intimate, chamber-music-like quality with great sensitivity. BBCNOW/Atherton – review 2013-01-28T18:18:18Z

The Fourth Concerto is one of Beethoven’s most poetic creations, and few pianists could be better suited to it in that vein than Ms. Uchida. Mariss Jansons Leads the Bavarian in Berlioz and Shostakovich 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

In 2016, Mr. Pinderhughes — a young pianist, vocalist and composer — released “The Transformations Suite,” a theatrical album of social protest that announced him as an ambitious composer and an equally artful lyricist. Live Jazz: 3 July Standouts, From Thumbscrew to Nabaté Isles 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

One is Harvard University’s Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry doctoral program, recently founded by the pianist Vijay Iyer and driven by a mostly female faculty from a variety of global traditions. Jazz Has Always Been Protest Music. Can It Meet This Moment? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Two years ago, with “Somatic,” a promising release on Winter & Winter, Jim Black introduced his acoustic trio with the pianist Elias Stemeseder and the bassist Thomas Morgan. Drummers’ Choices: Setting the Beat, Calling the Tune 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Concert pianists never need an excuse to program plenty of Liszt, that titan of the keyboard who composed some of the showiest — and most difficult — music ever written for the piano. Garrick Ohlsson performs a superb night of Liszt in Seattle 2012-03-08T17:57:04Z

A couple weeks later, Mr. Bernstein invited him to make his formal Philharmonic debut, substituting for the eminent pianist Glenn Gould. André Watts, Pioneering Piano Virtuoso, Dies at 77 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Mendelssohn, who died six months later, channeled his grief into this turbulent quartet, whose character, according to the composer and pianist Ignaz Moscheles, seemed “consistent with his deeply disturbed frame of mind.” Music Review: Quatuor Ébène Plays Schumann and Errol Garner 2014-02-23T21:46:20Z

Among the remaining highlights: a trio led by the pianist Matt Mitchell, at 7 p.m. Jazz Listings for Aug. 12-18 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

In making comprehensible a work not yet comprehended, Berlioz added, Liszt proved that “he is the pianist of the future.” Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z

The shining precedent on those performances is Mr. Bennett’s nearly half-century bond with the pianist Ralph Sharon, who died in March at 91. Review: Tony Bennett and Bill Charlap in ‘The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern’ 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

We live in an age of riches, at least where the subject concerns working jazz pianists. Albums From Art Hirahara and Death Grips 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

"One of the audience members who's also a pianist actually went up to the stage to put his arm around him," said concert organiser Alan Penchansky. Pianist taken to hospital mid-recital 2013-10-18T09:20:06Z

More recently, he performed alongside Rihanna as the pianist and conductor on her worldwide hit, "Unfaithful." "American Idol" hires Ray Chew as music director 2010-12-30T20:54:54Z

The cellist Ma and the pianist Emanuel Ax will play following a chat with Alex Ross, The New Yorker’s music critic. Virtual New Yorker Festival Will Host Chris Rock and Elizabeth Warren 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

There, despite the nightly presence of a pianist and an accordionist, the place was echoingly empty. Patachou, a French Singer With a Habit of Snipping Neckties, Dies at 96 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

This year’s ceremony, hosted by Stephen Colbert, celebrates Al Pacino, James Taylor, members of the Eagles, the gospel and blues singer Mavis Staples and Martha Argerich, one of the greatest living concert pianists. What’s on TV Tuesday: Eero Saarinen and the Kennedy Center Honors 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

His early writings on “creative music” — distinct from both classical and jazz traditions — proved influential to a wide swath of improvising artists in the 1970s, including the pianist and opera composer Anthony Davis. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Last fall, he received three new ones in the mail in the space of six weeks, made by pianists from Spain, Greece and Japan. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The sunny Kansas native's eclecticism comes naturally: She's a trained classical pianist who played "in wedding bands, folk bands, all-girl rock 'n' roll bands" before discovering jazz in the 1980s. Bettye LaVette, Karrin Allyson coming to Jazz Alley 2010-07-09T21:54:00Z

What brought him back to the Vanguard was the invitation of his longtime pianist, Jason Moran, who presided over the club’s 80th anniversary celebration last week. Review: Charles Lloyd Returns to the Village Vanguard 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

It opened with Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, featuring the brilliant pianist Stephen Hough. Review: Strangers and Familiar Friends of Classical Music 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Central to its appeal was his rugged, protean tug-of-war with the pianist Kris Davis and the drummer Chad Taylor. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

The eminent pianist Maurizio Pollini is the soloist in Mozart’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 21 in C. Then Mr. Levine, acclaimed for his Mahler, will lead his players in the composer’s powerful Ninth Symphony. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Last year, celebrating her 60th birthday, this pianist released a different album every month, each with its own identity. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

I have never known a young Russian pianist with a promise like Levit's. Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

An elegy for a pianist who died young, the work is a concerto writ small; in fact, Mr. Kaila wrote an orchestral version concurrently. Music Review: MATA Festival Returns, With Spotlight on Helsinki 2014-04-17T23:21:53Z

The flute and oboe works were played at St Giles by Karen Jones and Daniel Bates respectively, with clarinettist and conductor Michael Collins doubling as their pianist. City of London Sinfonia – review 2013-04-07T15:32:00Z

The dynamic pianist William Wolfram sits in with a group of SSO musicians for an afternoon of chamber music by Dvorak, Poulenc, Shostakovich and Britten. The Week Ahead: ‘The Lion King,’ Lake Street Dive 2014-03-05T21:56:33Z

Ms. Grimaud, who turns 42 next Monday, is a magnetic pianist known for searching interpretations and brilliant technique, and for her work away from the concert stage to save wolves. H?l?ne Grimaud and Claudio Abbado Part Ways 2011-10-30T22:37:26Z

Bream also relates how her own mom "was a music teacher, a pianist and ukulele player, and a very fine vocalist. I play the piano and sing a little bit as well." Fox News host Shannon Bream's 7 best Christmas tunes for a happy holiday 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

He started touring in the early 1960s and was one of the few Soviet pianists to play abroad during the Cold War. Russian pianist Petrov dies at 68 2011-08-03T16:43:12Z

The Rite of Summer music festival, assembled by the pianists Pam Goldberg and Blair McMillen, is relatively modest in its first year: three free concerts in three months. Music Review: Summertime Anarchy, but of the Guided Kind 2011-07-03T21:09:12Z

It was also charming when, near the end, Tao geared up again for another of the score’s famous ascents and the dancers hesitated, as if to admit the futility of keeping up with the pianist. Review: At the Guggenheim, They Heart New York and Indoor Dance 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Though older music does slip into the schedule, it’s not often that a young pianist plays a program of classical standards. Music Review: Alice Sara Ott at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-06-07T22:48:13Z

Composers’ Influences, Side by Side In his 10-part recital series at the Dicapo Opera Theater the pianist is celebrating the and bicentennial year by putting both composers in context. Music Review: Composers? Influences, Side by Side 2010-09-01T21:52:00Z

He went on to play bass with the jazz pianist Emiliano Salvador. Juan Carlos Formell, Buoyant Heir of Cuban Musical Legacy, Dies at 59 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

A British singer-songwriter and pianist with a loose foothold in jazz, he’s as well-known for the kinetic mania of his concerts as he is for the playful rasp in his voice. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-03-08T07:40:00Z

His mother and grandmother, both pianists, left the room where they were listening, convinced it was all over, as was Giltburg. Prize-winning pianist caught between anger and ecstasy 2013-06-24T17:29:12Z

The pianist Michael Brown performed Perle’s “Toccata” at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music on Wednesday evening, presented by the Concert Artists Guild, which promotes gifted young musicians. Music Review: From Michael Brown, an Evening of George Perle 2014-05-11T05:57:54Z

Tobey was a good pianist, and he and Mr. Namkung would perform together at home. Fine-art photographer Johsel Namkung dies 2013-07-27T22:29:36Z

I’ve heard pianists with a wider range of dynamics at the lower end of the scale, but all in all, this was highly professional artistry. Pianist Yun-Chin Zhou opens Young Concert Artists of Washington series

Aside from a Christmas album in 2016, the pianist hasn’t released an earnest full-length in five years. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Many of today's leading pianists were her students and, beyond her voluminous recorded archive, she leaves a whole tradition of Messiaen-playing as her legacy. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z

Some pianists aim for accuracy, others for freedom of expression: Argerich unerringly achieves both. Martha Argerich – review 2013-07-14T14:30:00Z

Of course, Carpenter's sense of performance is not so far removed from a classical pianist flicking his tails over the bench to signal the start of a performance. Cameron Carpenter: rhinestone cowboy 2010-05-20T22:30:00Z

Supporting Ms. White was her musical director, pianist and occasional vocal partner, Billy Stritch, who stretched further into jazz and blues than I’ve seen him venture. Music Review: Lillias White Is Performing at 54 Below 2014-05-02T21:29:43Z

Having long traded in the nose ring for reading glasses, Ms. Osborne now lives in a brownstone in Brooklyn with her 12-year-old daughter and her partner of nine years, the pianist Keith Cotton. Joan Osborne Retraces Bob Dylan’s Roots in Greenwich Village 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

With a pianist as comfortably situated in jazz’s mainstream tradition as Cables, you might expect his music to sound like a seminar, or a rehashing of old devices. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

The Fountain of Youth Band — it has gone through several iterations over the last decade — now has the saxophonist Jaleel Shaw as well as the bassist David Wong and its mainstay pianist, Martin Bejerano. Music Review: At Lincoln Center, Using Both Sound and Silence 2010-09-26T06:11:00Z

The pianist Roger Vignoles, a noted accompanist, encouraged him to explore the song repertoire, which some opera stars fear for the exposure it forces. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Billy Budd,’ an Unusual Foray for Mark Padmore 2014-02-06T23:28:59Z

There was a concert when some Italian pianist played Busoni’s arrangement of Schoenberg’s Opus 11, three piano pieces. ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

But Gosling, who plays a pig-headed pianist earning a crust playing easy-listening standards, gets one of the highlights to himself, casually singing the tentative City of Stars as he strolls along a pier at night. Ryan Gosling movies – ranked! 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Yet on the Thursday night I visit the huge bar, there are only five other people listening to the solo pianist. Back on song: New Orleans 10 years after Katrina 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

“There is such a strange reputation around his music because he wasn’t a pianist, and people think that he didn’t write very well for the instrument.” ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

The Dec. 31 event will also star the brilliant young British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor performing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Two to tango: Beethoven and Astor Piazzolla share SSO bill 2012-12-27T21:21:56Z

He came from a family of lawyers, doctors, concert pianists and army officers, a family so assimilated that they celebrated Easter and Christmas and never attended synagogue. Gene Gutowski, Holocaust survivor who produced Roman Polanski films, died at 90 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

In the United States there has been a popular belief that Asian people are ruthless competitors obsessed with technical achievement, whether as classical pianists, spelling bee champs or math whizzes. Stop calling Asians "robotic" please 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

It’s massive and very difficult for the pianist. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson on Busoni’s 70-minute concerto: ‘A noble, beautiful work’

“I feel I’m going to be a saloon pianist for the rest of my life,” Mr. Woldin said in a 1974 interview in The New York Times, almost a year into “Raisin’s” Broadway run. Judd Woldin, Pianist and Composer of ?Raisin? Score, Dies at 86 2011-12-05T02:39:42Z

Before I was a producer, I was starting off as a classical pianist at a very early age. J.R. Rotem on Producing Hits for Gwen Stefani and 'Empire' 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

It's a pretty beautiful piece; it's just me and a partner with a violinist and a pianist on stage. Misty Copeland: A trailblazing ballerina makes the judge's table 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

In “History of Jazz Piano” — a video by the music-geek production team Collective Cadenza, recently posted on YouTube — he offers a facile but engaging chronology, covering some three dozen pianists in 11 minutes. Playlist: Sonny Rollins and Jamie XX Have New Albums 2014-05-04T01:50:35Z

“Duo Concertant,” a 1972 pas de deux set to Stravinsky, begins as two dancers listen intently to a pianist and a violinist. Robert Fairchild Says Goodbye to City Ballet With Balanchine and Roses 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

In his admirable recital at Carnegie Hall on Sunday afternoon, the pianist Garrick Ohlsson rendered these elements with striking contrast. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Summons Stamina at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-12T22:56:52Z

Sands is also the creative ambassador to the Erroll Garner Jazz Project, a nonprofit devoted to the legacy of that historic jazz pianist. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Recently, it was revived, and this week the label released “Viper’s Drag” an album by the pianist and singer Henry Butler, the trumpeter and arranger Steven Bernstein, and their band, the Hot 9. Listening Booth: Impulse! Records 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Guests caught their breath during a stunning performance by concert pianist Hyperion Knight before taking to the dance floor well past midnight. Russian Ball exceeds usual expectations with flamboyant decadence 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z

American Ballet Theater, which canceled touring shows in four cities because of the pandemic, started its own relief fund to help pay employees like its dancers, production crew, rehearsal pianists and ballet masters. New York City Ballet Cancels Its Season but Will Pay Employees 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

She was briefly a pop star and fashion icon with the hit single This Wheel's on Fire in the 1960s, and has made remarkable original music with her pianist husband Keith Tippett for decades. Julie Tippetts/Martin Archer: Tales of Finin ? review 2011-01-20T22:16:01Z

Instead of Prince Charming, a powerful princess invited Cinderella to live in her castle and enjoy a pianist performing in a sun-drenched room. ‘Art From the Holocaust’: The Beauty and Brutality in Forbidden Works 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Dig around in secondhand shops and you may turn up old volumes of Feldman's Sixpenny Editions, which provided innocent enjoyment to earlier generations of young pianists. London Sinfonietta/Ad?s - review 2011-03-13T15:02:14Z

I liked James Rhodes, the young pianist who retraces Chopin's journeys around Europe and explores his music to gain a better understanding of the man he clearly hero-worships. TV review: The City with Too Many People and Chopin: The Women Behind the Music 2010-10-15T21:15:00Z

Today, having grown up in the church, she is the church's solo pianist and singer for its Sunday services. Wisconsin singer Franki Moscato vows to 'save kids from hurting themselves' 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z

This pianist has the same inviting quality Guaraldi had, giving you the feeling that he’s always playing from the heart. Piano prodigy Joey Alexander proves he has all that jazz 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Now 90 and with faculties undiminished, Mr. Lewis doesn’t have much to laugh about in the role of Max, a former jazz pianist and recent widower. Review: ‘Max Rose’ Has Jerry Lewis Tearful Over a Hint of Infidelity 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Billy Stritch, her pianist of 40 years, accompanied her on her triumphant return to New York. The Unsinkable Marilyn Maye 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

Created by a group of Fort Worth teachers and citizens in 1962, the competition, held every four years, remains a pre-eminent showcase for the world’s top pianists. Van Cliburn, American Classical Pianist, Dies 2013-02-27T20:06:33Z

Although his musical style is loosely categorized as R&B or pop, the 32-year-old Taiwanese singer/song writer is a classically trained pianist who often injects classical music and traditional Chinese instruments into his tracks. AP Interview: Chou taps inner child for 11th album 2011-12-05T16:59:14Z

With a little oiling of wheels, massaging of locations and dates – OK, and some stretching of the imagination – Gruntz could plan a Piano Conclave with some of the greatest jazz pianists alive. Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – January 2013-01-24T14:39:00Z

In his foreword, we learn that Mendelsund toiled for many years as a decent but not brilliant pianist who eventually had to face the music and get a real job. Peter Mendelsund releases two books, including one that’s worth your time

She then became a fixture at the Oak Room in the Algonquin Hotel, where she reached a pinnacle of critical acclaim performing the songbooks of major theater composers with the pianist William Roy. Julie Wilson, Sultry Cabaret Legend and Actress, Dies at 90 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hancock was 43 when he walked onstage at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles that evening, a veteran jazz pianist riding his latest popular resurgence. Two Turntables and a Keytar: The Night Herbie Hancock Rocked the Grammys 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

Martha Clarke asked me to do a production of "Chéri" in New York on the stage, and it was a piece with two world-class dancers, one world-class pianist, and one actor. Amy Irving on her new film "Confetti," stage fright and the big role she almost turned down 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

You want to say that it was like hearing two different pianists, except that both are Mr. Taborn down to the root. Music Review: Craig Taborn Trio at Village Vanguard 2012-04-06T00:07:44Z

Chucho Valdés, the eminent Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer, carries himself with a sly balance of statesmanlike deliberation and youthful gusto. Chucho Valdés, the Pianist, Reflects on Irakere and His Career 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

This year guest of honor will be Tord Gustavsen, the Norwegian pianist, who will perform solo, then as part of a quartet and a trio. ArtsBeat: Wayne Shorter and Rufus Wainright Among Montreal Jazz Fest Performers 2012-04-24T19:27:41Z

There, she said in the BBC documentary, she saw a concert by a blind pianist that made a strong impression. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Nun With a Musical Gift, Dies at 99 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

"It's so ingrained in me to be a band player," the pianist says. After 40 years, Bill Payne performs under his own name 2013-06-06T18:49:00Z

As a singer he performed with two Parisian jazz vocal ensembles — Les Blue Stars, founded by the singer and pianist Blossom Dearie, and Les Double Six — before starting the Swingle Singers. Ward Swingle, Who Made Classical Music Jazzy, Dies at 87 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

In all his sonatas Brahms made the pianist an equal if not dominant partner, and Mr. Golan, with the piano lid wide open, challenged Mr. Rachlin with his fire, virtuosity and sheer amplitude. Music in Review: Julian Rachlin and Itamar Golan at 92nd Street Y 2012-12-09T23:04:01Z

Mr. Polenzani will be partnered by the pianist Julius Drake for Schubert’s poignant song cycle about a miller lad suffering in unrequited love. The Week Ahead: April 3 ? 9 2011-04-02T03:12:49Z

Under these circumstances, the five-legged hybrid of piano and pianist reduces a time-tested humanist war horse to a shadow of its former self, which was the artists’ intention. Art Review: I Just Popped Out to Play Beethoven 2010-12-09T23:57:00Z

Near the end, eight young pianists leaped onto  the stage from the audience and joined in for a climax of complexity. The resurrection of Julius Eastman: gay, black and brilliant 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

It’s in tune with the hard bop that was lush on the vine in New York then, played by pianists like Elmo Hope and Sonny Clark. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

He made his debut as a pianist in 1965 at Town Hall in New York and stopped performing in the early 1990s because of arthritis. Harris Goldsmith, Critic and Classical Pianist, Dies at 78 2014-04-21T03:11:20Z

Fortner, in short, approached his “Discovery” showcase not as a pianist but as a bandleader. Pianist Sullivan Fortner and ensemble at Kennedy Center 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

But you got the sense that Vonsattel is more interested in ideas than in stormy passion, and more power to him: This is a thinking person’s pianist. Pianist Gilles Vonsattel’s dark program speaks to ‘Master of the Night’ exhibit at the Freer

Listen to enough music by Satoko Fujii — a pianist who refuses to limit herself to the keyboard, manipulating the strings inside the instrument whenever the moment calls for it — and the possibilities feel huge. Perspective | Jazz pianist Satoko Fujii is practicing the art of the possible 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

The pianist Conrad Tao played an elegantly unruffled Mozart concerto and a daydreamy “Rhapsody in Blue.” Classical Music Has a Hazy Future in Lincoln Center’s Summers 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Most pianists able to play these daunting works strive to convey the intricacies and strokes of imagination in the music. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The pianists, at two instruments placed side by side, played with robust energy and balletic grace: a good thing, given the intricate cues and hand-crossings required by the arrangement. Music Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at Yamaha Piano 2010-07-08T21:25:00Z

At last year’s Tchaikovsky International Competition, the young French pianist emerged from nowhere to claim fourth place, gaining a cult following while at the same time polarizing opinion. French pianist Lucas Debargue makes his East Coast debut 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

The lineup includes the Mivos Quartet and the pianist Stephen Gosling playing works for string quartet, piano and electronics on Saturday. Classical & Opera Listings for Aug. 14-20 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

The jazz pianist Hank Jones, her accompanist that night, later told an interviewer for NPR that they rehearsed eight hours to prepare 16 bars of music. Channeling a Bombshell, One Jazzy Note at a Time 2011-08-06T20:43:02Z

This week also brings the masterly pianist Mitsuko Uchida to Carnegie Hall to play Schubert’s three posthumously published and searching late sonatas. The Week Ahead: April 8 ? 14 2012-04-06T22:03:30Z

An esteemed pianist, composer and instructor, Ms. Crothers encouraged students to invest in their intuition, and to chase improvisations as far as they could go. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

Fittingly, on Sept. 18 the 58th annual Monterey Jazz Festival will present a “Concert by the Sea” tribute organized by the pianist Geri Allen. 'Concert by the Sea,' a Jazz Classic by Erroll Garner, Is to Be Reissued 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

The proficiency on the bandstand shone steadily throughout the set, and yet there was a standout: Christian Sands, filling in for the band’s usual pianist, Eric Reed. Music Review: Christian McBride at Village Vanguard - Review 2011-11-30T23:30:42Z

From an early age, Mr. Okun aspired to a career as a classical pianist. Milt Okun, music impresario who spanned pop, folk and opera, dies at 92 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Benjamin Clementine, a pianist, poet, singer-songwriter and former Paris busker, was awarded the 2015 Mercury Prize on Friday in London for the best British or Irish album of the year. Benjamin Clementine Wins 2015 Mercury Prize 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Apple Blossom, aided by a one-handed performance from her astonishing pianist Leo Genovese, was sublime; Fall In sounded like a lost soul classic. Esperanza Spalding ? review 2011-07-12T18:20:00Z

It was the Bowl debut of the 32-year-old Chinese pianist, but he is well known, if not quite the superstar here he is in China. Pianist Yundi adds some flair, but his Beethoven still lacks drama at Bowl 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

At the same time, bebop — an insurgent, often frenetic strain of modern jazz, typified by virtuosos like the alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and the pianist Bud Powell — was a source of endless fascination for him. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

His soloists were two of the school’s distinguished faculty members: the pianist Melvin Chen, the conservatory’s associate director, and the soprano Dawn Upshaw, the artistic director of the school’s vocal arts program. | Bard College Conservatory Orchestra: Leon Botstein Brings Bard and Dawn Upshaw to Lincoln Center 2010-04-11T21:22:00Z

The pianist and Coltrane scholar Lewis Porter, who contributed to the new album’s liner notes, marveled at Coltrane’s ability to balance an expert’s rigor with a beginner’s mind. What a Rare, Live ‘A Love Supreme’ Reveals About John Coltrane 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

They were both accomplished pianists, flashy dressers, flamboyant entertainers and as openly gay as it was possible to be in the South in the 1950s. Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 87 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

There is a deep and rich tradition in the meeting between a solo pianist and a symphony orchestra. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

But if DeJohnette has been an inspired accompanist, he has led a vibrant parallel life as a composer-bandleader, and a gifted occasional pianist. This week's new live music 2012-11-10T00:05:56Z

As the pianist told the audience, the fortepiano, the forerunner of the modern grand, went though considerable changes during Beethoven’s lifetime, and the composer kept up with them. Cellist Antonio Lysy and fortepianist Tom Beghin try to capture real Beethoven 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Beethoven asks unanswerable questions, and both pianist and conductor were like actors in a Socratic dialogue, starting something that, we can now see, Adams has continued for our own time. A serious Beethoven in John Adams' latest 'Absolute Jest' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Multifaceted musician and showman Billy Stritch will join him as pianist and musical director Oct. 17-20, with special guests to be announced. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Stephen Hough, pianist What comes to mind is the encore I played after a concert at Berlin's Waldbühne with Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. Corinne Bailey Rae, Sir Mark Elder and other musicians' greatest on-stage moments 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z

The applicant pool consisted of 160 young pianists, who applied through online applications and video submissions. Kazakhstani teen wins inaugural Cliburn Junior piano competition 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

An early version of the All-Stars was made up of musicians from Los Angeles’s Central Avenue jazz scene, including the tenor saxophonist Teddy Edwards and the pianist Hampton Hawes. Howard Rumsey, Musician Who Invigorated West Coast Jazz Scene, Dies at 97 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

An easy conversationalist whose decades spent behind a piano have served him well, banter-wise, the pianist was in good spirits, acknowledging his recent birthday with a tone of shocked resignation. Billy Joel's first concert at Hollywood Bowl: An L.A. 'Piano Man' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

It sparked a conversation between the two, which led to the discovery that both are fans of the Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi. Over Spilled Champagne, a Spark 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Like most pianists, Kolesnikov approached the first run of each passage straightforwardly, with a clarity that rendered the score’s precise architecture in vivid detail. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

The Manhattan-born composer studied to be a concert pianist but instead went to Harvard to study psychology. Young composers challenge the Hollywood music establishment 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

And yet, niggling away in the background, was this dream of becoming a professional pianist. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z

The musician, who is 66, will make his debut with a tribute to Liberace, the American pianist and vocalist whose life was told in the recent biopic, Behind the Candelabra. Sir Elton to perform at Emmy Awards 2013-09-10T08:07:02Z

If the 13 concerts weren’t enough, for most of the festival, the pianist Marino Formenti will play for 12 hours each day at the Goethe-Institute New York Library. The Week in Arts: Tom Hiddleston in ‘Betrayal’; Beck Takes the Stage in Queens 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

The end of this month marks the fourth appearance of Grosvenor — hailed by Gramophone magazine as possibly “the most remarkable young pianist of our time” — in Seattle in six years. Possibly ‘the most remarkable young pianist of our time’? Benjamin Grosvenor is back in Seattle 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

The interaction between piano and strings is also beautifully achieved, the pianist harrying the strings into the busier and more unsettled reaches of the middle section before easing off again. Melvyn Tan/Schubert Ensemble – review 2012-06-21T17:30:01Z

In Eugenio Mira’s gaudy, amusingly preposterous new thriller, “Grand Piano,” the world’s foremost young classical pianist returns to the concert stage after a five-year sabbatical and finds himself in a deadly line of fire. Movie Review: In ‘Grand Piano,’ an Unknown Stalks a Musician Making a Comeback 2014-03-07T01:12:49Z

There were conductors as great as Bernstein — and pianists, and composers, and political activists, and theater artists. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Basie, the rhythmically spring-loaded pianist and bandleader, had more than a star soloist in Young, who changed the language of the tenor saxophone. Reissues: ’50s Moxie, ’60s Soul and ’90s Hip-Hop 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

His active schedule as a pianist this season includes performances of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Staatskapelle Berlin. Young maestro takes baton as Israel Philharmonic's Zubin Mehta ends 50-year tenure 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Messiaen wrote it for himself on second piano and a young pianist who would become his wife on first. Spectacular start to Piano Spheres' 21st season 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

So it is with the latest chapter in her partnership with the intrepid Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

The conductor and pianist Leonid Kreutzer conducted Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto from the keyboard; “I thought that was amazing,” Ozawa says. Ozawa: A pioneer who dedicated his life to Western music 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

A new level of technical excellence is expected of emerging pianists. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

Even pianists of a Romantic bent for whom Beethoven is not a specialty usually play some of these touchstone works. Music Review: Norwegian Pianist Takes a Deeper Dip Into Beethoven 2011-04-08T22:00:21Z

A dozen musicians, scholars and critics weighed in on the best music of the jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams. Stephen Colbert on Trump: ‘Business Fraud Is His Brand’ 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

Later that month, the orchestra will perform “Four Black American Dances” by Carlos Simon, alongside Saint-Saens’ Piano Concerto No. 5 and Gershwin’s Concerto in F, both featuring the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Tanglewood’s Summer Season Blends Familiar and New 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

A pianist performed in a small concert hall in the museum before a group of journalists, music scholars and Beethoven experts. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

The 42-year-old pianist quoted a well-known poem by the 11th Century Persian poet Omar Khayyam that ridiculed the hypocrisy of people who pretend to be pious. Turkish pianist charged with insulting Muslim values 2012-06-01T15:18:58Z

Cage inserted objects beneath and between the strings of a grand piano to create unusual sounds when the pianist pressed the keys. Review: Dan Trueman’s ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ Takes Cage Into the 21st Century 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

“Sung With Words,” a song cycle by the pianist Helen Sung and the poet Dana Gioia, starts from the premise that jazz and poetry are natural allies. Review: ‘Sung With Words,’ a Collaboration by a Pianist and a Poet 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

A revered pianist and teacher, Mr. Fleisher has inspired several generations of younger musicians. Five Days, Three Pianists, Three Generations 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

News of the artwork’s existence broke this week as Warsaw hosted the 18th Frederic Chopin Piano Competition, an international event known for launching the careers of world-class pianists. Chopin portrait bought at flea market is from 19th century 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z

Also in the band, for this weekend run, are the tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, the pianist Mike LeDonne and the bassist David Williams. Jazz Listings for Sept. 9-15 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

If this pianist had not identified the final piece on his recital for the Peoples’ Symphony Concerts series at Town Hall, I would have been stumped. Bach Breathing Free: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

From the beginning, he said, he loved Monk and Duke Ellington more than any other pianists. Masabumi Kikuchi Finds New Direction With ?Sunrise? 2012-03-25T01:43:04Z

He recorded one such joking vocal in 1964, as part of an album he cut with the pianist Oscar Peterson’s trio. Clark Terry, Influential Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 94 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

The prodigiously talented pianist’s vision as a composer and improviser has stretched beyond his typically designated genre of jazz to encompass hip-hop, chamber music and South Indian classical music. Ojai Music Festival expands its eclectic vision under the eye of Vijay Iyer 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

In partnership with the pianist and coach Kathleen Kelly, Ms. Barton devised and presented an evening of works mostly by or about women. Review: A Singer Scales Back Her Grand-Opera Voice 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

But it received firm advocacy from pianist Olli Mustonen, who placed each note in its context, his tone as pristine as the neatness of its orchestral surround. LSO/Gergiev ? review 2010-11-22T22:45:00Z

The preparatory work required of singers and pianists is as multilayered as winter clothing. Schubert: lieder of the pack 2011-03-10T22:43:00Z

Even Rudolf Serkin, my pianist hero at the time and a magnificent Beethoven player, approached these masterpieces with humility and awe. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Hahn and her pianist, the admirable Valentina Lisitsa, demonstrated incomparable teamwork in moving back and forth from familiar repertoire to new works that were challenging in many different ways. Hahn, Lisitsa mix old, new with dazzling results 2011-10-18T18:26:04Z

James Ehnes, violinist and Seattle Chamber Music Society artistic director, and pianist Andrew Armstrong provided some of Sunday’s most exciting music in a program of Beethoven, Debussy and Shostakovich. Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Winter Festival brightens these traffic-ridden, post-holiday weeks 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center enlisted the pianist Jeremy Denk to preside over two concerts this season, each built around works that draw on Eastern European folk songs and popular dance rhythms. Music Review: Dvorak?s Folk Music You Can Dance To 2011-03-16T21:53:56Z

Composing, transcribing and arranging are now mostly lost arts for pianists, Mr. Dubal said, praising Mr. Hamelin’s eclectic interests and talents. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z

“Here, there is no need for spurious gestures and inflections; everything is given with a supreme naturalness and a perfectly accommodated virtuosity that declare Freire a master pianist throughout.” Nelson Freire, Piano Virtuoso of Warmth and Finesse, Dies at 77 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Alongside his brilliance as a pianist, he has a reputation as one of the great musical thinkers. Day-Lewis knighted in Honours list 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

In January, he appeared with the pianist Emanuel Ax in Los Angeles, in a program that included Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1. A Star Maestro, Fighting Brain Cancer, Finds Peace in Music 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Cornish College of the Arts kicks off its Fall 2011 Music Series this weekend with an appearance by pianist Stephen Drury. Stephen Drury kicks off Cornish music series 2011-09-20T20:30:06Z

As a child she sang "a bit too loudly" in her primary school choir and was a "precocious" pianist who could compose in the style of Mozart or Debussy when aged 10. Sarah Connolly: from triumph to tragedy 2013-06-21T12:01:00Z

Arrive early at 8 p.m. to see Seven Colors, featuring pianist/sound designer Gust Burns with multi-instrumentalist Morgan Henderson of Fleet Foxes, and Metal Chocolates, which mixes rap and soul with radio theater. Thursday-Saturday in Seattle: pizza, rock, rap, chillwave 2011-08-04T18:38:07Z

It can also be profoundly serene, as in “Suspend,” a 2014 concerto for the pianist Emanuel Ax and the Los Angeles Philharmonic that dreamily meditates on Brahms. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Accompanied by the pianist Kevin Murphy, Mr. Webster made these works his own, singing with elegance and projecting Mr. Wainwright’s words with far clearer diction than Mr. Wainwright does. music: Ren?e Fleming?s Crossover to Rock, ?Dark Hope? 2010-05-28T14:47:00Z

The pianist Barbara Carroll’s “My Funny Valentine,” interwoven with fragments of Bach, evoked an impressionistic floral paradise. Music Review: New York Cabaret Convention at Rose Hall - Review 2011-10-21T23:34:33Z

And the jazz pianist Chick Corea will be the orchestra’s artist in residence, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24, with his own cadenzas, and writing a trombone concerto. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

He recently joined two other serious talents — the pianist Kris Davis and the drummer Eric McPherson — to form the Borderlands Trio, which released its debut this year, the freely improvised “Asteroidea.” Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Zoltan Kocsis, a pianist and conductor who revamped the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and was internationally known for his incandescent renditions of Schubert, Beethoven and other composers, died on Sunday at his home in Budapest. Zoltan Kocsis, Pianist and Conductor, Dies at 64 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

However, playing the same programme the next night, on Sunday, Lupu was a pianist transformed. Lucerne festival goes Lupu for Brahms 2011-08-15T16:19:09Z

All signs point to yes, as Ali has swept the precursors this season for his work as the gifted pianist Don Shirley in “Green Book.” Oscars 2019 Predictions: Who Will Win Best Picture, Actor and Actress 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

In demeanor and musicianship alike, here is a pianist who is no-nonsense, yet never nondescript. Review: Behzod Abduraimov, at People’s Symphony, Gives Each Note Its Due 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

He did publicity shots of other stars in the 1950s, including Lena Horne, Perry Como and classical pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Alfred Wertheimer, photographer of the young Elvis Presley, dies at 84

A leading composer and pianist in jazz since the 1970s, Brackeen has a piano style based in neatly angled patterns and harmonies, and darting melodicism. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

In 2018, when the composer and pianist George Walker died at 96, there were plenty of accomplishments to memorialize, including his Pulitzer Prize — the first awarded to a Black composer. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Also a pianist, Auerbach recently recorded her own violin-and-piano version of Shostakovich’s 24 preludes, along with her own sonata “Arcanum,” on ECM. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

“He’s as straight as an arrow,” said Herbie Hancock, the hallowed pianist who met Carter at Miles Davis’s house in 1963, in a phone interview. At 85, the Jazz Bassist Ron Carter Still Seeks ‘A Better Order of Notes’ 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

His spry quintet — with the tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, the pianist Sam Harris, the bassist Harish Raghavan and the drummer Justin Brown — knows how to flesh out his ideas in an unfolding present tense. New Music: Albums From Aloe Blacc, Sara Evans and Ambrose Akinmusire 2014-03-10T20:57:47Z

“It has an elegance to it and it has really fantastic pianists,” he said. Seth Sikes Channels Judy Garland in Cabaret Act 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

His mother, the former Ivy Evans, was a homemaker and accomplished amateur pianist. Jeffrey Tate, Conductor Whose Life Was a Worldwide Whirlwind, Dies at 74 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

But Wee is not that kind of “keen pianist.” 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Said praised Pollini for his commitment to music and excluded him from the generality of "most pianists", who, Said claimed, are like "most politicians" in that they "seem merely to wish to remain in power". Maurizio Pollini: a life in music 2011-01-01T00:04:05Z

A pianist as well, he started songwriting, and at 18 landed a record deal, taking the stage name Cat Stevens. Music Match: If You Like Cat Stevens, Try Junip 2013-01-23T15:19:59Z

Given his renown as a pianist of scrupulous musicianship and elegance, he still managed to bring textural details and structural clarity to the music. Review: Murray Perahia at Carnegie Hall 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

There are different ways to do so, as two pianists demonstrated in completely contrasting programs this week in New York. Two Pianists Offer Contrasting Paths of Exploration 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

After his breakthrough in the 1930s, "Billy Tipton" enjoyed three decades of success as a jazz saxophonist and pianist, sharing his glittering career with a number of devoted girlfriends and his three adopted sons. Hoax is where the art is: music biz scams 2010-04-23T23:14:00Z

For the Lindy Exchange gig, drummer Julian MacDonough and pianist Solomon Douglas join them. Seattle guitarist revives work of vintage Seattle composer | Concert preview 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

He works here with the alto saxophonist Bruce Williams, the pianist Xavier Davis, the bassist Gerald Cannon and the drummer Willie Jones III. At 7, 9 and 10:30 p.m., Jazz Listings for May 30-June 5 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Finally, in classical music, the Kennedy Center will host a weeklong residency with star pianist Lang Lang joining the National Symphony Orchestra. Kennedy Center plans Nordic arts festival in 2013 2012-03-06T16:52:10Z

Other cool careers mentioned were scientist, pianist and doughnut maker. Class of KidsPost: Third-graders at North Chevy Chase Elementary 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

It’s not hard to imagine why pianists might long for this luxury of always being able to perform on their own instruments. Why Do Pianists Know So Little About Pianos? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

I've lived with them for decades, and they're woven into the different strands of my professional life, as a pianist, broadcaster and teacher. Songs for squaddies: the war musical Lads in Their Hundreds 2010-05-19T21:30:00Z

As conductor, pianist, organist, vocal coach and lecturer, he influenced countless singers, instrumentalists and listeners. George Fiore, former Seattle Opera chorus master, dies at 87 2013-08-30T01:50:48Z

The music reflects both the influence of Impressionism and Ibert’s background as a silent-movie pianist. Review: Japan Meets France, Through a Pianist’s Sensitivity 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

It would have been more reasonable to say that some pianists are indeed able to keep the voices even on a Steinway. At the Bard Music Festival, Concerts and Argument 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

And on Saturday and Sunday, Mr. Peskanov will round out his complete survey of the Beethoven violin sonatas, with the pianist Nina Kogan. Classical Music Listings for July 22-28 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Jim McNeely, the pianist and composer, mentored Mr. Argue and a slew of other rising bandleaders during his years at the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, a sort of finishing school for young composers. ‘They’re Doing It Out of Love’: The Big Band Rises Again 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

Mr. Okun trained as a pianist as a child, then earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from New York University and a master’s in music from Oberlin College in Ohio. Milt Okun, Who Turned John Denver Into a Pop Star, Dies at 92 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

On Saturday, the excellent young duo of the cellist Nicholas Canellakis and the pianist Michael Brown play Schumann, Strauss, Webern and Chopin. Classical & Opera Listings for June 5-11 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Next year the ensemble will again tour internationally, in China, conducted by Charles Dutoit and with the pianist Yundi Li as soloist. National Youth Orchestra Prepares for Concerts 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

This season, as part of Mr. Kissin’s Perspectives series at the hall, he will play a demanding recital program twice in a single week, the first pianist to do so at Carnegie since Horowitz. Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 30- Nov. 5 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

The piece marks the latest update to “Voyager,” a piece that he developed in 1985 and described as a, “virtual improvising pianist.” What Happens When A.I. Enters the Concert Hall 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

The band's core comprised pianist Lewis and vibraphone virtuoso Milt Jackson. 50 great moments in jazz: The Modern Jazz Quartet and John Lewis's Django 2010-03-24T17:12:00Z

Other young pianists may garner more headlines, but Mr. Grosvenor may well be the most cultivated member of a generation overflowing with talent. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

I should have stayed and become a jazz pianist and worked at it until I was good enough. Hoffman does divas in directing debut 'Quartet' 2013-01-24T14:13:03Z

Well, with "Black Radio," the jazz pianist offered his take on how the often stagnant medium could be improved - and it was dreamy. AP music writers' top 10 albums of the year 2012-12-13T14:50:11Z

But there is little doubt that he is a pianist of stature. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

When that pianist is the supremely gifted but calculatingly inscrutable Evgeny Kissin, it is a choice that brings one to the concert hall with a specially keen curiosity. Evgeny Kissin – review 2012-11-22T17:43:55Z

The in-demand composer, besides being on a deadline for his opera, also performs regularly at major international venues as both a conductor and pianist. Composer Thomas Adès devotes his downtime in L.A. to ... rehearsing 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

In the 1980s, the pianist Althea Waites brought the music of Florence Price to German audiences — who eagerly applauded. When Europe Offered Black Composers an Ear 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

He is energetic and animated on stage, both as a pianist and conductor. Tough act to follow: Young maestro leads Israel Philharmonic 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

The English pianist Imogen Cooper is a valued performer of wide experience. Review: Imogen Cooper, Grappling With Schumann’s Ghosts 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

For the last few seasons, the superb Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has been performing and recording Beethoven’s five piano concertos with the acclaimed Mahler Chamber Orchestra, conducting from the keyboard. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

This time it's British concert pianist Joyce Hatto, who became embroiled in scandal at the end of her life when some of her recordings were discovered to be fraudulent. TV highlights 23/12/12 2012-12-21T10:04:15Z

Janacek’s Violin Sonata proved amenable to the saxophone in an arrangement by Eliot Gattegno, who performed his new version with the pianist Michael Brown. Music Review: Janacek and Mahler in Moving Sounds Festival - Review 2011-09-20T21:00:08Z

Challenging our perceptions of his country, the play concerns a celebrated pianist who returns to Israel and his estranged family. In uncovering tensions, productions expose humor and society’s fears 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

A rehearsal pianist needs to be able to play rep as varied as the company’s — Bernstein to Stravinsky to Tchaikovsky. Ballet Theater Gives the Stage to This Pianist’s Drag Persona 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

In that concerto Bach gives the pianist the dual roles of soloist and accompanist. Music Review: Piotr Anderszewski’s Bach Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-09T22:11:03Z

This summer concert series, programmed by the pianist Bill Charlap, takes a fondly nostalgic view of jazz and American songbook traditions. Times Critics’ Guide: What to Do This Week 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

The show, “Glamorous Summer Nights,” reunited Ms. Sullivan with her sometime nightclub partner, the pianist and singer Larry Woodard, an artistic heir of Bobby Short but with classical leanings. Music Review: K T Sullivan and Larry Woodard at Laurie Beechman Theater 2012-06-21T21:51:41Z

The current edition — in which 87 pianists took part — was postponed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. 12 pianists in final stage of prestigious Chopin competition 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Piotr Anderszewski, the probing pianist, seemed determined to present Bach’s English Suite No. 6 in D minor, the final work on his recital program at Carnegie Hall, as an inexorably flowing single entity. Breathlessly Spiraling Bach: The 8 Best Classical Music Moments This Week 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

The pianist Hunter Noack will also bring his “In A Landscape” series of outdoor performance set in picturesque locations to the park this spring. Kaatsbaan Announces Spring Festival 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Instead, the pianist took his time crafting a lustrous sound and translucent textures. The fresh sound of guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel 2011-03-04T14:34:10Z

At 7 p.m. comes a social hour, followed by an 8 p.m. show by two Seattle bands — a quartet led by young drummer Xavier Lecouturier and a quintet fronted by veteran pianist Marc Seales. Trumpeter Thomas Marriott helps start Seattle Jazz Fellowship where jazz veterans can mentor younger musicians 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

On this occasion his partner is the composer Thomas Adès, a fine pianist in his own right. Classical Music Listings for Oct. 21-27 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

This final family concert in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s season will trace Williams’s life and her career as a pianist, composer and arranger. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

In addition to being an elite improvising pianist, Jason Moran is a keen programmer; his Carnegie survey of Black American music from the Great Migration was a well-attended success. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

An uncommonly versatile musician, Fischer worked as a composer, arranger, conductor and pianist for more than 60 years. Grammy-winning composer Clare Fischer dead at 83 2012-01-28T03:52:08Z

Anthony Tommasini Many pianists make a whole program of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. The Week Ahead: Feb.13 ? 19 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z

For example, many believe that the pianist Bill Evans composed "Blue in Green" from "Kind of Blue." How Miles Davis electrified jazz 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z

Neither Ms. Jungr nor her pianist, Tracy Stark, pretended to be blues musicians. Music Review: Barb Jungr Interprets Dylan at Metropolitan Room - Review 2011-10-19T23:01:02Z

POSSIBILITIESDuring more than a half-century in the public eye, Herbie Hancock has been acclaimed as a jazz pianist and composer and an explorer of new musical forms. Book review: Herbie Hancock’s ‘Possibilities’

Piers Lane, an Australian pianist based in London, seemed undaunted by its demands. Music Review: Piers Lane Is Soloist With American Symphony - Review 2011-12-12T23:26:47Z

The Palo Alto performance energized the pianist, then 51. 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

“No other pianist I know plays with such physicality at the piano,” Kris Davis, a singular improvising pianist and composer in her own right, said in an interview. An Exhilarating Set of Cecil Taylor’s Jazz Arrives, 49 Years Later 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

The program also includes a solo on Rollerblades and work set to live music by the band Poor Remy and the pianist Adam Tendler. Dance Listings for Jan. 9-15 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Takemitsu’s elegant “Distance de Fée” was one of the cross-cultural examples in “East Meets West,” a likable, low-key concert organized by Mr. Hope, who was sensitively accompanied by the pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips. Music Review: ?East Meets West,? With Daniel Hope at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-10-31T21:34:05Z

At last year's Jazz Awards, Jones was voted pianist of the year. Grammy-winning jazz pianist Hank Jones dies at 91 2010-05-17T16:51:00Z

Last January, the Canadian pianist fearlessly re-created the program from the legendary Glenn Gould’s American debut at the Phillips Collection in 1955 and made it his own. Canadian pianist continues daring performances 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Neon-yellow wall lights and pendant lamps illuminate this sleek little bar, where live music on weekends might be a jazz pianist or a rockabilly trio entertaining the crowd. 36 Hours in Venice 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

His influence is written deeply into the generations that have followed him, and into the language of pianists from Mulgrew Miller to Geri Allen. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sánchez is a Spanish pianist whose most recent album, “Partenika,” also shows her to be an intriguing composer. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

A jazz pianist and composer who worked with Miles Davis, Sonny Collins and countless others at Philadelphia’s Blue Note club, Bryant is perhaps best known for the eminently danceable “Madison Time.” 2011?s 50 New Members of Rock and Roll Heaven 2011-12-30T17:57:04Z

So in a marathon concert, “Folk, Form and Fire,” he led his Mariinsky Orchestra in these five works, in order, each with a different — and distinctively brilliant — pianist. The Best Classical Music of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Tyler, the son of a classical pianist, formed Aerosmith in Boston in 1970 after meeting Perry and bass player Tom Hamilton a year earlier. Aerosmith's Tyler and Perry honored for songwriting 2013-04-16T17:43:29Z

“I’m a huge coffee freak — terrible,” the pianist says a little ruefully. Afro-Peruvian rhythms featured at Howard Theatre

Even for the pianist Kirill Gerstein, one of Mr. Adès’s most capable interpreters, it exists precariously at the edge of possibility. A Pianist Has Cracked a Composer’s Code 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

But even without knowing this, most listeners, I think, will intuitively sense when the soloist in Mozart’s slow movements becomes the pianist equivalent of a prima donna. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

“He’s a wonderful person,” said the pianist and composer Eri Yamamoto, a Parker collaborator who plays an album’s worth of his solo piano compositions on the new set. The Irreducible William Parker 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

A pianist who can play the 24 Chopin Études can play anything. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z

Events presented by the Gotham Chamber Opera, the pianist Marino Formenti and the Kaufman Center’s youth ensemble Face the Music offer still other perspectives. New York Philharmonic Offers Details on 2014 Biennial 2013-05-29T19:00:01Z

The pianist Vijay Iyer publishes his compositions under the name Multiplicity Music, and that word goes to the heart of his enterprise as an artist. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

The pianist Alfred Brendel, who retired in 2007 at 77, said he wanted to stop performing while still at his peak. Music Review: Those Spirited Strings and Other Things 2011-05-12T21:15:48Z

Rowlf later joined the menagerie on “The Muppet Show” — he was the group pianist — but on “The Jimmy Dean Show” he was the first Muppet to become a national television star. Jimmy Dean, Folksy Singer and Businesman, Dies at 81 2010-06-15T03:42:00Z

The Chinese pianist Yundi Li, popularly known simply as Yundi, let his hands drop dramatically from the keyboard after a powerful passage toward the end of Chopin's Ballade No. 4 in F Minor. Pianist Yundi leads with quiet force at Disney Hall 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

It was not easy to tell whether the equipment manipulated the piano, or the pianist manipulated the electronics. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Andras Schiff has been performing both as pianist and conductor with the New York Philharmonic this week, in a program including concertos by Bach and Schumann and orchestral works by Haydn and Bartok. Martha Memories: The Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments on YouTube 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

His mother, the former Lillian Taylor, was a pianist and choir director, and his father, Samuel Rivers, was a gospel singer. Sam Rivers, Jazz Musician, Dies at 88 2011-12-28T00:24:59Z

Among her frequent partners is Mr. Almazan, an ambitious Cuban pianist and composer, who joins her in duologue here. Jazz Listings for Aug. 8-14 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

I’m a little ashamed to admit I wasn’t entirely looking forward to the pianist Marc-André Hamelin’s recital on Monday evening at Zankel Hall. Music Review: A Lively Jaunt With Medtner, Schubert and Chopin 2014-01-28T22:04:04Z

“Green Book,” out Friday in Washington and select cities, stars Mahershala Ali as a concert pianist and Viggo Mortensen as the Bronx bouncer who drives him through the Deep South for a tour. Peter Farrelly made some pretty ‘dumb’ movies. So how did he end up directing a smart drama about racism? 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Everyone but the band’s leader had previously headlined at the club in his own right: the pianist Jason Moran, the guitarist Bill Frisell, the bassist Thomas Morgan and the drummer Brian Blade. Ron Miles Headlines the Village Vanguard, at Last, as the Club Reopens 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

He is a superb singing pianist in the urbane piano-bar tradition of Bobby Short. Review: Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano Croon at the Metropolitan Room 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

The series this summer, with six programs, kicks off on Wednesday night with the probing and elegant French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet playing Book II of Debussy’s Preludes. Mostly Mozart, Mostly Improved 2013-07-26T20:05:06Z

But the most glaring exception is pianist Stephen Hough, whose credentials as a composer shine ever brighter. Stephen Hough – review 2013-01-22T12:18:59Z

This year will mark the first season for pianist Jason Moran to lead the Kennedy Center's jazz programming. Kennedy Center plans Nordic arts festival in 2013 2012-03-06T16:52:10Z

Ms. Hannigan conquered its fierce challenges in a mesmerizing performance with the stalwart pianist Stephen Gosling. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

In commemoration, the virtuoso pianist Terry Waldo — who plays traditional repertoire with a kind of playful reverence — will lead a sextet through some of Joplin’s music. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

Pinderhughes is currently on his way to a Ph.D. in creative practice and critical inquiry from Harvard, where he studies under the pianist and scholar Vijay Iyer, who called him an “unstoppable creative force.” Samora Pinderhughes Explored Incarceration in Song. The Result Is ‘Grief.’ 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

The soloist was Beatrice Rana, a young Italian pianist who won the silver medal, and was the audience favorite, at the 2013 Van Cliburn Competition. Pinnock, Rana fill in admirably with L.A. Philharmonic 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Wadsworth would perform as pianist but especially relished his role as host of the concerts, for which “program notes” were dispensed orally from the stage. Colonial Roots at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C. 2010-05-30T22:11:00Z

Photograph: AP A celebrated Russian pianist and conductor was charged today in Thailand with molesting a 14-year-old boy after police raided the musician's home and found incriminating photographs. Mikhail Pletnev charged with child molesting in Thailand 2010-07-07T13:41:00Z

It was not enough, he realized, to sound like other pianists. George Shearing, ?Lullaby of Birdland? Jazz Virtuoso, Dies at 91 2011-02-14T18:49:32Z

Though under-hyped, Mr. Evans is a viable candidate for jazz’s most resourceful and invigorating contemporary pianist. Orrin Evans Has Been Playing Jazz for Years. So Why Is He a Rising Star? 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

The first movement of the Bartok concerto — which has its roots in a chamber version for pianists and percussionists — builds from a murmuring, mystic opening to riotous ensemble play. Review: Two Debuts Make for a Week of Philharmonic Firsts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

In one example, Maya wants to become a concert pianist, but genetic tests show a 30 percent risk of rheumatoid arthritis, which would cripple her career. Exhibition Review: ‘Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code,’ at the Smithsonian 2013-08-29T21:30:18Z

Easy to be cynical, except that they seem to be such interesting musicians — especially Isata, the eldest and a pianist. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The star pianist Daniil Trifonov’s playing, tasteful in the extreme, tips from elegance into grimness, but Goerne commits to its inspiration, singing Schumann’s cycle as a narrator already mourning a love he hasn’t lost yet. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

In the ’80s, Mr. Shearing also recorded unaccompanied; in duet with his fellow pianists Marian McPartland and Hank Jones; and in settings as uncharacteristic as a Dixieland band. George Shearing, ?Lullaby of Birdland? Jazz Virtuoso, Dies at 91 2011-02-14T18:49:32Z

Take the pianist Art Tatum; most of the body of work he did wasn't his own music, and yet it was totally his. Ahmad Jamal: 'After a time you discover the Mozart in you' 2013-02-01T05:00:00Z

It is now Eighth Blackbird, said Lisa Kaplan, a pianist and founding member, who said that the group decided to make the change last year while refreshing its image with a designer. where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

The first narrative takes its title from a Soviet pianist, Sviatoslav Richter, who was considered by some to be one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. This Week in Fiction: David Means on Stories of Homelessness 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

In “Music for a Summer Evening,” for two pianos and percussion, the musicians become celebrants in a mesmerizing ritual that requires the pianists to reach deep into the instrument’s strings. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

Schubert, though a gifted pianist, succumbed to the technical challenges of the “Wanderer,” his most symphonic and virtuosic piece for keyboard. Music Review: Paul Lewis Shows Schubert?s Depth at 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-10-19T22:26:57Z

The superstar pianist Lang Lang, who joined the ensemble on the tour, his first with Barenboim in a decade, said that it was difficult to see his longtime mentor in such a fragile state. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Then the pianist Aaron Diehl will be the soloist in Gershwin’s Concerto in F. The program ends with Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Piotr Anderszewski might be the most convincingly unconventional Bach pianist since Glenn Gould, and he has certainly taken a creative approach to his first, mesmerizing recording of preludes and fugues from “The Well-Tempered Clavier.” 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

There was no need to do anything, on this evening, other than sit back and appreciate whatever the pianist wanted to show us. The right Hough: Pianist delivers superb recital at Terrace Theater 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

She will be accompanied by the fine pianist Graham Johnson. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 24-30 2014-01-24T00:20:55Z

What a fine series the bargain-basement Peoples’ Symphony has put together this season, particularly in terms of leading pianists and string quartets. 8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

In classical music, for instance, the pianist Maurizio Pollini’s crystalline virtuosity in the studio doesn’t prepare a listener for the daring, even reckless feats of musical imagination on which he tests that virtuosity in concert. John Coltrane Live: A Playlist 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

His “San Jose Suite” explores connections among three cities with the same name — in California, Costa Rica and Trinidad — with musical partners including the saxophonist Brian Hogans and the pianist Victor Gould. Jazz Listings for June 24-30 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

On the other hand, Ma, who has been on the contemporary forefront of stretching the cello’s theatrical and repertory possibilities, remained conventional in a recital program with pianist Kathryn Stott that took no chances. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

In the last movement of George Antheil’s mechanistic First Violin Sonata, the pianist and violinist Andrew Tholl gave the impression of a violin trapped in the gears of a haunted, manic player piano. A different way to experience John Adams' music: Sitting onstage, next to the musicians 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

“I actually learned these pieces as a pianist because I experienced the works as ballets, which is crazy — totally the wrong way around,” he said, with a laugh. The Conductor Andrew Litton, Finding a Different Tempo 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Here she appears alongside Makhathini, a young pianist with a thriving career as both a sideman and a solo artist, always guided by an attentiveness to music’s potential for healing and renewal. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

And she has a serious connection to her band, spearheaded by the impeccable young pianist Aaron Diehl. Jazz Listings for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The piano takes center stage at the Mostly Mozart Festival, when two pianists known for their probing musicianship join the festival orchestra in some of Mozart’s most beloved concertos. Beloved Concertos at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

At 17, after a 10-day American tour performing as a pianist, she decided to defect. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z

This was the concert that pianist Orrin Evans put on Friday night at Bohemian Caverns. Pianist Orrin Evans and quartet shine at Bohemian Caverns

The Scottish pianist performed the two-hour-plus piano cycle without a break Sunday afternoon at a Phillips Collection concert at the nearby Cosmos Club. Review | A Messiaen marathon of strength and tenderness 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Enrolled at William Paterson University outside New York City, he took lessons with jazz master Terry and played in his touring band with gifted pianist Justin Kauflin, who lost his sight as a child. Jazz films explore the hell and joy of musical perfection 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The author, who plays a lot of bridge in Manhattan and is also a concert pianist, has nine chapters, a short concluding quiz and a glossary. Bridge: Bridge - Holiday Gift Books for Players 2012-11-11T23:32:14Z

The discography of the vocalist, pianist and composer Judith Berkson gives a hint to her range. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The highlight was Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, with the young Finnish pianist Antti Siirala in his New York orchestral debut. Music Review: At Mostly Mozart, Osmo Vanska and Antti Siirala 2010-08-15T22:23:00Z

From the start, the pianist seemed to challenge the orchestra to a musical duel, playing with concentrated energy that extended from the Steinway’s rumbling sonority to faint pinpricks of sound. Pianist Emanuel Ax, NSO woo Wolf Trap audience with Brahms 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Pollini had to cancel a recent, scheduled appearance with the New York Philharmonic, so keep everything crossed that this most eminent of pianists can make it this time. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Founded in 2013 by the pianist and conductor David Greilsammer, this ensemble has been winning over audiences, and shaking up classical music, in Europe. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Both her mother and sister were passionate amateur pianists. Shigeko Kubota, a Creator of Video Sculptures, Dies at 77 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Another member of the class of rising young Russian pianists, Matsuev brings both athleticism and power to Rachmaninoff, yet can add a jazz wrinkle to Lizst's Hungarian Rhapsody that will knock your socks off. 14 top arts picks for the week of Jan. 22 2012-01-18T23:48:05Z

The Guarneri Quartet was successful from the start, in both concert hall and studio – where it received a huge early boost through recordings with the veteran pianist Arthur Rubinstein. David Soyer obituary 2010-05-11T18:05:00Z

It was a technical feat for pianist Colin Fowler, but with the stage dimly lit, the dancers creeping slowly in black, and the music rumbling and deep-throated, a sense of laboriousness set in. The colorful restraint of the Mark Morris Dance Group 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

And the orchestra is creating a new position, artist in association, for the pianist Inon Barnatan, who will be featured in coming seasons. Dvorak, Honegger and Joan of Arc in Philharmonic’s 2014-15 Season 2014-01-22T17:00:00Z

This was less of a problem in the earlier pieces, where the cello part is often doubled by the pianist’s left hand. Mendelssohn Piano Trio Studies Beethoven at American Art Museum’s Steinway Series

Two pianists — Lennon Aldort and Jason Coult — have been filling in, but Canlis stresses that, just as new chefs have brought in new ideas, the priority is to do something different. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

But the pianist Stewart Goodyear intriguingly locates in all of them — as well as in two pieces by Goodyear himself, inspired by his Trinidadian roots — the fundamental influence of Liszt. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

If drummers are the engines of jazz, then pianists are often its mapmakers. Critic?s Notebook: Four Young Pianists on the Rise in the Jazz Scene 2011-10-06T22:37:04Z

The pianist spends a lot of time producing percussive effects, while the cellist is required to produce a whole range of precise microtonal pitches. Cage: Etudes Boreales; Harmonies; 10' 40.3" 2010-06-24T20:31:00Z

And Shai Wosner, the pianist, and the Parker Quartet will present two concerts titled “The Schubert Effect,” juxtaposing works by Schubert alongside works that he inspired. ArtsBeat: 92nd Street Y’s Lineup Includes Bach and Brahms 2014-02-27T23:00:42Z

“I was like, really?! This guy, a black concert pianist and the racist bouncer became friends? . . . That’s the thing that grabbed me.” Peter Farrelly made some pretty ‘dumb’ movies. So how did he end up directing a smart drama about racism? 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Over a simple sequence of diatonic chords, played with compassion by the pianist Kirill Kuzmin, Cooke describes a couple circling their feelings with an amber-toned voice suspended between tears and solace. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Gerstein has emerged in recent years as one of our most thoughtful pianists, beyond his immense technical ability, and this recital is a perfect example of his gift for programming. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

The pianist Ran Blake, now 80, was paying close attention back then, and knew Mr. Russell for a long time thereafter when they both taught at the New England Conservatory. Review: Ran Blake’s ‘Ghost Tones’ Connects With George Russell 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Urbach said Concerts for a Cure started its fundraising activities two years later after he met a 13-year-old patient, a pianist who couldn't practice because there was no piano on the hospital floor. Violin prodigy among Jefferson Awards recipients 2012-03-06T17:11:41Z

But a cadre of jazz musicians led by Albert Marquès, a pianist, composer and New York City schoolteacher, is convinced he is not guilty. Jazz Freed Keith LaMar’s Soul. Can It Help Him Get Off Death Row? 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

“The main idea is to bring inspiration to young pianists,” says Kaminska. Seattle International Piano Festival & Competition takes an inclusive approach 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

Her partner, now as then, was the pianist Lambert Orkis, and the evening was as much a testament to the longevity and sustained quality of their collaboration as to her individual artistry. Music Review: Anne-Sophie Mutter Returns to Carnegie Hall 2013-12-16T23:36:52Z

The French pianist Alfred Cortot dismissed these pieces as pianistic exercises. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z

As if to underscore that idea, Mr. Peterson includes three compositions by the hard-bop pianist Walter Davis Jr., who filled that role in his own development in the early 1980s. Review: Ralph Peterson Jr. Powers a Runaway Freight Train 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

More than 250 items belonging to the pianist, songwriter and bandleader are headed for auction. Duke Ellington's suits, piano and other belongings are heading for auction 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

And in a showpiece like the “Paganini Variations,” which the pianist Garrick Ohlsson performs on Oct. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

It opens with the American premiere of Hannah Kendall’s “Kanashibari,” then the formidable pianist Steven Osborne is the soloist in Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 before Ravel’s colorful, enchanting “Mother Goose” Suite. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in February 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

His name, rendered prominently, overshadows that of his pianist, Enrico Pace, demurely inserted below. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace in Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2014-03-03T22:56:20Z

Her excellent band, led by the pianist Ted Rosenthal, confidently followed her from genre to genre on Sunday, offering especially rich support in several Brazilian-flavored numbers. Ann Hampton Callaway Performs at 54 Below 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

The concert's first half — a solo recital by virtuoso pianist Taylor — featured three pieces by America's first great concert pianist, Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Jacaranda unleashes a tribute to composer John Adams that goes a little bit 'Berserk' 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

And the pianist skillfully refined his touch to convey Beethoven’s chaotic outbursts or reflect his withdrawals into solemn introspection. John O’Conor performs at Catholic University for International Piano Festival

He usually performs with a poplike band, but here — as on some similar recent engagements — he pares down to a duo format with Mr. Willis, a soulful American pianist with whom he has some history. Jazz Listings for March 14-20 2014-03-13T22:45:44Z

And on “Show Us the Way,” the pianist Cameron Graves pounds a pattern distinctly reminiscent of his old part in “Change of the Guard.” Kamasi Washington, Still in an Epic Mind-Set on ‘Heaven and Earth’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

The Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki joins the Orpheus players for Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a piece that they released on record, to some effect, in February. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Strauss, a complete musician, excelled as a composer, conductor and pianist. Richard Strauss Recordings Recommended by Critics 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

A brief, intriguing recital presented on Thursday evening by Mikhail Rudy, a Russian pianist born in Uzbekistan and based in France since the 1970s, managed to be both at once. Music Review: Mikhail Rudy in ‘Pictures at an Exhibition,’ at the Guggenheim 2012-09-29T01:39:38Z

Denis Linnik, 26, a pianist from Belarus, said that in the weeks before the competition, he was reading news about the war around the clock, using his phone up to 12 hours a day. Russian and Ukrainian Pianists Meet in Texas at Cliburn Competition 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

She began her musical studies, as a pianist, when she was 5, and played a recital at Town Hall when she was 13. Joan Peyser, Bernstein and Gershwin Biographer, Dies at 80 2011-04-25T14:54:51Z

All of this contributed to his accomplishment as a solo pianist. Ray Bryant, Jazz Pianist, Dies at 79 2011-06-04T04:45:24Z

Horace Silver, a pianist, composer and bandleader who was one of the most popular and influential jazz musicians of the 1950s and ’60s, died on Wednesday at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y. Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The arrangements by her brilliant pianist, Yasuhiko Fukuoka, found a seamless blend of folk, classical, blues and vaudeville styles. Review: Stacy Sullivan Performs an Act of Remembrance 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Earlier Ms. Luecker proved a straightforward and sensitive pianist who brought lyrical grace and clarity to Mozart’s Sonata in C minor. Music Review: Improvisation, as Well as Intensity 2011-07-21T21:52:10Z

She collapsed into giggles when wrestling to pull a robe over her shoulders while speaking, and improvised a subtle way to call the pianist, Joe Iconis, over to help her put it on. Talking About Her Love of McCullers 2011-04-27T16:06:15Z

Ranked among the world’s foremost pianists, Ms. Engerer was better known in Europe than in North America. Brigitte Engerer, French Pianist, Dies at 59 2012-06-30T03:39:20Z

That evening he would perform at a gala for the David Lynch Foundation, along with the pianist Herbie Hancock, his former partner in the Miles Davis Quintet. Wayne Shorter’s New Album Is ‘Without a Net’ 2013-01-31T17:38:26Z

A Venezuelan conductor and Chinese pianist, the two greatest classical superstars of their generation, played two much-loved Russian symphonic works of the late 19th century. At the Hollywood Bowl, Gustavo Dudamel and Lang Lang do their bit for cultural healing 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Partly because we know so little of her back story, she comes across as an icon, and is the musician whom the film’s protagonist, the pianist Joe Gardner, most wants to play with and emulate. Why Is It So Hard to Show Black Women’s Musical Genius Onscreen? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi once called Mr. Napoleon “the most exciting pianist the All Stars ever had. No one else could quite pound the piano like that and send the audience into such a frenzy.” Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Thanks to Adam Stern — a conductor, pianist, composer and lecturer — and the advent of electronic notation, however, the family was able to hear the Mass for the first time, and realized it was indeed performable. A 190-year-old score, written in Prague and locked in a wooden box, gets its world premiere 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Indeed, throughout the 1960s, the pianist was writing pieces with this same kind of fast, dancing melody, and a similar balancing act between swing and straight rhythms. Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Ravel’s “La Valse” and Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” frame a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring the formidable pianist Maria João Pires as soloist. Classical Music Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hamlisch had a long association with Barbra Streisand that began when, at 19, he became a rehearsal pianist for her show “Funny Girl.” Marvin Hamlisch, Composer, Dies at 68 2012-08-07T20:00:07Z

His wife of almost 30 years filed for divorce in 2009, and Gibson fathered a daughter later that year with his girlfriend, a Russian pianist. Moviegoers not eager to see Mel Gibson's "Beaver" 2011-05-08T21:45:53Z

She was a classically trained pianist, but her work also drew upon jazz, gospel, the blues, folk and European art songs. Books of The Times: Under a Strange, Soulful Spell 2010-02-19T05:52:00Z

The latter two feature a perennial Seattle favorite, pianist Marc-André Hamelin, first as a soloist and then as part of a four-piano ensemble for a wedding ballet. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

This time the soloist was Beatrice Rana, a 24-year-old Italian pianist who asks for no license whatsoever. A little Russian diplomacy saves the day at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Ruggedly experimental free-jazz, classical, South African townships bop, Hammond-organ blues – Oxford pianist Hawkins splices it all, with idiosyncratic tributes to Thelonious Monk and Art Tatum thrown in. Best jazz albums of 2012 2012-12-13T22:01:22Z

Cellist Edward Arron and pianist Jeewon Park — a festival newcomer — will no doubt bring a special musical rapport to the work, as the two are husband and wife. Seattle Chamber Music Society winter festival starts with a big Lizst 2011-01-19T22:48:05Z

“By general consent,” wrote pianist Charles Rosen, “Mozart’s greatest achievement in chamber music is the group of string quintets with two violas.” Musicians at Marlboro provide lovely reading of Mozart 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

His engaging new album, “Space Squid,” spotlights the same longtime band joining him at the Village Vanguard, with the tenor and soprano saxophonist Seamus Blake, the pianist Bill Carrothers and the bassist Ben Street. Jazz Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

In 2017, the pianist Matt Mitchell reinterpreted items from Berne’s catalog on the album “Forage.” 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

To listen to the pianist Paul Lewis’s new album of late Brahms, you would think these pieces had been written just after the last sonatas of Schubert, which Lewis has recorded with wrenching restraint. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

With a foot in every door, he found his way to an entire population of professional pianists who played “Santa Fe style,” a local variant of the roadhouse style known as “fast western piano.” Mack McCormick, Student of Texas Blues, Dies at 85 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

Other collaborators over the years included Jones, saxophonist and band­leader Benny Carter, drummer Buddy Rich, pianist Thelonious Monk, and trumpet and flugelhorn master Clark Terry. Phil Woods, celebrated alto saxophonist in jazz, dies at 83 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

It’s a streamlined concert reading, with eight actors, one pianist and no scenery. Theater Review: ‘Around the World,’ a Concert Reading at the Mint 2013-12-08T19:54:24Z

To try out the first batch, Gershon came up with the idea of using a sequence of four pianists who have a connection to Adams, the Master Chorale or both. John Adams' operatic essence and Stravinsky's inner pagan revealed through pianos and chorus 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Her mother was a pianist and a singer who performed in the Cincinnati area. Gail Cornell, Thomas Harritt 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

But the focus, as the title suggested, was on jazz pianists - with whom she would often duet live on air. Jazz pianist Marian McPartland dies 2013-08-22T10:30:31Z

A Long Island native, Haim started as a classical pianist, attending Manhattan School of Music preparatory division, entering competitions, giving recitals. The stop-start career of Seattle choreographer Mark Haim 2012-03-21T21:35:03Z

A consummate pianist best known for his Bach and Classical-era repertory, he appealed to the chamber orchestra’s generally conservative subscriber base. Jeffrey Kahane leaves L.A. Chamber Orchestra as master musician and mensch 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

It features touches reminiscent of the flamboyant pianist, including chandeliers, a mirror bar etched with Liberace's signature, and a room with tile piano keys in the floor. Liberace's one-time Vegas mansion sells for $500K 2013-08-29T20:15:41Z

One of jazz's most respected pianists, Allen's been a major creative force for nearly 30 years, both as a bandleader and collaborative muse to jazz giants such as Ornette Coleman, Charles Lloyd and Betty Carter. Pianist Geri Allen brings her Tribute to Eric Dolphy to Seattle's Jazz Alley 2010-09-16T22:22:00Z

They were about to play their blues theme to close out the first set when Holt prodded the pianist. In the year jazz went avant-garde, Ramsey Lewis went pop with a bang 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

He studied piano, chamber music and composition in Budapest, where he met his wife, also a pianist. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

The Classical Style was hailed by many, won the National Book award for arts and letters in 1972 and immediately put Rosen the pianist in the shade. Charles Rosen obituary 2012-12-10T18:13:31Z

The master pianist Erroll Garner was known for his plush, fluent harmonies and his lilting fluidity. The Playlist: Zayn’s Bizarrely Great Sleaze Rock and 13 More New Songs 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

The drummer Louis Hayes arrived in New York in 1956 after answering a call from Horace Silver, the pianist and composer. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

One thing that distinguishes the subtle Benjamin Grosvenor, 28, from the rest of the pack of young star pianists is his extensive knowledge of historical recordings. A Young Pianist Learns Liszt From Listening 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Butler, 64, is a pianist and singer, born in New Orleans, who’s a virtuoso of that city’s traditions, all the way back to Jelly Roll Morton. Music Review: Henry Butler With Steve Bernstein at the Jazz Standard 2014-01-02T22:31:14Z

Mr. Alexander, a tenor saxophonist with a taste for smartly surging hard bop, has a productive history with Mr. Mabern, a well-traveled and soulful pianist. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

But the pianist didn’t release an album as a bandleader during his lifetime — and in fact, only ever appeared on that one studio album — making him more of a jazz-world footnote than a household name. The Pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali’s Lone Album Arrives, 56 Years Later 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

She’ll present a single new commission for two wildly different ensembles this weekend, starting on Friday with two close partners, the guitarist Mary Halvorson and the pianist Kris Davis. Jazz Listings for July 31-Aug. 6 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

The composer and pianist Fazil Say appeared in court on charges of blasphemy and insulting religious values because of a tweet he sent. London Book Fair: Elif Shafak on Turkey's progress 2013-04-12T15:00:02Z

Mr. Morrissey’s current quartet features Mr. Lewis along with the pianist Aaron Parks and the drummer Mark Guiliana, and their rapport runs casual yet deep. New Music: Marc Anthony Returns to Salsa; Chris Morrissey Crosses Lines 2013-07-22T21:41:19Z

Getting the notes right — a challenge for even the most experienced pianists — is just the beginning. Leif Ove Andsnes on Chopin’s Ballades, ‘the Peak of Romantic Piano Music’ 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Over four decades, this 65-year-old pianist and composer worked to become the most popular Japanese musician in the West. With Cancer in the Past, Ryuichi Sakamoto Returns to His Calling 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

And the Hot 9, jointly led by the pianist Henry Butler and the trumpeter Steven Bernstein, puts a freewheeling and often funky spin on throwback jazz traditionalism. Jazz Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Russian news agencies quoted Petrov's spokesman as saying the pianist died Wednesday afternoon. Russian pianist Petrov dies at 68 2011-08-03T16:43:12Z

Yet pianist Josh Moshier pulled it off Monday night at the Chicago Cultural Center, his new opus evoking Terkel's work in extraordinarily subtle ways. The spirit of Studs Terkel expressed in jazz 2011-01-25T15:10:16Z

To my mind Schiff is the finest Hungarian pianist since Bartók, and outdoes even Bartok in his rhythmic acuity and staggering color palate. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

On the heels of winning the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition last year, the Korean pianist played an outstanding recital Wednesday at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, presented by Washington Performing Arts. Review | Korean pianist shows there is musical life beyond winning competitions 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

When they're forced to separate, Eurídice must pursue her dream of becoming a renowned pianist on her own, but the sisters never give up trying to reunite. Something for everyone: The best movies to stream in April 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

After he graduated in 1944, he paid his way through Colorado College as a pianist and newscaster for the station. Max Morath, Pianist Who Staged a One-Man Ragtime Revival, Dies at 96 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z

It deserves a few days rest, as do the young pianists from Yale. Music Review: Prokofiev?s Piano Sonatas From Yale in New York 2011-12-12T23:29:39Z

That morning, the collaborators arrived at a new, less “arbitrary” transition between the two parts of ”Why?,” which is performed by a cast of three and a pianist. For Peter Brook, the Experimental Showman, ‘Nothing Is Ever Finished’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

And on Dec. 27, the Russian pianist Katya Grineva will play a selection of Bach, Tchaikovsky and other greats in “A Classical Holiday.” A Guide to New York Holiday Events: Trains, Nutcrackers and a 79-Foot Tree 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

The pianist and conductor Horace Tapscott was a legend in Los Angeles. 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

His mother was a talented musician, but had abandoned the attempt to establish herself as a concert pianist. John Barry obituary 2011-01-31T15:01:24Z

The intensity of that passion is exemplified by a scene of Mr. Feinstein, better known as a singer and pianist than as an archivist, bristling with indignation as he stands on a Los Angeles freeway. | 'Michael Feinsten?s American Songbook': Saving Old Scores From Pop?s Dustbin 2010-10-05T21:54:00Z

Beethoven’s last sonata, which eludes pianists three times Trifonov’s age, will be tougher still. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 5-Dec.11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

His character’s flat is decorated with paintings and a piano — Hopkins himself is a painter and pianist — and even the character’s wardrobe reflects the actor’s sartorial preferences. Anthony Hopkins is welcoming old age by embracing his inner child 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

In between, the brilliant pianist Stephen Hough is the soloist in the Schumann Piano Concerto. Classical Music Listings for March 18-24 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

“Transcendence” includes a small contingent of guests — notably the pianist Geri Allen and several members of Mr. Brown’s family — but Tuesday’s show, presented by Revive Music Group, was more tightly drawn. Music Review: Jaimeo Brown at Drom 2013-05-16T21:48:50Z

This year’s free memorial program presents the violinist Mark Peskanov; the pianist and composer David Bottoms; the String Orchestra of Brooklyn; and others in works by Bach, Barber, Beethoven and more. A Sept. 11 Memorial at Bargemusic and a Juilliard Faculty Show 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

There never seemed to be perfect agreement between Mr. Buchbinder and the conductorless Orpheus players, particularly about tempos, and neither pianist nor orchestra often veered from a blandly middle-of-the-road speed or volume. Music in Review 2011-03-21T22:54:38Z

These days playing the Chopin études with comfort is practically an entry-level requirement for membership in the ranks of professional pianists. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

Vikingur Olafsson calls it “a workaholic’s sabbatical”: The Icelandic pianist, 39, is dedicating almost all his performances this season to Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. The Pianist Vikingur Olafsson on ‘History’s Greatest Keyboard Work’ 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z

The pianist acknowledged Schubert's few stormy moods and playfulness, but for 35 timeless minutes the pin remained rooted and the angels unruffled. Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov creates a sensation in his L.A. recital debut at Disney Hall 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

The pianist Emanuel Ax distinguished himself in the solo part, which, on its surface, might not seem very hard. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z

Davis’s speeches are heard throughout this 2022 work, performed at the Joyce Theater, but better is its sparkling score by the jazz pianist Jason Moran. Review: A Dance Searching for Harmony in an Unequal World 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

At any given moment, there is an “it” pianist, young and blazingly talented, whom the whole world is clamoring to hear. Review | Pianist Daniil Trifonov’s star continues to rise 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Now the score he used while making the 1981 recording has resurfaced, offering clues about the creative process of one of the most original pianists of the 20th century. Glenn Gould’s Bach Score Surfaces, Scrawls and All 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Three of the string players were joined by the pianist Bishara Harouni for Mahler's Quartet Movement in A minor, and they enjoyed its muscular, lyrical romanticism. Berlin Philharmonic residency ? review 2011-02-21T00:54:14Z

Other cool careers included pianist, wrestler and Lego designer. October’s class: Yu Ying second-graders 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

In a series of three programs presented by Carnegie Hall, the thoughtful young American pianist Jonathan Biss explores “The Late Style,” that is, music written late in life by various composers. Classical Works From the Winter of Life, at Carnegie Hall 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

The festival’s current offerings, under the artistic direction of the composer and pianist Marc Neikrug, are varied and enticing: 41 programs and 5 youth concerts; some 100 musicians playing nearly 90 works. Music Review: Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico 2012-07-29T20:46:59Z

There are techniques that teach pianists to drop loose arms, almost like dead weights, into thick chords, to let body mass fortify the sound. For Glenn Gould, Form Followed Fingers 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z

What emerged from Saturday’s solo recital was a portrait of a remarkable but still developing pianist. French pianist Lucas Debargue makes his East Coast debut 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Deftly improvising ingenious figures with his right hand while punching out rumbling bass lines with his left, he managed to evoke boogie-woogie pianists like Meade Lux Lewis and beboppers like Bud Powell simultaneously. Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The Brown family pianists will introduce Nico Muhly's "The Edge of the World," for orchestra and five pianos, on Aug. 19. Ravinia spices up summer 2011-03-09T22:42:00Z

PBS' "American Masters" series airs this documentary about the classical pianist. Monday TV Pick: 'Glenn Gould: Genius Within' on PBS 2010-12-23T20:15:13Z

On the face of it, this is an odd duo, but Mr. Bell, the lyrical, pristine violinist, and Mr. Denk, a cheeky and offbeat pianist, make for a fine partnership. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

The Philharmonic percussionists held their own impressively among the Russian pianists and choristers. Music Review: Mariinsky Choristers in ?Russian Stravinsky? 2010-04-25T22:11:00Z

Much of the choreography ignored this new production’s best part: its soulful commissioned score by the jazz composer and pianist Jason Moran, who performed live on Wednesday. Review: Exploring Nature and Nightlife at Martha Graham 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Then the eminent pianist Leon Fleisher joins the ensemble for a rarity: Korngold’s Suite for Piano Left-Hand, Two Violins and Cello. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 14-20 2014-03-13T22:51:05Z

Its guides — all vetted by SideTour staff — include authors, artists, musicians, professional chefs, bartenders and restaurateurs, a farmer, a monk, a concert pianist and a handbag designer. Practical Traveler: Click Here for an Offbeat Experience 2012-07-04T14:07:40Z

In this “Live From Lincoln Center” presentation, the Chinese pianist Lang Lang performs a love letter to New York, his adoptive home, with compositions that helped make the city famous. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life’ and ‘Lang Lang’s New York Rhapsody’ 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

On Dec. 19, the pianist will perform a holiday tribute to Charlie Brown at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center on the campus of Cal State Long Beach. 'The Peanuts Movie': Jazz pianist David Benoit provides musical rhythm 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

At one point, Lark gripes that people who settle long term for stodgily traditional gender roles, and shun the full spectrum of possibilities, resemble “a talented pianist who uses their piano as a laundry rack.” Review | Round House delivers knockout production of drag queens and disco in ‘Georgia’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

But why did Joey Alexander, the adorable and astonishingly skilled 15-year-old pianist from Indonesia, play original compositions with almost none of the three title elements? Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

The center also has a strong contingent of pianists this year. Music: Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood 2010-08-17T22:36:00Z

He was a skilled pianist and in 2010 released an album of his own works, “Contemplations & Remembrances.” Lance Reddick, Star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick,’ Dies at 60 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

Over in the sitting room, pianist Rei Williams filled the air with tunes such as "Wind Beneath My Wings" and "Moon River." Zsa Zsa kept behind closed doors at birthday party 2012-02-07T15:45:22Z

Mr. Evans is a pugnacious, intuitive jazz pianist who has long divided his time between New York and his native Philadelphia. The Playlist: Bruno Mars Gives His Funk a Flashy Makeover 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

His legal biography adds that “in his spare time, Paul is a keen pianist.” 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

One of his inspirations has been Andrew Hill, whom he admires not just as a composer but as a pianist in the Thelonious Monk tradition. Critic?s Notebook: Four Young Pianists on the Rise in the Jazz Scene 2011-10-06T22:37:04Z

Stone does all he can to disguise such lapses; his performances with pianist Sholto Kynoch are models of discretion, with just occasional lapses of intonation to disturb their poise. The Complete John Ireland Songbook: Volume 1 – review 2013-07-11T21:30:00Z

The legendary jazz pianist turns 90 tomorrow and the event was marked by not one suitably sycophantic interview but two – with Jamie Cullum on Radio 2 and Paul Gambaccini on Radio 4. Rewind radio: Jamie Cullum Interviews Dave Brubeck; Brubeck at 90; David Walliams on Philip Larkin; Decoding Basquiat; Ernest John Moraen 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Ray Charles was one such artist, finding his way into the industry first as a bebop pianist on the Jackson Street scene in postwar Seattle. Seattle’s jazz scene spawned a number of this year’s Grammy nominees 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

The recital opened and closed with two works for cello and piano by jazz composers, “Tango Bittersweet” by Mr. Hersch, a pianist known for his improvisations, and “Spin” by Mr. Byron, the clarinetist. Music Review: Wendy Sutter and Olga Vinokur Perform at Bargemusic 2013-07-15T21:40:35Z

Composer, conductor, arranger, pianist, television personality, star, Bernstein — a Jew, crucially, just a few years after the Holocaust — marched Mahler back into Vienna, a second wave of liberation, a musical Marshall Plan. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

The music moves through different moods and configurations, with chamber ensembles giving way to massive outbursts by the orchestra — stocked with two pianists — and chorus. Review: Berlioz, Rendered Newly Audacious at Carnegie Hall 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

These pieces are technically demanding but hardly ever explosive, and though pianists are fascinated by their difficult figuration and their constant hand-crossing, their real charm is in their gracefully winding melodies. Music Review: Nikolai Lugansky Performs at the Metropolitan Museum 2010-05-24T22:55:00Z

Not to be missed at the Metropolitan Room is the final performance of the pianist Jon Weber’s phenomenal one-man show, “From Joplin to Jarrett: 115 Years of Piano Jazz,” on Tuesday at 7 p.m.; Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The fast-paced show was buoyed by a five-member band whose arrangements by the musical director and pianist Joseph Thalken featured accordion and solo violin, lending the music the ambience of a ’30s European hotel orchestra. Patti LuPone in ‘Faraway Places Part Two’ at 54 Below 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

Set in Philadelphia, the film opens in 1988 with the grisly deaths of a steak-slinging diner cook, a concert pianist and a bus driver. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ and ‘Donnie Brasco’ 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

For one thing, it’s the devil to play, requiring the pianist to depress the keys with a 14¾-inch piece of wood in the second movement and featuring a brief flute solo in the last. CD review: ‘Concord’ Sonata by pianist Alexei Lubimov 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Années de Pèlerinage is a huge challenge for any pianist, and given that many players also avoid the late, controversial third book, complete recordings are comparatively rare. Liszt: Ann?es de P?lerinage ? review 2011-04-07T21:15:00Z

Outwardly, Adès is a burly pianist with massive technique and magnificent sound for whom the keyboard seems a way to indulge in an appetite of sensuous pleasures. Spectacular start to Piano Spheres' 21st season 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Silver, who started as a saxophonist, reinvented himself as a pianist with Stan Getz and went on to join Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers collective, representing, to me, legacy, hope and potential. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

Not so long ago, the first thing to say about the jazz singer and pianist Freddy Cole was that he had a sound and identity apart from his incandescently famous brother Nat King Cole. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

When he went over to it, I thought, "of course, he's an excellent pianist, this guy is remarkably suave at all times". ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 9: Lessons to Be Learned 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

Bach is a world — and pianist Simone Dinnerstein is one of its most celebrated and, to a few cranky listeners, controversial inhabitants at the moment. Pianist Simone Dinnerstein brings her brand of Bach to Seattle 2011-01-06T22:08:07Z

“The unionization of music in the United States has a mixed history,” says Ted Gioia, a music historian, jazz pianist and former corporate executive. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z

He is a pianist who abhors silence the way nature abhors a vacuum and will do almost anything to avoid it, be it with finger or pedal. Review | Murray Perahia recital packed with canonic masterpieces, to uneven effect 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

When I was the house pianist at Ronnie Scott's in the 1960s, the star American soloists came over without their own bands, and we all had to do the best we could. Corinne Bailey Rae, Sir Mark Elder and other musicians' greatest on-stage moments 2010-08-05T20:30:00Z

Meanwhile, "100 Years Ago" shimmers in its early demo configuration, with Jagger delivering his lead vocals against a wistful piano performance from Nicky Hopkins, arguably the finest rock session pianist of his generation. Inside the remastered "Goats Head Soup," the end of an era for the Rolling Stones 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

To a professional pianist the practice diary induces exquisite agony, as the Titanic inches in slow motion towards the iceberg of performance. Play It Again by Alan Rusbridger – review 2013-01-20T06:00:01Z

“As a technician, I’m kind of all that’s between pianists and their performance,” he said. Why Do Pianists Know So Little About Pianos? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The presence of a fine pianist, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet as soloist in the Beethoven, was not enough to lure me to that concert. A Bracing Breath of Spring Air From All Directions 2011-04-29T16:17:11Z

Wang will also appear in recital in the Seattle Symphony Distinguished Artists series, as will pianist Simon Trpceski and violinist Pinchas Zukerman. Yuja Wang, Yo-Yo Ma to appear in SSO’s 2014-15 season 2014-01-22T23:55:38Z

As guests flooded into the theater, a pianist played Disney tunes. El Capitan gives power to the people in 'Little Mermaid' costumes 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

Now with TEN, their new trio with the virtuoso trumpeter and sometime pianist Nicholas Payton, they seem on their way to becoming one of jazz’s great working bands. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

On Saturday two dynamic musicians, the British violinist Daniel Hope and the pianist Wu Han, play together. The Week Ahead: Dec. 5-11 2010-12-03T15:15:00Z

The junior version is for pianists ages 13 to 17. Kazakhstani teen wins inaugural Cliburn Junior piano competition 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

She has also, as she told the pianist Kirill Gerstein in a recent online conversation, spent those years honing her own kind of harmony, free from the restrictions of her serialism-era education. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

The two pianists shared one instrument for a richly hued, glowing interpretation of Schubert’s Fantasie in F minor. 2010-02-15T22:28:00Z

Williams and the great avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor were mutual admirers until she organized a joint concert at Carnegie Hall in 1977. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

And he did just that, and came to Seattle not long after earning his master’s in piano performance from UCLA, where he was the rehearsal pianist for its opera productions. future maestros and mezzos at the Seattle Opera 2013-03-29T21:13:56Z

The first thing the classical pianist James Rhodes does after sitting down is to order a decaffeinated coffee. James Rhodes: 'I hate the term "classical music"' 2011-01-23T00:05:24Z

Both “Symphonic Variations” and “The Concert” featured the treasured Washington pianist Glenn Sales. Review | Washington Ballet’s ‘Mixed Masters’ program marks growth of company 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

A sense of resignation and acceptance pervades the triptych of sonatas that he completed in 1822, given majestic, profound readings by the pianist Richard Goode on Wednesday evening at Carnegie Hall. Music Review: Richard Goode at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-03T22:16:10Z

You also need a pianist skilled at projecting on the concert stage, not one who is ideal for rehearsal. John Adams' operatic essence and Stravinsky's inner pagan revealed through pianos and chorus 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

And it’s a well-plotted tribute that does justice to a composer, conductor, pianist and theorist whose influence looms peerlessly large over the past half-century of music. Review: A Pierre Boulez Tribute, Eight Months Late 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

“Our pianist is at lunch, I’ll have to play for you,” he told her. Get Out of My Light, Honey. I’m Auditioning Here. 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

Critics found that many of these young pianists had “competition chops” but not much else to offer. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

The show will kick off a series of arts programs for the network this fall, including performances from Alvin Ailey's Dance Theater and pianist Lang Lang. AP NewsBreak: PBS 'Hamilton' to have 15 minutes of show 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Early in the ceremony, the London singer and pianist Benjamin Clementine performed the song ‘Fare Thee Well’ from Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coens’ folk drama which took the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2013. Cannes 2015: Jacques Audiard's Dheepan surprise winner of Palme d'Or 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

The festival’s Prestige Series presents pianists at 6 p.m. most days this week, followed by Master Series recitals at 8:30. Classical: A Festival Tunes Up for Recitals Galore 2013-07-12T18:00:31Z

Fitzgerald is reunited here with the pianist Paul Smith, one of her favorite accompanists, who hadn’t been on the 1961 tour. The Special Place Where Ella Fitzgerald Comes Alive 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

A New York City summer institution about to begin its 30th season, the festival has always found good use for that setup, drafting an impressive roster of jazz pianists into the service of musical dialogue. Jazz in July Celebrates 30th Season at 92nd Street Y 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

I thought that if he knew I was also a pianist, he might trust me more. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The opening scene shows a convocation of young musicians, including the pianist Robert Glasper and the trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, assembling in a studio. ‘Blue Note Records’ Review: A Smart, Exhilarating Look at an Influential Label 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

But Richard Bonynge, a pianist, coach and conductor she met as a fellow student at London's Royal College of Music, pushed her into coloratura repertory. Obituary: Soprano Joan Sutherland was opera legend 2010-10-12T03:18:00Z

The work, written in 1862, is a virtuosic collage of tunes including “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “Yankee Doodle” that calls on the pianist to imitate the sounds of pealing bells and a military snare drum. Review: ‘American Visions,’ a Graceful Take on Race, Patriotism and Longing 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

But the real highlight here is pianist Billy Kyle, whose splashy solos on “Perdido” and “Tenderly” are worth the price of the album. Jazz it up on Record Store Day Black Friday 2019 with these special albums 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Yet Davis pointed to another blind pianist from Georgia, Ray Charles — who, when he expressed himself through involuntary physical mannerisms, was “taken as the ultimate in rock ’n’ roll hip.” He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

There were only two relatively short contemporary works in the remarkable recital performed by the tenor Ian Bostridge and the composer and pianist Thomas Adès on Monday night at Carnegie Hall. Music Review: Ian Bostridge and Thomas Ad?s at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-29T23:23:51Z

Finny finds refuge at the home of her effusive neighbor, Earl, and his father, a narcoleptic pianist. New Books by Ivan Doig, Ayelet Waldman and Lily King 2010-07-14T22:50:00Z

Brahms wrote two piano concertos, which offer riches enough for most pianists. Prom 37: BBCPhil/Lazic/Sinaisky - review 2011-08-12T10:37:25Z

The pianist was performing in China last month, and from there he answered some questions about the upcoming concert and his new CD by email. 2013 SSO opener: Lang Lang, Morlot, Prokofiev are the stars 2013-09-13T14:01:09Z

This 29-year-old pianist’s lush garden of influences hardly clutters his direct relationship to the jazz tradition. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Clara Schumann, a celebrity pianist of her era, and a composer in her own right, will be represented by her Op. Byron Schenkman & Friends present the poetry of Schumann, played and sung 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

“A lot of the old-school local musicians were still alive,” he said, recalling figures like the trumpeter Robert Porter and the pianist Ed Kelly. Music: For a Team Player, the Solo Moments Are Secondary 2011-04-01T21:46:41Z

The concert, at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, featured Yarn/Wire, an ensemble made up of two percussionists and two pianists. Review: Yarn/Wire Mesmerizes at Lincoln Center Festival 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Caitlin Horrocks explores that question in her new novel “The Vexations,” a book principally narrated by the composer’s sister Louise, herself a fine pianist whose ambitions were thwarted by a misogynist father. Review | ‘The Vexations’ revisits the eccentric life of composer Erik Satie 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

The pianist turns 90 on Monday and Arena was an affectionate distillation of his life, times and music. TV review: Peep Show and Arena: Dave Brubeck in His Own Sweet Way 2010-12-03T23:00:00Z

And the pianist Christian Sands, 28, a habitual McBride sideman, led his own slashing quartet, delivering airtight compositions and punctilious improvising. Newport Jazz Festival Begins a New Era, With History as a Guide 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Schiff is a magnificent pianist, and these performances were profoundly illuminating. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Most notably, Dave mentioned the sketches that Bill Murray would do, where he played the sleazy lounge performer and I would appear as the pianist. Paul Shaffer, 'Late Show' Bandleader, on Saying Goodbye to Letterman After 33 Years 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

The program’s opener was a spirited and subtle performance of the Debussy Violin Sonata in G Minor by violinist Benjamin Beilman and pianist Orion Weiss. What’s it like watching world premiere concerts online? 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

The family of the real-life black pianist at the center of “Green Book” have said his portrayal, by supporting actor front-runner Mahershala Ali, contained inaccuracies. Topsy-turvy season gives Oscars a best picture cliffhanger 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Created with the pianist and composer Conrad Tao, “More Forever” now returns to the Guggenheim for its official premiere. This Week in Arts: Roy Hargrove, Caleb Teicher, Prototype Festival 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Its revered leader, the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, resigned in January after three decades in charge because of health problems. Christian Thielemann to Succeed Daniel Barenboim at Berlin State Opera 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z

In the fourth section, the flutist twirled and skipped in dancing interplay with the pianist's accelerating ostinato rhythm. Frank's energetic chamber works reveal multi-cultural roots 2011-01-19T16:19:49Z

On Tuesday five impressive pianists played eight works. Music Review: Pianists Embracing the New 2011-05-25T21:52:25Z

The orchestra sounded terrific on Thursday at Carnegie Hall, in a concert highlighted by an uncommonly sensitive performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, with the pianist Jan Lisiecki. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Music From Vienna 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The viola takes center stage on Sunday when the violist Marcus Thompson and the pianist Doris Stevenson perform works by Vivaldi, Schubert, Weber and Shostakovich. Classical & Opera Listings for June 26-July 2 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The power of Gershwin’s terrifying and inventive music came through, even when played by just a rehearsal pianist in the pit. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The singer/actor, known as the irascible physician on Fox's drama "House," is a predominantly self-taught pianist. Ticket alert: Hugh Laurie to play in Seattle 2012-01-20T23:53:04Z

On Tuesday night, Washington Performing Arts presented Bell and his accompanist, pianist Sam Haywood, in more predictable surroundings — the Kennedy Center. Violinist Joshua Bell meets his match in pianist Sam Haywood 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Scott Wheeler was less concerned about sounding contemporary in the selections from “Portraits and Tributes” that the pianist Olga Vinokur offered. Music Review: An Extravagant Farewell to Summer 2010-09-03T22:47:00Z

Curtis had trained to be a classical pianist, but that dream dissipated before she could launch her career. 'Ladies of the Canyons' tells the story of extraordinary women who blossomed in the Southwest 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

From the mid-1950s to the 1970s, Seymour Bernstein was a celebrated pianist, but he quit nearly 40 years ago. 10 Questions With Ethan Hawke 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The film also sparked controversy months ago when relatives of the pianist at the center of the story, Don Shirley, complained his depiction in the movie contained inaccuracies. 'Ref made a bad call,' Spike Lee says of 'Green Book' award 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

On Thursday two young talents — the violinist Benjamin Beilman and the pianist Andrew Tyson — come together for works by Dvorak, Debussy and Beethoven. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The sly grin that flickered across her lips rarely wavered as she and her pianist, Matt Kanelos, performed a far-reaching set of songs organized around the theme of spirituality and emptiness. Review: Carol Lipnik, a Bewitching Blend of Comedy and Mysticism 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The prestigious international competition is open to pianists age 35 and older who do not derive their principal source of income through piano performance or instruction. Seattle woman moves to semifinals of Van Cliburn amateur playoff 2011-05-27T20:13:06Z

Mr. Comstock is a conversational pop-jazz pianist and singer with impeccable enunciation who observes lyrics from afar and savors their wordplay, but is too fastidious to roll around in emotional mud. Music Review: Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano at Metropolitan Room 2012-10-16T22:16:16Z

Intrigued by its harmonic and rhythmic complexities, he found a new hero in the bebop pianist Bud Powell. John Bunch, Pianist With Goodman and Bennett, Dies at 88 2010-04-01T22:21:00Z

She adored his iconoclastic genius and, with the acceptance and complicity of his wife, Nellie, became the protector of a great pianist and composer rendered vulnerable by mental instability. The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild by Hannah Rothschild – review 2012-06-01T21:52:01Z

Jarrett was roundly criticized for his behavior, but the pianist was unrepentant. Pianist Keith Jarrett talks about his jazz trio 2011-10-26T20:23:05Z

Ms. Mattila, performing with the veteran pianist Martin Katz in Lincoln Center’s “Art of the Song” series, seemed a bundle of nervous energy to start. Review: Karita Mattila, and Her Quirks, in Concert 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday evening, this star pianist presented an uncommonly introspective solo recital built around Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata and selections of Spanish music. Review: Evgeny Kissin the Curator Illustrates His Breadth 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Each morning, the pianos are available to any amateur pianist eager to sit down and play Chopin for the public. Wall Street is alive with the sound of ... Chopin? 2010-03-01T23:29:00Z

This pianist just released “Enamigo Reciprokataj,” a debut album with a double meaning: Translated from Esperanto, its title can mean “Reciprocal Love” or “Mutual Breakdown.” 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

At UW, even before pianists arrived at Meany Hall, Brady listened to their recordings to determine if they preferred a bright or mellow sound. Piano technician in tune with industry award 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

He reflects the pianist’s archetype in some ways — a composer, a historian, an omnivore, a strategist — but not in others. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

This is an excellent example of her vocal quality as a pianist, describing a night out. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

When St. Louis became the house pianist at the West Side comedy club the Improv, she began performing there. Lily Tomlin has led a singular comedic life. And that’s the truth.

Osborne is such a self-effacing pianist that the remarkable quality of his performances is sometimes undervalued; not here though. BBC Philharmonic/Mena - review 2010-10-17T21:46:00Z

David Bottoms, a money manager, pianist and composer who sits on the hall’s board, performed his “Variations on a Theme in Memory of 9/11/01.” ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering September 11 With Music 2011-09-11T21:09:27Z

The barge’s artistic director, the violinist Mark Peskanov, takes the stage on Saturday with the pianist Doris Stevenson and works by Bach, Schumann and others. Dance Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T23:01:08Z

Cocker turned to the pianist to hastily assemble a band for a series of scheduled U.S. tour dates. Singer Joe Cocker dies at age 70 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Martin also concertized as a pianist, harpsichordist and conductor, living in Zurich, Rome and Paris. Interest Grows in a Master of Choral Mystery and Power 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

The American soprano had a winning stage presence, a diverse and eclectic program, and a crackerjack musical partner in pianist Renate Rohlfing. Julia Bullock shows almost any song can soar in her capable vocal cords 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

The continuity from past to present to future was neatly captured on an opening set by drummer Matt Wilson’s Carl Sandburg-inspired project, Honey and Salt, which featured Seattle pianist and vocalist Dawn Clement. Seattle-area musicians on hand as Monterey Jazz Festival marks 60th year 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

“In the Nina Simone one, it’s like a crazy version of stride piano, something that jazz pianists know how to do,” he said. ‘How Am I Going to Dance to This?’ Ratmansky’s New Music Frontier 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Mr. Denk, clearly, is a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs, in whatever combination — both for his penetrating intellectual engagement with the music and for the generosity of his playing. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:02:00Z

Featuring seven sections, the ballet is set to music by the jazz composer and pianist Jason Moran. At Ballet Theater, Visions of the Natural World and ‘Swan’ Debuts 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

An accomplished bassist, the New Orleans-born Levy performed with such jazz greats as Stuff Smith, Billie Holiday, Erroll Garner and Billy Taylor in the 1940s before joining pianist George Shearing's original quintet. Groundbreaking jazz manager John Levy dies at 99 2012-01-24T02:01:09Z

The singer and a lone pianist seem to speak the same words with the same voice. Review: A Funky Rethinking of Schubert’s Winter Journey 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

No composer is quicker or more merciless to point out a pianist's technical inadequacies, but Ohlsson doesn't have any. Garrick Ohlsson performs a superb night of Liszt in Seattle 2012-03-08T17:57:04Z

He was a classically trained pianist who also created some of the most distinctive guitar riffs in rock history. Guitar rock legend Eddie Van Halen dies of cancer at 65 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Music director Kent Nagano brings the orchestra to Southern California for three performances that include works by Debussy and Stravinsky plus Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 featuring pianist Daniil Trifonov. Classical works from Montreal, New York and L.A. orchestras, plus cello and Ojai festivals, are in the mix 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

"There's a certain fashion of histrionics of the keyboard which is completely foreign to what I do," the 52-year-old Montreal native, whose father was a pharmacist and amateur pianist, told Reuters over lunch in London. Pianist Hamelin breathes new life into "dead" composers 2013-11-14T08:05:00Z

At 82, this pianist is showing no fatigue. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Her father was a businessman and her mother a pianist from a cultured family. Luise Rainer, ’30s Star Who Won Back-to-Back Oscars, Dies at 104 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

There was a piano concerto, too, Bartók's First, offering a rare opportunity to hear the pianist, conductor and composer Zoltán Kocsis as a soloist. LSO/Ad?s 2010-06-09T21:31:00Z

Named after a celebrated postbop album by the pianist Andrew Hill, it plays music largely in that vein. New Music: New CDs by David Weiss and Lloyd 2011-07-05T00:30:51Z

The pianist Fazil Say, whose new composition meshing Western and Turkish instruments was performed last month during the festival, was recently accused of “publicly insulting religious values.” Rumi Is an Inspiration at the Istanbul Jazz Festival 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

What does a pianist do for an encore after playing some two and a half hours of Schubert? White-Hot Aria, Engulfing Bass: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Moments 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

By 1966, the pianist was appearing on Manhattan bandstands with drummer Max Roach. Perspective | Stanley Cowell navigated the vastness of jazz a few notes at a time 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z

On a warm evening this past May, Jason Moran — pianist and artistic director for jazz at the Kennedy Center — sauntered into a former Harlem church, now renovated into a studio and performance venue. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

The brilliant pianist Yefim Bronfman, artist in residence with the orchestra this year, will be the soloist in three programs over three weeks, performing the five Beethoven piano concertos and his Triple Concerto. Opera & Classical Music Listings for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

He was so many things: a great conductor, great composer, great pianist. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Still, the idea of a pianist needing nature, defying physics and somehow bringing the outside world inside, as the best California architects have done, dominated. The natural elements prove a breeze for Vicki Ray's Piano Spheres recital at REDCAT 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

A singer and pianist, Barber wrote for both voice and piano with refinement, aided by insights from his uncle Sidney Homer, a composer, and his aunt Louise Homer, the contralto. Music Review: Melissa Fogarty and Marc Peloquin at Bargemusic 2010-08-02T21:55:00Z

He does double-duty as pianist and conductor, drawing impressive playing from the remarkable Mahler Chamber Orchestra. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, the Bad Plus, Fred Astaire and More 2014-04-02T16:00:38Z

Time was when Beethoven’s last three sonatas were the province of only a few pianists, and generally performed by them only in maturity. Aiming for a musical summit but falling short 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sachs’s solution on Wednesday evening in Paul Hall was to have a pianist, Han Chen, play the final third of the set as a sampler. Music Review: ?Sounds Reimagined: John Cage at 100? From Juilliard 2012-02-02T23:17:48Z

It’s challenging for both the violinist and pianist. Virtuoso on the go: Itzhak Perlman to visit Seattle Feb. 19 2013-02-13T22:05:11Z

But he also studied music, training as a pianist, organist, cellist and percussionist while still a youth. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

Solis, 35, trained as a pianist in Mexico but was drawn to electronic music and improvisation after he won scholarships to New York University and the Media Lab at MIT. 'Axial: Undersea volcano star of sound installation at UW 2011-12-09T19:33:04Z

Throughout his recital, Watts achieved a level of authority and command seldom heard from a pianist of any age. Pianist André Watts is playing like a teenage phenom at age 69 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Brown’s mother is a pianist and cellist who performs privately at weddings and holiday events, and is also a piano teacher and the president of the Mobile Chamber Music Society, both in Mobile. Sonia Brown, Amy Beaux 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

But on “Somatic,” a recent album, he leads an acoustic trio featuring the young Austrian pianist Elias Stemeseder and the American bassist Thomas Morgan. Jazz Listings for Jan. 17-23 2014-01-16T23:23:06Z

Two percussionists will steer the piece, sometimes rudely interrupting the two pianists and sometimes giving them cues to proceed. Composer Andrew Norman tries to evoke Gehry home in 'Frank's House' 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

Mr. McCluskey, also 33, is a music teacher at Hebrew Language Academy Charter School in Mill Basin, Brooklyn, and a jazz pianist. Catherine Roosevelt, Seán McCluskey 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

She proposes hiring a pianist to play in the middle of Sloane Square, since the novel’s heroine is a piano prodigy. The Evolution of E L James 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

And if it was sheer opulence of sound you wanted, the marvelous pianist Martin Katz was there to provide it as an expressive and supportive partner. Two exquisite, artistic concerts hosted at the Kennedy Center on Sunday 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Arriving at Radcliffe, the daughter of a Southern Protestant pianist mother and a Jewish doctor father, Rich initially excelled at being exceptional in accepted ways. Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Trained as a pianist and vocal coach, he essentially taught himself conducting. Joan Sutherland, Opera Soprano, Dies 2010-10-11T16:29:00Z

Hamlisch's first important job in the theater was as rehearsal pianist for the Broadway production of Funny Girl with Streisand in 1964. Marvin Hamlisch, composer for Broadway and cinema, dies 2012-08-07T15:25:25Z

Mr. Kuhn, an astute and lyrical pianist who began his career more than 50 years ago, has long favored the trio as a working unit, though he still appears in other settings. Review: The Steve Kuhn Trio’s New Album Offers Heat and Intimacy 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Any pianist embarking on a cycle of the complete Beethoven sonatas must start by deciding how to arrange the programmes. András Schiff – review 2012-11-21T19:21:09Z

His band for this engagement will feature the astute young pianist Emmet Cohen. Jazz Listings for July 17-23 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Carnegie officials said he would be the first pianist to repeat a recital program at the hall within a week since Vladimir Horowitz in the 1970s. Evgeny Kissin to Take a Break in U.S., But Not Europe 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

While perhaps not quite as clear-cut as those four, “Green Book” shows a black pianist making a stand for civil rights by bravely touring the South in the 1960s. If You Think the Oscars Have Gotten More Political, Here’s Why You’re Right 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

As a pianist and singer, he was part of saxophonist Charlie Ventura’s Big Four group in the early 1950s that included drummer Buddy Rich and bassist Chubby Jackson. Marty Napoleon, vivacious jazz pianist for Louis Armstrong, dies at 93 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

In high school, he played the small role of the club pianist and understudied the show’s lead character, Franklin Shepard. Michael Arden, man of the moment in L.A. theater, merrily rolls along 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

Pollini turned 80 this year, so take what opportunity you can to hear this most stimulating of pianists, especially in the repertoire that he has made distinctive across the six decades of his career. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Evans later claimed that pianists who take on the piece “do so at their own great peril.” What It’s Like to Hear the Same Piece of Music for 19 Hours 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Six of the actors in the Fiasco version play multiple parts, and almost any of them might grab a horn or a guitar now and then to supplement the pianist, Matt Castle. Fiasco’s ‘Into the Woods,’ at McCarter Theater 2013-05-07T21:44:11Z

The app responds to the performer, and thus the effects change as the pianist plays. Review: Dan Trueman’s ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ Takes Cage Into the 21st Century 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

The pianist Graham Johnson recalls that Rózsa was never able to lie to a student. Vera R?zsa obituary 2010-11-22T18:20:00Z

But every Wednesday something comes along to perform beneath the spire – I avoid the Scottish pipers, but the pianist who plays Brahms will light my fire. The sights and sounds of summer 2011-08-08T19:30:02Z

Boyish yet solid, Mr. Abduraimov, who appeared in Stern with the Mariinsky Orchestra a few weeks ago, is a serious pianist, and he seemed to relish the exposure. Review: Behzod Abduraimov Nurtures and Protects in Full Exposure 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

This year, not one violinist, pianist, conductor or orchestral composer has chosen. Perspective | The Kennedy Center Honors abandons the arts for pop culture 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Stifelman, 58, was a “Chicago” pianist who in 2003 was elevated to musical director; she conducts the onstage orchestra and speaks a few lines of dialogue. A Rough Rehearsal, a Suicide and a Broadway Show in Turmoil 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

A sweetly wistful “I’m Through With Love,” with the pianist Assaf Glizner, whose playing is short on lyricism and heavy on percussive emphasis, left no dark emotional residue. Music Review: Cyrille Aim?e and the Surreal Band at Birdland 2012-02-17T22:43:09Z

He also developed into a virtuoso concert pianist. A dean of Japanese music talks boundaries, John Cage and life with Yoko Ono 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

And it misstated the surname of a honky-tonk pianist. Frugal Traveler Blog: $100 Weekend in Austin, Tex. 2012-02-11T07:31:07Z

His septet is stocked with American peers like the trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, the tenor saxophonist Kyle Wilson, the pianist Sam Harris and the bassist Matt Brewer. Jazz Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Though best known for his work at the City Opera, Mr. Manahan began his career as a new-music pianist and had conducted some of the Underwood readings before he was invited to take the post. The American Composers Orchestra Looks Ahead 2012-05-25T18:36:30Z

As a child, Mr. Lieberson taught himself harmony by figuring out the voicings on recordings by the jazz pianist Bill Evans. Peter Lieberson, Composer Inspired by Buddhism, Dies at 64 2011-04-23T23:48:51Z

On Friday night, he will be the violinist in a Brahms sonata and a Dvorak piano trio, joining the cellist Evan Drachman and the pianist Doris Stevenson, who themselves will play Grieg’s Cello Sonata. Classical Music Listings for July 22-28 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

If you’re looking for another fix of the same stuff that “The Epic” delivered, the debut album from the pianist Cameron Graves is your answer. Los Angeles’s Thriving Jazz Scene Produces Four New Albums 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

The massive solo part, fearlessly played by Sergio Tiempo, ranges from hauntingly jazzy bits to great bursts of keyboard color that the Venezuelan pianist seemed born to reveal. As the Los Angeles Philharmonic tours, Gustavo Dudamel seems determined to shake up his audiences 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The competition, which is held every four years and remains among the top showcases for the world's best pianists, started May 24 with 30 competitors. Ukraine pianist wins Cliburn piano competition 2013-06-10T01:11:08Z

He soon appeared befuddled, asking the pianist, “What am I going to sing here?” She Taught New York to Sing 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

When I sing with the pianist, I am so filled up with happiness. Kathleen Turner on loving Marvel and disbelief at Roe v. Wade repeal: "We are not simply vessels" 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

His core four-member band has been with him forever; the “new guy,” pianist Scott Lavender, joined 27 years ago. Johnny Mathis, the voice of the ’50s, was always ahead of his time. Now he’s ready to talk about it. 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Dozens of terrific pianists perform in New York every season, playing with impressive technique and thoughtful musicality. Music Review: Intense Communication, via the Piano 2011-02-14T04:43:16Z

More than 98 percent of concert pianists choose to perform on Steinways, according to figures collected by, not surprisingly, Steinway itself. The piano: Keys of the future 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

But not all pianists at the institute are popping painkillers; some attend simply because they hope to grow artistically. Critic’s Notebook: Golandsky Institute Helps Musicians Avoid Pain 2012-07-19T21:52:06Z

This was most problematic in Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, since Classical sonatas tend to place the pianist in a supporting role. Music Review: A Viola and a Piano in Search of Common Ground 2011-05-01T21:13:51Z

Around the midpoint of his first set at the Village Vanguard on Wednesday night, the pianist Fabian Almazan paused to explain the title of his most recent album, “Rhizome.” Fabian Almazan Takes ‘Rhizome’ Project to Village Vanguard 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Their work represented a kind of higher learning about New World music, and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, led by the pianist Arturo O’Farrill, is in the same business. Music Review: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space ? Review 2011-10-16T22:37:24Z

Certainly the technique was there, in the incredible ease of his passagework and the sheer brilliance of his first-movement cadenza, but so were the pianist’s mastery of amazing subtleties and his control of dynamics. Pianist Lang Lang, once dubbed ‘Bang Bang’ for his flashy technique, brings exquisite refinement to Seattle Symphony concert 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

There’s something satisfying about the neatness of the format — the clarity of the roles, the separation of powers — that allows a trumpeter and a pianist to let loose within the gift of structure. Roy Hargrove and Mulgrew Miller’s Glorious Duets 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

She accompanied, as a pianist, a famous performance of Verdi's Requiem. Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

Recognizing an opportunity, Heinemann began recording more African-American music, eventually hiring the pianist and singer Clarence Williams as director of "race records." ArtsBeat: A Historic Jazz Label Gets a New Life 2013-01-09T20:05:21Z

The page turns were almost comically fast, as if the pianists were speed- reading their way forward. Chamber-music fest: a little dessert, double helping of piano 2011-07-07T19:27:04Z

She discreetly changes moods and storytelling modes like a pianist sliding her hand down a short, soft glissando. Movie Listings for Aug. 21-27 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

They include work by Baker, of course, but also a movie soundtrack and music from Miles Davis, Nina Simone and the pianist Hampton Hawes. At SXSW, Ethan Hawke and His 5 Favorite Jazz Recordings 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Now loosened up, he rummaged through an antique cabinet of rolls and pulled out a knuckle-buster — for pianists, anyway — by Jelly Roll Morton from the 1930s. Character Study: Randolph Herr, 64, Maestro of the Player Piano 2012-09-08T04:03:04Z

His left hand thrummed guitarlike chords, chased bass lines into the mud, leaped through harmonies like a stride pianist’s would. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

Seattle Symphony musicians and visiting pianist Simon Trpceski mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great German, Romantic composer. The Week Ahead: Tom Petty, Joe Cocker, 'Cider House Rules' on stage are arts highlights 2010-06-02T22:29:00Z

But he hasn’t stopped working with trios like this one, a slippery longtime unit featuring the pianist Jacob Sacks and the bassist Thomas Morgan. Jazz Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

She collaborated with the violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Isaac Stern, the pianist Rudolf Serkin and the cellist Pablo Casals, among other eminent musicians. Karen Tuttle, Violist and Teacher, Dies at 90 2010-12-25T04:40:31Z

With "Solo," the 39-year-old Iyer displays his command of a variety of styles, further cementing his reputation as one of the most distinctive and adventurous contemporary jazz pianists. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z

Jason Moran, the pianist on deck, is a stride enthusiast, though he doesn’t try to mimic the steady bounce of Waller’s left hand. Barbra Streisand’s ‘Partners’ Is a Duets Album 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

The second movement is based on a tarantella that Mr. Corigliano had written earlier for another friend, a record producer and amateur pianist. Review: The Searing Power of an AIDS Symphony 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

“His last years were so miserable,” said Susan Kagan, a pianist, Beethoven scholar and professor emeritus at Hunter College in New York. Did Beethoven Die of Lead Poisoning? Maybe Not 2010-05-28T22:04:00Z

The identical twins Remy and Pascal Le Boeuf — a saxophonist and a pianist, originally from Santa Cruz, Calif. — share a foundation in classical music as well as modern jazz. The Playlist: Pusha T Spurns the Doubters and Kendrick Lamar Tempts the Critics 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Concerto: an orchestral piece of music featuring a soloist, often a pianist or violinist. Seattle Symphony is up for 3 Grammys. Here’s a beginners guide to enjoying the Symphony. 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

But in a smart move, Botstein also engaged the pianist Marcus Roberts’s trio for the second half, which gave the evening a sense of occasion — and, at times, fresh insight. Review: An Orchestra Manages to Capture That Ellington Swing 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

That civic impetus is familiar to Charles’s former Juilliard roommate Diehl — a pianist who has also memorably collaborated with the New York Philharmonic. The Syncopated Sounds of Old San Juan Hill at the New Geffen Hall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

The pianist did not hold back, nor did he push too far. Pianist André Watts is playing like a teenage phenom at age 69 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

“This is one concert that can’t be canceled,” Bryce, a soft-spoken electrical engineer and pianist, said as he untangled chords and patched them into the two amps in the back of the car. A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

Adams became a regular attendee at Monk’s shows, enough that he met the pianist multiple times and was granted a permanent spot on the guest list. Why NRBQ never really needed a hit record to measure its success 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The young Cuban group took the stage for the first half, concluding its North American tour marking the release of its new album, “Mozart in Havana,” with the American pianist Simone Dinnerstein. Review | Simone Dinnerstein, Havana Lyceum Orchestra join forces with NOI orchestra 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

The ensemble’s pianist Mabel Kwan sat at an electronic keyboard in the right brain area of the Cammilleri stage, where she proceeded to mess with our spacial and musical processing functions. Chicago-based Dal Niente pops up in new L.A. music series called Poolhouse 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Because as good as I am as a pianist, when you're dealing with creativity, it's infinite. Celebrating "great songwriter" David Bowie's 75th birthday & introducing him to a new generation 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

In the past, he said, “it was almost inevitable that with Serkin there, some pianists would feel under probation.” Critic?s Notebook: Where Musicians Bask in the Luxury of Time 2011-08-08T22:15:13Z

In his own music, Mr. Finlayson brings a bladelike attack to complex materials; his current band includes the saxophonist Brian Settles and the pianist Matt Mitchell. Jazz Listings for Nov. 7-13 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

To open the hall, David Deveau, the pianist who has been artistic director of the festival since 1995, chose works that in some sense related to dedications of homes. Music Review: Summery Sounds of a New Hall in Rockport, Mass. 2010-06-11T22:45:00Z

Something in the Way He Moves Attracts Listeners It’s hard to put your finger on just what it is that makes the pianist Taka Kigawa a phenomenon, but there’s no denying that he’s something special. Music Review: Taka Kigawa, Playing Carter and Zorn at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-08-28T21:38:52Z

“Fazioli are not catching on as fast among concert pianists as among the general public,” says Mr Carver. Piano nobile 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

That makes for an amusing hour – not for the songs, which are so-so, but for the likable banter between Hoyle and pianist Thomas, and the air of collusive mischief he fosters with the crowd. Merrie Hell – review 2012-12-13T18:15:57Z

Her online biography from EAS Music Management said she was "one of the most remarkable pianists of her generation". Romanian pianist Ursuleasa dies 2012-08-03T10:32:07Z

When I moved to Massachusetts in the mid-1970s to start a doctorate at Boston University, there was a specific professor I wanted to study with: the formidable pianist Leonard Shure. When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Mills also is a pianist, choral conductor and composer. From players, pipes and pedals, a celestial song 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Another signed James Blunt’s “Same Mistake,” and a pianist played along. ‘Spring Awakening’ Revival Requires Signing in Lieu of Singing 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hancock’s solo begins no less strikingly, with a chromatic jangle in 7/8 meter — not something you expect to hear from a jazz pianist in 1967 — followed by a shift into fast-lane swing. Music: Miles Davis Reissue, ?Live in Europe 1967? 2011-09-09T16:30:32Z

New works spring up like dandelions amid the meadows of Britain's festivals, while his busy performance schedule – not least as the Britten Sinfonia's resident pianist – would put many soloists to shame. Melvyn Tan/Schubert Ensemble – review 2012-06-21T17:30:01Z

Very few pianists accompanied a bass or drum solo; they just shut down for a little while. Critic's Notebook: Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition 2011-09-13T06:51:04Z

Lisiecki’s March 28 recital will include pieces by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, the composer and pianist who was the first prime minister of an independent Poland after World War I. Polish Canadian piano prodigy is poised to rack up frequent-flier miles 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Jason had been playing piano himself since age 6, mainly the classical repertoire and, around this time, a little bit of boogie-woogie, influenced by an uncle who was a blues pianist. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Pierre Boulez, the distinguished composer, conductor, pianist and theorist, turns 90 on Thursday. Musicians Discuss the Influence of Pierre Boulez 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

The music director of this year’s festival was the pianist and composer Vijay Iyer, and the American premiere of his work “Emergence,” for trio and orchestra, was featured. With Change Coming to the Ojai Festival, Watch What Makes it Unusual 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z

In addition to its clear debts to the Russian classical tradition, the one-movement work features passages with rock momentum, and others with the grooving energy of 20th-century pianists like Oscar Peterson. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

And after her divorce from Mr. Peacock and marriage to the renowned pianist Paul Bley it also led her to Robert Moog, the inventor of the analog synthesizer. Annette Peacock Has Been Improvising Music for 7 Decades. Her Life, Too. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Two of the most accomplished French pianists of our time giving strong interpretations of a masterpiece of the French repertory: This is why you live in a cultural center. Music Review: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Debussy’s ‘Préludes,’ at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-18T22:13:10Z

Sixty years ago, jazz pianist Dave Brubeck apologized to Duke Ellington for getting on the cover of Time magazine before Ellington. Analysis: Macklemore apology for win over fellow rapper raises race issue 2014-01-29T05:32:49Z

In the United States, at least, Ms. Rana has not yet acquired the reputation of some other young pianists. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

Uchida never leaves you in any doubt that this is a late work, with glimpses of the sublime — apt, really, from this most sublime of pianists. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

September 8, 2010, Prague Music Festival Transcends Genre Strings of Autumn The jazz pianist Brad Mehldau will be one of the performers at the Strings of Autumn festival in Prague. Prague Music Festival Transcends Genre 2010-09-08T10:00:00Z

Oh, and he is also one of the most gifted jazz pianists and singers of his – or any – generation. A guide to Richard Rodney Bennett's music 2012-07-02T13:32:00Z

The last orchestra concert I took in, on Wednesday, might not look so bold on paper: The formidable pianist Kirill Gerstein was the soloist in Schumann’s Piano Concerto, and Mr. Langrée conducted Brahms’s First Symphony. Encouraging Signs of Freshness at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

His mother, an amateur pianist who sang in the church choir, introduced him at 3 to musical scales on the piano. Bernie Worrell, keyboardist and songwriter for Parliament-Funkadelic, dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

A celebrity duo in celebrity repertoire, as this violinist and pianist join forces for Mozart, Brahms and Beethoven. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sherman, whose mother was the concert pianist and teacher Nadia Reisenberg, wanted to conduct interviews that took flight as friendly conversations, rather than limiting his guests to answering prepared questions. Robert Sherman, Veteran of the New York Airwaves, Dies at 90 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

But Ron Regev, a pianist and the chief music officer of Tonara, the software company, said he does not believe that the professional editor is going anywhere as long as classical musicians demand high-quality scores. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Haida recounts an extraordinary story about a dying pianist who sees the colors of auras surrounding every human. Haruki Murakami’s ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’ 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

For a different view of a pianist talking from the stage, Washington Performing Arts will offer a master class by Leon Fleisher at the Terrace Theater on Saturday. In Pedja Muzijevic’s recital, talk gets in the way of ‘Haydn Dialogues’ 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

Ms. Rana, at 26 one of the finest pianists of the new generation, is at her best on this recording, which includes solo piano transcriptions of works by Ravel and Stravinsky. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

The pianist George Li is fresh faced even by the standards of the Young Concert Artists series, which presented him in his New York recital debut on Tuesday evening at Merkin Concert Hall. Music Review: George Li, Pianist at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-11-02T22:39:01Z

Now, he’s better known as a jazz pianist. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Singing aside, Nat King Cole also rated her as one of the great pianists. Hidden treasures: Jeri Southern – The Southern Style 2013-02-07T14:22:13Z

Before Franz Liszt, it was rare for pianists to do solo programs. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Clearly, this pianist is one whose energy must be conserved for just the right moment. Review | McCoy Tyner proves to be worth the wait at Blues Alley 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Its simple starlight inspired the prettiest playing of the night from the pianist Howard Watkins, who often made the program’s wide-ranging styles sound homogeneous and unsubtle. Review: A Big Baritone Sound at Play in an Intimate Setting 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

Through the connections of the Polish pianist Maria Godebska-Sert, he was ushered into Parisian artistic and literary circles, where he met several friends of Proust, who had recently died. Reading Proust in the Gulag 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Scored for three harpists, three pianists and three percussionists, the exuberant piece, composed late in his career, is a vivid example of Mr. Boulez’s gift for using inventive instrumentation to create kaleidoscopic tableaux. Sampling the Work of Pierre Boulez 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

In one story, Sarah, a pianist turned comedian, tries to fling herself into that river off the Stone Arch Bridge. Lives intertwine in Charles Baxter’s ‘There’s Something I Want You to Do’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

He started Op 31 No 1 gracefully, before getting nicely stuck in to Beethoven's hiccupping parody of a certain kind of amateur pianist. Andras Schiff – review 2013-03-05T18:18:27Z

This time, though, he was a star attraction, starting a long evening that included sets by the saxophonist Joe McPhee and the pianist and performance artist Charlemagne Palestine. Music Review: Steve Dalachinsky and Charlemagne Palestine at Issue Project 2013-09-05T21:54:11Z

A pianist in the Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson lineage, and a singer of gruff erudition and charisma, Mr. O’Neal, 60, has been enjoying a late-career comeback possibly sweeter than his ostensible prime. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

After one pianist played a few songs, another came on for a duet before embarking on his own set. Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

Throughout the smart, polished show, she maintained a comfortable rapport with her musicians, the fleet, airy jazz pianist Jon Weber, who took a couple of impressive solos, and the bassist Sean Smith. Music Review: Karen Oberlin Sings Loesser at the Oak Room 2010-06-10T22:18:00Z

Just like the first silent film pianists, he's drawing on his audience's musical memory. Pianists play it again at the silent movies 2011-04-12T14:25:01Z

What Happened, Miss Simone? traces the American singer's life from her early days as a classically trained pianist to her later jazz and blues career. Sundance opens with Nina Simone film 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

“We simply hope for the best,” the pianist Mitsuko Uchida and a fellow participant in the festival, who had just seen Mr. Ozawa in Japan, said recently from London. Ozawa?s Illness Shadows Festival He Inspired 2010-12-10T16:53:00Z

On Wednesday at 8 p.m., the pianist Jeremy Denk plays two of his signature works: Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” and Ives’s “Concord” Sonata. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Aug. 8-14 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

And then there was Art Tatum, a solo pianist of such spectacular authority that many would argue he has yet to be surpassed. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z

Mr. Valdés has long been a pianist of imperial command, possessed of a dazzling, deceptively casual virtuosity. Music Review: Chucho Vald?s Plays With the Afro-Cuban Messengers 2012-01-24T23:07:41Z

This version of the sonata, which the pianist Zoltan Kocsis performed at a private concert at the National Szechenyi Library last Friday evening, differs from the standard edition in several details. A Mozart Mystery: Sonata Manuscript Surfaces in Budapest 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

A regular visitor to Los Angeles for over four decades, pianist Murray Perahia appeared at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday, blazing through a treacherous program of music by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Franck and Chopin. Murray Perahia evokes suspense, sadness and exhilaration at Disney Hall 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

There are so many talented women players out there, for example pianists Helen Sung and and Roberta Pickett and others. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Also on the bill Thursday and Sunday: guest pianist William Wolfram. Your best arts and entertainment bets for the coming week 2011-05-25T22:00:07Z

“Elizabeth was a peerless singer, pianist, storyteller, teacher, dealer and raconteur, as well as a unique player of Scottish traditional music on the piano,” Dr. McKean said by email. Elizabeth Stewart, Champion of Scotland’s Folk Music, Dies at 83 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mizutani was focused, a study in efficiency, his long fingers, like a jazz pianist’s, shaping slender, elegant slices. In Asia, Tastes of the Sea 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

There’s an oddly familiar glow to “Aria,” the auspicious debut album by the pianist Sullivan Fortner. Review: ‘Aria,’ by Sullivan Fortner, Full of Assurance 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Eight years ago, a young pianist made his New York debut with a brazen program of Beethoven’s final sonatas. Review: Igor Levit Arrives at the Philharmonic, at Last 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

Or possibly he misheard someone describing Liszt as Europe's biggest pianist. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z

On the other was new president of France, Emmanuel Macron, who happens to be an accomplished classical pianist. At the G-20, Beethoven is played and the world listened (maybe) 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

His works were performed by all the major American orchestras, and he was also a frequent collaborator with the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the pianist Emanuel Ax. Peter Lieberson, Composer Inspired by Buddhism, Dies at 64 2011-04-23T23:48:51Z

Her mother was a concert pianist who often performed with the bride’s aunt, Mona Golabek, and whose recordings included a production of “Babar the Elephant” that was narrated by Meryl Streep. Sarah Golabek-Goldman, Michael Goldstein 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

Schubert made relentless demands on the pianist, with repeated chromatic scalar passages up and down the keyboard. Chamber-music fest opens on exciting note 2012-02-03T19:16:04Z

The Argentine pianist, perhaps the most lionized soloist on the current circuit, has a reputation for canceling. Martha Argerich mesmerizes the L.A. Phil 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

More than a decade ago the formidable Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman, tired of hearing everyone trash the orchestrations of Chopin’s two piano concertos, decided to do something about it. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z

Family members of the pianist Don Shirley, played by Ali in the film, have also criticized “Green Book” for misrepresenting the man’s life. The Oscars Finds Its Way Through an Identity Crisis — for Now 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

I guess for pianists, we’re always doing chamber music, because it’s left hand and right hand. A Lullaby, a Caress: Yo-Yo Ma, Ax and Kavakos on Brahms 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

She had wanted to be a classical pianist but she grew up poor and she graduated from college during the Depression and her career took a different turn. Roz Chast and Patricia Marx Mine the Mother Lode 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Washington Performing Arts, rechristened and rebranded, opened its new season Saturday afternoon in impressive fashion with the promising D.C. debut of Taiwanese American pianist Steven Lin at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Pianist Steven Lin sets bar high for Washington Performing Arts’ new season

The latter - a two-part drama based on Dostoevsky's The Gambler - tells the story of a penniless pianist who becomes a tutor to the daughter of a wealthy Russian oligarch living in London. Husain goes head to head with Cocker 2014-02-27T09:41:51Z

His elevation to the top rank of pianists is due to his astonishing technical virtuosity, which marks his concerts with an aura of patrician athleticism that, in effect, sells his intellectual rigor. The Pianist Maurizio Pollini and the Shock of the Old 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

But, Mr. Weill added, he would never trust his own acoustical judgment, so he asked the pianist Lang Lang to stop by the hall on his way to a concert with the San Francisco Symphony. ArtsBeat: $12 Million Gift for Concert Hall in California 2011-03-22T21:16:32Z

For me there was something touching about seeing a great pianist play a Bach prelude and fugue using the score. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z

His mother, an amateur pianist, used to play Chopin late at night. Percussionist Steven Schick plans a big bang for Ojai Music Festival 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

"I definitely wanted to make a global record," said the 70-year-old pianist and composer, who hopes his new project will help bridge cultural gaps. Herbie Hancock goes global for "The Imagine Project" 2010-06-23T20:55:00Z

It was in the conservatory library that he first discovered the music of Mr. Rzewski, now 79, a passionately political American pianist and composer who is eminent in new-music circles. The Pianist of the Resistance Captures a Surprise Award 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Seattle pianist Wayne Horvitz directs an illustrious cast of improvisers in a spontaneous "conduction," in which players, without written music, respond to the movements of the conductor. Earshot Jazz Festival: Think global, book local 2012-10-04T19:27:04Z

His interpretation of the Viennese Classical and early Romantic tradition — often so nuanced and understated that it hardly seems like interpretation at all — has made him one of the most admired pianists in this repertoire. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

The cycle, Schubert’s settings of 20 poems by Wilhelm Müller, lasted about 65 minutes in this Art of the Song recital with the excellent British pianist Julius Drake. Music Review: A Swagger and Some Bluster for the Sake of Telling Stories 2011-04-04T21:28:36Z

His New Quartet is first and foremost a showcase for his bond with the pianist Aaron Parks, who appears here along with the bassist Orlando le Fleming and the drummer Allan Mednard. Jazz Listings for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Lubimov is the most Russian of pianists, except when he is challenging Russian music orthodoxy from all sides and getting away with it. Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov fittingly honors the woman who insulted Stalin to his face 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

On the crossing, she was heard singing in the ship’s lounge by Kosti Vehanen, a pianist who often accompanied the contralto Marian Anderson. Blanche Thebom, Mezzo-Soprano, Dies at 94 2010-03-28T02:25:00Z

A Pianist Shines His Light On Scriabin The pianist Evgeny Kissin made a powerful impression when he played the Barber Sonata as the centerpiece of his Carnegie Hall recital three weeks ago. Music Review: New York Philharmonic With Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-24T21:51:03Z

He is regarded as having been one of the most accomplished jazz pianists of his generation. Composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett dies aged 76 2012-12-25T14:46:08Z

Maybe because there is only one Alexander Toradze — and it's hard to imagine any other pianist playing this wild and woolly concerto with the same degree of authority, mastery and utter abandon. Review: Symphony does Prokofiev proud 2010-04-02T18:57:00Z

It’s the pianist alone, tagging his heroes and playing some of his own music. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-05T21:33:00Z

There’s plenty of the new and adventurous on deck this autumn, from a premiere by the Seattle Symphony’s composer in residence to a daring composer/pianist collaboration. 8 Seattle-area classical music picks for fall 2021 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

For that event, Grosvenor was one of four prize-winning young pianists from around the globe, tackling one or another of the Russian composer’s quartet of piano concertos. Possibly ‘the most remarkable young pianist of our time’? Benjamin Grosvenor is back in Seattle 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

"I wouldn't be sitting here in London talking to you now if it wasn't for Poinciana," the pianist says now. Ahmad Jamal: 'After a time you discover the Mozart in you' 2013-02-01T05:00:00Z

But just as important is Circus Oz’s sense of theater, evident from the start, when a hugely elongated piano, complete with pianist, descends from the sky-high rafters. Theater Review: Circus Oz’s ‘From the Ground Up’ at New Victory Theater 2012-12-09T23:30:06Z

Mr. Litton raised his improvised baton again, the pianist began again — just a hair slower — and the dancers and music were in sync. The Conductor Andrew Litton, Finding a Different Tempo 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Some notable musicians outside the New York spotlight — say, the Chicago saxophonist and organizer Fred Anderson and the Los Angeles pianist Horace Tapscott — died without receiving recognition as a Jazz Master. N.E.A. to Honor Jazz Masters Under a Cloud of Uncertainty 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

Kathleen Supové, a pianist of flamboyantly stagey inclinations, is integral to “Removable Parts,” a heartbreaking work inspired by people longing to become amputees. A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z

And as if to drive the point home, the veteran pianist and pedagogue Gerald Robbins played that work in an attractive program at Bargemusic on Friday evening, preceded by keyboard suites of Handel. Gerald Robbins Plays Bargemusic’s Masterworks Series 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

A self-playing piano lets him fake his way into a job as a restaurant pianist. Forget Friends! The 25 greatest overlooked sitcoms – from Lovesick to Younger 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

But in fact there were just two musicians on the stage: Mr. Mitchell, and the pianist Marvin Laird, a last-minute substitute for Tedd Firth. Music Review: Brian Stokes Mitchell at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-08T22:44:54Z

The familiar music, played live and robustly by the pianist Jason Ridgway, is as irresistible as popcorn, and the choreography is nearly as tasty: salted with folk touches, crisp with brilliant step sequences. Review: Richard Alston Dance Says Adieu in (Quiet) Character 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Perhaps you’ve seen their like in black-and-white screen adaptations starring Bette Davis and Claude Rains, or Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone, in which concert pianists and heiresses suffer nobly in evening clothes. Theater Review: Richard Maxwell’s ‘Isolde’ Explores Primal Instincts 2014-04-13T22:03:33Z

He plays Florence’s pianist, Cosmé McMoon, who in this version of the story was just looking for a paycheck when he auditioned for a job as her accompanist, thinking she was an actual singer. Review: ‘Florence Foster Jenkins,’ Singing So Wretched It’s Legendary 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Eventually, Ms. Cook agreed to perform, huddling with the pianist for about 15 minutes, and then, with her eyes tightly closed and her hands balled into a fist, quietly sang, “You’ll Never Know.” Bidding Adieu to That Wondrous Songbird Barbara Cook 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

That came when Evans’s accompanists left the stage and the subtle but soulful singer Joanna Pascale joined the pianist for an intimate, moody performance of “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes.” Pianist Orrin Evans and quartet shine at Bohemian Caverns

Roman himself performs Sept. 23 with two fellow string players and a pianist in an evening of piano quartets by Brahms, Sharlat and Andres. Town Music season ready at Town Hall 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

Without question he is a phenomenal pianist, a deeply intuitive and sensitive musician. Music Review: Romantics Meet (Composer and Pianist), and Sparks Fly 2011-03-10T22:36:28Z

At least once a year, however, Mallinger steps into the foreground, leading a band that always features a pianist who clearly means a great deal to him: Bill Carrothers. Saxophonist Pat Mallinger gets a moment of glory 2011-03-06T15:54:00Z

Mason at full throttle, it turned out, was more than this setting could support, notwithstanding the fine accompaniment from pianist Christopher Denny. Karen Mason delivers a pungent show for Valentines 2011-02-11T17:16:49Z

Something similar has long been occurring with pianists. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z

Mr. Scott made a few recordings with small labels in the 1950s, including several with a group led by pianist Billy Taylor. Jimmy Scott, hard-luck singer with a haunting voice, dies at 88

Sam was once a concert pianist; Tusker is a novelist and an astronomy enthusiast. ‘Supernova’ Review: On the Road, to a Heartbreaking Destination 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The orchestra, founded and directed by the pianist Arturo O’Farrill, spent its first five years as a resident ensemble at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Music Review: Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Symphony Space - Review 2012-01-22T23:03:12Z

Now, after devouring recordings on the Internet by different pianists, he sounds like a savvy conservatory student. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z

It was at Linden Lodge that Mr. Shearing, captivated by the recordings of American jazz pianists like Art Tatum and Fats Waller, began to study piano. George Shearing, ?Lullaby of Birdland? Jazz Virtuoso, Dies at 91 2011-02-14T18:49:32Z

To borrow McCarthy’s own words, when describing an imagined conversation between his protagonist and the jazz pianist Phineas Newborn Jr., “The ear bends to the heart, brother, when you play everything rightly.” Debut Novels by Jesse McCarthy, Gabriel Krauze and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

But if a pianist lacks the muscle to complete the race, it becomes an endurance test for both soloist and listeners. Music Review: Lola Astanova With the Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2013-01-26T01:04:56Z

Lawson, who received a master's in fine arts from UC Riverside and is also a classical pianist, currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Gallagher Lawson discusses creativity and his debut novel, 'The Paper Man' 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Goldschneider was a brilliant but scattered polymath who completed his studies at Yale medical school but never practiced medicine and later became a concert pianist. The Joy of Kooky 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Lately I’ve been following four pianists who are making the jazz scene in New York more interesting. Critic?s Notebook: Four Young Pianists on the Rise in the Jazz Scene 2011-10-06T22:37:04Z

Joey began playing piano at 6, picking out a Thelonious Monk tune by ear, which led Mr. Sila, an amateur pianist, to teach him some fundamentals. Joey Alexander, an 11-Year-Old Jazz Sensation Who Hardly Clears the Piano’s Sightlines 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Working with no pianist, he’ll lead a trio with two rhythm section gurus, the bassist Buster Williams and the drummer Lenny White. Jazz Listings for March 27-April 2 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

One of my favorites, a sweetly funny story, concerned matching wooden boxes containing Oriental spices and foodstuffs that Cage and his friend the pianist David Tudor received. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Series Ends With ‘memoir’ 2014-04-30T19:28:03Z

This rendition, however, is my absolute favorite as it displays how the richness of her artistry as a pianist had deepened during this late chapter of her career. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Mitzi is a classically trained pianist while Burt is an engineer, fertile terrain for a virtuoso to be. ‘The Fabelmans’ Review: Spielberg’s Own Sentimental Education 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

This was back in the autumn of 2008 and the heroic jazz pianist — who died Friday at 81 — was giving an evening talk presented by the New York Public Library followed by a casual mini-recital. Perspective | McCoy Tyner’s eternal return 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

“I’m a pianist, and sometimes I ‘play’ texture,” he said. Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

But on “Presence,” his big band’s third album, the pianist Orrin Evans gets there. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The other members are the bassist Linda Oh and the pianist Lawrence Fields, both in their 20s, and both integral to the band’s plunging and changeable style. Music Review: Sound Prints at the Village Vanguard 2012-11-30T23:43:30Z

In 1964, one year into his post as the lead pianist in Miles Davis’s band, Herbie Hancock released the concept album “Empyrean Isles,” a tribute to an imagined world in the Great Eastern Sea. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

“Nobody with greater agency or greater stature is coming forward in a strong way — either to tell their own story or show support,” pianist and opera coach Kathleen Kelly said. Soul-searching in opera world after tumultuous #MeToo year 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

On the cultural front, he found his way in 1961 to the Village Vanguard in Greenwich Village, where his camera captured a fabled live performance by the jazz pianist Bill Evans. Steve Schapiro, Photojournalist Who Bore Witness, Dies at 87 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

Before graduating with a degree in history in 1950, he was working steadily as a jazz pianist around Boston. George Wein, Jazz Festival Trailblazer, Is Dead at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Last year, in a bit of dreams-can-come-true career magic, he joined Joel's actual band as acoustic guitarist, backup vocalist and rehearsal pianist. Friends reunite to give Doug Stegmeyer's last music project a push 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

The British pianist Paul Lewis has made his name primarily in the music of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

Whether you do or don’t, feast on this recital from a superb pianist more commonly heard playing the newest of the new: first, Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. Classical Music Listings for Aug. 26-Sept. 1 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Speaking on In Tune, pianist Joseph Middleton said he preferred to wear concert dress for the Proms despite the discomfort. BBC Proms musicians hit by heatwave 2013-07-25T11:28:21Z

In Chopin’s day, every emerging pianist was expected to show himself off in his own concertos. Trifonov and Andsnes: Different Generations, Same Curiosity 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

Over just five days in New York, three distinctive pianists at three different stages of their careers offered exceptional performances. Five Days, Three Pianists, Three Generations 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

To open this tribute concert, a video of Allen performing played on a screen high above the stage, and slowly, the pianist Craig Taborn joined in, offering scattered, bright-hued flights in duet with the recording. January in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Thibaudet sees part of his musical mission as passing these corrections along to the next generation of pianists and symphony conductors. Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Symphony, Morlot for Ravel 2013-09-15T14:01:09Z

Mr. Bernstein will be accompanied by the Hot 9, the band he co-leads with Henry Butler, another New Orleans pianist. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

On Thursday, Mr. Watkins returns joined by his brother, Huw, a pianist and composer, in the premiere of his “Blue Shadows Fall.” Classical Music Listings for May 16-22 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

It’s not every day that a young superstar like Daniil Trifonov, the sensational Russian pianist, agrees to be just one of five soloists in a marathon concerto concert. Review: In ‘Folk, Form, and Fire,’ Hosting a Party of Five for Prokofiev 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The band’s repertory will include some original compositions, and some by the pianist Cedar Walton. Jazz Listings for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

It returns this weekend to Symphony Space, starting on Friday afternoon with a recital by the Russian-born pianist Konstantin Soukhovetski, who offers an unusual program including some of his own transcriptions of music from operas. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

An ambitious program from a pianist whose technical gifts are never in doubt. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Or Orrin Evans, the pianist from Philadelphia, with his aggressive and swinging Captain Black Big Band. Critic?s Notebook: Jammed Sessions Abound at a Village Jazz Festival 2011-01-10T00:00:16Z

Christie's says the "Pretty Woman" star studied trumpet and is a self-taught pianist and guitarist. Richard Gere guitar collection fetches $1M in NYC 2011-10-12T02:38:08Z

But she was an exceptional pianist, conductor and composer in her own right, producing particularly strong art songs and works for solo piano. Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays Avery Fisher Hall 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

FOR the most part Vladimir Horowitz is not among my preferred Chopin pianists. Music Critics? Picks for Chopin Bicentennial 2010-05-27T21:03:00Z

Before Liszt, pianists would perform perhaps just one item on a mixed bill of concert programmes. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z

Lucian Ban Lucian Ban is a classically trained Romanian jazz pianist and composer who in recent years has become a key figure on New York's downtown jazz scene. This week's new live music 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

Twenty-four young pianists from around the world have been showcasing their talent at this competition in northern England, now in its 55th year. What’s on TV Saturday: The Creative Arts Emmys and ‘What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’ 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

Although he sang in the choir of his Catholic school and was a skilled pianist, he originally planned to devote his career to engineering and mathematics. Pierre Boulez, conductor of bracing clarity, dies at 90 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The pianist Richard Goode, a longtime friend, said that before his own concerts he would often avoid reading Mr. Goldsmith’s notes, which would guide the listener’s attention to particularly treacherous passages. Harris Goldsmith, Critic and Classical Pianist, Dies at 78 2014-04-21T03:11:20Z

“Temporary Kings,” the debut album from saxophonist Mark Turner and pianist Ethan Iverson, finds these two quiet killers immersed in a deep, fragile, highly focused form of play. Mark Turner and Ethan Iverson’s jazz? It sounds like Stravinsky and the blues 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Then there’s David Virelles, 33, a Cuban pianist whose inclinations run rampant. Latin Jazz is Booming. Look Beyond the Grammys to Find It. 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The musical director and pianist Joseph Thalken’s arrangements for a sextet that included two strings were light but elegant. Review: A Side of Richard Rodgers Not Often Seen 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

As the star of the show, he’d have been better placed at center stage; ideally on a raised platform, since a pianist can’t roam the stage the way a guitarist can. Elton John delights KeyArena with nearly 3 hours of hits 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

But the imperative of exploration doesn’t stop with free improvisers; it has become a necessary subtext even for a solo pianist engaging with songs. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z

Kern is a pianist of muscle and blazing, headlong speed: the densest passagework cruised, even occasionally hurtling past Slatkin’s warm, firmly outlined accompaniment. Leonard Slatkin gives himself a 75th birthday present: a reunion with the NSO 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Something inherent to the vibraphone — and the reason I would guess a lot of other players, whether originally pianists or drummers, might be heading its way — is that it promotes flexibility. Creating Uncommon Vibes 2011-07-22T20:52:11Z

Martin Helmchen, one of today's finest young pianists, was the well-nigh perfect soloist in the Mozart, playing with refined muscularity and wonderfully alert to the melancholy poetry that lurk beneath the work's gracious surface. Hall?/Elder - review 2011-02-27T17:47:54Z

Quartet’s musical theme offers a clue as to the actor-director’s true passion: he said he regretted failing to become a professional pianist rather than appearing on camera. Dustin Hoffman: film is the worst it has 'ever been' 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

The eminent pianist Leon Fleisher is the soloist in Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 4. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 27-Jan. 2 2013-12-27T05:51:06Z

On his debut album, “High Top Mountain,” he recorded with the pianist Pig Robbins, who’d played with the Nashville royalty of the 1960s and 1970s. Sturgill Simpson, a Genuine Alternative to Alt Country 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Inside, a golden football helmet with a fleur-de-lis overlooks portraits of Napoleon, hand thrust inside waistcoat, and the blues pianist James Booker, called the Bayou Maharajah, in eye patch and halo. Cajun, Far From Home, at the Gumbo Bros 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

But on Saturday, not one but two adventurous pianists gave recitals that harkened back to the form’s origins, drawing out musical, social and deeply personal connections. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

They appear here alongside the pianist Fabian Almazan and the bassist Joshua Crumbly. New Music: New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant 2013-05-27T21:56:34Z

By gradual but far from slow degrees, Ohlsson has established himself among the greatest pianists in the world. A Fair outing for Bruckner and the horn, at SSO | Classical review 2013-04-14T20:59:23Z

She appeared on Friday, with the pianist Henning Ruhe, at Weill Recital Hall, the New York recital debut of a graceful artist. Review: Tara Erraught, Out of the Frying Pan and Into a Tranquil Recital 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

At another, Bey assembled a three-piece band consisting of a bassist, pianist Robert Glasper and himself on drums. Yasiin Bey was one of rap’s brightest stars. His farewell concert was a stirring reminder. 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

During the Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance at Mannes College the New School for Music on Monday evening, the pianist Russell Sherman offered Schoenberg’s complete piano music. Music Review: A Piano Tour of Schoenberg?s Career 2011-06-16T22:11:12Z