The Icelandic pianist Vikingur Ólafsson is one of the world’s most engrossing live performers of classical piano music right ...
Pianist Yunchan Lim is on fire. Just 20 years old and still in studies at the New England Conservatory, he is the youngest-ever winner of the gold medal at the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition.
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook With “Inventions/Reinventions,” Dan Tepfer fills out Bach’s missing two-part inventions ...
Described by The New York Times as “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation,” Simone Dinnerstein’s debut album featured Bach’s Goldberg Variations. She titled Thursday’s concert ...
“I think with Bach it's much easier to practice for many hours than with some other composers,“ said Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, who has always wanted to spend more time with Bach. “It’s so ...
In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set of Two-Part Inventions to help his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, learn to play the keyboard. Now, 300 years later, jazz pianist and ...
World-renowned pianist Angela Hewitt returns to 92Y's stage for the final two concerts in her acclaimed - and pandemic-interrupted - four-year Bach Odyssey, performing all of the composer's keyboard ...
Two weeks ago, a 14-year-old pianist from Delmar found success on the national stage. David Fu, a rising ninth grader at Albany Academy who attends the prestigious Julliard Pre-College, won the ...
When Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt asserts that her journey with Bach began when she was born, if not before, she is hardly exaggerating. Her father was a cathedral organist and choir director in ...
When Byeol Kim gets in the zone, she doesn’t just play the music — she lives the music. “I almost feel like I’m living a different life at that moment,” she says. “I totally forget about my real life.