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Tear-jerking Channel 4 series returning to screens next month - but with beloved star missing as they 'pass on the baton'

A tear-jerking Channel 4 series is set to return to screens next month - but with a beloved star missing. However, after the one-off episode Chinese pianist Lang Lang will 'pass on the baton' to Jon Batiste for the new series, which will air next year. A tear-jerking Channel 4 series is set to return to screens next month - …

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2 months ago

John Barstow, gifted pianist and teacher who shaped a generation of top performers

The Telegraph

John Barstow, who has died aged 87, stepped back from a brilliant career at the piano to teach many of the next generation of pianists; during more than 40 years at the Royal College of Music his students included the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition winner Barry Douglas and the renowned soloist James Lisney. One former student told how he “was responsible …

John Barstow

2 months, 4 weeks ago

Marking the centennial of jazz pianist Bud Powell

NPR

Marking the centennial of jazz pianist Bud Powell Born Sept. 27, 1924, Powell helped set the style for jazz piano after WWII. Jazz pianist Bud Powell was born Sept. 27, 1924. KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: Bud Powell live at New York's Birdland, 1953. WHITEHEAD: Encouraged by fellow pianist, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell came up in the mid-1940s, a split second behind …

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4 months ago

Festival harmonizes young pianists with orchestras

China Daily

Junior Concerto Concert by QingXin Ensemble under the baton of conductor Kin Szeto, during the Tianjin Juilliard Piano Festival on Aug 11. "It's amazing to see how young the pianists are but they play these complex music works, which are challenging for any pianist no matter how famous they are," says conductor Lam, who is the director of orchestral studies …

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4 months ago

Festival harmonizes young pianists with orchestras

China Daily

Junior Concerto Concert by QingXin Ensemble under the baton of conductor Kin Szeto, during the Tianjin Juilliard Piano Festival on Aug 11. "It's amazing to see how young the pianists are but they play these complex music works, which are challenging for any pianist no matter how famous they are," says conductor Lam, who is the director of orchestral studies …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Pianist’s Melbourne recital cancelled after comments on Gaza journalists

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The British-Australian pianist, who performed …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Concert is triumph of technique

China Daily

24-year-old pianist Luo Wei plays Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 3 in Beijing on Oct 21. Marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the concert featured pianist Luo Wei, playing the Russian pianist and composer's Piano Concerto No 3 in D Minor, Op 30. Under the baton of conductor Lin Daye, China National Symphony Orchestra performed in a …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Concert is triumph of technique

China Daily

24-year-old pianist Luo Wei plays Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 3 in Beijing on Oct 21. Marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the concert featured pianist Luo Wei, playing the Russian pianist and composer's Piano Concerto No 3 in D Minor, Op 30. Under the baton of conductor Lin Daye, China National Symphony Orchestra performed in a …

Concert Piano Pianist Luo Concerto Luo Wei

1 year, 4 months ago

Young pianists find keys to success

China Daily

Piano student Li Tianyou, 19, plays under the baton of conductor Lai Jiajing during one of the festival's concerts at the Tianjin Juilliard Concert Hall on Aug 12. It was the first time that Li played the piece by Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev along with a symphony orchestra — the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra — under the baton of conductor Lai …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Young pianists find keys to success

China Daily

Piano student Li Tianyou, 19, plays under the baton of conductor Lai Jiajing during one of the festival's concerts at the Tianjin Juilliard Concert Hall on Aug 12. It was the first time that Li played the piece by Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev along with a symphony orchestra — the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra — under the baton of conductor Lai …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Young pianists find keys to success

China Daily

Renowned Israeli pianist Arie Vardi, 86, during a masterclass at the inaugural Tianjin Juilliard Piano Festival. Yoheved Kaplinsky, the chair of the piano department at the Juilliard School in New York, gives a masterclass at Tianjin Juilliard during the school's inaugural piano festival. Along with the chair of the piano department at the Juilliard School in New York, Yoheved Kaplinsky, …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Young pianists find keys to success

China Daily

Piano student Li Tianyou, 19, plays under the baton of conductor Lai Jiajing during one of the festival's concerts at the Tianjin Juilliard Concert Hall on Aug 12. It was the first time that Li played the piece by Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev along with a symphony orchestra — the Suzhou Symphony Orchestra — under the baton of conductor Lai …

Students Orchestra Symphony Lai Tianjin Young Pianists Prokofiev

1 year, 5 months ago

Relive the 2023 American Pianists Awards from Indianapolis

NPR

Relive the 2023 American Pianists Awards from Indianapolis Enlarge this image toggle caption American Pianists Association American Pianists Association For an American jazz pianist on the rise, there may be no greater honor than the Cole Porter Fellowship. Bestowed every four years by the American Pianists Association, it's the prize at the end of a rigorous competition, and an excellent …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Remembering pianist and NEA Jazz Master Ahmad Jamal

NPR

Remembering pianist and NEA Jazz Master Ahmad Jamal Jamal was born in Pittsburgh, broke through with his small group music in Chicago in the 1950s, and recorded scores of records through 2016 — a 65-year recording career. KEVIN WHITEHEAD, BYLINE: Ahmad Jamal's first recording, "The Surrey With The Fringe On Top," Chicago, 1951. WHITEHEAD: In the late 1960s, Ahmad Jamal's …

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1 year, 9 months ago

The Piano viewers in tears at ‘astonishingly beautiful’ final performance from blind winner Lucy, 13

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Piano viewers were left in tears following an emotional final …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Young pianist's concert tour ends at Beijing Concert Hall

China Daily

Seventeen-year-old pianist Huang Zixuan performed in a concert conducted by Liu Ming at the Beijing Concert Hall on Jan 13. At the concert, Huang performed French composer Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major with Beijing Union Symphony Orchestra. This concert marks the last stop of his recent tour, with two concerts already held in Guangdong province's Shenzhen and Guangzhou. …

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1 year, 11 months ago

A conductor of cultural nuance shows his skills

China Daily

Li Haoran conducts An Homage to Classics at Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall, marking the beginning of the theater's New Year concert series. Young, emerging maestro Li Haoran kicked off the New Year program of the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, Cheng Yuezhu reports. "One of my good Russian friends told me a story about Paganini, who lost three …

Li Haoran

2 years, 10 months ago

Pianist's travels take her on classical journey

China Daily

Pianist Zuo Zhang is going to release her album The Journey. She is going to release an album, titled The Journey, inspired by her tour in 2021, which features works by Liszt, Maurice Ravel, Richard Wagner, Francis Poulenc and Arnold Schoenberg. Liszt's other music works, including Vallée d'Obermann and Les Jeux d'Eau à la Villa d'Este both from Années de …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Pianist's travels take her on classical journey

China Daily

Pianist Zuo Zhang is going to release her album The Journey. She is going to release an album, titled The Journey, inspired by her tour in 2021, which features works by Liszt, Maurice Ravel, Richard Wagner, Francis Poulenc and Arnold Schoenberg. Liszt's other music works, including Vallée d'Obermann and Les Jeux d'Eau à la Villa d'Este both from Années de …

Music Europe Villa Album China Daily Concert Shenzhen

3 years, 2 months ago

Review: The crazy genius of playing Messiaen’s 13 bird-inspired piano solos at L.A.’s Audubon Center

LA Times

Like most arts groups, Piano Spheres got through a performance-free pandemic the best it could on Zoom. The occasion was a rare complete performance of Messiaen’s obsessive “Catalogue d’Oiseaux,” 13 arresting virtuosic solo pieces suffused with the calls of dozens of birds that the composer heard while birding in the French countryside during the mid-1950s. Although single-minded birder pianists with …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Pianists experiment with genres at jazz festival

China Daily

At the 55th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Montreux Jazz Artists Foundation teamed up with the New York-based Lang Lang International Music Foundation to shine a light on the need to build bridges using the universal language of music. "The idea was to invite one young musician from the Lang Lang Foundation and another from the …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Pianists to set the tune

China Daily

The symphony orchestra and singers from the Tianjin Song and Dance Theater, along with the Beijing Philharmonic Choir, perform Dongfang Hong, a gala concert, at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing in December. According to Wu, the eight young Chinese pianists will also perform as soloists, featuring pieces composed by Chinese musicians that have been inspired by folk culture …

China Chinese Beijing

3 years, 8 months ago

Pianists to set the tune

China Daily

Conductor Yang Li, who will perform in the anniversary concerts, at a show with a children's choir in the Forbidden City Concert Hall in January. Long March Suite, a large-scale symphonic and choral concert, will be held at the Forbidden City Concert Hall under the baton of Zheng on June 25. Featuring 12 poems by Xiao about the Long March-an …

Zheng

3 years, 8 months ago

Pianists to set the tune

China Daily

Zheng Jian, artistic director of the Tianjin Song and Dance Theater, conducts at the December concert. Forbidden City venue will stage a musical extravaganza in June as part of celebrations marking the Party's 100th anniversary, Chen Nan reports. The admittedly unusual arrangement will be seen at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing on June 10 when eight young pianists …

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Tear-jerking Channel 4 series returning to screens next month - but with beloved star missing as they 'pass on the baton'

John Barstow, gifted pianist and teacher who shaped a generation of top performers

Marking the centennial of jazz pianist Bud Powell

Festival harmonizes young pianists with orchestras

Festival harmonizes young pianists with orchestras

Pianist’s Melbourne recital cancelled after comments on Gaza journalists

Concert is triumph of technique

Concert is triumph of technique

Young pianists find keys to success

Young pianists find keys to success

Young pianists find keys to success

Young pianists find keys to success

Relive the 2023 American Pianists Awards from Indianapolis

Remembering pianist and NEA Jazz Master Ahmad Jamal

The Piano viewers in tears at ‘astonishingly beautiful’ final performance from blind winner Lucy, 13

Young pianist's concert tour ends at Beijing Concert Hall

A conductor of cultural nuance shows his skills

Pianist's travels take her on classical journey

Pianist's travels take her on classical journey

Review: The crazy genius of playing Messiaen’s 13 bird-inspired piano solos at L.A.’s Audubon Center

Pianists experiment with genres at jazz festival

Pianists to set the tune

Pianists to set the tune

Pianists to set the tune