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Ruth Slenczynska, one of the most mesmerizing pianists alive today, celebrates her 100th birthday on January 15, 2025. A former child prodigy, her nine-decade career represents a living link to the Golden Age of the Piano, embodying its spirit through her artistry, her lineage, and her role as a keeper of its traditions. Read more
We wish you a Happy New Year with a list of recommended reading from Piano Street. These are the most read, discussed or shared articles of 2024. Read more
“He has everything and more – tenderness and also the demonic element. I never heard anything like that,” as Martha Argerich once said of Daniil Trifonov. To celebrate the end of the year, the star pianist performs Johannes Brahms’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko on December 31. Piano Street’s members are invited to watch the livestream. Read more
Tradition meets modernity this year on NPR's traditional season’s celebration ”A Jazz Piano Christmas”, recorded live at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. on December 13. Read more
Pianist Tamara Stefanovich is a well-known name to concert audiences throughout the world and to discophiles maybe mostly known for her engagement in contemporary and 20th century repertoire. Piano Street is happy to get a chance to talk to the Berlin based Yugoslavia-born pianist. Read more
Piano News Flash
2025-01-17
Pianist Yeon-Min Park enjoyed her time in Israel, settling in easily. Despite limited prior knowledge, she fell in love with the country and its people, finding surprising similarities between Israel and Korea.
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Korean Chopin to Israel
Pianist Yeon-Min Park enjoyed her time in Israel, settling in easily. Despite limited prior knowledge, she fell in love with the country and its people, finding surprising similarities between Israel and Korea.
Read at jpost.com
2025-01-16
The Juilliard School won 1st, 2nd and 6th prizes at the National Chopin Piano Competition of the United States. The first prize winner is granted participation at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw this fall.
Read at chopin.org
Juilliard Scores at US Chopin Competition
The Juilliard School won 1st, 2nd and 6th prizes at the National Chopin Piano Competition of the United States. The first prize winner is granted participation at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw this fall.
Read at chopin.org
2025-01-15
At the Ojai Music Festival, pianist Vikingur Olafsson casually suggested to composer John Adams, "You know you'll write me a concerto, right?" After a pause, Adams replied, "I guess you're right".
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Vikingur and John Adams
At the Ojai Music Festival, pianist Vikingur Olafsson casually suggested to composer John Adams, "You know you'll write me a concerto, right?" After a pause, Adams replied, "I guess you're right".
Read at nytimes.com
2025-01-14
A new case study pioneers the documentation of how expressive intentions impact upper-body kinematics in expert pianists. It investigates the influence of these intentions across musical contexts on joint range of motion, postures associated with piano-related injuries, and wrist angular jerk, considering both proximal and distal joints.
Read at frontiersin.org
Espressive Playing Can Cause Injury
A new case study pioneers the documentation of how expressive intentions impact upper-body kinematics in expert pianists. It investigates the influence of these intentions across musical contexts on joint range of motion, postures associated with piano-related injuries, and wrist angular jerk, considering both proximal and distal joints.
Read at frontiersin.org
2025-01-14
Prokofiev's "Sarcasms" (1912-14) explores a new musical language. This five-piece suite employs extremes in dynamics, clashing harmonies, and "wrong notes" to represent laughter, creating a seemingly grotesque style with rough accents and jagged rhythms juxtaposed against lyrical themes
Read at interlude.hk
Prokofiev's Sarcasms
Prokofiev's "Sarcasms" (1912-14) explores a new musical language. This five-piece suite employs extremes in dynamics, clashing harmonies, and "wrong notes" to represent laughter, creating a seemingly grotesque style with rough accents and jagged rhythms juxtaposed against lyrical themes
Read at interlude.hk
2025-01-13
Ben Laude covers the finals of the US National Chopin Competition in Miami. Established in 1977 by Blanka A. Rosenstiel, the Chopin Foundation is a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting classical music, inspired by the inaugural US Chopin Competition she presented in Miami in 1975.
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Chopin Backstage in Miami
Ben Laude covers the finals of the US National Chopin Competition in Miami. Established in 1977 by Blanka A. Rosenstiel, the Chopin Foundation is a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting classical music, inspired by the inaugural US Chopin Competition she presented in Miami in 1975.
Read at youtube.com
2025-01-12
Despite his youth, pianist Yoav Levanon boasts an impressive resume: Carnegie Hall, Verbier Festival, Martha Argerich's festival, Fondation Louis Vuitton, collaborations with Barenboim and Perahia. His mature artistry, evident in his profound playing and grounded demeanor, belies his young age.
Read at interlude.hk
About and With Pianist Levanon
Despite his youth, pianist Yoav Levanon boasts an impressive resume: Carnegie Hall, Verbier Festival, Martha Argerich's festival, Fondation Louis Vuitton, collaborations with Barenboim and Perahia. His mature artistry, evident in his profound playing and grounded demeanor, belies his young age.
Read at interlude.hk
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2025-01-08
Aimi Kobayashi:
Aimi Kobayashi, a prizewinner at the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition, plays an all-Schubert recital: the four Impromptus D935, the Sonata in C minor D958 and – with her fellow laureate and husband Kyohei Sorita – the four-hand Rondo in A major D951. Pieces written towards the end of Schubert's life, "when he was 30 or 31 years old…I thought it would be meaningful for me to play them at the same age that this composer of genius wrote them."
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Aimi Kobayashi:
Schubert – Sonata D.958,
Impromptus, Rondo
Aimi Kobayashi, a prizewinner at the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition, plays an all-Schubert recital: the four Impromptus D935, the Sonata in C minor D958 and – with her fellow laureate and husband Kyohei Sorita – the four-hand Rondo in A major D951. Pieces written towards the end of Schubert's life, "when he was 30 or 31 years old…I thought it would be meaningful for me to play them at the same age that this composer of genius wrote them."
Listen on NML >
2025-01-05
Dina Stojilkoviic:
The six scenes in Granados Goyescas, some of them very extensive, are based on drawings by the great Spanish artist Francisco Jose de Goya. They form a cycle of great technical difficulties as well as picturesque and highly emotional expression. Dina Stojilkovic has recorded it on a Steinway B built in 1895, an instrument that Granados might well have had under his virtuoso fingers at the time.
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Dina Stojilkoviic:
Granados – Goyescas
The six scenes in Granados Goyescas, some of them very extensive, are based on drawings by the great Spanish artist Francisco Jose de Goya. They form a cycle of great technical difficulties as well as picturesque and highly emotional expression. Dina Stojilkovic has recorded it on a Steinway B built in 1895, an instrument that Granados might well have had under his virtuoso fingers at the time.
Listen on NML >
2024-12-24
Duo Pleyel:
Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya and Richard Egarr name themselves after the 1848 Pleyel they own. But the instrument on which they play here is a Chris Maene straight-strung concert grand.They have selected and arranged "some of the greatest classical Yuletide hits for your festive delight", such as Handel's Hallelujah chorus arranged by Czerny, and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.
Listen on NML >
Duo Pleyel:
Yuletide Treats
Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya and Richard Egarr name themselves after the 1848 Pleyel they own. But the instrument on which they play here is a Chris Maene straight-strung concert grand.They have selected and arranged "some of the greatest classical Yuletide hits for your festive delight", such as Handel's Hallelujah chorus arranged by Czerny, and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.
Listen on NML >
2024-12-19
Nobuyuki Tsujii:
Nobuyuki Tsujii shared the Gold medal in the Cliburn Piano Competition in 2009, and has become a national hero in Japan – through his pianism but also because of his tireless work for various charities. Menahem Pressler said: “I have the utmost admiration for Tsujii. God has taken his eyes, but given him the physical endowment and mental endowment to encompass the greatest works for piano."
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Nobuyuki Tsujii:
Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 29, An die ferne Geliebte
Nobuyuki Tsujii shared the Gold medal in the Cliburn Piano Competition in 2009, and has become a national hero in Japan – through his pianism but also because of his tireless work for various charities. Menahem Pressler said: “I have the utmost admiration for Tsujii. God has taken his eyes, but given him the physical endowment and mental endowment to encompass the greatest works for piano."
Listen on NML >
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Rachmaninoff's complete piano works are now available in our sheet music library.
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Pages about composer have a new design with additional content and the best solo piano pieces listed separately for composers such as Beethoven and Chopin.
26 November 2021:
A new issue of the magazine about the world of piano competitions is available for free download at Piano Street.
8 October 2021:
Piano Street's multimedia tool for watching the Chopin Competition has been updated.
24 September 2021:
Piano Street participated in the annual Media Lounge of Cremona Musica.
15 January 2021:
Urtext editions of Debussy Clair de lune, Chopin Prelude in E minor and Major Piano Scales are now available to download for free at Piano Street.
24 October 2020:
New pieces by Bach and Mozart with piano practice tips have been added to the line of Instructive Editions.
10 April 2018:
Visit Piano Street at the Frankfurt Music Expo.
The sheet music library now contains the complete solo keyboard pieces by J. S. Bach.
12 September 2023:
Rachmaninoff's complete piano works are now available in our sheet music library.
26 January 2023:
The complete piano works of 12 composers are now available in our sheet music library.
1 February 2022:
We celebrate 20 years online with an updated webdesign of pianostreet.com and a special bonus package for all our memebers!
10 January 2022:
Pages about composer have a new design with additional content and the best solo piano pieces listed separately for composers such as Beethoven and Chopin.
26 November 2021:
A new issue of the magazine about the world of piano competitions is available for free download at Piano Street.
8 October 2021:
Piano Street's multimedia tool for watching the Chopin Competition has been updated.
24 September 2021:
Piano Street participated in the annual Media Lounge of Cremona Musica.
15 January 2021:
Urtext editions of Debussy Clair de lune, Chopin Prelude in E minor and Major Piano Scales are now available to download for free at Piano Street.
24 October 2020:
New pieces by Bach and Mozart with piano practice tips have been added to the line of Instructive Editions.
10 April 2018:
Visit Piano Street at the Frankfurt Music Expo.