Artistic research is an expanding sector at institutions worldwide. In a performance at Cremona Musica, pianist Giusy Caruso performed a “Contrapuntal dialogue between a pianist and her avatar in the Metaverse”. Piano Street had a chance to experience the performance and to talk to Caruso about her artistic research project. The pianist Giusy Caruso is a concert artist and academic […]

The new book “Musical Revolutions” encompasses nearly two millennia of Western music and investigates how the sounds of the Western World changed. Piano Street had a talk with its author, Stuart Isacoff, a performing pianist, prize-winning author and lecturer. In his latest book, Isacoff tells the exciting story of Western music’s evolution by investigating core questions like: From noise to […]

The annual music exhibition Cremona Musica is now one of the most important music exhibitions in the world and opened up its 2022 edition more exuberantly than ever. A rich program consisting of 180 events not only displayed the joy of having left the pandemic behind, but also manifested the new worldwide digital reality through a rich digital streaming coverage […]

An exciting piano event starts today in the Netherlands. The 2022 edition of Liszt Utrecht opens its doors with a set of novelties. The event has chosen to delete the word “competition” from its name and has subsequently introduced a number of themes in a most innovative manner. During a five-day festival, ten pianists present their piano playing in different […]

The list of renowned pianists who have also conducted is long; Barenboim, Schiff, Uchida, Pletnev, Kahane, Anda, Solti and Bernstein. Is conducting from the piano “real conducting”, and what training do you need to be able to do it? The new project ”Conducting from the Piano” by the Géza Anda Foundation in Zurich offers masterclasses and rehearsals with orchestra for […]

The 18th edition of the Chopin and His Europe Festival is presently taking place in Warsaw. This year 30 concerts are scheduled, and among them piano recitals by numerous outstanding pianists, including laureates of the Chopin Competition. Among these, Bruce Liu, the winner of the 2021 Competition. Alexander Gadjiev on life after The Chopin Competition Alexander Gadjiev, laureate of the […]

Last year, the completely new Pleyel instruments from the Algam company, which bought the brand in 2007, was presented to distributors. For the first time since Pleyel was founded in 1807, its pianos are made outside Europe. 22 degrees Celsius, 52.1% humidity; all the conditions are right. On the walls, the thermometers are constantly alert. If there is even the […]

Listening to star violinist Augustin Hadelich the words of George Bernard Shaw come to mind, advising the young Jascha Heifetz to play something badly every night before going to bed, instead of saying prayers, as not to provoke a jealous God by ‘playing with such superhuman perfection’. And Zlata Chochieva, famous for her recording of the complete Chopin Etudes, commented […]

The Piano Visions recital series at the Art Academy in Stockholm welcomed British Pianist Imogen Cooper for two recitals on November 20 and 21, 2021. It was truly fascinating to hear Cooper play Schubert live, a composer which has rendered her great acclaim worldwide. But she also offered the Swedish audience a glimpse into her earlier life, by including repertoire […]

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” — George Bernard Shaw It is often difficult to understand the present even if you know your history, but watching Polanski’s movie “The Pianist” can at least help us to understand the greatness of music as an artform and that humanism can […]

In the world of piano playing the seat is often taken for granted and we rarely read about manufacturers focusing on the design of piano stools and benches. Piano Street has talked to Zayda Jiménez, founder of Kaunus, a manufacturer who takes both the visual and functional aspects of piano bench design to a new height. Passion and vision, art […]

– The Warsaw Omni Face – Interview with Chopin Institute’s Aleksander Laskowski A very familiar face before and during the 18th International Chopin Competition is the one belonging to Aleksander Laskowski. Frequent in official matters, televised transmissions and in social media, the dynamic Chopin Institute’s press spokesman represents forces bringing the competition into the future. He also displays a brilliant […]