This Chicago Symphony Orchestra program running through Saturday offers an exciting glimpse into what Mäkelä, the group's music director designate, has in store for local audiences.

Controversy arose last month at the 19 th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw when American-Chinese pianist Eric Lu was awarded the first prize. After being placed fourth in the ...

LaZona Pictures, the distribution label of Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson’s Madrid-based LaZona group, has acquired Spanish rights to lavish Polish biopic “Chopin, Chopin!” (“Chopin, a Sonata in Paris”), ...

Chinese pianist Wang Zitong, 26, takes third place at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw on Tuesday, along with the Krystian Zimerman Award for the best performance of ...

Twenty-seven-year-old Eric Lu won the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition (ph) on Tuesday in Warsaw, Poland. It's the first time an American has taken top honors at the competition since ...

Yang told reporters later that day he felt the same way as after any other performance. "It's always a kind of relief. I try to remember only the good moments and quickly forget what could have gone ...

Japan's Miyu Shindo, one of the finalists in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, has said she was drawn to the Piano Concerto in E minor as she loves the many colours and ...

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), the “poet of the piano,” was well-known even in colonial Korea. Articles introduced Chopin and his contemporary Franz Liszt (1811–1886), dubbed the “king of the piano” ...

Internationally acclaimed Australian-British pianist Jayson Gillham turns his artistry to the Etudes of Chopin: music written to take pianists to the extremes of virtuosity while enchanting listeners ...

He was one of the greatest composers of the Romantic, or indeed of any era. Make no mistake, Frédéric Chopin had a huge influence on classical music - and on piano repertoire in particular. Born in ...

This story is being updated daily through June 1 with reviews of the semifinal round. FORT WORTH — The first two rounds of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition ended Sunday, May 25, with ...

Pianist Brian Ganz reflects on his lifelong connection to Frédéric Chopin. As part of the "Extreme Chopin" series at the Music Center at Strathmore, pianist Brian Ganz is on a journey to perform ...