Mr. Graffman was a onetime child prodigy whose career was curtailed by a neurological condition that restricted him to his ...

Throughout history, prisoners of war have faced some of the harshest conditions imaginable. These men endured starvation, ...

British pianist Nicholas McCarthy, 36 years old, was born without a right hand. He never formally learned to play a musical ...

Best known by far is Michael Tippett’s Piano Concerto, a top-three in my Tippett favourites list, alongside the Fantasia on a Theme by Corelli and the Second String Quartet. I observed recently in ...

Today's Video of the Day is a performance of Badinerie from Britten's Diversions by pianist Clare Hammond with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor George Vass. This recording features on her new ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra will open its 2025-26 season with "Opening Night: Romeo & Juliet," featuring 2024 Wideman Piano Competition winner Yizhen Chen. The concert will be ...

The premiere was 25 years late. In West Berlin’s ultramodern Conservatory Concert Hall one night last week, a large crowd gathered for the first performance of Piano Concerto No. 4, written by ...

Ananda Sukarlan is a pianist and composer who goes far beyond the traditional perception of music. He creates works for those whom society often considers incapable of playing – people with ...

During the performing arts season, arts editor Jim Higgins recommends promising music, dance and theater productions to see in the coming month. Look for these stories in the newspaper the final ...

This is the 150th birth anniversary year of the great French composer, pianist and conductor Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). His music is being celebrated all over the world. The Symphony Orchestra of ...

as the world's only professional one-handed concert pianist. But he wasn't the first, and he has no intention of being the last. "Each century from the 19th century tended to have this kind of one ...

The programme is a fine juxtaposition of the familiar with the less familiar, and I have been often overjoyed to find unfamiliar gems. “Lerchengesang” from Op. 70 has a piano part which is not just ...