On a mostly listless Tuesday at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, Conrad Tao sat at his dressing room piano in casual street clothes and played a snippet of the world’s most terrifying ...

When Daniil Trifonov made it to the final round of the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, he had a tough choice to make. Like several of his competitors, Trifonov had been practicing ...

Based on what he has played, and is playing this weekend, with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, you'd think pianist Norman Krieger only took on super-size concertos. In his two previous appearances ...

In 1997, a 28-year-old pianist without much of a reputation — he was a high school German teacher in Mountain View — moved to the final round of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort ...

Seldom do you hear such an explosion of absolute joy at the end of a Seattle Symphony concert. On Thursday evening, the usually decorous audience leapt out of their seats for a shouting, hooting, ...

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Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov performs at Carnegie Hall in New York City in October 2017. Trifonov played at Boston’s Symphony Hall last Thursday. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS The Oscar-winning 1996 film ...

Sir Mark Elder’s concert with the Chicago Symphony this past weekend had a fine architecture: A charming but otherwise unremarkable Dvorak symphonic poem led to Rachmaninoff’s thrilling Piano Concerto ...

It’s not hyperbole to say that Rachmaninoff is in Russian-American pianist Olga Kern‘s DNA. “I play Rachmaninoff all my life,” said the 50-year-old Kern, who will play the composer’s Piano Concerto No ...