An Arizona-based professional pianist and music director is bringing his guitar and piano lessons to Cuesta College as a community education class, and all students have to do is tune in online with ...

Mark Forrest continues his week of afternoons of specially recorded concert perfomances with exclusive archive recordings of the late, great Alfred Brendel playing the Beethoven piano concertos to ...

Dave Brubeck called her a great and Mary Lou Williams gave her advice. But the prodigy grew frustrated with jazz, quit and started dismantling her instrument. A superb new reissue showcases her ...

Mark Forrest begins a week of afternoons of specially recorded music including exclusive archive recordings of the late, great Alfred Brendel performing the Beethoven piano concertos in Germany. We ...

In a high-concept meta bait-and-switch, Pam Tanowitz choreographed Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony, then swapped out the score for a new para-Pastoral, by Caroline Shaw. Anyone (okay, almost nobody) can ...

All Classical Radio has named its new CEO and president, and his name and voice might be familiar to public radio die-hards. Fred Child, who hosted the nationally syndicated classical music radio ...

Armin van Buuren joins Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to celebrate a landmark moment in his artistic evolution: the debut of his first-ever classical album, Piano, due out October 31, exclusively on Apple ...

He was tall with a distinguished mustache and magic fingers. Long fingers that traveled down the Mississippi River and connected to New Orleans. Butch Thompson was a Minnesota musical giant, the ...

Based on its trailer, this Chinese movie based on the maestro’s memoir looks like a manic, absurdist romp — but will it ever be shown in the U.S.? By Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, Editors ...

Internationally acclaimed pianist Lang Lang launches his latest album Piano Book 2, in New York City on Sept 20. BELINDA ROBINSON / CHINA DAILY Internationally acclaimed Chinese pianist Lang Lang ...

One of the world’s most prestigious classical piano competitions opens this week in Warsaw with 84 participants from 20 countries, including five Canadians. The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano ...

When you think of rock anthems, the roaring riffs of electric guitars often steal the spotlight. Yet, tucked away beneath the layers of distortion, many of your favourite hits have a surprising origin ...