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To paraphrase an old Cat Stevens tune, it wasn’t just another Saturday night for John Chan. That’s because the 18 year old pianist walked away the winner of the Rose Bowl Saturday at the Kiwanis Music Festival. The West Island College high school graduate performed the Rachm...
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Lang Lang is one of the most famous classical pianists in the world today. A superstar, really, at just 30 years old. But his story begins before he was born in Shenyang, in northeastern China. His mother played classical music to him while in the womb. When he was two years-old, his parents spent h...
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After nearly a dozen years, pianist Jean Louis Steuerman returns to the Monterey Symphony to perform Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto from March 22-24. Max Bragado-Darman, music director, will conduct. Steuerman’s first area performance was with the Carmel Bach Festival in the ea...
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Harry Connick Jr. deciphers the work of his piano mentor James Booker in Lily Keber's film "Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker," that receives its world premiere today at SXSW. He explains in the film that Booker's left hand begins with Chopin, leaving the right hand to work ...
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This week's Crossover guest is one of the most well-known pianists in classical music - Emanuel Ax. Mr. Ax is a multiple Grammy winner in both solo and chamber performances, and has enjoyed a career that has spanned over four decades. Emanuel Ax was born in Lviv in western Ukraine in th...
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How do classical artists grab attention these days? Simple — or, actually, not so simple at all. They build their fan bases on YouTube, one page hit at a time. It's a model that's familiar in pop culture, from Justin Bieber to 50 Shades of Grey: Get the content out there any way yo...
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To fans of the Oscar-awarding film Amour, Alexandre Tharaud is known for his supporting role as a former piano student of the film's elderly leading lady. But actually, his talent as a pianist is better in reality than in the film. Tharaud won first place in the piano competition Germa...
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Prescott pianist Christina Cuda Robertson will present an inaugural concert on a recently restored 1896 Hamburg Steinway model C piano at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 17, at American Lutheran Church, 1085 Scott Drive in Prescott.The program, entitled "What's in a Name," will include compositions by Mozart, ...
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COLLEGEVILLE — Luxembourg concert pianist Jean Muller will perform a concert at 8 p.m. April 10 at St. John’s University in Collegeville. It is one of six concerts in the Midwest that is part of the Luxembourg American Cultural Society’s “Sounds of Luxembourg&rdqu...
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Jazz greats saxophonist David Sanborn and pianist Bob James are St. Cecilia Music Center’s Great Artists for 2013. Sanborn, a six-time Grammy Award winner who has collaborated with Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, and James, a two-time Grammy Awar...
