Piotr Alexewicz, who once dreamed of becoming an orchestra conductor and used to sing in a choir, is one of the three Poles ...

Back in the 2021 Warsaw Competition the 17-year-old Hao Rao’s freshness and enthusiasm held their own among his formidable colleagues in both the semi-final and final rounds. Fast forward to 2025, and ...

Twenty pianists, including three Poles, have advanced to the third stage of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano ...

Canadian pianist Eric Guo opened the second day of performances in round two of the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw on Friday.

Ottorino Respighi’s Fountains of Rome portrays four fountains in music by turns gently rippling, spraying, splashing and ...

A big trend in orchestras over the past decade has been screening classic films with symphonies playing the scores. This ...

Today in History for Oct. 21: In 1555, Queen Mary of England launched a persecution campaign against Protestants that resulted in the deaths of more than 200 people.

In my 2021 Gramophone Chopin Competition blog, I wrote the following about Hyu’s older sibling Hyuk Lee: ‘Everything Lee plays sounds the same. He doesn’t make magic. He doesn’t make waves, nor take ...

This year marks the 10th anniversary of pianist Cho Seong-jin, 31, winning the Chopin Competition in Poland. Ten years is enough time to change even the landscape. According to the results of the ...