Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST John Lill just might be the most famous pianist you've never heard of
before. The British-born artist turns 61 this year. ...LINK to complete news story
Thursday, 29 September 2005
Eugenia Zuckerman Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST Flutist Eugenia Zuckerman has been a special correspondent for CBS News Sunday
Morning since December 1981, covering classical music, dance and the arts
for the critically acclaimed broadcast.
...LINK to complete news story
Wednesday, 28 September 2005
Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST Pianist Menahem Pressler has been awarded the Deutsche Bundesverdienstkreuz First Class, Germany's highest civilian award.
Pressler is a founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio, which first performed in 1955 at the Berkshire Music Festival and celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. He has made more than 50 recordings with the chamber group as well as more than 30 solo recordings. ...LINK to complete news story
Sunday, 25 September 2005
Classical pianist Christopher Ungerer talks about the importance of music post 9/11 in his life Lopamudra Maitra Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST CLASSICAL music requires an education in understanding, which is often lacking nowadays,” mentions pianist Christopher Ungerer. Known for his specific renditions of compositions by pianists Tobias Matthay and Artur Schnabel, Ungerer feels it is important to spread the correct message to preserve the heritage of classical music. In Pune recently for a concert by the Poona Music Society, Ungerer spoke about music and the greatest passion of his life—his work. ...LINK to complete news story
Friday, 16 September 2005
Anne-Sophie Mutter on Mozart: 'I've Never Stopped Thinking About Him' Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST Anne-Sophie Mutter greets me briskly across her glass-topped desk, like the captain of industry she is. We're in a small mansion in Munich that houses the Circle of Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, this being the umbrella for a host of performing, recording, educational and charitable activities. It's also the nerve-centre for what might be dubbed Mutter-Previn Enterprises Inc. It's a closely guarded citadel, reflecting her aversion to scrutiny from the outside world: she's been badly bruised by the attentions of the German popular press.
...LINK to complete news story
Saturday, 27 August 2005
Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman will be presented with the Yale University School of Music's Sanford Medal at a ceremony opening the school year on September 1. ...LINK to complete news story
Saturday, 20 August 2005
Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST Theodora Geraets, Holland’s foremost violinist, is making her presence felt on the Bangkok musical scene. The Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with the Bangkok Music School, is to stage a concert entitled Young Thai Talents Meet the Violin Master on Wednesday at the auditorium of the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Highlights of the concert will be pieces for violin and piano performed by Geraets, the first prize-winner of the Dutch Violin Competition, with Jun Komatsu on the piano. ...LINK to complete news story
Wednesday, 10 August 2005
Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST Fleet both of hand and foot,
Jean-Yves Thibaudet worked both sides of the street on Friday night. Here was the French pianist at 9:30 playing Ravel's G-Major Concerto with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. Here he was at 10:30 playing Debussy Preludes at the Kaplan Penthouse. The first concert was at Avery Fisher Hall, the second a short walk across the street and an elevator ride to the 10th floor. ...LINK to complete news story
Monday, 8 August 2005
Now Playing: Remember all those stories last month about the lost PIANO MAN? Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
UPDATE: Mute ‘Piano Man’ May Never Be Identified, Doctors Say
Story By Emily Quinn
08 Aug 2005
Doctors in Kent think that they may never know the identity of the patient known as the “Piano Man,” the London Independent reports. ...LINK to complete news story
Sunday, 7 August 2005
Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST Chu-Fang Huang, 23, won first prize Saturday night in the Cleveland International Piano Competition, becoming the first Chinese citizen to win the competition. Huang also took two of the special prizes ...LINK to complete news story
Chu-Fang Huang, a 23-year-old Chinese pianist who studied at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music, was named first-prize winner of the 2005 Cleveland International Piano Competition after the final round of concertos with the Cleveland Orchestra on Saturday at Severance Hall. ...LINK to complete news story
Wednesday, 3 August 2005
Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST Pianist Emanuel Ax will miss two planned appearances at the Mostly Mozart Festival because he has fractured a rib, Lincoln Center announced. ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST Everyone knows that Nashville is Music City. But classical music? Enter Gil Perel, contrabassoonist for the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. ...LINK to complete news story
Saturday, 30 July 2005
Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST
Violinist Janine Jansen...
By Michael Church A Prodigy? ... 'The Word Means Nothing to Me' -
Evening Standard [London] ... via Andante... ...LINK to complete news story
Topic: INSTRUMENTALIST Violinist Nicolas Kendall doesn't just want to be another brick in the wall that keeps young people out of the classical concert halls. ...LINK to complete news story
Angela Hewitt is a highly esteemed pianist, particularly noted as a Bach performer, but accomplished in an exceptionally large repertory that embraces all eras of keyboard music. The daughter of an organist, Hewitt began to study piano at age three, making a public debut at the age of four, winning a scholarship at six, and eventually adding studies in ballet, singing, violin, and recorder. ...LINK to complete BIOGRAPHY......LINK to DISCOGRAPHY
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Anne-Sophie Mutter greets me briskly across her glass-topped desk, like the captain of industry she is. We're in a small mansion in Munich that houses the Circle of Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, this being the umbrella for a host of performing, recording, educational and charitable activities. It's also the nerve-centre for what might be dubbed Mutter-Previn Enterprises Inc. It's a closely guarded citadel, reflecting her aversion to scrutiny from the outside world: she's been badly bruised by the attentions of the German popular press.
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman will be 
Theodora Geraets, Holland’s foremost violinist, is making her presence felt on the Bangkok musical scene. The Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with the Bangkok Music School, is to stage a concert entitled Young Thai Talents Meet the Violin Master on Wednesday at the auditorium of the Stock Exchange of Thailand. Highlights of the concert will be pieces for violin and piano performed by Geraets, the first prize-winner of the Dutch Violin Competition, with Jun Komatsu on the piano. 
Fleet both of hand and foot,
Jean-Yves Thibaudet worked both sides of the street on Friday night. Here was the French pianist at 9:30 playing Ravel's G-Major Concerto with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. Here he was at 10:30 playing Debussy Preludes at the Kaplan Penthouse. The first concert was at Avery Fisher Hall, the second a short walk across the street and an elevator ride to the 10th floor.
Chu-Fang Huang, 23, won first prize Saturday night in the Cleveland International Piano Competition, becoming the first Chinese citizen to win the competition. Huang also took two of the special prizes
Pianist Emanuel Ax will miss two planned appearances
Everyone knows that Nashville is Music City.
Violinist Janine Jansen...
Violinist Nicolas Kendall doesn't just want to be 
Two volumes of Bach's keyboard concertos recorded by pianist Angela Hewitt and the Australian Chamber Orchestra debuted on the Billboard classical chart this week at number 20 and number 24.
