Piano Music in the News

Concord 18-year-old talent celebrates with recital Embed multimedia (photos, galleries, audio, map):  Michael Sink It was probably inevitable. After all, Michael Sink's dad Tim plays saxophone, brother Steve plays guitar, brother Chris plays piano, and Grandpa played too. By the time he was 3 years old, Sink had found the family piano. "I'm not sure if it spoke to me early on," Sink said of jazz ...

Come along this Saturday and experience Andreas Boyde playing on Auckland Museum’s magnificent Fazioli Piano.

Piano legend Leon Fleisher plays for the Supreme Court today, while Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveals her list of favorite recordings.

80-year-old Swedish-Japanese pianist Fuzjko Hemming will perform piano solo concerts, starting July 5, at such renowned venues as Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles) and Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center (New York). Despite her severe hearing difficulties and turbulent life, Fuzjko has beaten the odds to become a highly acclaimed concert pianist. ...

A CHALLENGING task to hold a concert on top of a natural landmark near Chilworth has seen a piano pushed up a hill by rugby players.

The Fil-Am Chamber Music Society is presenting its fourth cello-piano concert series at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church this Saturday, May 19 at 7 p.m.

Exercises , a new mini-album by the Montreal musician CFCF (Mike Silver) for Toronto's Paper Bag Records, is a masterpiece of restraint. With stately piano melodies informed by Ryuichi Sakamoto and judiciously applied synthesizers that convey a subtle touch of the cosmic, it's one of the most limpid recordings I've heard lately...

Flowers and sweets are all very well, but Mother's Day is really about piano music -- or so it would seem from the concerts on offer this year. If you like your pianism undiluted, there's the much-heralded Yulianna Avdeeva , the first woman in 45 years to capture gold at Warsaw's International Chopin Competition, in a mouth-watering Bach-Chopin-Ravel-Prokofiev recital presented by the Frederic ...

For the ears, a cocktail party presents a chaotic scene: glasses clink, voices buzz, light piano music may waft down from the stage. A group of researchers at The John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., is trying to understand how the brain makes sense of such complex auditory environments. The team is testing how humans track sound patterns over time, and under what circumstances the brain ...

Music: Bratty Bach, piano ambassadors and Baroque beauty Published May 3, 2012 05:46PM MDT Bratty Bach Evan Shinners, lauded in the Huffington Post for “one of the brattiest Bach recordings to come along since Glenn Gould himself,” performs music by Bach as part of the Madeleine Festival of the Arts. When • Sunday, May 6, at 8 p.m. Where • Cathedral of the Madeleine, 331 E. South Temple, Salt ...