5. Rebecca Clarke – Piano Trio Rebecca Clarke was a 20th-century British composer, who trained at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London before crossing the pond and spending ...

It was written in 1957 for his son Maxim’s 19th birthday, and it would be fair to say the work is one of the composer’s jollier pieces. It even includes a tongue-in-cheek reference to young Maxim’s ...

Grant's big musical obsession was with Bach, and, dissatisfied with his piano-playing ability, he worked in the digital domain, using a MIDI interface to control a "virtual" piano.

Find out all the results from the countdown. ABC Classic is celebrating the piano in its annual poll to find Australia's favourite classical music, the Classic 100.

Lang Lang, pianist This music has a magical appeal to people who never listen to classical music. When I went to Beijing to learn the piano, we stayed in a suburb, because it was cheap.

While there is some piano music composed for the right hand alone, the catalogue is much smaller, with no-one appearing to have advocated as strongly for the repertoire as Wittgenstein.

Neo-classical pianist and composer BLKBOK (Charles Wilson III) found his calling at age six while performing a Mozart piece on the piano in his hometown of Detroit. Since then, the artist has ...

Richard Termine [Read all of our classical music coverage here.] Readers! The big news this week was the premieres — both on Thursday — of new piano concertos by Thomas Adès and John Adams.

In the classical music world, a profession exists that feels as quaint as phrenology or book-binding – piano tuning. In the popular imagination, the piano tuner was an elderly man, probably ...

Teresita Gómez learned piano in secret at the exclusive fine arts school where her parents worked. She's now a celebrated classical pianist and a longtime promoter of music by Colombian composers.