The two concertos were the first works of significance composed by Chopin after graduation. Both clearly refer to the form and convention of concertos created in the brillant style, the style of piano ...

Frédéric Chopin wrote some of the most famous piano music ever, but where should you start? Our handy guide will show you what to listen out for and what to go for next. Chopin and the piano go ...

How a Chopin piano competition helped me find joy in a dark world - FIRST PERSON: It’s called the Olympic Games of the piano ...

Hershey Felder as Monsieur Chopin features the romantic story and music of the Polish pianist-composer Fryderyk Chopin, set ...

Most pianists, amateur or professional, have some Chopin in their repertoire. As one very much of the former variety, I went along to the UK’s first Chopin piano weekend – and here’s what I learned.

“Dearly beloved father; it would be easier for me to express my feelings in musical phrases...” —Seven-year-old Chopin in a letter to his father. The name of Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) needs no ...

David Wilde, who has died aged 90, was a thoughtful and dazzling pianist, though not one for the faint hearted; he was also a talented composer, most notably of The Cellist of Sarajevo, a poignant ...

The last piano on which Frederic Chopin played and composed in Paris is being renovated by a U.S. expert who is giving it back its original mid-19th century characteristics. Paul McNulty is spending ...

“Funnily enough, I never played Chopin as a student,” he says on the phone from London. “I didn’t understand the music, I didn’t like it … I was playing lots of Bach and lots of 20th century, those ...

Listen to "Beanie - Chezile" reimagined in the style of Chopin. About Andy Morris: Andy Morris is a pianist based in Indiana ...

This October, renowned Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino will step on Poland’s Warsaw Philharmonic Hall stage in the 18th Chopin International Piano Competition. Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino performs ...

It's the season of giving in Nashville, Tennessee, and the inaugural Piano Rainbow Initiative is in-tune with the times. The musical initiative, a sister project of Music City Chopin, is gifting 10 ...