Every great pianist learns the Chopin etudes and many pianists venture to play a few of them in public. But it is the rare keyboard athlete who dares to play them all in one sitting and before a live ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Little music so combines poetry and mystery with the most formidable technical challenges as Chopin's Etudes, the two sets of 12 studies ...

Frederic Chopin began composing his 27 piano etudes when he was 19 years old. They are technical exercises, systematically moving from one petrifying set of challenges to the next. Of course, when ...

Ever since Yunchan Lim became the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn Gold Medal in June 2022, the piano grapevine has been buzzing with news of his prowess. Audiences in Fort Worth were blown ...

Internationally acclaimed pianist Jayson Gillham turns his artistry to Chopin’s Etudes: written to take pianists to the ...

"While I get to play music from many different eras, Chopin remains at the heart of my concert life," says Charles Richard-Hamelin, who has just released Ballades & Impromptus, his third all-Chopin ...

For a test of artistry, courage and endurance, together with an obsessive focus on one composer, there is nothing quite like ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "At first glance, this program can look a bit like a potpourri of disconnected ...

First Decca studio album of 20-year-old pianist released on April 19; Lim to kick off national recital tour in June When practicing for the recording of his first solo album, “Chopin Etudes,” which ...

The International Chopin Piano Competition is entering its final round, with performances that attract millions of viewers.

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own,” Oscar Wilde. Born exactly 200 years ago, on 1 March 1810 ...