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

And So It Goes,” this year’s acclaimed two-part HBO documentary about the pop superstar, Elizabeth Weber says that she was ...

To open, Ryan Bancroft has chosen Britten’s Four Sea Interludes. They’re taken from his opera Peter Grimes, a compelling ...

American pianist Eric Lu won the top prize at the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw on Tuesday.

For two decades now, a certain important pretext has drawn photojournalist Wojciech Grzędziński away from the front line and traditionally leads him to Warsaw - the Chopin International Piano ...

Preparing today’s Chopin Talk segment prevented me from hearing this morning’s first five participants in real time, although I managed to catch the rest in person. I’m grateful to The Chopin ...

‘The first final stretch’ sounds like an oxymoron worthy of the American baseball legend Yogi Berra (‘It’s so crowded nobody goes there anymore’, ‘the future ain’t what it used to be’, etc.). But ...

The pianist couldn’t hold back tears as she played one of the world’s most moving pieces of music. A 24-year-old Japanese pianist was moved to tears during her own performance of Frédéric Chopin’s ...

When a fitness reporter traveled to a village in France to meet centenarian yoga teacher Charlotte Chopin, she was reminded that movement didn’t have to be complicated. By Danielle Friedman Times ...

Born in 1998, Pawlak is a graduate of the Stanislaw Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdansk and currently studies at the International Piano Academy Lake Como in Italy. He has won numerous international ...

From Tuesday to Thursday, they will be taking part in the third stage auditions, playing monumental sonatas and mazurkas, which require not only outstanding skills, but also knowledge of their ...