Pianist News

Esteemed pianist, composer, and professor Jeffrey Biegel chatted with Digital Journal about his 2019 Grammy nomination for "Best Classical Compendium."

Singer-songwriter and pianist Sam Baker has released his new studio album "Land of Doubt," which is an intense collection of songs.

With a crumbling glacier for a backdrop, a famed Italian composer played a historic solo on a baby grand piano to bring to the world's attention the beauty of the Arctic and our need to protect it at all costs.

Toronto - From the peak of his career to his death in 1982, Glenn Gould was a baffling enigma as much as he was a classical-music superstar. As many artistic geniuses were, from Picasso to Salinger, the Toronto pianist could be eccentric and difficult.

Alice-Herz Sommer, a holocaust survivor, died Sunday in London. Herz-Sommer took great pride in her music, saying “my world is music” in a short film about her which has been nominated for best short documentary at next week’s Academy Awards.

Vancouver - Five-year-old Ryan Wang claims that "Music is in my head". Wang is from Vancouver BC, Canada. Before his mother decided that he should take music lessons last year, Ryan had spent many hours playing on an electric keyboard.

Los Angeles - Roger Williams, an American pianist who played for nine United States Presidents, has died at the age of 87. Williams, known for his hit tune "Autumn Leaves," perished from complications related to his pancreatic cancer.

A musician who lost both arms in a childhood accident played the piano and sang to win the 2010 China’s Got Talent competition.

Don't call him a prodigy. Fifteen-year-old Jan Lisiecki hates the term, often leveled at him when classical music lovers hear his passionate performances live or on his debut CD.

Santiago - Today is the 19th anniversary of the death of Claudio Arrau. The Chilean-American pianist, renowned throughout the world as one of the greatest keyboard masters of the XX century, died in Austria on this date in 1991.

Paris -- Jazz legend Oscar Peterson has been named the winner of the 2000 International Music Council UNESCO Music Prize. The Montreal-born Jazz pianist is the first Canadian to receive the honour since it was created in 1975 by the United Natio...