Twenty-two years ago, Olga Kern walked onto the Bass Performance Hall stage in Fort Worth, Texas and sat before a grand piano. Surrounded by violists with raised bows, she began Sergei Rachmaninoff’s ...

Some pianists don’t just hit notes; they make the music feel alive. This list collects the Best Classical Pianists, musicians who made people feel those notes when they played. Whether they played a ...

Awadagin Pratt, the first Black pianist to win the Naumburg International Competition in 1992 (he is also a violinist and conductor), a social justice champion and the newly minted professor of piano ...

Internationally renowned Italian pianist and conductor Maurizio Pollini has died at the age of 82, the Teatro alla Scala opera house in his native Milan said on Saturday. The Scala was mourning "one ...

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's piano recital Saturday afternoon at the Terrace Theater left a mixed impression. Bavouzet is clearly intelligent and ambitious -- not many pianists dare take on the cosmic ...

Haruki Takeuchi, a senior at Farragut High School, is Knoxville's most accomplished young pianist and among the best young pianists in the world. In the last few years, he has won too many ...

Jahari Stampley keeps coming back to one word to describe the past couple months: “crazy.” As in, it’s crazy that the 24-year-old born and raised in Austin made it into the prestigious Herbie Hancock ...

Pianist Conrad Tao "Rach"-ed the room Saturday night at Little Rock's Robinson Center Performance Hall. Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, nicknamed the "Rach 3," is billed as possibly the ...

The Keystone Korner was a legendary jazz club in San Francisco between 1972 and 1983, a place where Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Art Blakey and Dexter Gordon recorded important live albums. Owner Todd Barkan ...