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So on 29 March 2019 something momentous was meant to happen, but it isn't - phew, at least for now - thank EU very much! And we can, ins...

Writing a piece about the Golden Age of Pianists for Primephonic, I couldn't resist including one of the most startling, inspiring and ...

Yes, that is a picture of Lang Lang playing a piano on a flooded heath. As I always say, chacun à son gout . He made quite a pig's ...

Wonderful Webmaster, a fount of anniversary knowledge, writes to remind me that today is the birthday of Wilhelm Kempff , who was born in Ju...

The final evening of the Manchester International Concerto Competition for Young Pianists last Friday was quite an event. With two categorie...

The semi-finals of the First Manchester International Concerto Competition for Young Pianists , to give it its full name, kicked off yesterd...

Talk of the town this weekend is Russian pianist Mikhail Rudy's stage version of The Pianist , which opens for a two-week run at the stu...

My poor old piano has been a bit neglected lately. Last week my editor (novels) went on holiday for half term and I can't make much pro...

Opera Chic has some distressing news: Vladimir Ashkenazy has apparently decided to stop giving concerts as a pianist because he has a dege...

So today I had a call asking me to go on BBC Radio 4 to talk about Hattogate. Dropped everything and ran to Broadcasting House...only to dis...

Marc-Andre Hamelin will be at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Sunday afternoon, 18 February , 3.30pm, to play Beethoven's two last sonatas a...

Rustem Hayroudinoff is one of those musicians who knock the spots off overhyped oriental kiddies and wolf-keeping Europeans in terms of gen...

The wonderful Russian pianist Nina Milkina died last week at the age of 87. I was lucky enough to meet her a few years ago for an interview ...

Krystian Zimerman notches up half a century today. When I was 14, I went with my parents to hear him play at the Royal Festival Hall. He was...

Here's the review from the New York Times of Pogorelich playing at the Metropolitan Museum a couple of weeks ago, which I finally got ...

...The Guardian has got hold of all Andras Schiff's lectures at the Wigmore Hall and you can listen to them online here . The Guardian ...

My article for International Piano about Grigory Sokolov is now available to read on my permasite. Click here . Anyone who remembers me writ...

The Leeds International Piano Competition is underway again, and the full list of competitors can be found on its website here . With Leeds ...

Simon Trpceski Originally uploaded by Duchenj . If you haven't already. Simon is one of the greatest young pianistic talents I...

The Pianist Magazine/Yamaha Amateur Piano Competition held on Saturday night for the first time has awarded its first prize to a 79-year-old...