Despite having different cultural backgrounds and experiences — Indigenous composers with an Indigenous mentor, and a pianist descended from Anglo-colonial history — it is nevertheless possible to ...

Are you a beginner when it comes to Franz Liszt's piano music? Why not take a look at our guide - it'll show you where to start, what to look out for and what to listen to next. Few composers have ...

A new online music series featuring solo piano works is showcasing Black composers alongside their mostly better-known White counterparts. Piano Break, presented by the Ross McKee Foundation, is ...

Composer Kris Bowers wasn’t even 10 years old when Venus and Serena Williams competed in their first matches on the professional tennis tour. But within Bowers’ own family were the ingredients that ...

100 years after Gustav Holst’s The Planets was premiered, we hear the work performed on the very Broadwood piano it was written on. On 15 November 1919, three movements of Holst’s The Planets were ...

Denes Agay, a renowned composer and arranger of piano music, died Jan. 24 at his daughter’s home in Los Altos, where he had lived since 2004. He was 95. Mr. Agay was born and raised near Budapest, ...

The French composer – a postwar pupil of Messaien’s – wrote only a handful of works. Collot’s new recording shows his Piano Sonata to be one of the great achievements of serialism When Jean Barraqué ...