A nonprofit concert series is making classical music more accessible through performances in landscapes across the West.

Contestants from around the world described the four-day contest as both a high-level showcase and a welcoming global musical family.

I started playing piano when I was 5 years old. My piano teacher was a quiet man at the local church. On Sundays, he would accompany the choir, and throughout the week he would see student after ...

88 keys, 88 shades of musical bliss: described as the ‘king of instruments’ by Franz Liszt, the piano enchants with its sonic prowess and possibilities. It occupies a special place in the classical ...

Classical piano has long been regarded as one of the most challenging and rewarding forms of music to master, requiring a high degree of technical skill, emotional depth, and artistic vision. Over the ...

Clara Wieck was a musical prodigy. Her mother Marianne was a singer; her overbearing father, Friedrich, a music teacher. She went on to marry one of the greatest composers in history, Robert Schumann, ...

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

While playing a public station piano, two women approached to ask if they could sing "The Flower Duet" alongside the performance. What started as a casual street piano session quickly transformed into ...

I really don’t mean to get all Music Appreciation 101 on you, but I need to ask: Have you listened to classical lately? On purpose, I mean. A local string quartet playing Vivaldi during cocktail hour ...