Chopin News

SLEAFORD Music Club's final concert of 2009 sees a performance by the Litmus Trio.

Award-winning jazz guitarist Al Di Meola will perform at the Athens Concert HallA's Friends of Music Hall today, starting at 8.30 p.m. Di Meola has sold around 6 million albums to date and has collaborated with many prominent artists, including Pavarotti, Chick Corea, Santana and others.

Amid reports of insolvent symphony orchestras, lackluster box-office receipts and sagging CD sales, classical music is still very much alive.

Louis Lortie talks about the challenge of Chopin and why he keeps coming back for more .

Boston is following a trend in radio that's taking place in other cities across the nation: Its only 24-hour classical music station now depends on listeners - not advertisers - to keep it afloat.

At the beginning of the Albeniz Navarra, Arthur Rubinstein himself can just barely be heard announcing the piece.

Renowned pianist Tian Ying will perform selections from Chopin and Mussorgsky at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Watson Theater of Coker College's Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center.

Internationally acclaimed pianist Jeffrey Siegel doesn't want his audience to just listen to the Chopin pieces he'll play this weekend at George Mason University's Center for the Arts.

The Concerts at Jewett Series sponsored by University of Maine at Augusta College of Arts and Humanities and UMA Senior College is honored to feature internationally acclaimed pianist Frank Glazer, at 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

In honor of its 70th anniversary, Beach Haven Resort is presenting a free concert by classical pianist Alex Tchobanov.

The new conductor at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, Ronald Zollman, will lead a special concert of works by Jewish composers whose music the Nazis banned.

The Russian man-mountain is boxing's only known classical fan. Which piece should he choose to accompany his entrance to the ring? Beast from the east ... and fan of Chopin: Nikolai Valuev.

The outlook for international classical concerts at Yarmouth's Hippodrome Circus is looking bleak because of poor ticket sales - sparking a use it or lose it warning from bosses.

Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero can't quite explain her improvisational talents, though she does offer this: "I hear a ' I dona TMt think," she says.

The Chinese-born, America-based pianist Xiayin Wang is receiving rave reviews for her new CD of the work of Alexander Scriabin.

SARA KRULWICH/THE NEW YORK TIMES Pianist Ingrid Fliter performs the works of Chopin in her Boston debut at Jordan Hall.

Returning for a third season, Vancouver Recital Society showcases the brightest young stars already appearing on the international stages.

Pianist Nino Cocchiarella made a triumphant appearance with his hometown orchestra, showing why he deserves to rank among the favorite sons of the city.

A Mount Vernon Music invites the public to attend a recital featuring pianist and MVM co-founder Dr.

"There's a wave of conservatism in classical music, which has one meaning for Americans, but for those in Korea and China signifies another position," he says.