Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master ...

Pianist Yunchan Lim is on fire. Just 20 years old and still in studies at the New England Conservatory, he is the youngest-ever winner of the gold medal at the prestigious Van Cliburn Competition.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings approach open-ended ...

Afterwards, Ólafsson explained himself; that grumbling criticism had clearly struck a nerve. A complex eye operation had impaired his vision when he hoped to prepare the Beethoven. Likeable as ever, ...