The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...

Most of us have tried our hands at the piano at some stage. Maybe that's playing Chopsticks with a friend, picking out our favourite song, or more dedicated learning. The piano features across all ...

From homegrown heroes to visiting legends, here are Australia's favourite classical music and jazz stories this year.

Performances in N.Y.C. Hunter Noack, a classical pianist, has been taking his instrument far beyond the concert halls.Credit...Alex Hecht for The New York Times Supported by By Sopan Deb Visuals by ...

When young people are told by their parents to practice the piano, rarely do any of them think they might be playing in the hippest rock group ever in a few short years. Most of the time, we think of ...

Google has taken the idea of Rock Band and Guitar Hero and pushed it one step further, creating an intelligent controller that lets you improvise on the piano and makes it sound like you actually know ...

If the greatness of music is in its triple play of emotions, ideas, and sonic pleasure, the Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda, who died last week, at the age of ninety-one, holds a justified place in ...

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 ...

Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s Dranoff 2 Piano Fusion “Piano Slam.” The music-poetry mashup is at the ...

Aja Zou means it when she says practice makes perfect. Zou, 16, was recently named one of four finalists recognized nationally in classical music by YoungArts, a nonprofit that focuses on highlighting ...

Camden Stewart, the pianist who grew up singing in a world-famous boys’ choir, is now taking TikTok by storm with his performances on public pianos. Camden Stewart has earned himself a huge TikTok ...