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- Mikhail Pletnev cancels Proms and Edinburgh Festival dates
Pletnev will not conduct RNO concerts to allow time to deal with accusations against him - Khatia Buniatishvili joins Sony
Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili has signed an exclusive contract with Sony Classical. - Stephen Kovacevich celebrates his 70th birthday with a Wigmore Hall concert
The pianist will be joined by Martha Argerich and the Belcea Quartet among others for a 'festival' of performances - Clara Taylor, ABRSM chief examiner, dies aged 61
Taylor described as 'a fine teacher who struck the perfect balance between true professionalism in terms of maintaining standards and being incredibly approachable and human' - Pianist Lara Ömeroğlu wins BBC Young Musician 2010
The title of BBC Young Musician 2010 has gone to 16 year-old pianist Lara Ömeroğlu from Watford.
Contents for International Piano
Jade Simmons lifts the lid on classical music through her US schools programmes
- COVER STORY: PIANIST OF THE PEOPLE How Simon Trpceski is revolutionising the musical landscape in his native country, Macedonia
- KEY WORKERS Why more and more pianists are taking their music out of the concert hall and into the community
- SYMPOSIUM: THE REWARDS OF TEACHING Jeremy Siepmann asks whether those who can, teach
- MESSIAEN'S MUSE Olivier and Yvonne were the Robert and Clara of our time, says Matthew Odell, as he traces Loriod's influence on Messiaen
- LETTER FROM CHINA Nancy Pellegrini on the rise of the amateur pianist in China
- ACCOMPANIST'S DIARY Michael Round finds himself in a spot of bother with a soprano's husband
- ON THE SHIPTON BEAT Alyn Shipton reports from the world of jazz
- INTERNATIONAL PIANO SELECTION Recordings of Beethoven's 'Moonlight' Sonata compared
- FREE MUSIC
- MUSIC OF MY LIFE Noriko Ogawa on the pieces that first ignited her love for the piano
Editorial
THERE WAS A TIME when a pianist aspired to be just that: a pianist.
Pure and simple. Concert hall recitals, tours, recordings, perhaps some
teaching, possibly write a book or two. Things have changed. It could
have something to do with a general cultural shift within the arts
towards greater inclusiveness and a stronger spirit of philanthropy,
but in recent years more and more musicians - among them some of the
world’s most high-profile pianists – have been taking time out from
their concert schedules to give free performances, workshops and
classes in areas of the community where people may never have even
heard classical music before, let alone listened to a piano recital.
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