Congrats to our winners- Sara Tateshima, Isabel Pang and Michelle Ji, who, besides Gold prizes in several categories were also awarded Silver and special prizes in musicianship, technique and interpretation!…
Cassia/ Kassia Byzantine About two hundred years earlier ( than Hildegard of Bingen), in Constantinople lived a girl named Kassia/ Cassia, who also chose a spiritual career. However,there is a…
Hildegard of Bingen In almost every last five or six centuries there have been women who have composed music. Surprisingly,they were accepted in the circles of male composers and were…
Architect Rafael Viñoly and master piano maker Chris Maene have developed the Maene-Viñoly Concert Grand – a unique 21st Century evolution of the grand piano. The instrument’s curved ergonomic keyboard…
Tchaikovsky had hope( that’s how name Nadezhda is translated),Nadezhda von Meck. They left over a thousand letters to the world. 14 years of correspondence and not a single meeting in…
China’s star freestyle skier, Ailing (Eileen) Gu, plays piano during her downtime at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Eileen Feng Gu, also known by her Chinese name, Gu Ailing,…
Out of thousands of contemporary writers, one of the most musical ones is Japanese author Haruki Murakami. His works, besides being exceptionally interesting by their plots, are also imbued with music…
For the first time, our 6 participating students won ALL possible places: Gold, silver, bronze, and special awards in addition, in multiple categories. I would like to thank and congratulate…
Van Cliburn, in 1958 during cold war went to Moscow and WON Tchaikovsky piano competition. Ever since he established that in his own competition the rule is “regardless of political…
The war in Ukraine looms over the prestigious contest named for the pianist Van Cliburn, who was a symbol for art transcending global politics. FORT WORTH, Texas — On a…