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Yuja Wang at Verbier Festival 2013 23 Aug 2013 | 02:34 pm
In this 3 minute interview Yuja Wang tells us, among other things, the secret of her harmony between fingers and spirit: Interview video Interview Yuja Wang & Joshua Bell plays Beethoven s Kreutzer So...
Mr. John A. Paulson loves Steinway's pianos - buys the whole company! 23 Aug 2013 | 12:45 pm
John A. Paulson, the hedge fund billionaire, already owns three Steinway & Sons pianos: the medium model M grand, the larger model O and the nearly seven-foot-long model B, together worth tens of thou...
Super Mario on Piano -– The Czerny Studies of Our Time? 16 Nov 2011 | 10:48 pm
Are there any pianists out there who have never played studies by Czerny as part of their training? Probably not many. But why not practice video game music in order to develop a more contemporary pia...
Franz Liszt – 200th Anniversary 22 Oct 2011 | 07:57 pm
Today, October 22 2011, marks the 200th birthday of Franz Liszt, the greatest piano virtuoso of his time, inventor of the modern piano recital and one of the most influential composers of the 19th cen...
Can you do the Beethoven G Major concerto blind test? 16 Aug 2011 | 09:16 am
The first movement of Beethoven’s 4th concerto opens with the solo piano, playing simple chords in the tonic key before coming to rest on a dominant chord. Can recognize who is who of the 10 famous pi...
Using the Piano Pedals 25 Mar 2011 | 08:17 pm
Watching somebody play piano you don't wonder how the keys work - at most you may wonder how the pianist manages to hit them so fast! However when it comes to the pedals many people don't actually kno...
Piano Street Mobile – Sheet Music on the Go for Mobile Devices 24 Feb 2011 | 07:23 am
How about instant access on the go to 3000+ study scores from the standard classical piano repertoire? On m.pianostreet.com, a mobile version of Piano Street’s sheet music library you can easily view ...
Improving Your Piano Sight Reading Abilities 22 Feb 2011 | 09:00 am
When you are ready to learn a new piece of music for the piano, do you find that you spend days or even weeks carefully reviewing each note? Does the frustration of this process make you long to simpl...
Smart Fingering Saves You Time! 15 Feb 2011 | 09:00 am
Establishing a set progression of fingering as you learn a piece saves you time. The composer or editor of a piece of piano music often includes suggested fingering as a part of the score. The studen...
Recommended Book: Piano Notes - The World of the Pianist 12 Feb 2011 | 12:09 pm
Charles Rosen is one of the world's most talented pianists — and one of music's most astute commentators. In Piano Notes, he writes for a broader audience about an old friend — the piano itself. http:...
