Eric Lu of the USA has been voted the winner of the 19th International Chopin piano competition, which began on 2nd October and was held in Warsaw, Poland. The 17-member jury voted as follows: In addition, special prizes are as follows: The auditions for the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano […]
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In this article we show you how to play a simple version of Chopin’s Prelude Op. 28 No.7, here presented in G major. Purists will be shouting at the screen that Chopin composed this piece of music in A major, and that’s correct. It’s provided here in G major as […]
KORG has introduced its latest digital piano, the Poetry, which gives two distinct nods to composer Chopin by incorporating two piano tones associated with him. The 1843 PLEYEL piano tone was Chopin’s choice of piano, while the contemporary Italian Fazioli concert grand is favoured by many at the International Chopin […]
The US National Chopin Foundation has announced it has raised the top prize for the 2015 National Chopin Competition to $75,000, in a bid to encourage the best American pianists to apply. The winner of the National Chopin Competition will advance to the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland, […]
The M-VAVE FM-1 has become incredibly popular since its launch in the summer, thanks to its relatively low price, decent simulation of the Yamaha DX-7‘s iconic sounds, and because it’s incredibly hackable. Here we round up all the custom firmware releases we currently know about. It may not be an […]
This year’s New Orleans International Piano Competition, whose 30th edition ran from July 18-26, has announced its winners. In first place came Evgeny Konnov (Russia), followed by Shangru Du (China) and Adria Ye (USA). The Jury Discretionary Award when to Yu-Ang Fan (China). The Best Performance of the Commissioned Work […]
Anagram firmware update Darkglass has announced another firmware update for Anagram. Version 1.8 offers compressor gain reduction metering inside block settings and on block image, block input and output level metering in block settings, signal chain zoomed-out view, and threshold adjustments on all compressors. A few other tweaks also. More […]
Many pianists revere pianos, particularly expensive and sought-after grand pianos. They don’t deliberately damage them (by filling them with water or other such nonsense). Sadly, things still go wrong. Expensively wrong in many cases. Here we uncover just some of the horror stories where our beloved keyed instrument has met […]
Lang Lang is one of the most famous pianists in the world, but he’s also one of the most polarising. The reasons people dislike or criticise him tend to fall into a few broad categories: musical, personal, and cultural. Here are some reasons why this might be. Musical and Artistic Criticism Overly Showy or […]
KORG has announced the second Poetry digital piano — the Poetry Magnifique — to sit alongside the Poetry which launched in January last year. It shares many of the same specifications as the Poetry but has a slightly different construction and more connection options. It also has a more powerful […]
Kawai has introduced two new models of hybrid piano to its Novus range, namely the NV6 and NV12. It means the NV10S, NV5S, NV10 and NV5 are now officially discontinued. Hybrid pianos take the best of both fully acoustic and fully digital pianos, combining them to create beautiful, aurally rich […]
NAMM 2024 ran from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th January. Here are the highlights from the major piano, keyboard and synth-related companies. Highlights JoeCo has announced its BandMate multichannel backing track player for live performance playback plus MIDI, with accompanying app. It’s designed to provide a more robust solution for […]
The overall design of mainstream pianos has not really evolved much, despite some outlier designs, but perhaps that could change with a real world curved concert grand piano designed by piano maker Chris Maene and late architect Rafael Viñoly. Large instruments with keyboards have traditionally been straight, meaning notes further […]
Biographical Wilhelm Bachaus was born at Leipsic, March 24, 1884, two years before the death of Franz Liszt. Nine years younger than Josef Hofmann and a trifle more than one-half the age of Paderewski he represents a different decade from that of other pianists included in this work. Bachaus studied […]
Biography Pepito Arriola was born on the 14th of December, 1897. A careful investigation of his ancestry reveals that no less than twelve of his forefathers and relations have been pronouncedly musical. His father was a physician, but his mother was a musician. His early musical training was given to […]
Erica Synths DIY VCA module launched Erica Synths has announced its latest offering to the synth world, a DIY build dual VCA for eurorack systems. It has DC-coupled inputs so you can use the VCA both for audio and CV signals. Inputs of the second VCA are normalled to the […]
G-Sonique Releases DARKPSY FX466 VST / AU Plug-in instrument DarkPsy FX466 is VST / AU plug-in designed for Darkpsy / Forest / Psycore music production and can be used in various genres of psytrance from fullon to dark prog, as well as in completely different genres such as: film music, video-game music, dark […]
Piano with Steinway Hall of Fame Teacher Dr. Jason Kwak An interesting little video from Dr Jason Kwak, newly inducted into the Steinway Teacher Hall of Fame and teaching at Texas State University. Members of the Piano Department are specialists in many areas, including classical performance, jazz performance, collaborative performance, […]
Are you looking for a more serious music keyboard for your child? Read our guide: Choosing Your Child’s (First) Keyboard Instrument. Alternatively, take a look at other small keyboards for young children. Not got the space or budget for your budding Rachmaninov to play a full-size piano? Or do you […]
Here’s our pick of the best places online to find free (and hopefully legal) printable piano music manuscripts. MusOpen Musopen is a non-profit organisation focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. This includes copyright-free sheet music. Musopen features a database of over […]