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 […]
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ALT soundscape synth ALT is an analog synthesizer designed for drones, soundscapes, and complex generative melodies,and after three years of development, it’s finally ready. Check out this video from last week which shows the final version of the instrument and goes over the concept, main features, and what has been […]
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 […]
The prestigious international Van Cliburn piano competition, now in its seventeen year, sees 77 pianists representing 22 countries and regions selected to perform during the event, which runs from the 16th to the 22nd March this year. The 77 were selected from an applicant pool of 340 pianists, and will […]
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, […]
Jurors selecting finalists for this year’s Cleveland International Piano Competition have selected the four semi-finalists who will advance to the final round and perform a piano concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall. They are: Francois Dumont, of France; Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev, of Russia; Jiayan Sun, of China; Stanislav Khristenko, […]
For just over three months during autumn and winter, visitors to the South Bank Centre in London can experience a virtual reality piano concert featuring an avatar of internationally-recognised pianist Yuja Wang. Playing with Fire: An Immersive Odyssey sees visitors wearing a VR headset for the 45-minute performance, where they […]
Yamaha has been involved in the manufacture of pianos and other keyboard instruments for well over a century — including acoustic pianos, reed organs and fully transistorised organs — but it isn’t until the mid-1970s that it started its journey with the kind of synths and home keyboards we know […]
Channel 4 in the UK has announced a fourth series of popular reality series The Piano will come to screens soon. Hosted by Claudia Winkleman (Traitors) and singer-songwriters John Batiste and MIKA, this year the show — which discovers amateur pianists from around Britain and has them performing on public […]
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 […]
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 […]
Update: Roland has announced the TR-1000 Rhythm Creator. In the past day, Roland has published its Tomorrow Returns web page, seemingly counting down (or up?) to some kind of event or launch. At time of writing the display shows approximately 255/1000, which we think may be some kind of odd […]
Here we take a look at some of the earliest and most obscure analog drum machines, most of which are well nigh impossible to obtain these days, but which set new standards in synthesis and are just some of the important instruments on the journey. EKO Computerhythm (1972) The EKO Computerhythm (1972) […]
Teenage Engineering is celebrating a decade since the first in its line of Pocket Operators came onto the scene. Claiming the Pocket Operator range has earned its spot as the world’s most affordable and accessible music machine, it has sold millions of units. It certainly is iconic. After a beta […]
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 […]
If you’re an up and coming musician, making sure that you get heard over the other hungry artists out there can be a challenge. But with the right strategies and a proactive mindset, you can bump yourself up a notch to stand a better chance at building a fan base […]
1010Music nanobox | lemondrop and nanobox | fireball coming in February 1010Music has announced the imminent arrival of two new modules/mini synths, the nanobox | fireball and the nanobox | lemondrop. nanobox | lemondrop Polyphonic granular mini synth Explore a freshly squeezed approach to granular synthesis with nanobox | lemondrop, a tabletop […]
Yamaha has announced a number of pianists who will perform at its sixth International Piano Series to be held at The Malvern Theatres in Worcestershire, England. The series commences on 18th October with John Lill performing works by Haydn, Chopin, Beethoven and Brahms. The Malvern recital is to form a […]
Quach Hoang Nhi, aged 9, beat 21 other candidates aged between 7 and 9 in Group D of the Mozart International Piano Competition 2013, held in Bangkok, Thailand yesterday. They were marked on their ability to play a sonata piece judged to be difficult for their age. Quach Hoang Nhi […]