How could someone like me, who can’t play a note, benefit from attending a Master class for prodigies, conducted by a musician who studied under a piano teacher who was a classmate of Rachmaninov?

Robin McCabe, professor of piano at the University of Washington, recalls little acts of subterfuge by piano students during her days in postgraduate studies at the Juilliard School. “We had great ...

When Paula Fay started taking piano lessons for the first time in her late fifties, it fulfilled a lifelong dream. "I always wanted to learn how to play as a child, but my parents couldn't afford it," ...

Two generations of master musicians will bring their talents to the University of Houston for the 31st annual International Piano Festival. Included in this year’s event are festival founder and one ...

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ROCHESTER — “A piano is just a piano,” says James Baldwin’s narrator in his short story “Sonny’s Blues.” Almost in the same breath, the narrator urges the musician “to try and make it do everything.” ...