How a Chopin piano competition helped me find joy in a dark world - FIRST PERSON: It’s called the Olympic Games of the piano – the Chopin Competition, which takes place every five years in Warsaw.

It’s not a radical thing to arrange a piece of music to feature a soloist playing an instrument other than that for which the piece was composed. But “Chopin Without Piano” goes a fascinating step ...

Most pianists, amateur or professional, have some Chopin in their repertoire. As one very much of the former variety, I went along to the UK’s first Chopin piano weekend – and here’s what I learned.

Hershey Felder as Monsieur Chopin features the romantic story and music of the Polish pianist-composer Fryderyk Chopin, set ...

Canadian classical pianist Bruce Xiaoyu Liu was awarded first prize in the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland. — © Chopin Institute Canadian ...

The intense and drama-filled 18th International Chopin Piano Competition, along with its six-year wait, inspired massive emotions across all sorts of communities around the world. Mega fan Agata ...

Well not quite, but the museum dedicated to him soon will be. The National Frédéric Chopin Institute in Warsaw has undergone a makeover and is ready to welcome visitors to its latest exhibition. The ...

High on a mountainside, in an abandoned monastery on the Spanish island of Majorca, Frédéric Chopin worked at a small upright piano. His room resembled, in his words, “a tall coffin, the enormous ...

The 13th annual Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford returns live to the Asylum Hill Congregational Church March 9 to 13, with dozens of pianists competing for thousands of dollars in ...

Chopin completed his Preludes Op 28 in 1838, during a visit to Majorca that ended up in disaster. In addition to bleak lodgings and no access to a decent piano, the bad weather aggravated Chopin’s ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...