"It's my little secret, but it also helps me focus," Prokopowicz said, referring to the long moment of silence which preceded his performance in the second round of the competition. "I'm glad I had ...

Pianist Edward Auer has had a fine career, spanning more than 40 years now. He's always had a special place in his heart for Poland, and Poland's favorite musical son — Frederic Chopin. Auer won a ...

The mazurka, a traditional Polish dance, acts as a siren to Poles far and wide. Janina Fialkowska, born in Canada but half-Polish, says that in playing the mazurkas of Chopin she has been afforded “a ...

The upcoming semi-finals introduce Chopin’s two mature piano sonatas and his Preludes Op 28 into the competition’s repertoire mix, along with groupings of Mazurkas by opus number. If you’ve read my ...

The young Korean pianist Klara Min's critically acclaimed CD of Chopin is John Brunning's Drive featured album from 20 May. With her new CD, the outstanding Korean pianist Klara Min surveys 17 of her ...

"Mazurkas Op. 50" is Szymanowski's second such prominent attempt, after the "Preludes Op. 1", to invoke the great Chopin tradition. On this page we present two articles on Karol Szymanowski's Twenty ...

If there’s one genre that captures the essence of Chopin, it’s surely the Mazurka. These triple-time dances seem modest on the surface; usually there’s an opening melody, a contrasting middle bit ...

He would work for several weeks on just a single side.” Perhaps most poignant of all is Chopin’s confession that he literally had to “wrench mazurkas from a heart that is inwardly torn.” He remains ...

Frederic Chopin was a Polish-born pianist and composer of matchless genius in the realm of keyboard music. As a pianist, his talents were beyond emulation and had an impact on other musicians entirely ...

WARSAW — Nearly two centuries after his birth, Frederic Chopin remains a remarkably potent artistic force in Poland’s capital, his age-old music inspiring perpetually new waves of creativity and ...

The 19-year-old pianist was born in the Israeli city of Netanya, where he spent the first four years of his life. His older sister was his first music teacher, and he began his formal music education ...