The musician was known for performing at the 1960 Cultural Exchange between the U.S. and the Soviet Union Dario Cantatore/Getty Byron Janis, a world renowned classical pianist, has died. He was 95.

Haruki Takeuchi, a senior at Farragut High School, is Knoxville's most accomplished young pianist and among the best young pianists in the world. In the last few years, he has won too many ...

Pianists Yang Liu, Albert Cano Smit, and Jiayan Sun will discuss Busoni’s legacy as a pianist-composer and reflect on its relevance to musicians today. Arguably the greatest pianist of his time, the ...

In a career that stretched across seven decades, Mike Wofford provided exactly the right touch on piano in any and every musical setting. His death Friday morning just after midnight, silences an ...

Twenty years ago the title of “world’s most famous musician” belonged to a shockheaded Pole named Ignace Jan Paderewski. Flame-haired Virtuoso Paderewski was the greatest pianist of his time and one ...

From Camden and Cherry Hill to Trenton and the Jersey Shore, what about life in New Jersey do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know. Before Ena Barton was born, her father, a violinist, bought a ...

He was not just a gifted player; he was a visionary, undone not by lack of talent but by the weight of his mind. In the mid-1970s, a 16-year-old kid walked into the recording studio where Roberta ...

MIDLAND, Texas — Midland College will be hosting The Greatest Piano Men, a free production showing the worlds greatest pianists throughout history. The show will feature over 25 hit songs by various ...

The Keystone Korner was a legendary jazz club in San Francisco between 1972 and 1983, a place where Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Art Blakey and Dexter Gordon recorded important live albums. Owner Todd Barkan ...

An increasingly common descriptor for sportscasters is to say that an athlete “left it all on the (fill in the blank),” be it field, court or, in the case of Minnesotan Jessie Diggins, the ski trail.