What do we lose when we lose a pianist? The question is on my mind today, the anniversary of the death of the German pianist and conductor Lars Vogt, who succumbed to esophageal cancer on September 5, ...

It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...

American composer John Luther Adams doesn't recommend following the path he took in music. Yet he wouldn't have it any other way. His new work, Horizon, borrows its title from a book by the nature ...

On a carpeted classroom floor at New England Conservatory earlier this month, Huma Rahimi, 25, sat with her legs crossed and a sitar in her lap. A sitar, not her sitar — an important distinction.

Musical Life Competition is open to pianists and string players from all musical traditions and educational backgrounds from around the globe, 18 years of age and compete in one of 3 appropriate age ...