The Pittsburgh Symphony’s exploration of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s music for piano and orchestra this season has done more than present great pieces. It has also provided the opportunity for audiences to ...

Seldom do you hear such an explosion of absolute joy at the end of a Seattle Symphony concert. On Thursday evening, the usually decorous audience leapt out of their seats for a shouting, hooting, ...

Jon Nakamatsu will make his Tucson Symphony Orchestra debut this weekend performing the piece that launched his professional music career and put an end to his high school teaching career. On Friday ...

When Yibing Zhang, the 2017 winner of the Dallas International Piano Competition, performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor on May 1 at the Moody Performance Hall in the Dallas Arts ...

CPR Classical Presents: The Rach 3! Rachmaninoff's formidable Piano Concerto #3 is center stage when Russian pianist Nicolai Lugansky and the Colorado Music Festival with Music Director Peter Oundjian ...

The Minnesota Orchestra is marketing this weekend’s guest soloist, Natasha Paremski, as a “young Russian pianist,” but you can take that with a grain of salt. She’s a 27-year-old American citizen ...

It’s not hyperbole to say that Rachmaninoff is in Russian-American pianist Olga Kern‘s DNA. “I play Rachmaninoff all my life,” said the 50-year-old Kern, who will play the composer’s Piano Concerto No ...

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF said he composed his thunderous Third Piano Concerto for elephants. Playing it is like taking him up on a dare; the Third is recognized as the most technically difficult piece in ...

Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov performs at Carnegie Hall in New York City in October 2017. Trifonov played at Boston’s Symphony Hall last Thursday. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS The Oscar-winning 1996 film ...

In 1997, a 28-year-old pianist without much of a reputation — he was a high school German teacher in Mountain View — moved to the final round of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort ...

Twenty-two years ago, Olga Kern walked onto the Bass Performance Hall stage in Fort Worth, Texas and sat before a grand piano. Surrounded by violists with raised bows, she began Sergei Rachmaninoff’s ...

Arguably one of the hardest-to-master piano concertos, Rachmaninoff’s Third starts quietly, then unleashes an astonishing torrent of notes and hurtles to a jaw-dropping conclusion. In-between you’ll ...