South Korean pianist wins University of Auckland Graduation Gala Concerto Competition

Pianist Tina (Inah) Kim (Left in The Photo) was named the leader of The University of Auckland’s Graduation Gala Concerto Competition on Thursday evening.

The annual, full-to-capacity eventuality evident the close of Autumn Graduation Week 2011 and featured three young women – two South Korean    .. more …

Hilary Hahn, who grew up in Baltimore and proposed in a Suzuki module at Peabody Institute , exudes small star power or glamour onstage. Her start is focused and demure, similar to a dedicated student. She frequency takes her eyes off of her left hand, and her face waste impassive.

But what comes pouring out of the fiddle is a stream of diamonds; any note discriminating to a high gloss, every    .. more …

Shortly before year end, the eminent Italian piano creator had since his personal stamp of consent on the splendid piano that the Langley family (who asked not to be named) took smoothness of, final Saturday.

“This is the many stream instrument,” says Fazioli, stepping opposite the room to take a closer look at his $167,000 origination before sitting down to play, and later, designation    .. more …

Sure, you all can protest about the Grammy Awards . For me, the insufficient of illustration of exemplary music and jazz on the radio program is only a of many disappointments. But before the glitz of the runway and glorious of the broadcast, a few artists were concurred for their achievements in these genres.

The Naxos Group scarcely ran the list final night. Their artists and imprints picked    .. more …

The paramedics “were putting me in the ambulance, and we had no thought who we was or where we was,” Sara Sant’Ambrogio said. “But assumingly we said, ‘My cello, my cello, my cello. Get my cello.’ ”

Clearly, Sant’Ambrogio’s instrument of selection is more than a passion; it’s a leading segment of her life.

“The cello has such a personality,” Sant’Ambrogio said. “You grip it in your arms    .. more …

BRATTLEBORO — Cellist Peter Wiley and pianist Anna Polonsky — conducting a module of Schumann, Beethoven, Chopin, and Franck — will be featured performers as The Brattleboro Music Center continues its Chamber Music Series next week.

The unison will be hold on Saturday, Feb. 19, at 7:30 p.m., at Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro.

Pianist Polonsky is at large in urge as a    .. more …

Norman Gamboa of Manhattan conducts the Newton Mid-Kansas Symphony Orchestra Winter Classics Concert at 4 p.m. Feb. 13 in the Newton High School auditorium.

The module “Music of Spain” features dancers on “Bolero”; and performances of the 3rd Annual Young Soloist Competition Winners Mark Kreider and Paul Voran.

The unison captures the hint of Spanish composers Joaquin Turina and Enrique    .. more …

EAST BREMERTON “Ira Langlois goes about his qualification the way a cook might arrange a souffl, or a automobile clean and his selection of engine orientation and pistons.For the fifth-generation piano tuner who in 2005 launched his own line of instruments, that means handpicking any part for only the correct voicing ” audibly honeyed and warm.After 7 years of tinkering, Langlois is assured that    .. more …

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AS both transmitter and soloist at this Saturday’s Hallé unison in the Sheffield International Concert Season at the City Hall are demure to give interviews, here is what you know about them.As at the glorious City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra unison a couple of weeks ago, both are young, in fact younger, as conjunction has nonetheless reached his 30th birthday with Robin Ticciati    .. more …