The New York Times

These Keyboard Musicians Are Thinking Beyond the Piano

Performances in N.Y.C. Modern pianos are central to classical music. But some musicians are learning other keyboard instruments, and feel like better artists for it. Phyllis Chen, a trained pianist, ...
The Saratogian

‘The Piano Lesson’ is an excellent production of a modern classic

LENOX, MASS. — The Shakespeare & Company production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” proves why the play, first produced on Broadway in 1990, deserved winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama as well ...
Rolling Stone

System of a Down’s Serj Tankian Pairs His Poetry With a Piano Concerto on ‘Disarming Time’

System of a Down’s Serj Tankian pairs his poetry with classical music in the new video for “Disarming Time: A Modern Piano Concerto.” The piece appears on a new collection, Cool Gardens Poetry Suite, ...
Willamette Week

The (Other) Piano Man

It might be easy to plop queer French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet (pronounced tee-bow-DAY) in with other out-there gay pop-meets-classical-piano men like Liberace, Elton John and Portland's own Thomas ...