From a birthday party for jazz legends to virtuoso pianists, here are six classical music and jazz concerts we’re looking ...

Ring in the new year with InConcert Sierra and the vitality and spirit of an all-Beethoven concert featuring the renowned ...

Few musicians in the world are as intimately familiar with Beethoven's piano sonatas as Daniel Barenboim, who has been e | ...

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — When composer and conductor Steve Hackman stepped on stage at Chicago’s Harris theatre, he might as well have been walking into a dream. “I had this wild dream about a music festival ...

When the San Diego Symphony welcomes über-pianist Marc-André Hamelin’s on Jan. 17 and 18, it’ll be with full knowledge of his ...

The opening bars of a classical masterpiece can be very special: the composer sets the scene, introduces some of the melodies and hooks in the listener for the musical journey that's to come. Here are ...

Ever since it was launched in late 2018, new versions of Arturia’s flagship softsynth Pigments have rolled around on a fairly consistent annual schedule. Its last major update, v6, landed in January ...

It has never been easier - or cheaper - to start playing the keyboard. Of course, to get started, you'll need one of the best keyboards for beginners. Now, with the sheer amount on offer, it can be ...