The pianist Kenny Barron, below, the producer George Avakian and Annie Ross, of the vocal group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, were among eight recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' 2010 Jazz Masters Awards.
A Hindemith Rarity A long-lost work by Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) will have its North American premiere when the pianist Leon Fleisher, below, performs with the San Francisco Symphony in Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco tonight, Friday and Saturday.
The pianist Dick Hyman (below) and some nimble-fingered friends will explore jazz in New York from the 1920's on, in the Jazz in July series at the 92nd Street Y.
A grass-roots movement to rename a busy Montreal subway station in honor of the jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, below, has run into a snag, The Globe and Mail of Toronto reported.
Sophia Loren, below, the pianist Maurizio Pollini and the sculptor Rebecca Horn are among the five winners of the 2010 Praemium Imperiale arts awards, the Japan Art Association said on Tuesday.
I am also a below average pianist, and most applied sciences are extremely difficult for me to grasp.
Cyrus Chestnut, a New York pianist and composer (pictured below) recently released a new arrangement of the soundtrack of "A Charlie Brown Christmas".
In November , 2002 Lumpe posed a different type of quiz: "Look at the quite impressive list below and guess which pianist has recorded all these works over roughly the last fifteen years".
Despite the good name of the Piano Institute, Smetana's status as a concert pianist was generally considered to be below that of contemporaries such as Alexander Dreyschock.
Try the pianist Bill Charlap's Duets program at Jazz Standard, below Danny Meyer's Blue Smoke restaurant at 116 East 27th Street.
