Derek Hartman, 28, has won the 17th international Beethoven piano competition in Vienna. He’s studying for a PhD at Yale and teaching at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.
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We have been notified of the passing two weeks ago in France of Neville Dilkes, founder of the Midland Sinfonia, which became the English Sinfonia. Neville, who was 94, made several fine recordings of English […]
Johann Nepomuk Hummel is known as much for being a pupil of Mozart and Haydn as for his actual music. A virtuoso pianist himself, he wrote a significant amount of piano music but there is […]
