Raise a breakfast coffee to Ruth Slenczynska, still playing on her 100th birthday.
She first played with orchestra in Paris 93 years ago. Her teachers were Artur Schnabel, Egon Petri, Alfred Cortot, Josef Hofmann, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
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HarrisonParrott have signed the Canadian pianist Ryan Wang, a year after he won BBC Young Musician of the Year. Wang is now 18. The photo is from 2013. The post BBC winner gets an agent […]
Dinin Arts and Epstein Fox Performances have formed a partnership that unites the Dinin Arts roster and EFP’s classical division. EFP has a big hitter in Terence Blanchard. Dinin does good string quartets. Here’s the […]
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