Yes! You could hear the light butterfly flutter in the right hand as pianist John Gardecki had promised, as he effortlessly performed Schubert’s Impromptu Opus 90 during the Washington International Piano Arts Council’s Fall Piano Concert at the Kosciusko Foundation…
“I will never forget it even if I want to forget.” These profound words were shared by a survivor of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombing, Kodama Michiko, who traveled from Japan to attend the 74th Anniversary commemoration of the…
While waiting for the jury to announce the winners of the 17th Washington International Piano Artists Competition, one might have expected a lot of nail-biting angst by the pianist competitors. Instead, the spirit of camaraderie and love for music that…
For the love of music. What other reason could there be for pianists, who also are full time professionals in another fields, to travel many, many miles to participate in the 2019 Washington International Piano Arts Competition’s Festival of Music?…
An impassioned, often heart-rending and sometimes playfully humorous performance by the Russian Chamber Arts Society took the audience on a Jewish Musical Adventure of Yiddish folksongs that spanned centuries of tradition from Eastern and Western Europe, Israel as well as…
For the 32nd consecutive year, local resident and native of Argentina, Daniel Manzoni, has brought a taste of Argentina to the DC metropolitan area. In front of a packed audience at Kenmore Middle School in Falls Church (VA), festival-goers enjoyed…
The Indonesian Kids Performing Arts (IKPA) organization presented its annual performance entitled “Tale of a Thousand Temples -The Untold Story of a Javanese Princess” Saturday evening at the UDC Theater of the Arts in Northwest Washington, DC. The play was…
“Music is enough for a lifetime – but a lifetime is not enough for music,” could not better articulate Pianist Yiran Wang’s devotion to piano performance. In his passionate recital at the Washington International Piano Arts Council’s “18th Winners Grand…
