The Natyabhoomi School of Dance celebrated their 25th year of educating young people in the form of classical Indian dance. The event took place at the Bender JCC of Washington located in Rockville, Md. Natyabhoomi School of Dance was founded…
Fill your heart with music and magic during this Winter Solstice season. As the days grow shorter and we anticipate the longest night of the year, there is hope as the Christmas Revels “Celestial Fools” take us on a journey…
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…
