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This list was crowdsourced from multiple Asian Reddit subs, with some of my own information. It is heavily indebted to these two threads:...

by pianoman » Sun Jun 15, 2014 7:01 pm Interesting tidbits here. Some background on the switch he made from DG to Sony and then back...

by pianoman » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:40 pm This is not news, but I'm going to post it here for anyone who doesn't know who Izumi Tateno is....

by pianoman » Fri Aug 22, 2014 7:52 pm Yuja is episode #14 of the "Living the Classical LIfe" interview series. This was filmed in the...

by pianoman » Sat Jun 14, 2014 6:11 pm Here's an interesting new pianist I heard in a live performance on WFMT Chicago. I heard her play...

by pianoman » Sat Sep 13, 2014 9:54 pm This documentary came out in 2010 about the 2009 Van Cliburn Piano Competition. All three...

by pianoman » Wed Dec 31, 2014 10:21 pm The blind Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii has wasted no time since winning gold at the 2009 Van...

by pianoman » Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:21 pm The winners of the 2015 Chopin Competition are: 1st prize (30 000 €) and gold medal - Seong-Jin...

by pianoman » Wed Apr 22, 2015 9:12 pm Yeol Eum Son is a South Korean pianist who won silver at the 2009 Van Cliburn competition. She...

by pianoman » Wed May 06, 2015 7:42 pm The article is a couple years old, but the advice is good: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter...

by pianoman » Sat Dec 16, 2017 12:30 am 2017 Van Cliburn winner Yekwon Sunwoo is from Anyang, South Korea and began playing relatively...

by pianoman » Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:47 pm I didn't know her mother was a dancer. My impression of Yuja is that she has a strong sense of...

by pianoman » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:05 am This guy has come up a few times in my searches, but I am reflexively wary of any “Asian child...

by pianoman » Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:19 pm Born in Shanghai but studied at the Curtis institute with Gary Graffman, Haochen Zhang was...

by pianoman » Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:45 am Politics aside, Ts'ong's version of the Chopin Mazurkas is an all-time great recording, in my...

by pianoman » Thu Apr 06, 2017 9:20 pm From roughly 2003-2009, a British record producer named William Barrington-Coupe released over 100...

by pianoman » Wed Jun 18, 2014 9:35 pm This CD came out in April. The second disc in a row for Yundi that includes major works by...

by pianoman » Fri Feb 05, 2016 7:21 pm Glowing report of Cho's first appearance in Korea after winning the Chopin Competition last year....