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The theater’s concert grand is just shy of nine feet long. That big boy was built in 1952 and purchased for $4,500. Today, the selling price for a new concert grand is about $150,000, depending on the ...
The classical pianist Hunter Noack has embarked on an unusual journey, to take his music to natural landscapes well beyond ...
Piano technician John von Rohr moves one of the mutes he used to tune the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts' new 2024 Steinway Model D concert grand piano on Jan. 15, 2025.
This isn't just any concert grand, though, but a "world-class" 10-foot Italian concert grand piano (the Fazioli F308) that NI describes as "the crown jewel" of pianos, delivering "immense power ...
Concert pianos typically last 20 years. The journey to acquire the new piano began months ago with a visit to the Steinway factory in Queens, New York, to select the perfect instrument.
The first concert will feature pianist Yukiko Sekino, playing music by Scriabin and Debussy on an 1893 piano by Erard of Paris, the leading French maker of concert pianos for over a century.
The keyboard of the Maene-Viñoly concert grand piano is slightly curved, so that the player experiences less physical stress when playing at the highest and lowest registers. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Ax said ...