I remember where I was, what I was eating and what I was reading the first time I heard Chopin’s Nocturne in C Minor, Op 48 No. 1. It was the early 1990s. Simply Red, Kylie and PM Dawn dominated the ...

Eric Lu, a 27-year-old American classical pianist, won the top prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday. The prestigious event, which happens every five years ...

Kevin Chen, a 20-year-old pianist from Calgary, has finished second at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw while American Eric Lu went home with the gold. Chen was one ...

Japan's Shiori Kuwahara won fourth prize in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, the contest organizers announced Tuesday. The 30-year-old Kuwahara's achievement marks ...

WARSAW, Oct 21 (Reuters) - American pianist Eric Lu won the top prize at the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw on Tuesday. The decision came after hours of deliberations by ...

Canada’s Kevin Chen has finished second behind Eric Lu of the United States at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, considered by many to be the Olympics of the piano.

After his performance on the last day of the competition, David Khrikuli said on Monday that it was a great privilege for him to have played in the final round. "Chopin is the reason why I chose the ...

Christian Kaszewski got up at 3 a.m. Sunday and lined up outside Warsaw’s Philharmonic Concert Hall in the hope that he might score one of the hottest tickets in town. By noon, it wasn’t looking good.

The pianist couldn’t hold back tears as she played one of the world’s most moving pieces of music. A 24-year-old Japanese pianist was moved to tears during her own performance of Frédéric Chopin’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Poland’s relationship with its most celebrated composer, Fryderyk Chopin, is so deeply woven into national life ...

‘The first final stretch’ sounds like an oxymoron worthy of the American baseball legend Yogi Berra (‘It’s so crowded nobody goes there anymore’, ‘the future ain’t what it used to be’, etc.). But ...