International Piano

International Piano offers a rich mix of inspiration and guidance to pianists and piano fans around the world, from dedicated amateurs and students to professional pianists, teachers and aficionados. Celebrating the piano in all its forms, including the fortepiano and digital keyboards, each edition of our magazine is packed with interviews, features, news and reviews showcasing the top artists of today and yesteryear.

Technology: friend or foe?

International Piano

LETTERS

Gilmore Festival announces 2022 Young Artists

GEWA launches new digital piano and app

Italian pianist wins RNCM James Mottram Competition

NEWS IN BRIEF

An open mind • Canadian pianist Bruce Liu, winner of the International Chopin Piano Competition 2021, used lockdown to prepare himself mentally for the challenges ahead, says Colin Clarke

Silence is golden • Pianists are not always the most enthusiastic supporters of their colleagues’ performances. Benjamin Ivry thinks they would do well to keep their own counsel

The Ill-Tempered Clavier • So you want to be a concert pianist? Think again, says Charivari

All in the mind • Can you practise difficult passages sitting in an armchair – or learn concertos lying in bed? Pianist and composer Nicolas Namoradze, winner of the Honens Competition in 2018, has some revolutionary ideas that are as surprising as his playing, says Michael Church

Fierce conviction • Bryce Morrison revels in the intense, highly individual recordings of Chopin’s music by Chinese-born pianist Fou Ts’ong

Back to nature • Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi has long invoked the natural world in his music. His latest album, Underwater, composed during the pandemic, develops the theme. As he prepares to tour the UK in March, he talks to Claire Jackson

Are you ready for the future? • Austrian pianist Ingolf Wunder explains how we have removed musicality from classical music, and suggests ways to secure the position of humans in a world full of artificial intelligence

Summer notes • Key international courses for amateur pianists and students in 2022

RETURNING TO THE PIANO • Murray McLachlan launches his new technical refresher course for recommencing piano enthusiasts

MASTERCLASS • Ronan O’Hora explores the otherworldly qualities of the first movement of Beethoven’s Tempest Sonata

Sonata

Moon, Refracted • A Variation on Rentarō Taki’s Kōjō No Tsuki

Moon, Refracted • A Variation on Rentarō Taki’s Kōjō No Tsuki

Celtic Piano Music

The Fairy Pools • From Celtic Piano Music

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Self portrait • Italian pianist Alfonso Soldano captures two sides of his musical personality with a new recording of transcriptions. James Imam reports

ALBUM OF THE MONTH

Critic’s choice

REVIEWS • SHEET MUSIC

In concert

Long lines • Russian pianist Yulia Chaplina explains how listening to Frank Sinatra helped her play Rachmaninov