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PIANO

Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 20, 2015
Chopin competition winner focuses on art
These days the road to fame often starts with a viral video on YouTube, but Korean pianist Seong-jin Cho took the classic route — he won a music competition.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 12, 2015
Pianist Etsko Tazaki seeks out the legacies of Brahms, Beethoven and Schubert
Whether their lives were long or short, the classic composers tended to cement their legacies in their final days, perhaps the point in their lives when they were at their most philosophical.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 22, 2014
Pianist Adachi delves further into the world of Croatian classical music
During his six-year stay in Croatia, pianist Tomohiro Adachi was introduced to a remarkable woman named Dora Pejacevic.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 3, 2013
A newspaper editor's year to master Chopin's First Ballade
PLAY IT AGAIN, by Alan Rusbridger. Jonathan Cape, 2013, 416 pp., £18.99 (hardcover)
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 14, 2013
Pianist Yazawa looks to the past to find security in the future
Pianist Tomoko Yazawa always thinks about her music with the future in mind. However, for her latest album, "Playing in the Dark," she made a rare diversion into the past — specifically, France at the end of the 19th century.

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