Art and Abart

It isn't often at a concert that you discover you are sitting next to someone whose blog you follow. The Scottish (not English, t...

Alexander Gavrylyuk plays The Ukrainian born Australian virtuoso pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk played in Sydney last night. The audience h...

Daniil Trifonov plays "It isn't about rapport with the audience, but total obsession with the instrument," said a man besi...

Nelson Freire plays You have to be pretty good to be touring internationally at 72 years old and pianist Nelson Freire is definitely pre...

Lang Lang at the Sydney Opera House last night (Photo by Christie Brewster from SSO Facebook page) I saw virtuoso pianist Lang Lang play...

Louis Lortie plays preludes If you had told me I would be listening to 57 preludes one after the other,  I would have thought you were j...

Roger Benedict with Viola (and Simon Tedeschi in background) Last night Roger Benedict, Principal Viola with the Sydney Symphony Orche...

The extraordinary Serena Wang ... just nine years old with parents who are not musicians.  Listen to her play then read more about her here....

Here's a wonderful video that records Arthur Rubinstein at the Steinway factory in Stellingen, a suburb of Hamburg 1966. He came to Ham...