The instrument's slim legs and trim body make it look like a harpsichord - until pianist Timothy Hester starts to play. The sounds that emerge don't have the harpsichord's jangle or the modern piano's ...

It was a long time coming. Piano Technician Mark Mikkelsen—who, for more than eight years, has supported the care and maintenance of the College of Music’s fleet of 160 pianos, two harpsichords and an ...

At an age when most musicians are still consolidating their careers, Kristian Bezuidenhout has established himself as the foremost practitioner of his instrument. He plays the fortepiano, the term ...

There have been fortepianists before Ronald Brautigam and Kristian Bezuidenhout upon whose shoulders those two might be said to stand. But none had managed so convincingly to bring the fortepiano into ...

Step back in time and enjoy Haydn and Mozart’s piano works performed as they intended them to be heard: on the fortepiano in an old home this May at the Conrad Mansion. Daniel Adam Maltz is returning ...

Renowned fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout made his directorial debut with the Handel and Haydn Society on Valentine’s weekend, performing works by C.P.E. Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. H+H has ...

Last week 'Performance Today' featured a South African keyboardist named Kristian Bezuidenhout (biz-AY-den-hoat), who specializes in playing the fortepiano. We received many e-mails regarding the ...

An unusual concert took place in the Memorial Room at Smith Music Hall on Sept. 20 in that the major focus was on the instrument being played. A fortepiano, made by the firm of Walter and Sohn, had ...

In 1777, when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was 21 years old, he wrote an enthusiastic letter to his father describing a newly popular type of piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence had constructed a ...

4 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere Catskill Mountain Foundation's Academy of Fortepiano Performance continues its International Fortepiano Salon Series on January 29, 2022 with the ...

The beautiful notes of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadé Mozart filled the Miller House parlor last weekend as Daniel Adam Maltz, a fortepianist based in Vienna, Austria, performed for the Washington ...