Primephonic: The Early Life of a Pianist - An Interview with Haochen Zhang Part 2
Haochen talks to Primephonic about growing up in China, the contrast in approach between the Chinese and American music conservatoires, and his strongest influences.
After his Carnegie Hall performance, where pianist Haochen Zhang stepped in for Lang Lang who had withdrawn for health reasons, Haochen and I met at Knave to talk about his career as a pianist, inspirations in music, and his debut studio recording featuring works by Schumann, Liszt, Janácek and Brahms.
Primephonic: Gerard Schwarz at 70 - An Interview
Gerard Schwarz, music director of the All-Star Orchestra and the Eastern Music Festival, and Conductor Laureate of the Seattle Symphony, enters his 70th year. Marking the occasion, an impressive 30-disc album has recently been released on Naxos Records. Primephonic caught up with him to discuss his impressive career, superb recordings and unstoppable endeavours.
Fort Worth Business Press: Beyond the keyboard - Cliburn career management a key for winners
There's a lot more to being a Cliburn winner than the prestige that goes with the title. As in other professions, much goes on behind the scenes to ensure a long and successful career as a pianist. Beyond the prestige, cash prizes and hours of rehearsal, the medalists of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition get the opportunity to launch careers as concert pianists through concert bookings, recordings and significant media exposure via the career management prize.
Primephonic: Owning the Music - An Interview with Haochen Zhang Part I
The morning after his Carnegie Hall performance, where pianist Haochen Zhang stepped in for Lang Lang who had withdrawn for health reasons, Haochen and I met at Knave to talk about his career as a pianist, inspirations in music, and his debut studio recording featuring works by Schumann, Liszt, Janácek and Brahms.
Miroirs CA: In Conversation with Anne Akiko Meyers
Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers doesn’t just set the standard; she is the standard. Her internationally acclaimed recordings and performances have a distinction that’s all about interpretative sophistication, silky sounds and crystal intonation. She also has a keen interest in promoting and commissioning works by composers of our time.
WTOL-TV: Catch one of the world's greatest musicians at the Toledo Museum of Art
Catch cellist Julian Schwarz, heralded as one of the finest musicians of the 21st century, at the Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle on Friday and Saturday.
Musical America: Yuga Cohler Nets Orchestra Prize at Toscanini Competition
Boston-resident conductor Yuga Cohler, 28, has won the Paolo Vero Orchestra Prize at the Arturo Toscanini Conducting Competition, held at the Auditorium Paganini in Parma, Italy.
New York Classical Review: Schwarz, Juilliard Orchestra deliver stellar advocacy for neglected American composers
Yet without conductors like Gerard Schwarz this music [William Schuman, David Diamond, Walter Piston, Peter Mennin, and others] would remain even more lost, as it incomprehensibly has been for almost sixty years, with the rare exceptions amounting to little more than dutiful condescension.
The New Yorker: The Return of Mid-Century American Symphonies
The conductor Gerard Schwarz’s upcoming concert with the Juilliard Orchestra, at Alice Tully Hall on Thursday, highlights an essential but overlooked period of American composition: the great mid-twentieth-century symphonies.