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Dame Fanny Waterman obituary

The Times/The Sunday Times 21 Dec 2020

The Leeds International Piano Competition has brought to light some of the greatest pianists of the past half century, including winners such as Radu Lupu, ...

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Dame Fanny Waterman: Leeds International Piano Competition founder dies at 100

BBC News 21 Dec 2020

Dame Fanny Waterman, the legendary piano teacher who founded the world-renowned Leeds International Piano Competition, has died aged 100 ... 'I wanted to be there forever'. First held in 1963, "The Leeds" helped launch the careers of such noted piano players as Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Sunwook Kim and Sir András Schiff ... .

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San Francisco Conservatory buys Opus 3 Artists agency

Federal News Radio 21 Oct 2020

Opus 3 artists include conductors Marek Janowski, Marin Alsop, Patrick Summers and David Robertson; pianists Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Radu Lupu and Garrick Ohlsson and Danil Trifonov; violinists Sarah Chang and Gil Shaham; sopranos Christine Goerke and Lisette Orospesa; ...

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In Schubert’s last sonata, the trill’s the thing

The Los Angeles Times 26 Aug 2020

When a chipping sparrow trills, it could be that spring has arrived. When women’s voices ululate, they do so, in different regions of the world, to celebrate, to mourn, to pray, to warn, to seduce ... There are trills, and there are trills ... Commentary ... Radu Lupu, Alfred Brendel, Marc-André Hamelin, Evgeny Kissin all have something valuable to say.

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Dame Fanny Waterman: Piano legend 'hurt' over being asked to retire

BBC News 16 Mar 2020

As a child growing up in Leeds, Dame Fanny was a talented pianist herself. In 1941, she won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London and went on to perform at the Proms ... Many of the world's greatest pianists, including Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu made their names in the competition that she nurtured and ran for decades ... Related Topics. .

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Silence is golden: Softly-softly approach to music gets your attention

The Irish Times 13 Nov 2019

The great Romanian pianist Radu Lupu comes to mind as a perfect example, or French soprano Nathalie Dessay, whose 2015 National Concert Hall recital had moments of riveting quietness, or Catalan viola da gamba player Jordi Savall, whose delicacy in a packed Black Abbey at ...

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For the love of Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky

The Hindu 19 Sep 2019

When Irish classical pianist Barry Douglas first visited Mumbai in 2014, he decided to turn vegetarian. “I still am one, and I thank you all. This will be my third visit, as I came here in April last year,” he says ... He taught me a lot about style and sound.” ... Among contemporary pianists, Douglas likes Radu Lupu, Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich.

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