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A pianist (/ˈpiːənᵻst/ PEE-ə-nist, /ˈpjænᵻst/ PYAN-ist) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Most forms of Western music can make use of the piano. Consequently, pianists have a wide variety of repertoire and styles to choose from, including traditionally classical music, jazz, blues and all sorts of popular music, including rock music. Most pianists can, to a certain extent, play other keyboard-related instruments such as the synthesizer, harpsichord, celesta and the organ.
Modern classical pianists dedicate their careers to performing, recording, teaching, researching as well as learning new works/expanding their repertoire. They generally do not write or transcribe music as pianists did in the 19th century. Some classical pianists might specialize in accompaniment and chamber music while others (relatively few) will perform as full-time piano soloists.
Mozart could be considered the first "concert pianist" as he performed widely on the piano. Composers Beethoven and Clementi from the classical era were also famed for their playing, as were, from the romantic era, Liszt, Brahms, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Rachmaninoff. From that era, leading performers less known as composers were Clara Schumann and Hans von Bûlow. However, as we do not have modern audio recordings of most of these pianists, we rely mainly on written commentary to give us an account of their technique and style.
A piano concerto is a concerto written for a piano accompanied by an orchestra or other large ensemble.
Keyboard concerti were common in the time of Johann Sebastian Bach. Occasionally, Bach's harpsichord concerti are played on piano.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, typical concertos for keyboard were organ concertos and harpsichord concertos, such as those written by George Friedrich Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach.
As the piano developed and became accepted, composers naturally started writing concerti for it. This happened in the late 18th century, during the Classical music era. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the most important composer in the early development of the form. Mozart's body of masterly piano concerti put his stamp firmly on the genre well into the Romantic era.
Mozart wrote many piano concertos for himself to perform (his 27 piano concertos also include concerti for two and three pianos). With the rise of the piano virtuoso, many composer-pianists did likewise, notably Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, and Robert Schumann—and also lesser-known musicians like Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Joseph Wölfl, Carl Maria von Weber, John Field, Ferdinand Ries, and F. X. Mozart.
Anna Fedorova (born 27 February 1990) is a Ukrainian concert pianist.
Fedorova was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, into a family of musicians, and began playing the piano at age five. She gave her first public recital when she was six, and she gave her national debut at the age of 7, at the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine.
Fedorova has given concerts in various halls across Europe, North America, and South America, including performances at the Concertgebouw in the Netherlands, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico, and the Teatro Colón in Argentina. She has won 14 international piano competitions, including First Prize at the International Rubinstein in Memoriam piano competition in Poland, in 2009.
In 2008, she graduated from the Lysenko Musical College for Gifted Children. She is currently a student of Norma Fisher at the Royal College of Music in London and additionally studies with Leonid Margarius at the Accademia Pianistica Incontri col Maestro in Imola, Italy.
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Actors: Joshua Bell (actor), Steve Krahnke (producer), Matthew Everhart (actor), Hideki Isoda (composer), Aaron Schmidt (actor), Hideki Isoda (director), Elizabeth Sobol (actress), Shirley Bell (actress), Linda Figen (actress), David Steele (actor), Linda Figen (actress), Elizabeth Sobol (actress), Allan Steele (actor), Alex Kerr (actor), Evan Rothstein (actor),
Plot: This inspiring film follows the Violin Virtuosi through preliminary lessons and rehearsals, challenging master classes, and performances, taking these young "virtuosi" from stages in Bloomington, Indiana to France and Japan. In their own words, young violinists, their parents, and mentors provide a remarkable glimpse of what it takes to become a world-class performer. In single-camera POV style, the viewer is invited to witness home life, personal sacrifice, growing friendships, musical struggles and triumphs, and the thrill of capacity-crowd performances. Circling Around features interviews with the world renowned (and former String Academy student) Joshua Bell and his mother; extended performance footage; and performances of Brahms, Copland, Sarasate, and Kreisler. The film also includes an original soundtrack by director/composer, Hideki Isoda, performed by jazz recording artist Sara Caswell.
Keywords: educational-film, indiana-university, musician, violin, violinistActors: Tracey Ullman (actress), Woody Allen (writer), Larry Pine (actor), Elaine Stritch (actress), Charles H. Joffe (producer), Jack Rollins (producer), Michael Rapaport (actor), Brian Markinson (actor), Peter McRobbie (actor), Woody Allen (actor), Jon Lovitz (actor), Hugh Grant (actor), George Grizzard (actor), Kay Chapin (miscellaneous crew), Woody Allen (director),
Plot: Dishwasher and small-fry criminal Ray hits on a plan with his partners in crime to re-open a local pizza place and dig through to the bank down the street. As his wife can't cook pizza but does great cookies, that's what they sell. While the no-hope tunnellers get lost underground, the cookie operation really takes off and the team find themselves rich business people. But the other local money isn't quite ready to accept them.
Keywords: airplane, apartment-building, bad-taste, bakery, bank-robbery, botched-crime, building, cell-phone, class-differences, crookActors: James Fox (actor), Danny Webb (actor), Jeremy Child (actor), Francesca Annis (actress), Alex Norton (actor), James Fleet (actor), Rupert Vansittart (actor), Tony Doyle (actor), Iain Cuthbertson (actor), Patrick Gowers (composer), Alan David (actor), Norman Chancer (actor), Simon Langton (director), Pippa Haywood (actress), Saul Reichlin (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Atom Egoyan (producer), Bruce McDonald (editor), David Hemblen (actor), Atom Egoyan (director), Mychael Danna (composer), Atom Egoyan (writer), Gabrielle Rose (actress), Mychael Danna (actor), Gerard Parkes (actor), Arsinée Khanjian (actress), Tony Nardi (actor), Donald Ranvaud (producer), Patricia Collins (actress), Jacqueline Samuda (actress), Camelia Frieberg (producer),
Plot: A struggling actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. He leaves his acting resume in the hotel room of a screenwriter, who is casting for a TV movie based on the true story of her deceased brother. She hires him to play the lead and the two begin an affair. She becomes increasingly distraught as it becomes evident that the movie's producer is changing her story. Egoyan's trademark tangle of bizarre relationships surrounds the protagonists on their way to a mind-blowing conclusion. A hypnotic, fascinating film.
Keywords: actor, aspiring-actor, bare-breasts, bidet, bride-and-groom, brother-sister-relationship, cafe, casket, cemetery, cleaning-ladyActors: Dezi Rorich (miscellaneous crew), Anant Singh (producer), Ron Palillo (actor), Victor Melleney (actor), Carel Trichardt (actor), Max Lemon (editor), William A. Levey (actor), Frank Notaro (actor), Sudhir Pragjee (miscellaneous crew), Sudhir Pragjee (producer), William A. Levey (director), Chris Barnes (editor), Sanjeev Singh (producer), Len Sparrowhawk (actor), Kimberleigh Stark (actress),
Plot: A motorcycle gang kidnaps a young woman, Josie, from a diner and brutally kills her. Many years later, the girl's father finds a magic crystal that can bring the life back to dead objects. He uses it to re-animate his daughter. He lets her seduce any young man that comes to visit the small town and then kills them. Four young students, two boys and two girls spend a vacation near the town, Hellgate. They hear about the story and get involved.
Keywords: '50s-music, 1950s, 1980s, axe, axe-murder, blood, breasts, cemetery, characters-killed-one-by-one, crystalActors: Ebbe Langberg (actor), Axel Strøbye (actor), Carl Davis (composer), Marjorie Lavelly (miscellaneous crew), Klaus Pagh (actor), Patrick Godfrey (actor), Gordon Hessler (director), Gordon Hessler (writer), Rupert Frazer (actor), Just Betzer (producer), Robert Gordon (editor), Hanne Borchsenius (actress), Jean Boht (actress), Preston Lockwood (actor), Helen Cherry (actress),
Plot: A London art broker goes to Copenhagen where he requires the services of a secretary fluent in Danish, English, and German. He falls deeply in love with the woman, despite the fact that he knows virtually nothing about her. She insists on not being married in a church, and after they are married, some bad things from her past begin surfacing in subtly supernatural ways, and he must find the best way to deal with them without destroying their relationship.
Keywords: based-on-novel, child-murder, child-murderess, daughter, denmark, independent-film, marriage, mother-kills-own-child, passionActors: Hugo Björne (actor), Gunnar Björnstrand (actor), Åke Claesson (actor), Åke Engfeldt (actor), Georg Funkquist (actor), Alf Kjellin (actor), Erik Rosén (actor), Georg Rydeberg (actor), Hans Strååt (actor), Hilda Borgström (actress), Viveca Lindfors (actress), Hjördis Petterson (actress), Jules Sylvain (composer), Lennart Wallén (editor), Alva Lundin (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: When this 1944 Swedish film was released in the USA in 1946, actress Viveca Lindfors was working in Hollywood under contract to Warner Brothers. Parts of Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata, as well as passages from his fifth and seventh symphonies recur frequently in the film, both as part of the music performed within the story, and as background music: In a jealous rage, a famous concert pianist attacks one of his wife's admirers, and is sent to prison. After serving his sentence he tells one of his pupils, in flashback, the story of he and his wife's love and marriage. He then learns that the pupil is in love with his wife. He makes a concert comeback and, then, does a very strange thing.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, assault, classical-music, comeback, concert, concert-pianist, flashback, husband-wife-relationship, jealous-rageActors: George Cooper (actor), George Barbier (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Wilson Benge (actor), Don Barclay (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Max Barwyn (actor), Berton Churchill (actor), Herman Bing (actor), Ray Bolger (actor), Ralph Brooks (actor), A.S. 'Pop' Byron (actor), Hal K. Dawson (actor),
Plot: A musical comedy duo in their 6th year on Broadway receive an offer to perform in Hollywood making films. The change of lifestyle is inviting to the Sweethearts as the move will take them away from relatives and friends who want to engage them in countless performances. However, when it comes to signing their Hollywood contract they do not sign as Gwen has been perceived into believing her seetheart and husband is engaged in an affair with their personal assistant. The Sweethearts split up and carry on performing their musical production around America with their understudies as their co-stars. Eventually they are united in a Broadway Show.
Keywords: actor, actor's-life, actress, backstage, based-on-operetta, behind-the-scenes, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, couple, deception, divorceActors: Milton Schwarzwald (producer), Milton Schwarzwald (director), Milton Schwarzwald (writer), Eton Boys (actor), Virginia Verrill (actress), Edith Fleming (actress), Dolores Foresome (actress), Rose Linda (actress), Oshins and Lessy (actor), Vic Hyde (actor), The Samuel Brothers (actor), Don Foresome (actor),
Plot: A Mentone Brevity musical-and-comedy short using vaudeville-and-radio performers in a swanky nightclub setting; performers include Oshins & Lessy, a comedy team; singers Virginia Verrill and the Four Eton Boys' dancers---all kinds---done by the Samuel Brothers, Edith Fleming, and Don and Dolores Forsome; a young concert pianist named Rose Linda (no, not Linda Rose) a some multi-trumpet playing by Vic Hyde.
Keywords: 1930s, adagio-dance, brother-brother-relationship, comedian, concert-pianist, dancer, dancing, hit-parade, husband-wife-team, musicianActors: Lance Comfort (miscellaneous crew), Vi Kaley (actress), Muriel George (actress), Wilfred Noy (actor), John Baxter (director), H. Fowler Mear (writer), Johnnie Schofield (actor), John Turnbull (actor), Wally Patch (actor), David Keir (actor), Edgar Driver (actor), John Stuart (actor), Kenneth Kove (actor), Ernest Butcher (actor), Enid Stamp-Taylor (actress),
Genres: Musical,58 minute long BBC documentary called Imagine: Being a Concert Pianist. In July, 19-year-old pianist Benjamin Grosvenor made his debut at the Proms to great acclaim, wowing both audiences and critics with his performance of Liszt's Piano Concerto No 2 in A Major. The youngest ever soloist to perform in the First Night of the Proms, he returns to the Royal Albert Hall on August 6 to take on Britten's Piano Concerto. In 2005, Imagine discovered this musical prodigy in the making. Alan Yentob talked to the 12-year-old Grosvenor about his success the previous year, in the piano section of The Young Musician of The Year Competition. This is another chance to see that documentary. Imagine: Being a Concert Pianist gets under the lid of this extreme form of musicianship. Celebrated piani...
2011 Tchaikovsky Competition - Piano Round II, Phase II Mozart - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 21 in C major, K.467 Yeol Eum Son (South Korea)
Pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii bursts into tears when he plays at Carnegie Hall his own composition "Elegy for the Victims of the Tsunami of March 11, 2011 in Japan".
Watch Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto no.3 with Anna Fedorova here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TJvJXyWDYw. Rachmaninov: Pianoconcerto no.2 op.18 Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie o.l.v. Martin Panteleev Anna Fedorova, piano Opgenomen/recorded: Het Zondagochtend Concert, 1 september 2013 in het Koninklijk Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Rachmaninovs Tweede pianoconcert is zijn populairste: het is te horen in vele films en is een mijlpaal in de carrière van alle grote pianisten. Het Zondagochtend Concert is een concertserie van NPO Radio 4. Kijk voor meer informatie over de reeks op http://zondagochtendconcert.radio4.nl.
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Look through the eyes of virtuoso concert pianist Jason Pelsey as he straps on a head cam and lays down a performance that only a virtuoso can. Remember to submit your Done In One clip to https://www.guitarcenter.com/doneinone Shot 100% on the HERO3+® camera from http://GoPro.com. Get stoked and subscribe: http://goo.gl/HgVXpQ Music Jason Pelsey
In this humorous talk, Dave Thomas takes us through the learning progression emphasizing that the types of educational experiences required of a novice are quite different from those of more advanced students. Mixing in babies, table saws and programming we are reminded of the joy that exists in knowing something well. Dave started programming computers when they filled whole rooms. He's written a number of books, presents at conferences around the world, and he helped create many of the practices that are common in the industry today. His passion is finding ways to surf just at the cusp of anarchy, where all the interesting stuff happens. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/ted...
Leeds College of Music Classical piano student Josh Kelly talks to renowned Malaysian pianist Mei Yi Foo after her masterclass, ahead of his appearance at the International Chopin Music Festival in Warsaw.
From the Klavierfestival Ruhr in the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum Daniel Barenboim, soloist and conductor Staatskapelle Berlin 0:00 I. Allegro (21:09) 21:00 II. Adagio un poco moto (8:09) 29:17 III. Rondo. Allegro (12:04) The world of music initially reacted less enthusiastically to Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto in E Hat major. Op. 73. "The excessive length of the composition", wrote one reviewer, following the work's first public performance at a Gewandhaus concert in Leipzig on 28 November 1811, "reduced the overall effect that this glorious product of the composer's mind would undoubtedly otherwise have produced." On the one hand, the critic was not entirely wrong, for the Fifth Piano Concerto is Beethoven's longest piano concerto, and in its heroic "Eroica" key of E fiat major is cer...
China Icons chats to Lang Lang, one of the world’s greatest concert pianists, about his influences, his experience as a child prodigy, his favourite composers and his hopes for the future. Subscribe to China Icons for more interviews with Chinese mega-stars. For more insights into Chinese life and culture, subscribe to China Icons. Also please like or share our video and visit our website: http://chinaicons.com/
Dr. Boris Guslitser: Concert Pianist, Master Teacher
Greg Howlett is an accomplished concert pianist and endeavors to teach church pianists improvisation of well known hymns.
A concert pianist dying of tuberculosis fall for her doctor.
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Concert pianist Ji Liu plays Bach's Goldberg Variations LIVE in the Old Vic at the Bristol Proms!