South Korean Jooyeon Ka Wins 65th Jaén Prize Piano Competition with Stunning Performance

South Korean Jooyeon Ka Wins 65th Jaén Prize Piano Competition with Stunning Performance

The Infanta Leonor Theater in Jaén has filled its seats to delight in front of the finalist musicians of the Jaén Prize Piano organized by the Provincial Council. The young pianist South Korean Jooyeon Ka has won the 65th edition, thanks to her interpretation of the concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 in F … Read more

Conrad Graf Fortepiano Steals the Show at Chamber Concert in Innsbruck

Conrad Graf Fortepiano Steals the Show at Chamber Concert in Innsbruck

By Markus Schramek Saturday, February 3, 2024, 7:30 p.m At the latest chamber concert, it’s not just the musicians who are the stars, but also an almost 200-year-old instrument. Innsbruck – The Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum (a major construction site from mid-2024 due to renovations) has many instrument treasures as its own. Several fortepianos, the … Read more

Marie-Paule Belle: Returns to Paris Stage with New Album ‘Un soir entre mille’

Marie-Paule Belle: Returns to Paris Stage with New Album ‘Un soir entre mille’

Parisian cabaret, whimsical atmosphere. So we remember Marie-Paule Belle, pianist, singer, composer, and her first successful title published in 1976, “La Parisienne”. Mocking, she then recounted her life as a young provincial in the capital. Nearly 50 years later and 12 years after his last album Rebelthe 77-year-old artist and music figure is making his … Read more

Sascha Klar Returns with Red Piano for New Year’s Eve Party at Schlossallee 1

Sascha Klar Returns with Red Piano for New Year’s Eve Party at Schlossallee 1

He was only gone for a short time, now he’s back: Sascha Klar recently achieved modest fame when the entertainer appeared on the Vox show “Goodbye Germany! The Emigrants” tried to be successful with a piano bar on Gran Canaria. But after two years in Playa del Ingles, the fun was over because every time … Read more

What Bohumil Hrabal preached to evangelicals at Christmas. Recordings of his speeches were found

What Bohumil Hrabal preached to evangelicals at Christmas.  Recordings of his speeches were found

Religionist Pavel Hošek discovered recordings of the speeches of the writer Bohumil Hrabal, who in the 80s of the last century regularly visited the evangelical congregation in Libica nad Cidlinou about Advent. “I was quite surprised how he fit in with the parishioners. The way he talked to them, it was as if they had … Read more

The Beatles released their last song. Lennon’s voice was cleaned by artificial intelligence

The Beatles released their last song.  Lennon’s voice was cleaned by artificial intelligence

British band The Beatles, which broke up in 1970, released their last song this Thursday afternoon. Artificial intelligence helped deliver the voice of John Lennon, murdered ten years after the band broke up. The composition was completed by the two remaining surviving members, 81-year-old bassist and guitarist Paul McCartney with 83-year-old drummer Ringo Starr. The … Read more

Smetana and Kabeláč. Pianist Bartoš opens the Hybatelé Resonance cycle

Smetana and Kabeláč.  Pianist Bartoš opens the Hybatelé Resonance cycle

This year’s cycle of piano concerts by Hybatelé Resonance will start this Monday, October 2, in Prague’s St. Anne’s Monastery with a recital by Jan Bartoš. He will present the repertoire from the album he released in February. The leading Czech pianist and artistic director of two festivals will play Bedřich Smetana’s Dreams or Miloslav … Read more

Street Singer Attacked and Robbed While Performing Billy Joel’s ‘Piano Man’

Street Singer Attacked and Robbed While Performing Billy Joel’s ‘Piano Man’

Andrew, a street singer, was attacked. He was performing Billy Joel’s ‘Piano Man’ song on the street when he attacked the drunk woman. In Georgia, America, a young woman attacked a street singer and arrived intoxicated. The young woman opened fire on the young man while performing an art performance in the city. The young … Read more

An ode to joy and freedom. Beethoven will be performed by the famous Eschenbach at the end of the Prague Spring

After 13 years, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Ode to Joy returns to the program of the final concert of the Prague Spring Festival, performed by the Czech Philharmonic conducted by the renowned Christoph Eschenbach. The 83-year-old German conductor, who looks extremely serious and pays attention to the smallest details, has been returning to … Read more

“Widow Scammers Target Hospital Charity with Piano Donation Scam: Hush Foundation Warns Others”

The Hush Foundation in Melbourne, Victoria, known for their efforts in bringing music and arts into hospitals, was recently targeted by scammers posing as a widow. The scammer offered to donate a grand piano to the charity before demanding an upfront $800 “delivery fee”. Despite emails back and forth for months, the scammer’s request for … Read more