Wei Luo had to return home to Shenzhen, China (known as "piano city") during the pandemic. Pianist Wei Luo had to leave the Curtis Institute of Music during the pandemic to return home to Shenzhen, ...

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A Steinway piano at Carnegie Hall. Photo by Brook Ward (CC BY-NC 2.0) via Flickr. I once read that when pianos first started arriving in China in the 19th century, people were afraid of what they ...

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Does the world need another piano competition? The Chinese think so, and they’re putting considerable money and resources behind that belief. On May 4, the First China International Music Competition ...

HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - Chinese classical piano star Li Yundi, considered one the world's best young musicians, owes much of his recent artistic maturity to an unlikely friendship with renowned ...

A musicians' enclave, a tiny island boasting the highest per capita concentration of pianos in China, is struggling to find its place in an increasingly commercialized nation. The cobbled streets of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, known for his passion for the outdoors, showed off his softer side during a visit to China when he sat down to play the piano Sunday. Putin is in Beijing on a state ...

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Once hailed as China's ‘Piano Prince’, pianist Li Yundi has had a very painful fall from grace after getting arrested for soliciting a prostitute last week.News of the arrest shocked ...

Pianist Wei Luo had to leave the Curtis Institute of Music and Philadelphia during the pandemic to return to her hometown of Shenzhen, China. Pianist Wei Luo had to leave the Curtis Institute of Music ...