Valentina Lisitsa showed musical talent early, but she wanted to be a professional chess player. Music won out. Lisitsa will join the Spokane Symphony and conductor Eckart Preu this weekend for a pair ...

The Albany Symphony Orchestra's 2012-13 season begins with a concert that combines the old (Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff) and the new ("Erasure Scherzo" by 30-year-old composer Ted Hearne), but what ...

The arts like to pride themselves on being "challenging". They "speak truth to power" – meaning not just political power, but the power of received, lazy ways of thinking and feeling. People in the ...

Before abandoning himself to various forms of musical mysticism and pushing the harmonic language of late Romanticism almost to the point of atonality, Scriabin began like many budding composers ...

Stewart Goodyear was to have replace Valentina Lisitsa, only to be cancelled himself. As most have heard, Valentina Lisitsa was "uninvited" from performing Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto with the ...

How big does a mess outside the concert hall need to get before it affects what happens inside? Let’s talk about this piano soloist and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO). I know a conductor who ...

How much would you bet on your ability to sell something for which you had not found a buyer in spite of years of unstinting effort? Would you bet your house? That was the question facing the ...

Will Valentina Lisitsa be remembered as the classical pianist with “the ugly tweets” or the pianist “who fought and perished for freedom of speech?” That’s what the Ukrainian-American artist was ...

But with so much available to watch and hear free, what's the point of recording and selling music? For Lisitsa, it's an "investment in the future." Her YouTube channel has helped her book concerts ...

Valentina Lisitsa is one of the most frequently viewed pianists on YouTube, who sold out her debut performance at the Royal Albert Hall after attracting an internet fan base of millions. Life and ...

The pianist Valentina Lisitsa is contemplating her unlikely resurrection. 'You know with my career, what is happening with YouTube and all this stuff, it’s amazing because in the age of child ...