International Piano

International Piano offers a rich mix of inspiration and guidance to pianists and piano fans around the world, from dedicated amateurs and students to professional pianists, teachers and aficionados. Celebrating the piano in all its forms, including the fortepiano and digital keyboards, each edition of our magazine is packed with interviews, features, news and reviews showcasing the top artists of today and yesteryear.

Impressing with Chopin

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Competition winners

Zavidov signs to Alpha

Kantorow and Fu win Gramophone Awards

Malcolm Binns turns 90

Aristo Sham signs to Universal

Víkingur Ólafsson wins RPS Award

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Handing down the baton • Jonathon Brown listens in on the world of high-level teaching, and talks to a well-known teacher and his talented pupil about their reciprocal relationship

Historical Perspectives • Mark Ainley looks back on the career and pianism of Percy Grainger, who may have preferred to be remembered as a composer than as a performer but who left a priceless treasure trove of recordings

Musings of a musician • Kenneth Hamilton remembers with affection the life and work of the pianist and composer Ronald Stevenson, who had a profound influence on his own musical tastes and temperament

Forgotten treasures • Jeremy Nicholas remembers Wilfred Worden, a British pianist and composer who played a role in his own teenage musical discovery, and who went from celebrated child prodigy to obscurity, his few recordings now all but forgotten

Unreleased Lupu • To mark what would have been his 80th birthday, Decca has compiled a box-set of previously unreleased recordings by Radu Lupu. Geraint Lewis listens in awe and gratitude, and places these recordings in the context of the pianist’s career and glorious artistry

Rediscovering Yakov Flier • Continuing his survey of great 20th-century Soviet pianists, Farhan Malik explores the pianism and legacy of a celebrated artist who became one of Russia’s most important piano pedagogues

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Ballets reborn • Andrey Gugnin welcomes us on a colourful tour of musical and pianistic transformation

Creative stimulation • Clare Hammond introduces her new album of British piano concertos, including Britten’s Diversions, commissioned for the left hand by Paul Wittgenstein

Ravel’s Miroirs • Ateș Orga introduces Ravel’s five-movement suite for solo piano, dedicated to fellow members of the French artistic avant-garde, and guides us through its history on record

NUTS AND BOLTS Part 8: Repeated notes • A manual breaking down aspects of piano technique with practical advice and step-by-step guidance for players of all standards, written for International Piano by Murray McLachlan

Chopin in Warsaw • Having spent almost a month in the Polish capital, Jed Distler reflects on the events of this year’s 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition

Space for sound at the Honens • Thomas May reports from Calgary, Canada, on the 2025 edition of the Honens International Piano Competition

Critics’ choice

SOLO REPERTOIRE

A quarterly round-up • Nigel Simeone catches up on a wide-ranging batch of new piano recordings

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