Van Cliburn's Cold War piano performance in Moscow when he won the prestigious Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition at 23 also was selected.

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M. in Piano Performance from The Julliard School, and a B.

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He's a keen student of the finest details of piano performance, as well as a deep thinker about music history, and he likes to talk about Bach's genius.

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It initially was reported that he stunned witnesses with a "virtuoso performance" on the piano.

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Buchbinder's stop at our studio was just a few hours before his performance of a Beethoven Piano Concerto at Symphony Hall with the Dresden Staatskapelle.

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The best way for me to relax before a performance is to play the piano.

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Demanding and no doubt a perfectionist, Previn's latest performance is on the new solo jazz piano CD, Alone.

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Lord Lloyd Webber discovered Ewen during BBC One's Your Country Needs You competition and accompanied her on the piano during Saturday's performance.

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The classical pianist Van Cliburn's Cold War performance when he won the prestigious Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition at 23 also was selected.

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Hiromi begins the session with a solo performance of her original tune "The Tom and Jerry Show, " a piece of stride piano inspired by the endless, frenetic chase between the famous cartoon cat and mouse.

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