In 2010 it was the turn of the pianists and oboists, while in 2011 singers and string quartets are in the spotlight.
Along with the names listed above, there were also dates for guitarists John Collins (eight rejected titles), San Salvador and Tal Farlow, the trombonist Urbie Green, and the pianists Kenny Drew, Elmo Hope and George Wallington.
Cliburn, considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, performed for every U.S. president since Harry Truman, according to his official biography.
His instrumental take is a highlight of his new album, New Orleans Meets Harlem, Vol. 1, which salutes the great pianists of the past.
Van Cliburn. (Applause.) The 2010 National Medal of Arts to Van Cliburn for his contributions as one of the greatest pianists in the history of music, and as a persuasive ambassador for American culture.
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The trio's CD Take It From the Top is a tribute to some of the great pianists who have influenced James' career, including Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington and Nat "King" Cole.
Jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and pop icon Elvis Presley aren't a likely pairing: Chestnut is one of the top pianists of a generation born many years after songs like "Love Me Tender, " "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" made Presley the king of rock 'n' roll.
Throughout history, the advice of leading pianists has led to many important improvements to the instrument.
The result can be a kind of soulless, percentage piano, the spirit of which may afflict even the most renowned pianists.
Jazz critics praised his adventurous approach and fresh style, while noting the influences of pianists such as McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett.
Mitchell's mentors include Rachmaninov - "Beyond the music, he was a composer, a conductor, a pianist all at the highest level, and they're often roles that jazz musicians play simultaneously" - and the great jazz pianists.
Individual sets are being issued in batches until the summer, and the list of 72 pianists amounts to a pantheon of virtuosos, stretching from Ignacy Paderewski (born 1860) to the likes of Mr Pollini and Mr Kissin.
He brings all of his experience as one of the most intellectually rigorous pianists and brilliant music historians alive today.
In later years, on stage, Hines rarely spoke about his big band, instead preferring to talk about what he called "trumpet-style piano, " in which he followed the lines of a horn soloist rather than approximating a full orchestra, as the ragtime and stride pianists were then doing.
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard is one of the most adventurous and versatile pianists on today's concert scene.
Lang was preceded on the bill by two other pianists, Leon Fleisher and Alicia de Larrocha.
Simply put, the talented, from concert pianists to energy entrepreneurs to transportation visionaries, are beginning to shrug.
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Onstage, there are two Steinways, and in the wings wait two elegant pianists.
Created in 1962 by a group of Fort Worth teachers and citizens, it remains among the top showcases for the world's best pianists.
He is, as one critic put it, one of the world's indisputably great pianists.
In 1894, Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein, Russian composer and one of the 19th century's great pianists, died.
He achieved his gorgeous tone and singing, swinging sense of melody by keeping his fingers near to the keys, not lifting them off and striking the poor ivories as some showier pianists do.
He was known as a great wit, though sometimes at the expense of unfortunate strippers or lounge pianists.
But he also looks like he could take a piano in a fair fight, as opposed to all those pianists who seem dwarfed by the instrument.
Pianists have made records virtually throughout the century: all the greatest virtuosos have left a legacy of their achievements.
For the next hour and a half, he worked with three pianists two young girls, no more than ten or eleven, who played Chopin, and a teen-age boy who tried to make his way through a complicated Brahms piece.
For many pianists and listeners, Chopin is a central figure in the repertoire.
The technical demands of Schumann's works are understood by all pianists.
To stop French players defecting to foreign clubs, where they can earn more, the government has decided that football players should be treated like supermodels or concert pianists.
When I attend in 2010, the programme boasts, among others, cellist Pieter Wispelwey, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianists Shai Wosner and Kathryn Stott.
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