A Ukrainian-born pianist who has been barred from performing with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra said late Thursday she would be be giving a free concert in the city on Friday night, but the church ...

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 ...

With her multi-faceted playing described as “dazzling”, Valentina Lisitsa is at ease in a vast repertoire ranging from Bach and Mozart to Shostakovich and Bernstein. Her orchestral repertoire alone ...

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 ...

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 ...

For one week during the World Cup, Valentina Lisitsa put a webcam in her practice studio in North Carolina. For 12 to 14 hours a day (her usual practice time), anyone could go to Ustream and watch the ...

Valentina Lisitsa's new album, Chasing Pianos, features music from Michael Nyman's score to the 1993 film The Piano. But with so much available to watch and hear free, what's the point of recording ...

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has cancelled several shows by pianist Valentina Lisitsa slated for this week. The reason -- her views on the conflict in Ukraine. Lisitsa is an ethnic Russian who was ...

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Pianist Valentina Lisitsa played with an urgent intensity which explains how she has racked up 43 million hits on YouTube, writes Ivan Hewett. Valentina Lisitsa, the classical pianist, performs live ...