The instrument's slim legs and trim body make it look like a harpsichord - until pianist Timothy Hester starts to play. The sounds that emerge don't have the harpsichord's jangle or the modern piano's ...

At an age when most musicians are still consolidating their careers, Kristian Bezuidenhout has established himself as the foremost practitioner of his instrument. He plays the fortepiano, the term ...

There have been fortepianists before Ronald Brautigam and Kristian Bezuidenhout upon whose shoulders those two might be said to stand. But none had managed so convincingly to bring the fortepiano into ...

It was a long time coming. Piano Technician Mark Mikkelsen—who, for more than eight years, has supported the care and maintenance of the College of Music’s fleet of 160 pianos, two harpsichords and an ...

For Kristian Bezuidenhout, the art of historically informed performance is no dry, academic exercise but a bold act of musical imagination. In an illuminating recital at the Phillips Collection on ...

The beautiful notes of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadé Mozart filled the Miller House parlor last weekend as Daniel Adam Maltz, a fortepianist based in Vienna, Austria, performed for the Washington ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Pejepscot History Center will present Vienna-based Daniel Adam Maltz ...

The piano on which Mozart wrote all of his late concertos returned home to Vienna on Thursday for the first time since the composer’s death in 1791. The fortepiano that Mozart played almost daily for ...

Catskill Mountain Foundation's Academy of Fortepiano Performance continues its International Fortepiano Salon Series on January 29, 2022 with the presentation of Salon 8: Improvisation In Historical ...

Last week 'Performance Today' featured a South African keyboardist named Kristian Bezuidenhout (biz-AY-den-hoat), who specializes in playing the fortepiano. We received many e-mails regarding the ...

Kristian Bezuidenhout is about to rock your world. Maybe that statement sounds a bit too hyperbolic — but once you hear this South African-born fortepianist play, you'll instantly forget whatever ...