YouTube has been very good for classical music. Before the Internet video site, many of the great virtuosos of the 20th century were merely the stuff of stories, with violinists like Jascha Heifetz ...

It's not often that you can put a number to a pianist's greatness, but here's one: on the way to becoming one of the Internet's favorite classical musicians, and if you missed her recital Sunday ...

Valentina Lisitsa, the piano superstar famous worldwide for launching her career via social media, will perform with the Spokane Symphony on Saturday April 18 at 8:00 p.m. and again on Sunday April 19 ...

For the first time ever the complete set of Chopin's Etudes on Video! See and listen to the work which is justly considered the ultimate in difficulty - both musically and technically - Chopin's 24 ...

Stewart Goodyear was to have replace Valentina Lisitsa, only to be cancelled himself. As most have heard, Valentina Lisitsa was "uninvited" from performing Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto with the ...

The Albany Symphony Orchestra's 2012-13 season begins with a concert that combines the old (Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff) and the new ("Erasure Scherzo" by 30-year-old composer Ted Hearne), but what ...

The Ukrainian-born pianist revived her stalled career by uploading videos of herself to YouTube. After millions clicked, she landed a record deal.... Valentina Lisitsa: Chasing Pianos And YouTube Fans ...

‘Done is better than perfect” was the motto of the mid-aughts. Adopters of this Internet maxim won their place atop the search and social heap. Such an approach to success seems antithetical to ...

The pianist Valentina Lisitsa has not taken a straightforward path to success. She's been playing and performing for years, but her career seemed to be tanking until she, on a whim, posted some videos ...

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 ...