Misha Piatigorsky, winner of the 2004 BMI Thelonious Monk Composers Competition, is one of the most innovative pianists on the music scene today. His unique marriage of powerful melodies with ...

I chuckled last night as I read the obit of Jacqueline Piatigorsky, wife of the great Russian cellist, who died at the ripe old age of 100. She was as good a chess player as her husband was a renowned ...

The distress call came in early July from a longtime resident of Brentwood. “The Piatigorsky house is being demolished,” she said. “We were their neighbors for 60 years.” Los Angeles was losing part ...

Jan. 10—Enjoy an afternoon of classical music at Brushy Creek Methodist Church Sunday. Piatigorsky Foundation artists, Pianist Siwon Kim and mezzo-soprano Katherine Calcamuggio Donner, will perform a ...

That Nathaniel Rosen will perform Paul Hindemith’s neglected 1948 Cello Sonata Sunday evening in the Shriver Hall Concert Series makes sense. The sonata was written for the Russian-American cellist ...

One could make an interesting case for pianist, composer and bandleader Misha Piatigorsky. He is a Russian émigré (1981), an accomplished musician, a student of pianist Kenny Barron with a Master ...

Gregor Piatigorsky, the Russian cello virtuoso, used to talk about "tasting the blood" of music -- music as destiny. "Nobody can really choose music as a profession like you can choose to become a ...

Jacqueline Piatigorsky was born into the Rothschild banking clan and grew up in a palace in Paris, but her silver spoon came with a ball and shackles. She rarely left her sumptuous homes and was ...