2016 Sydney International Piano Competition

2016 Sydney International Piano Competition

The Sydney International Piano Competition is on again this year from July 6-23. Artistic Director, Piers Lane AO has announced the list of competitors which includes three Australian pianists – Ayesha Gough from Brisbane, Daniel Le from Melbourne, and Hong Kong-born Australian Jeremy So from Sydney. The other contenders hail from 15 different nations including Kazakhstan,…

A night of nocturnes

A night of nocturnes

  “His extraordinary intimacy with the piano, which withholds no secrets of keyboard brilliance or expressive colouring from him, maximises the potential in the scoring, however modest or extravagant, of whatever he chooses to play.” Gerald Larner, The Times. A complex description of the gifted pianist Nikolai Demidenko, who performs in Sydney for just one…