Live Music Is A Once In A Lifetime Experience
Early on in our conversation with Catherine McLelland & Amanda Smith of the Honens International Piano Competition (Director of Artistic Planning, and President and CEO respectively) about how the competitors progress from auditions to the Finale, I pause to …
When we ask concert pianist Jarred Dunn what his favourite piano so far has been, he begins speaking words with consonants & vowels in ways that are undoubtedly related to the Polish origins of the musical prodigy Chopin that Jarred waxes so poetically about. …
The Honens International Piano Competition rolls into town as August ends, presenting world-class piano newbies to battle it out in the rodeo that Ms. Honens initiated in 1992. But it’s not all newcomers, and it’s not all pianos! …
