Keyboardist and composer Michael Robinson is well known for performing his genre-defying electronic works on his invention, the Meruvina. He is also an accomplished pianist who has released several ...
Most anyone can sit down at the piano, learn the open position chord, and begin creating music. The idea that you can create a complete piano improvisation in five minutes seems undoable to most.
In the 18th century, all pianists who performed in public with any regularity were expected to be able to improvise pieces within traditional genres on command. Today, few classical pianists would ...
Before a rehearsal for the next installment of his ongoing piano improvisation series, Neal Kosaly-Meyer explains what he’ll be doing: 20 minutes on the keyboard’s lowest A; seven minutes on an A and ...
Dev Hynes has proven himself to be an artist who is well versed in multiple styles, whether he’s playing R&B as Blood Orange, scoring films like Queen & Slim, or performing classical music. Today he ...
ANDRE 3000: (Rapping) On the oak tree, I hope we feel like this forever. Forever, forever ever? Forever ever? Forever never seems that long until you're grown. MARTÍNEZ: As half of the duo OutKast, he ...
IMPROVISATION, in the minds of most of today’s classical music mavens, is usually limited to jazz venues, piano bars or someone’s living room. This is to say, if any unfamiliar or ...
Guest artist Dennis Thurmond will present “400 Years of Keyboard Improvisation” on Tuesday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be located in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall in the UTC Fine Arts ...