September 30, 2024 marks the 90th birthday of Canadian-born pianist Ronald Turini. The esteemed musician has the distinction of being one of handful of official pupils of the legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Born in Montreal on September 30, 1934, Turini first studied with his mother and then at the McGill Conservatory with Frank Hanson; at the […]

For the 15th anniversary of my Facebook page The Piano Files with Mark Ainley, I thought I would share some of what I’ve shared the last year. As I’ve recounted on previous occasions, when I started the page, it was the early years of the social media platform and there was no sense that it […]

I am delighted to have been invited to contribute a regular column to International Piano magazine. I have written several features about great pianists for the magazine, first in 1999 in its initial incarnation as International Piano Quarterly (a 4,000 word feature about Dinu Lipatti since updated on my website here) and several since its […]