© AI Training forbidden - Selected Classical Music in the Poland of Chopin - Reviewer's Notebook

The Winner of the 2023 Sydney International Piano Competition is  Jeonghwan Kim Jeonghwan Kim first began playing the piano at the age of six. In the following years, his numerous first prizes in national competitions led to his admission to the Seoul Arts Center Academy for Young Talented Musicians at just nine years old. Moving to Berlin at the age of 11, he has continued to earn extensive recognition. Since 2017 he has been studying at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in the class of Professor Konrad Maria Engel. His former professors include Kyuhee Kim, Leda Kim and Thomas Just. He has also participated in masterclasses with Jakob Leuschner, Bob Versteegh and Robert Levin. Crucial influences on his artistic development include Stephan Imorde, Konstantin Heidrich, Stephan Forck and Jonathan Aner. Jeo...

One does not have rare musical experiences in terms of performance and cultural ambiance often these days. A brutal war clouds the cultural and creative horizon in a type of deadly suffocating miasma.  However, on Wednesday April 26th,  we were given the spiritually refreshing,  culturally delightful, thought provoking and uplifting recital by the outstanding Belgian pianist Marie François. This intimate recital for a small audience was her final gesture in commemorating a  musical adventure she had set up  with great imagination  for herself in Warsaw. All young pianists should spend some time in Poland if they wish to truly penetrate the essence of Fryderyk Chopin's music and play it with a deeper musical meaning rather than the all too common virtuosic emptiness. Over 21 days she studied, developed and practiced many of Fryderyk Chopin's Nocturnes - this genre was her primary focus. She also recorded a daily podcast so...

The present Ukraine brutal wartime situation is frighteningly close to us in Warsaw. The threat of the use of nuclear weapons by Russia makes the relationship between Warsaw and Hiroshima increasingly important. This post is the record of a serious past gesture of peace by this magnificent orchestra and a timely reminder of moral values and respect for the individual human life. 'Music for Peace'. I am also well aware of the  difficult decisions of conscience that  Japan faces  concerning foreign policy concerning this crisis. I am happy to inform you that the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra presented their subscription concert on May 18th 2023, which was just one day before the G7 Summit in Hiroshima started. How appropriate that the G 7 summit was held in Hiroshima! I hope the press accompanying the summit discovered the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra as a strong symbol of peace, as I witnessed when I visited Hiroshima. A moving comment on this post from India, January 2023:...