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Meet Alexander Wong, the young American piano prodigy who took first prize in the 2025 Clara Schumann International Piano Competition's Prodigy Kids category

Alexander Wong, a young American pianist, won first prize at the Clara Schumann Competition. He also secured a Gold Award at the WPTA Finland competition for his Mozart concerto. Wong previously won the Piano Teachers Society of America Competition for his Debussy performance. His technical precision and musical expression have…

The Economic Times · Sep 11

Young artists bring passion in new performance series

The Royal Bangkok Symphony Music School (RBSS) is steadily expanding its contribution to Bangkok's cultural life. Beyond nurturing the next generation of musicians, it has created Sounds On Wireless, a music performance series that brings together performance, education and audience engagement in equal measure.

Bangkok Post · Jul 10

Sounds On Wireless readies an afternoon 'Love Triangle'

Royal Bangkok Symphony Music School presents "Love Triangle", an afternoon of chamber music by Brahms and the Schumanns, at 140 Wireless, Witthayu Road, on Saturday at 4pm.

Bangkok Post · Jun 24

Fanny review – a fun-packed outing for the other Mendelssohn

Calum Finlay’s fast-moving comedy about the composer and her struggles to be recognised is pitch-perfectly performed

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2024

The Guardian view on female composers: a forgotten musical powerhouse

Editorial: For centuries the achievements of women have been ignored in classical composition. That can’t go on

The Guardian - UK · Sep 29, 2023

‘The human stories behind the music we love’: Radio 3’s Composer of the Week turns 80

As the BBC programme celebrates a milestone, Donald Macleod – in the presenter’s chair for almost 25 years – reflects on its storytelling power and shares his own tales of Hollywood and handstands

The Guardian - UK · Aug 1, 2023

The World’s Wife review – Carol Ann Duffy’s poems come to vivid and vital musical life

Jorinde Keesmaat’s staging of Tom Green’s reworked music-theatre piece is performed with fabulously assured authority by Lucia Lucas and the Ragazze Quartet

The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2023

Newcastle Music Festival releases 2023 program

15 concerts from August 11 to August 20

Newcastle Herald · Apr 30, 2023

Javier Perianes review – Granados’s Goyescas has rare outing but colours remain dim

Perianes has the agility and stamina to take on Granados’s piece but his realisation of the epic piano work didn’t have enough colour or character

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2023

Best supporting players: Brahms and the Schumanns

Brahms’s friendship with Robert Schumann was brief – but life-changing, while he and Clara supported and inspired each other to the end of their days. Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor on the trio’s musical and personal connections

The Guardian - UK · Mar 27, 2023