There are plenty of pianists out there -- more than enough -- who play things by the book. Much rarer are the individualists like Piotr Anderszewski, the Polish pianist who made an incendiary local ...

This programme made largely of miniatures was one to treasure. Anderszewski is a remarkable pianist – no note is out of place, no chord not perfectly balanced Piotr Anderszewski is one of the leading ...

Piotr Anderszewski might be one of the most revered pianists of his generation, but he's also one of the most impulsive. In 1990, at age 21, the young Pole entered the prestigious Leeds International ...

As pianist Piotr Anderszewski releases his new recording of late Brahms, he tells Hugo Shirley about what drew him to the composer’s music ...

Pianist Piotr Anderszewski is at home in Paris for a few days, just enough time to visit his parents and open the dreaded mail. It’s 10 p.m. there on a recent evening when he answers the phone.

Piano recitals excite a special kind of anticipation. The audience includes piano teachers who sit beside prize pupils and proud parents, and everyone is dressed to impress the (usually European) ...

Piotr Anderszewski's reputation as his own sternest critic hasn't diminished over the years. Whatever led him to walk out of the semifinals at the Leeds Piano Competition in 1990 (apparently, he ...

Two years ago Piotr Anderszewski won the $300,000 Gilmore Artist Award, perhaps the most prestigious in music and one given to only three pianists before him. It’s hard to think of a musician more ...

With Piotr Anderszewski poised to give a rare London solo recital at the Southbank on June 9, this two-disc set provides a captivating reminder and foretaste of the intellectual power, profound ...