As a child in Tokyo, Mari Yoshihara shared her bedroom with a Yamaha upright. She began piano lessons at age 3. It was a typical middle-class Japanese girlhood, she says, recalling that she was ...
Seiji Ozawa, who has died aged 88, was one of the few Japanese musicians to make a significant mark in the Western classical music tradition. He crossed the East-West divide with remarkable ease, ...
This winter’s most creative and compelling classical concerts all benefit from their assiduous embrace of diverse influences, from Native American, Latino, Asian American and Black composers, among ...
So for instance, some Asian and Asian American musicians are are becoming a lot more vocal about the actual like racism or sexism that they have themselves experienced, or that they witness in the ...
He led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 29 years, toured widely and helped dispel prejudices about East Asian classical musicians. By James R. Oestreich Seiji Ozawa, the high-spirited Japanese ...
These days, music lovers have a growing number of Asian American musical artists to listen to like Thuy, Keshi and Mitski. But while Asian American musicians have become more visible, there’s still ...
For a venerable European musical institution, the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition wasn’t all that European. Of the 11 finalists this year, East Asian faces occupied a staggering ...
As noted by MacRumors, Apple Music Classical is now available in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao. Apple had already promised to expand the app to these countries earlier this ...
Waverly, the founder of mHart media, and mHart artist Francene Rouelle. These days, music lovers have a growing number of Asian American musical artists to listen to like Thuy, Keshi and Mitski. But ...