The Philadelphia-born pianist, songwriter and producer tours with the likes of Adele and loves to improvise. Eric Wortham II talks to his near-namesake, Erica Worth, before a Seattle gig

Back in the days of Rachmaninov and Cortot, national schools of playing were thought to be very distinct. Is this still true today? John Evans investigates

Erica Worth spends a magical few days at Martha Argerich’s festival on Lake Lugano in Switzerland – where established masters and young stars make beautiful music together

You never used to see pianos in public places but now you see them all over the place. Peter Baber finds out why and asks some of the players what they like about tinkling the ivories in public

Martha Argerich turns 75 this year and Warner Classics is celebrating with an amazing line-up of releases, as Inge Kjemtrup reveals

A habitué of the Paris cafés and an intimate of Cocteau and Picasso, composer Erik Satie was enduringly eccentric, just like his music. Peter Quantrill celebrates 150 years of a true original

Emil Gilels was born 100 years ago, and to mark the occasion, Maria Razumovskaya traces the musical journey that gave rise to this great Russian concert pianist. Plus, try the Bach-Siloti Prelude in this issue’s Scores, one of his most famous encores

ABRSM’s Syllabus Director Nigel Scaife kick-starts a new series on theory with a look at the most commonly used major and minor scales – and considers how they relate to each other

Pianist, composer, writer and painter: Stephen Hough is a true polymath, although even he finds himself challenged by Dvoˇrák’s tricky concerto, as he tells Jessica Duchen

He’s always been a great emissary for the piano, and now Lang Lang has become Global Ambassador for the Leeds Competition. He tells Erica Worth how it all came about