At Corvallis-OSU Piano International, our mission is “bringing people together in a culture of piano through performance, education and advocacy.” We are always thrilled by the opportunity to present world-class pianists and spectacular repertoire through our Steinway Series. No less a key part of our mission is to provide first-class celebratory and learning events for […]

In a post last spring, I noted that we were experiencing several major piano sonatas over the course of two Steinway Series concerts. Jeremy Denk’s upcoming…

Happy Holidays to all of you from all of us at Corvallis – OSU Piano International. We wish you a music – and (hopefully) leisure – filled…

I had the great pleasure of spending ten days in Prague, Czech Republic, in the mid-1990s, not so long after Eastern Europe opened up. At that…

This weekend marks the autumn equinox, and the reddening leaves and cool, clear air give imminent promise of an exciting new season for Corvallis-OSU Piano International.

As indicated in the program notes for Vadym Kholodenko’s April 29 concert at OSU’s LaSells Stewart Center, we will have heard six piano sonatas in two months …

I first learned about Garrick Ohlsson as I did about most of the famous pianists of the mid-to-late 20th century: through Dean Elder’s interviews for Clavier, later compiled into Pianists at Play. I read this collection so many times as a high-schooler that I can still recount a good portion of Ohlsson’s early story without

Of all the brilliant pianists COPI has had the honor to present, Natasha Paremski is the first to program Brahms’s fearsome Variations on a Theme of Paganini for us. These variations are undoubtedly one of the most difficult of all Romantic solo piano works. They comprise two books of 28 variations based on the popular

It is with special pleasure that we saw Oregon piano students sweep the MTNA* Piano Competitions (Northwest Region) in January. Oregon students competed against top students from 5 other NW states and took first place in all 3 piano categories (Junior, Senior, and Young Artist). The winner in the Junior category was Michael Gu, student of Dr. Rachelle McCabe.