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Seokyoung Hong performs with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition.

This 15-year-old’s searing Rachmaninov just won him the 2023 Cliburn Junior Piano Competition

Paul Harvey awarded OBE

Paul Harvey, a musician with dementia whose piano playing went viral, receives OBE

Season 4 of HBO’s Succession returned in Spring 2023 for the final time.

Succession soundtrack: Here’s why the HBO show’s theme tune is stuck in your head

Taylor Swift’s ‘haunted’ piano

Taylor Swift’s waterlogged piano starts playing its own ominous solo, after rain damage

Piano-playing dog sings a melancholy tune at the piano, delighting owner’s guests

Dog spotted confidently singing and playing at owner’s piano

Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, plays piano as part of the opening sequence of the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final in Liverpool.

Catherine, Princess of Wales plays piano in incredible surprise cameo at Eurovision

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School boy plays Mozart

School boy wows onlookers with Mozart sonata on train station piano

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Lang Lang and Nicole Scherzinger performed this 1990s Disney Classic outside Windsor Castle

Lang Lang and Nicole Scherzinger perform ‘Reflection’ from Disney’s Mulan at Windsor Castle

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Alexis Ffrench

Alexis Ffrench: who is the classical-soul pianist playing at King Charles III’s Coronation Concert

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Myleene Klass plays the piano backstage at the Royal Albert Hall

Myleene Klass plays five famous opera tunes at the piano – can you guess them all?

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French pianist Colette Maze at home in March 2023

Remarkable 108-year-old virtuoso Colette Maze becomes oldest-ever pianist to release an album

Josafat Raman performs Einaudi’s popular solo piano work, ‘Experience’ on TikTok

Pianist with congenital hand disability astounds with Einaudi melody in viral TikTok

Girl and her great-grandfather play a piano duet

Toddler plays a heartwarming piano duet with her 100-year-old great-grandfather

20 of the greatest piano concertos of all time. Pictured (L-R): Arsha Kaviani, Mitsuko Uchida, Yuja Wang.

The 20 best piano concertos of all time

Arsha Kaviani plays Rachmaninov

Virtuoso pianist plays mind-bending solo piano arrangement of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2

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Why do pianos have 88 keys?

How many keys does a standard piano have? It’s 88 – here’s why...

Blind pianist Lucy’s sublime Debussy Arabesque crowned winning performance in The Piano finale

Blind pianist Lucy’s sublime Debussy Arabesque crowned winning performance in The Piano finale

Lang Lang and Gina Alice Redlinger play a piano duet at St Pancras station in London

Lang Lang stuns London train station with impromptu piano duet with wife Gina Alice

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