piano

The 2012 William Kapell International Piano Competition and Festival is going on now in College Park at the University of Maryland. 24 pianists from around the world are competing. 

Tom Hall talks with Jarl Hulbert, the Kapell Competition’s Administrator, and Santiago Rodgriguez, who's won the Kapell in the past, and is acting as a judge this year.

October 7th & 8th, 2011, on The Signal…

Before he ever tickled the ivories, Lafayette Gilchrist used to lace up the boxing gloves.  We talk with the pianist and composer about his years as a fighter and the musical inspiration he’s taken from the sweet science.

From The Stoop -  Joe Challmes made a promise to himself last year, the day he lost his leg.  We’ll hear what it took to keep that promise.