On the Keys

During a rare moment of down time at the Carolina Music Museum, located in Downtown Greenville, I had a chance to bring my microphones, some music and another pianist to sit down and try out the historic keyboard instruments from their Facing South exhibit that will soon be wrapped up to make room for a brand new collection of such extent to warrant a name change. Lisa Kiser is the principal keyboardist of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra. She will perform works by Mozart and Liszt on pianos

See Audio Below From South Carolina Public Radio this is a special feature presented by On the Keys. We dive into the life and music of J. S. Bach wherein we learn about the man through his organ music, which he composed during the entire span of his 65 years. Our organists are all South Carolina based and most of the organs featured could be in your neighborhood church, if you live in the upstate that is! See audio below. The organists featured are Bob Glick, Brennan Szafron, Charles Tompkins

Click to listen to hear the winners of the 2017 Hilton Head International Piano Competition for Young Artists. First Place: Ray Ushikubo Second Place: Andrew Li Third Place: Jaeden Izik-Dzurko Hear Ray Ushikubo's interview with Fred Child here.

Ethan Uslan is a Charlotte based pianist who composes and improvises ragtime and jazz. On this piano podcast a special edition of Your Compositions. Ethan talks about and performs two of his original compositions. Scroll down for audio. Your Compositions features new works for the piano. On the Keys is actively searching for your piano compositions. art music Composers of all ages are invited to send me David Kiser your work for broadcast. I’ve featured works by composers such as George

On this piano podcast listen to the Iranian born and Canadian trained Iman Habibi's piece Prelude a la Gershwin The performer is pianist Deborah Grimmett who also happens to be the other half of the duo Piano Pinnacle with Iman, who also happens to be her husband. Terribly romantic...the way Gerswhin would want it. One can also subscribe to On the Keys via Itunes .

On this podcast an overview of melodies for the piano, how they work, what they are, and what makes them beautiful. You'll hear melodies from Bach to Thomas Ades.

Arnstadt to Lubeck, Expected time of Arrival, 77 hours, 234 Miles. Greenville to Charleston, Expected time of Arrival, 71 hours, 217 Miles. Bach's pilgrimage to hear the great organist Buxtehude reimagined and set in South Carolina. Special thanks to our actors, Tony Sane, who played Christopher Bach and Mathew Goins, who played Charlie Pachelbel. Yours truly played Johann Sebastian Bach and wrote the script. I also played and recorded the music in the background. Please tune in the week after

On this edition of Your Compositions Canadian pipe organ music played by a Canadian organist on a French Canadian organ. Brennan Szafron recorded the Suite Romantique on the Twichell Pipe Organ, a 50-some rank Casavant on the campus of Converse College. Our composer is the prolific Denis Bedard who writes contemporary music that in the words of Dr. Szafron does not sound like cats scratching each other. Here are Denis Bedard's notes on his piece: One could say that this work is a meeting between

On this Movement of On the Keys, the mostly forgotten composer Georg Joseph Vogler, who was immortalized via words by Robert Browning. With the help of Musical Theater students at Anderson University, Aaron Copland, and Mozart this programs explores piano and posterity and why Mozart was such a great composer.

Henry Sun is a 10-year-old piano student and composer from the upstate. Listen to his original composition based on music by Handel. Standing on the shoulder's of giants on this edition of Your Compositions a movement of On the Keys.