What ties a program together? A theme is seldom anything as obvious as Works I Happen to Have Practiced Recently or Pieces in C Major. Last Friday at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Memorial Hall, pianist Peter ...

Peter Serkin, the son and grandson of illustrious musicians who found his own path to an international career as a pianist and teacher, died on Feb. 1 at the age of 72, at his home in upstate New York ...

Rudolf Serkin and Vladimir Horowitz were close contemporaries. By the time the Austrian Serkin (born in 1903) and the Russian Horowitz (a year younger) immigrated to America in the late 1930s, they ...

In the 1960s, Rudolf Serkin, one the world’s most revered pianists, used to fret about his hippie son, Peter. There was little question that Peter Serkin, a piano prodigy, had the capacity to follow ...

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra opens its season with the return of a near native — pianist Peter Serkin, who grew up in Guilford. Yes, one of those Serkins. “This is kind of like classical-music ...

Peter Serkin, a pianist who navigated a distinctive course through classical music with thoughtful interpretations of both standard repertoire and bracing new compositions, died Saturday morning at ...

A legendary pianist who got his start in Philadelphia before going on to worldwide fame is coming home, thanks to The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. For six decades, pianist Peter Serkin has been ...

A crowd packed Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall one night last winter as it always did when Arturo Toscanini was leading the Philharmonic. A skinny young man in ill-fitting clothes and thick glasses came on ...

NEW YORK – Peter Serkin, a pianist admired for his insightful interpretations, technically pristine performances and tenacious commitment to contemporary music, died Saturday morning at his home in ...