When I was a teenager trying to learn how to play piano, one of the hardest things for me was having to learn two different parts and then put them together. At least, that’s how my teenage brain saw ...

Pianist Dan Tepfer has improvised pieces for his new album, Inventions / Reinventions, using a framework similar to Bach's Two-Part Inventions. In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook With “Inventions/Reinventions,” Dan Tepfer fills out Bach’s missing two-part inventions ...

Almost any pianist, from a budding beginner to a pro like Simone Dinnerstein, will tell you that one of the basic techniques of keyboard playing is also the toughest to master: making your hands to do ...

A friend gave me a new (well, new to me) idea this week and I wanted to share it with you. It's a super-fun challenge and it involves singing Bach 2 part inventions as cleanly as possible. Sit down ...

Schwartz (Ruined by Reading) ushers readers into the competitive world of classical music—and vividly illustrates the temptations wrought by its pressure. When they first meet, Suzanne and Philip are ...

In the early 1720s, Johann Sebastian Bach composed a set of Two-Part Inventions to help his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, learn to play the keyboard. Now, 300 years later, jazz pianist and ...

Two musical worlds collide as jazz pianist Dan Tepfer finds inspiration, and room for improvisation, in J.S. Bach's Two-Part Inventions. For pianist Dan Tepfer, improvisation is the mother of Bach's ...