Avant-garde pianist and composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, who studied with John Cage and went on to lead Japan’s advances in experimental modern music, has died. He was 89. Ichiyanagi, who was married ...

Mr. Masaya Kamei is a new-generation pianist from Japan. Ahead of his first Australian recital in December, we asked him about his earliest memories of piano, his passion for Chopin and more!

Hayato Sumino is a Japanese pianist out of the ordinary. He graduated from the Univerisity of Tokyo, which is Harvard-equivalent in Japan. Mr Sumino's YouTube channel attracts 1.25 million ...

In 1960 he was a founding member of the improvisational music unit Group Ongaku at a time when the Japanese avant garde was waging a war against art, commercialism and the Americanisation of culture.