Aaron Rosenberg is 51 and still playing with toys. He does it so well that organizers recently invited the music department adjunct faculty member perform his “The Crail Family, 1910” composition at ...

Move over, Schroeder. Margaret Leng Tan, the formidable, pathbreaking virtuoso of the modern piano, is coming to town for an evening of cutting-edge 21st-century music. But instead of the usual ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There is an enchanting YouTube video of Margaret Leng Tan seated on a 20cm stool at one of her beloved toy pianos wearing a plastic ...

Think of the toy piano as the unicorn of the classical-music world. “It’s not commonplace to see a toy-piano concert,” Tristan McKay said. Three years ago, the New York-based pianist and multimedia ...

Janice E. Kelsh held four pewter pianos the size of Monopoly tokens in the palm of her hand. “I call these the babies of the bunch,” Kelsh said while standing in a room filled with hundreds of ...

As a classically trained pianist, Phyllis Chen knew her way around a grand piano from a young age. But then she saw her first toy piano — and life took on a whole new dimension. Toy pianos are ...

This tiny grand piano from Sega Toys is only about a foot long, and each of its 88 miniature keys are only 4mm wide. But when you press down on a key with, say, a toothpick, it plays that note through ...

Her hands are so tiny her fingers barely span more than a few keys at a time. She uses a booster seat to get level with the keyboard and it takes all her concentration to play without looking. But ...