Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: "The portrayal of of Asian women is most of the time as prostitutes or as innocent schoolgirls or as dragon ladies. And you ...

As a child in Tokyo, Mari Yoshihara shared her bedroom with a Yamaha upright. She began piano lessons at age 3. It was a typical middle-class Japanese girlhood, she says, recalling that she was ...

It took a global pandemic to finally provide Alexandra Nguyen the chance to perform a piece of music that she’d been carrying around since the age of 18. In 2020, Nguyen found herself searching for ...

For all their shared experiences, each of these five artists has a unique story of struggles and triumphs. By Joshua Barone Asian composers who write in Western classical musical forms, like ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Jennifer Koh, an acclaimed soloist, calls on classical music to make space for artists of Asian descent, who remain marginalized in the field. By ...

CHENNAI – Renowned Indian composer Ilaiyaraaja made history by becoming the first Asian musician from the film industry to present a Western classical symphony in London. His symphony, titled Valiant, ...

Ashnaa Sasikaran as Eurydice and Nicholas Watts as Orpheus with members of the Orpheus company We see the respective friends and family gathered, dressed in their best for such an occasion, and the ...

Onstage at Ragamala 2018, from left: Ganapathi Ranganathan on kanjira, Patri Satish Kumar on mridangam, and Saraswathi Ranganathan on veena Credit: Courtesy of the City of Chicago In fall 2013, ...

For a venerable European musical institution, the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition wasn’t all that European. Of the 11 finalists this year, East Asian faces occupied a staggering ...