Brief description: Lisitsa has performed in various venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Musikverein. Recently, she has been the pianist in recital engagements collaborating with violinist Hilary Hahn.[5] Many of Lisitsa's performances, including Frédéric Chopin's Op. 10 and Op. 25 Etudes and Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata, can be viewed on YouTube.

Lisitsa has recorded 6 CDs (two solo CDs) for Audiofon Records (two are in duet with Alexei Kuznetsoff), a Gold CD for CiscoMusic label with cellist DeRosa, a duet recital on VAI label with violinist Ida Haendel, DVDs of Frédéric Chopin's 24 Etudes, Schubert-Liszt Schwanengesang, and her most recent DVD titled Black and Pink. Lisitsa recently collaborated with HORSE the band on their song, "Rape Escape", featured on their latest album, Desperate Living.

Brief description: Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Lisitsa started playing the piano at the age of three, performing her first solo recital at the age of four. Despite her early disposition to music, her dream at that point was to become a professional chess player Lisitsa attended the Lysenko music school for Gifted Children and, later, Kiev Conservatory, where she and her future husband, Alexei Kuznetsoff, studied under Dr. Ludmilla TsvierkoIt was when Lisitsa met Kuznetsoff that she began to take music more seriously. In 1991 they won the first prize in The Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition. In the same year, they moved to the United States to further their careers as concert pianists. Their New York debut was at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center in 1995.

Brief description: Sodagreen (traditional Chinese: 蘇打綠) is a Taiwanese independent folk-rock-pop band. It is difficult to define sodagreen's music in genres due to the band's diverse influences. Sodagreen emerged in the Taiwanese indie music scene after receiving the Grand Jury Award in the Hohaiyan Gongliau Rock Festival in 2004 . In 2006, the band received nominations for the Best Music Arrangement and Best Band awards in the prestigious 17th Golden Melody Awards. The band is especially prominent for its main vocalist-songwriter Qing-Feng, who stands out with his unique literary and performing style and wide vocal range.
Held their first ticketed concert Absolutely Beautiful Concert at theTaipei Arena. Sodagreen is the first indie band to hold a concert in the largest concert hall in Taipei, the Taipei Arena, and they also set the record of the longest concert (five hours) ever held in the Taipei Arena.

Brief description: Strumming Music (1974) remains the best-known work of Charlemagne Palestine, an American minimalist composer, performer, and visual artist. It features over 45 minutes of Palestine forcefully playing two notes in rapid alternation that slowly expand into clusters. He performed this on a nine-foot Bösendorfer grand piano with the sustain pedal depressed for the entire length of the work. As the music swells (and the piano gradually detunes), the harmonics build and the listener can hear a variety of timbres rarely produced by the piano. A recording of Strumming Music was also Palestine's second vinyl album in the 1970s, reissued on CD in 1991. Since then, several additional recordings (featuring Palestine on piano, organ, harmonium, and voice) from the 1970s—including new recordings of more recent works such as Schlingen-Blängen—have become available.

Palestine's performance style is ritualistic: he generally surrounds himself (and his piano) with stuffed animals, smokes large numbers of kretek (Indonesian clove cigarettes), and drinks cognac.

Brief description: Born in Vienna as the son of a musically interested father, who himself played nine instruments, Robert Werner gathered his first stage experiences at the age of 4. Besides the education as an art-, literature- and music salesman in the well known Viennese music house “Doblinger”, he finished his studies as an opera singer and pianist at the conservatory of the city of Vienna.
Over the past years, Werner got devoted to his own compositions, which he brought to perfection with the help of composer and conductor Ulf-Diether Soyka of the conservatory in Vienna.
His rhythmic and lively compositions add up to his amazing program arrangements. Besides, the artist composes for several colleagues, such as Jose Carreras and the Italian figure skating star and European champion Carolina Kostner. The piece “Solamente per Carolina” is always appreciated at international exhibitions and competitions as one of the musical highlights of the event.
Quote by Robert Werner:
I don't believe in separating "serious" and "entertainment" music. If you listen closely, you'll find elements in Puccini that are also found in jazz. I like every type of music; in my music you'll find pretty much everything -- from Frank Sinatra to Kurt Weill all the way to Tom Jones, Richard Wagner and Oscar Peterson.

Brief description: Preliminaries to the concert were not auspicious. Jarrett arrived at the opera house late and hungry, and needed to eat a hasty meal before going on stage. When he was on, he found that the wrong piano had been delivered. But his performance was enthusiastically received, and the subsequent recording was acclaimed by the critics and an enormous commercial success. With sales of more than 3.5 million, it became the best-selling solo album in jazz history.
The recording is in three parts, lasting 26 minutes, 34 minutes and 7 minutes, respectively. As the concert was originally programmed on LP, the second part was split into parts labeled "IIa" and "IIb". Part IIc actually is a 3rd part, the encore.
A notable aspect of this concert is Jarrett's ability to produce very extensive improvised material over a vamp of one or two chords for prolonged periods of time. For instance, in Part I, he spends almost 12 minutes vamping over the chords Am7 (A minor 7) to G major, sometimes in a slow, rubato feel, and other times in a bluesy, gospel rock feel. And for about the last 6 minutes of Part I, he vamps over an A major theme. Roughly the first 8 minutes of Part II A is a vamp over a D major groove with a repeated bass vamp in the left hand, and in Part II B, Jarrett improvises over an F# minor vamp for approximately the first 6 minutes.