Two Paganini performances are on the bill, in anticipation of Tuesday's auction of an instrument once owned by the famed violinist and composer Nicolo Paganini. From an earlier performance, pianist ...

Pianist Konstantin Lifschitz, 29, is an introspective young man. He says he wants his music to portray "medieval architectonics, the frenzy and immobility of the Japanese theatre, lyrical urbanity, ...