Sep 28, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Renowned World Class Pianist, Dr. Richard Bosworth will be performing at Northwest Pianos!
He received a baccalaureate from Eastman School. While earning a doctorate from Indiana University, Icoached and studied under Menahem Pressler and Rostislav Dubinsky, Leonard Hokanson, Mario Feninger, Balint Vazsonyi and Michel Block, with numerous master class participations with Pinchas Zukerman, Gyorgy Sebök, James Tocco, Sequeira Costa and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf.
In 1999, gave a guest performance at the White House in Washington, DC by invitation of President Clinton.
In 2005, debuted the first interactive music program to combine internet resources and multi-media at Lincoln Center, New York.
In January of 2008, performed for the Pianoforte Foundation, Chicago. ...just to mention a few!
Join us for an evening of beautiful music! Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Email to R.S.V.P. info@northwestpianos.com!
Piano manufacturing is, by its nature, a materials-intensive craft. A modern grand piano contains roughly 12,000 individual components. It requires carefully selected hardwoods — spruce, maple, beech, walnut — sourced from forests in multiple countries. It uses felt, leather, metal alloys, and chemical finishes. Building one well takes skilled labor spanning months.
In January 2026, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas included something that would have seemed out of place a decade ago: a piano technology exhibit generating genuine buzz alongside the televisions, smartphones, and AI gadgets that dominate the show floor. The products on display — connected instruments, app-integrated learning systems, multi-device MIDI setups — weren't novelties. They were the direction the piano industry is heading.
For years, the piano world operated on a fairly clean division: acoustic instruments for those who could afford the space and maintenance, digital pianos for everyone else. That division has been eroding steadily, and by 2026, it has given way to something more interesting — a category of instruments that refuses to sit neatly on either side of the line.
