We sat down with superstar pianist Gabriela Montero before she performed Grieg's majestic piano concerto at Classic FM Live in Cardiff, and she showed us how it's done. It's one of the hardest pieces ...

Gabriela Montero is a concert pianist with a special calling card. She devotes much of her time to an activity that classical pianists pretty much abandoned a couple of centuries ago: improvising.

"I'm an improvising animal," says pianist Gabriela Montero, who will appear twice in the coming week at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Don't worry, though. That doesn't mean she'll be tossing in ...

Pianist Gabriela Montero makes a piano ring like bells. She has huge hands — she probably could palm a basketball — and plays crushing octaves. She also can pull back to execute the fleetest lines, ...

NEW YORK – “‘Hey Jude,'” someone in the audience yells out. Gabriela Montero sits at the piano, taps out the bare melody line, pauses and stares at the ceiling through her flowing blond hair and then ...