Join UC San Diego Library for their 25th annual Toy Piano Festival. This annual event pays homage to UC San Diego’s history with the adorable instrument, which dates back to 1966 when composer Robert ...

Since 2000, the UC San Diego Library has hosted the Toy Piano Festival to pay homage to the birthday of experimental composer John Cage, who wrote “Suite for Toy Piano” in 1948. Its Geisel Library toy ...

When Phyllis Chen hits the road for a gig, she packs her pianos in her trunk. It’s not that she has an exceptionally large car. Chen plays the toy piano, which is exactly what it sounds like — a child ...

When I first visited Phyllis Chen‘s Queens apartment it slightly resembled the lab of a mad scientist, if you were to replace the bubbling beakers with toppling toy pianos. At times several of the ...

It’s a big show of little keys! An evening of music created for teeny-tiny pianos will plink its way onto a Boerum Hill stage this month. The Uncaged Toy Piano festival, at Roulette on Dec. 13, will ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. To perform on a toy piano, Chen sits on the floor, Schroeder-of-’Peanuts ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For the occasion of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s ongoing West Coast, ...

for her “delightful quirkiness matched with interpretive sensitivity,” and has become something of a pioneer in performing original multimedia compositions using toy pianos, electronics and video and ...

A good craftsman doesn't blame his tools. The saying holds especially true for Margaret Leng Tan, the Singapore-born, New York–based pianist who has played everything from toy pianos and tea pots to ...