He was a promising pianist in his youth, and the piano became his instrument of choice.

As the film tells it, Rachmaninoff's sweeping, brooding, difficult music became an obsession for the promising young pianist.

Mr. Slutsky tells the story of the highly promising pianist who refused to enter the competition circuit and is turned away by artist managers.

It would be an unfairness to the promising young pianist, however, to suggest that she was on the right track in all matters.

Daniel (1839-1859), who was already a promising pianist and gifted scholar when he died of tuberculosis.

I was still called a promising pianist.

He was accepted into Juilliard's college-level division as a promising classical pianist but never finished.

Today, the Harold Bauer Award is given to promising pianists at the school.

In 1941 he went to Westminster School, where he was a scholar, captain of cricket and a promising pianist.

Over the last decade, Geri Allen has been the most promising and confounding young pianist to emerge in jazz.