The dirty little secret about writing a concerto for piccolo and orchestra is that the whole enterprise is so unusual that a composer could easily coast through on novelty alone. But Martin Rokeach ...

It took Catherine Payne nearly a decade as the San Francisco Symphony's piccolo player before she played her first concerto with the orchestra. On Wednesday night, she made the most of the occasion.

Sometimes Jennifer Bouton is at the top of the wave of sound produced by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. As a piccolo player, Bouton creates some of the highest notes in the orchestra's performances ...

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What comes to mind when you hear the word “piccolo” — a chirping little bird? Or the famous “Spirit of ’76” painting of three 18th-century band members on the march — a man piping away on something ...

One might be forgiven, upon first listening to the NAXOS recording of Avner Dorman’s concertos performed by Andrew Cyr’s Metropolis Ensemble, for not feeling immediately convinced that these are, in ...