Soon after the original Motif Music Production Synthesizer was released in 2001, it was recognized as the best sounding, top selling and most requested music workstation on the market. The Motif has continued to evolve over 3 product generations...

An album recorded by two Yamaha Jazz Scholars, Kit Downes (piano) and Calum Gourlay (double bass), who along with drummer James Maddren comprise 'The Kit Downes Trio' has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2010 Mercury Prize, a...

On the 14th July, Yamaha's 2010 Jazz Scholars were presented with their award at the annual 'Summer Jazz in Portcullis House' that takes place in the House of Commons.

Recently announced AvantGrand dealer Sheehans Music, Leicester are to hold a recital evening along with Harry Harris. The evening to be held on Wednesday 4th August is free admission and starts at 7pm. Harry will be demonstrating Yamaha's acc...

Yamaha Music UK teamed up with Manchester based specialist music School Chetham's to promote the second annual Piano Competition for Young Pianists, held recently in the School.

Yamaha Music Europe (UK) GmbH are delighted to announce that both Sheehans Music of Leicester and Edinburgh Organ Studio have been appointed dealers for the critically acclaimed, ground breaking hybrid piano range - Avantgrand.

The festival season is now well under way!  The 40th Glastonbury festival happened at the end of June where many big names performed to the huge crowds.  A plethora of Yamaha gear was used throughout the weekend from the main stag...

With their impressive 3000sq ft showroom and professional team Symphony Music were recently voted "take it away" retailer of the year at the music industry's prestigious MIA awards ceremony, the award was sponsored by the arts coun...

If you're dreaming of owning a brand new Yamaha Piano there has never been a better time. Yamaha and Duet finance are pleased to announce a new and improved version of the interest free finance scheme which proved so popular in...

Yamaha is delighted to be the official piano for the forthcoming Harrogate International Festival which takes place in the Historic Spa Town between 16 July and 1 August.

Harry Harris has recently carried out an AvantGrand day at Promenade Music. The day was attended by senior people from the associated board and many other key local influencers who were both amazed by the piano and Harry's playing.

The Recital Room at Yamaha Artist Services London was the chosen venue to host the London pre-selection of the prestigious and high profile VIII International Paderewski Piano Competition on Monday 17th May. One of 8 pre-selection...

Last month was a fantastic month for live music and we also had many artists in the top 40 who play Yamaha instruments. With the festival season just around the corner June is looking to be just as busy.

Here is a SMALL selection of th...

Following professional recognition as the most outstanding amateur Classical piano talent in the UK, a highly acclaimed debut album release and sellout concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Festival Hall, Formula One racin...

Volcanoes may erupt, but we're still making music!

The month of May sees the temperature heat up outside as well as things getting hot in the world of Yamaha! Below is a small example of which artists are using our Yamaha gear on records...

Now, for the thousands of passionate amateurs from all walks of life who persisted with the crotchets, quavers and left hand exercises, Kemble Pianos, part of the Yamaha group of companies are offering a fantastic opportunity to ...

YMH Digital Music Publishing, a joint venture including Yamaha, the world's largest musical instrument manufacturer, and Music Sales Ltd. and Hal Leonard, the world's two largest printed music publishers, has developed a new online book vi...

With DGX-640 Yamaha continues the well accepted series of compact digital pianos with accompaniment. This allrounder allows you to dive into different musical worlds with more than 530 voices and more than 160 accompaniment styles.

For more than a century Yamaha has been building grand pianos, continuously perfecting both skills and designs in the pursuit of musical excellence. During the nineteen years following the launch of the very successful CFIIIS concert grand pianos, Ya...

Yamaha's official online store, Yamaha MusicSoft, now offers users the option of paying for all products in Great British pounds (£), euros (€) or US dollars ($). An easy to use drop down menu at the top of the screen gives all us...

Yamaha's range of Clavinova digital pianos has led the way in sound quality, technology and playability since the introduction of the first ever Clavinova in 1983.

The critically acclaimed Yamaha International Piano series continues at Malvern Theatres later this month (November 28th) as one of the world's greatest concert artists, Stephen Hough performs an inspired programme of works by Bach, Chopin a...

More notes for your old piano with the Yamaha Piano Upgrade

There's never been a better time to cash in your old piano and invest in a new Yamaha, thanks to Yamaha's groundbreaking new Piano Upgrade Bonus scheme that enables the custo...

Yamaha MusicSoft (www.yamahamusicsoft.com) has added additional languages to their website in order to better serve European Yamaha customers. The site can now be read in Germa...

Great news for Yamaha Tyros3 owners as Yamaha announces the imminent launch of exciting new “Premium Content” for this popular instrument…

Yamaha continues to expand its already significant support for music education and up-coming talent through a series of scholarship programmes and performance opportunities that now support some of the finest musical talent from the UK'...

Yamaha is offering unprecedented finance deals on selected new grand and upright pianos. Owning a beautiful Yamaha has never been easier!

For all music lovers, Yamaha is presenting a real treat: piano professor and musical mastermind, Philip Jenkins, will be giving a piano masterclass featuring select piano students... and for the audience, Yamaha is opening it up to the p...

Feis Ceoil is an annual music festival that has taken place in Ireland since 1896. Promoting excellence in the learning and performance of music across all ages, levels and disciplines this year's Feis Ceoil saw the introduction of the Yamaha Br...

Award-winning and acclaimed pianist Marina Nadiradze - one of the most exciting talents of her generation - will perform with Milton Keynes City Orchestra on Sunday 26th April at Milton Keynes Theatre. Music lovers will have the opport...

Acclaimed pianist Nikolai Demidenko concludes the highly successful International Piano Recital Series on Friday 3rd April.

Yamaha Music UK has further expanded its acclaimed conservatoire and specialist music school support programme with the announcement of a Piano Scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama who have named Ashley Fripp as th...

This is the first in a series of articles introducing members of the Yamaha team and their roles within the organisation.

2008 was the 25th anniversary of the Clavinova Digital Piano range. To celebrate this milestone Yamaha UK, in conjunction with Classic FM, gave away 25 new CLP Clavinova's to needy and charitable organisations across the country. Org...

The Yamaha Club Magazine is an independent, full colour, glossy publication dedicated to owners of Yamaha digital keyboards and Clavinova digital pianos. The bi-monthly magazine is filled with hints and tips for getting the very best from the...

The Yamaha Clavinova range of digital pianos celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2008. As the perfect end to this celebration year, the Clavinova CLP range has just been voted 'Best Digital Pianos' in a prestigious music industry survey....

Following professional recognition from some of the world's greatest pianists, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Raymond Gubbay in association with Yamaha, proudly present a special Valentine's Day Concert on Saturday 14th February ...

Yamaha's innovative partnership with Chelsea's award winning 606 Club continues on Thursday 15th January with a not to be missed evening featuring multi-award winning Pianist John Taylor with a very special guest appearance by Diana.

Yamaha is delighted to announce the opening of a new website bringing together the exclusive network of 'Homeworld' showrooms. Homeworld is an initiative by the Yamaha Home Keyboard Division (known as EKB) to create a high class environment for cust...

Founded by Bob Benjamin, a rock music manager and a sufferer of Parkinson's Disease since the mid 1990s, the Light of Day Foundation, which supports Parkinson's Disease and ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) charities, began when Benjamin asked ...

For a number of years Yamaha have offered a wide range of musical services and support via the Internet. This includes Yamaha's unique Internet Direct Connection and Digital Music Notebook. These features offer a wide range of software opt...

Following professional recognition as the most outstanding amateur classical piano talent in the UK, Formula One racing car designer Dominic Piers Smith has now realised his dreams to perform with a world-class orchestra at London's prestigious Roy...

Yamaha recently was proud to help The Teenage Cancer Trust in providing instruments for a Music Workshop at the annual TCT conference in Sherwood Forrest Nottingham.

Yamaha Music Schools have announced plans to extend their acclaimed and award winning music encounters scheme for a third year throughout this Autumn and Winter.

London becomes the latest major city to host a dedicated Yamaha Artist Services Europe (YASE) centre. Based at Chappell Yamaha London in Wardour Street, the London centre joins an expanding global network established in 1987 in New York.

The Yamaha Club is an independent organisation dedicated to Yamaha owners of either the digital keyboard range or the Clavinova digital piano range. Producing a bimonthly magazine full of hints and tips about how to get the best from diffe...

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the iconic and award-winning Clavinova Digital Piano range, Yamaha have teamed up with Classic FM to create an exciting scheme involving the donation of 25 brand new Clavinovas to worthy causes. The...

In October Yamaha will launch the brand new PSR-S550 digital keyboard, which replaces the PSR-S500. The S500 won huge praise from keyboard players across the world thanks to its high-quality sound and features, many passed down from the advance...

The new and much heralded Yamaha Tyros3 keyboard, the latest in the line of the ground breaking flagship keyboard models, is officially launched in the UK from October 1st 2008. It is fair to say this is the most important keyboard launch for many ...

Following the high profile launch of the acclaimed pan-European Yamaha Piano Technicians Guild programme at The Frankfurt Music Messe earlier this year Yamaha Music UK recently held the first in a series of three high level training se...

On Saturday 5 July Andrew Lloyd Webber presented the first ever sing-through of Act I of his sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera" to an invited audience at The Sydmonton Festival.

Internationally acclaimed pianist Peter Donohoe returns to Malvern to perform the opening concert of the Yamaha International Piano recital programme at Malvern Theatres on September 18th.

Introducing Yamaha design concepts, philosophy and messages from our in house designers.

As part of Yamaha's continuing goal to make great instruments even more accessible to hobby musicians, a new keyboard concept, the DGX Portable Grand series, was introduced in 2002. These instruments featured many of the musical and...

The new £200 Yamaha Portable Keyboard, the PSR-E413 has been designed to offer great sounds at a truly affordable price.

Following last year's inaugural success, the high-powered and influential partnership between Yamaha and Classic FM in association with Jazzwise, PPL and the All-Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group continues into the second year of a thr...

Music teachers: become a Yamaha Education Friend member! A central part of Yamaha's long term vision is to broaden and increase access to learning music. One way we can do this is to support professionals working in music education, which we ...

The NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, will offer anything you need to help your business have its best year yet: All the latest musical instruments and-products from around the world, professional training from industry experts and the inspiration a...

Piano playing has never been so popular! Artists such as Jools Holland, Jamie Cullum and piano based bands (Keane, Coldplay etc) have expanded interest in the instrument in recent years. Now is the time to play the piano - and the Yamaha Clavino...

The Most Affordable Yamaha Grand Piano Ever - The GB1 has been voted a "Best Buy" by The Mail on Sunday.

Now you can own the grand piano you've always wanted, even if space and budget are limited. Uncommonly compact at 4' 11", ...

Bösendorfer was founded in 1828 and is a manufacturer of premium pianos, especially concert grands. As a symbol of Vienna’s musical culture, Bösendorfer pianos sustain the city’s legacy of unique, warm, and rich sound-creation combined with top-quality production, based on a long tradition of craftsmanship, and has many fans principally among pianists and professional...

A 25-year-old Malaysian student has become the first to be awarded a new Yamaha Piano Scholarship at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM).

Making its debut at Winter NAMM 2007, the new Yamaha PSR-S500 entry-level arranger keyboard includes professional features like large wave ROM for voices, a powerful sound system, full Style control, panel Voice and Style category buttons and Tran...

Students from Birmingham and Derby Yamaha Music Schools hit a high note with ChildLine founder Esther Rantzen recently. The celebrated TV personality and charity campaigner visited Yamaha Music Head Office in Milton Keynes to congratulate and...