Congrats Billie Eilish & FINNEAS!
In 2024 Billie Eilish won an Academy Award for Best Original Song and two Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Song.
The song became the tenth song in history to win both an Academy Award for Best Original Song and a Grammy Award for Song of the Year and Eilish became the youngest person to win two Academy Awards in any category.
Billie Eilish wrote the song "What Was I Made For?" for the soundtrack of the 2023 Barbie movie. It was recorded and performed on a Petrof upright piano.
Visit us today to view our selection of Petrof pianos to see what sets them apart!
According to the Piano Technicians Guild (PTG), seasonal and even daily changes in humidity make a piano's wood parts swell and shrink. That affects tuning stability and how the keys feel.
In July 2026, Stanford reported on a study led by concert pianist Elizabeth Schumann, the Billie Bennett Director of Keyboard Programs at Stanford, with support from the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance.
Bonn — the city where Beethoven was born in 1770 — just wrapped up its month-long Beethovenfest, which ran from September 3 to October 3, 2026.
It was a homecoming in more ways than one. The festival's main venue, the Beethovenhalle, reopened in December 2025 after being closed for almost ten years of renovation. This September it was back at the center of the festival, with the London Symphony Orchestra opening the program.