Art of Piano Four Hands Duo with Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung / Classical Chats with Tiffany Poon
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- What does it take to play four hands duo beautifully?
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Alessio Bax is an Italian classical pianist. He graduated from the Bari conservatory at the record age of 14. He won the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan at age 19 and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition in 2000 after first participating in 1993. Bax was a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS Two for three seasons, beginning in 2009. He also received the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2009. He studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas with Basque pianist Joaquín Achúcarro. Bax is a Steinway Artist. He also serves on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music as a professor of piano.
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Born in Montréal, Canadian pianist Lucille Chung has been acclaimed for her “stylish and refined performances” by Gramophone magazine, "combining vigor and suppleness with natural eloquence and elegance" (Le Soir).
She made her debut at the age of ten with the Montréal Symphony Orchestra and Charles Dutoit subsequently invited her to be a featured soloist during the MSO Asian Tour in 1989. Since then, she has performed an extensive concerto repertoire with over 70 leading orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Flemish Radio Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerífe, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Staatskapelle Weimar, Philharmonie de Lorraine, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Belgrade Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, KBS Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Dallas Symphony, UNAM Philharmonic (Mexico), Israel Chamber Orchestra as well as all the major Canadian orchestras, including Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Calgary, Winnipeg and Metropolitain, among others. She has appeared with conductors such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Vladimir Spivakov, Vasily Petrenko, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Peter Oundjian, Stéphane Denève, Gerd Albrecht and Charles Dutoit.
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What a fun, informative, and interesting podcast, Tiffany. It was very interesting to listen to all three of you distinguished musicians and your stories. I enjoyed hearing Alessio Bax's experience with the organ. His love of the French organ tradition and their fame with improvisation connected with me as I am an organist. I am certainly not on par with the great French titulaires like Olivier Latry or Daniel Roth, but I love playing French Romantic organ compositions. Anyway, I love to play the piano as well, though I tend to only play it to accompany special music in church services or warming up a choir in the choir room before a service. I am going to listen to these podcasts regularly. Great job and a wonderful idea. As to the question, "What does it take to play four-hands duo beautifully?" Certainly a lot of talent, but more than just that. You must have a connection with each other, and while retaining your own perspective, being able to express and explore the theme of the music. I think it gives each performer the chance to really create meaning and voice to the space between the notes as well. Playing as a duo is not simply just being able to perform accurately multiple lines of music and hit more notes, but rather to broaden the voice and message of the music, while adding extra layers of color and interpretation to the themes.
You have created a wonderful platform for discussion, learning, sharing, and promoting classical music.
Great start to the new "season". Two very personable and engaging young pianists. A pleasure to hear their story.
The name "Alessio Bax" is familiar to me since a longer time through recordings, but I "met" him and Lucille in the #musicneversleepsNYC livestream last year. But I had no idea that Alessio wanted to start out as an organist!
Marcel Dupre had a (Cavaille-Coll) organ and a piano in his house, so the idea to write duets for both instruments was right there.
As for organ studies, having a solid piano foundation is important, especially for romantic literature; and starting age for organ studies ideally is at age 14-16 because the body has to be developed due to the pedal work.
That is a great start of the new season to have them on- and the captions are a GREAT idea! Thanks!
I actually saw Alessio perform in NY yesterday 😊
Thanks Tiffany , this chat reminds me of my two music teachers at uni who at the end of term and performance time , produced a duet for single piano . I was in awe yet confused about it's nessesity as i think i have been ever since , regarding duets and two pianos four hands , performances . Brings into perspective the other advent of even more pianos on a stage , but happy to now know more about the ins and outs of " just two " . I'm guessing there's such a thing as a " piano circuses " no matter how much spin maybe generated bye the genre of music played , on more than two pianos ! . it seems obvious that two remains outside the realm of " circus " just as any duet is , even when in conjunction with an organisations/festival or circus . Fascinating to get this inside perspective on the realities of two people living within that , yet still completely individual as both , one and two .
Very nice....
Excellent. Inspiring for me as a composer. Thanks🌹❤🌹🙏
I really am interested on the new upcoming days! I love this chat
Brilliant - love the new format - please keep them coming!
I think I've seen them live? If not, now I really want to,. This was really interesting and enlightening.
Fascinating discussion, thank you!!
Welcome back!
Synchronizing movements to each other by nonverbal communication is so impressive, I would really like to see their electroencephalogram when playing... Thank you for the interview, I hope that you'll still have some free time left with the recording and editing effort increased on two channels at the same time...
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Loved this interview and intelligent conversation between 3 of my favorite pianists, always liked Ms Chung and Alessios playing here on Paisiello Tango ruclips.net/video/oLnduE3Wn1I/видео.html
Addendum, on great coincidence that came to light in interview, Alessio played great as a substitute for Leif Ove Andsnes according to NYT, sure Tiffany enjoyed it alot. Thanks for this enlightening conversation.
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I thought the interview was focusing on the strategys that some professional musicians carry out during a performance. What a shame.)