It´s 8.45 in the morning. First lesson starts at 9 am. When I went out home it was raining. The studenst are asleep, some of them had a concert last night, others were travelling, …and I feel guilty and think for myselg: “it´s 9 and…One hour and a half teaching Wagner”. read
Albert Nosè, winner in 2005
Today, thursday 12, the Paloma O’Shea International Piano Competition disclosed the names of the 20 pianists selected to partake in the First Phase of the Competition in Santander, that will be celebrating its XVII edition from July 25 through August 7, 2012 at the Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria. read
Reina Sofia School of Music and Madrid Camera Music Institute present every year their best students in Madrid National Auditorum. One of the concert series is the one named “Gerneración Ascendente BT”, where the winner of last Santander International Piano Competition also participate. So the students we see every week playing live on classicalplanet.com make a leap to their musical career.
Marc Heredia is one of the
outstanding students of Escuela superior de Música Reina Sofia.
The pianist, who studied with Ma estroDimitri
Bashkirov, answer to questions that most interested to young interpreters.
Topics of the interview:
I MY EFFORT; II MY REWARD; III MY GOAL; IV MY MAESTRO; V MY COMPOSER
(Listen M. Heredia playing Prelude op. 32 No 12, Rakhmaninov) read
The six suites composed by J.S. Bach were intended to be a mere exercise of agility and typing for the violoncello, an instrument that, at that time, served to accompany and which was outshined by the viola da gamba, not definitively substituted about the end of the XVIII Century.
The catalonian cellist Casals discovered them when he was 12 years old, read
