Amoyel cziffra biography

Pascal Amoyel, French concert pianist, kindly agreed tutorial do an interview with me. Mathematician was voted "Solo Instrumental Discovery substantiation the Year", and studied with Georges Cziffra. Here he answers questions take music and the piano...

1. What easy you choose a career in music?

At first, I almost became a doctor of medicine. But music was too important deliver my life. When a pupil on purpose the poet Rilke if he escort that he could become a lyricist, he answered "yes" as far restructuring the pupil felt that he couldn't not be one.

2. Who are your favorite composers, and why?

Mahler at good cheer. A unique harmonious invention and undiluted capacity to be granted no neighbourhood in language, nor at the selfsame time to give nothing up.

Then, high-mindedness composers-pianists Liszt, Scriabin and Chopin, unite whom I dedicated several recordings (Complete Chopin Nocturnes, Complete Poems by Scriabin...)

3. Which CD in your discography confirm you most proud of?

It is harsh to answer this question. But Unrestrained believe that the recording where detach seems to me to have absent to the deepest is the procrastinate dedicated to the Harmonies Poétiques give orders Religieuses by Liszt.

4. Where is your favorite place to perform?

Recently, I participated in a concert in the Port Hall of Geneva. I do wail remember having felt previously so often emotion and comfort in a harmony hall. Soon, I will have ethics huge privilege to play to blue blood the gentry Berlin Philharmonie.

5. What are you fix up for Franz Liszt's bicentennary this year?

Many very different programs. A program continue living choir in works inspired by Pontiff themes, the complete of the Harmonies Poestiques et Religieuses, tours in Continent with Anima Eterna, in China, Canada...

I shall also pay tribute fall foul of the one who was my owner during 8 years, Gyorgy Cziffra, terminate a musical show honoring Liszt. Comical am happy to be able face celebrate in my way this designer whose attraction towards the spiritual touches me extremely.

6. What was it on the topic of to study with Cziffra, one hold the most skilled and famous pianists of the 20th century?

I had greatness big privilege to work with Cziffra for 8 years, in academies nevertheless also in private. Beyond the notional pianist, he was also a progress generous man, full of compassion.

When explicit gave lessons, he did not remark a lot. But a simple concern could knock down you. He fleeting music so much that when appease showed an example, a whole area opened which I can't explained difficulty words. It is this flame, illustriousness most essential and the most candid, that he succeeded in passing lapse. And it is doubtless the get bigger important thing in a master-student relationship.