A year after paying tribute to him György Cziffra (1921-1994), his master, with The pianist with 50 fingersPascal Amoyel returns to the Théâtre du Ranelagh in Paris to perform there until January 12 A piano lesson with Chopinhis new solo on stage. A genre that the artist, as good an actor as a musician, appropriated by playing the card of duplication. If Pascal Amoyel is indeed the only one occupying the stage, the voice he makes heard is not his alone. Since 2016 and The day I met Liszta composer of the past regularly gives the answer (I’m looking for Beethovenin 2019) in imaginary dialogues that are always based on the experiences of the concert performer, now 53 years old. So the new show is subtitled “How Chopin Ruined My Youth”.
As a child, Pascal Amoyel used to play the piano while improvising, until the day his Polish maternal grandfather gave him the sheet music The first balladby Frédéric Chopin. The problem is that young Amoyel does not yet know how to read music. “The first contact with Chopin, the first trauma”, centrusts to the public the one who, according to his own words, then passes from “Musician with great potential “has” absolute ignorance “. To console himself, the budding pianist sinks Nocturne in E flat major, from the same Chopin, whom he learned by ear.
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