Cyprien Katsaris & Pablo Galdo
21 Mar
19:30 h
18 y 20€
MUN Theatre
*There are season tickets available for the Cartografías de la Música series, either for the four shows that make up the series or for two (45 and 25€, respectively). Remember that to benefit from this rate you must buy the number of tickets established for the modality you choose.
Cyprien Katsaris and Pablo Galdo offer us a journey through the piano as a solo instrument beginning with Franz Liszt's beautiful pieces for piano inspired by Hungarian music and including The Bells of Geneva, whose score the author annotated with a phrase from Byron: "I do not live in myself, but I become part of what surrounds me".
Mozart's Fantasia for mechanical organ, arranged for two pianos, opens the way to a musical program that goes through the popular works of Bizet's Carmen and Ravel's Bolero, including Milhaud's Scaramouche. A journey through the best romantic music inspired by Hungarian, Brazilian or Spanish popular melodies.
| Franz Liszt | Hungarian Rhapsody No. 5 (piano solo, P. Galdo) |
| Franz Liszt | Bells of Geneva (piano solo, P. Galdo) |
| Franz Liszt | Hungarian Fantasy for piano and orchestra (piano solo, C. Katsaris) (arrangements by Bülow/Katsaris) |
| Pause | |
| W.A. Mozart | Fantasia in A minor for mechanical organ (for two pianos) (arrangements by Ferruccio Busoni) |
| Darius Milhaud | Scaramouche (for two pianos) |
| Georges Bizet | Carmen Concert Suite (for two pianos) (arrangement by Richard Simm) |
| Maurice Ravel | Bolero (for two pianos) (arrangement by Maurice Ravel) |
ARTISTIC FILE
Cyprien Katsaris, piano
Pablo Galdo, piano
CYPRIEN KATSARIS
Cyprien Katsaris (Marseille, 1951), a French-Cypriot pianist and composer, began playing the piano at the age of four in Cameroon, where he spent his childhood. Graduated from the Paris Conservatory with the highest honors, he soon began to be awarded important international prizes.
He has collaborated with conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Simon Rattle or MyungWhunChung, among others of a long list that includes the best in the world. He has been the protagonist of legendary performances in tributes to Chopin (New York, 1999), Mozart (Mannheim, 2006) or Liszt (Weimar, 2006). He has also repeatedly starred in recordings of his live concerts. He is a regular member of juries in international competitions and gives master classes in the best conservatories in the world.
Katsaris has recorded extensively for Teldec, Sony Classical, EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, BMG-RCA, Decca, Pavane, and now on his own label, PIANO 21. His discography consists of solo works by most of the major masters, as well as works for piano and orchestra. He has also recorded, as world premieres, long-lost works by Liszt/Tchaikovsky, Beethoven or Mahler.
His work has been distinguished and recognized with the following awards: UNESCO Artist for Peace (1997), Commander of the Order of Mérite du Grand-Duché of Luxembourg (2009) and Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (France 2000). He is a member of ADAP, the Association of Artists for Peace and Honorary President of "Lisztomanias International".
PABLO GALDO
Pablo Galdo is considered one of the most outstanding and international Spanish pianists of his generation. Martha Argerich refers to him as "an excellent musician and a brilliant pianist". Tamás Vásáry also describes him as "an exceptional pianist of great technique, with the musicality of a true artist", and the French pianist Tamás Vásáry describes him as "an exceptional pianist of great technique, with the musicality of a true artist". and the French-Cypriot pianist Cyprien Katsaris says of him.
"I was impressed by his musical and pianistic skills, he is a first class musician" .
He was born in Ferrol (La Coruña), and studied at the "Conservatorio Superior de Vigo", the "F. Liszt Academy of Budapest, the Mozarteum University of Salzburg and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow. He received lessons from F. Rados, A. Kemenes, E. Wirssaladze, A. Larrocha, D. Bashkirov, T. Vasáry, D. Várjon and I. Rohmann, among others. Rohmann, among others. He has given concerts in more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia, America and Oceania, both as soloist and with orchestra, in important halls and auditoriums, and several festivals. He has recorded for MANS CDs with works by Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Albéniz and Rachaninoff. As a chamber musician, he has performed with musicians such as Martha Argerich, Zoltán Kocsis, Stephen Kovacevich, Cyprien Katsaris, Tamás Vásáry, Philippe Entremont, Lilya Zilberstein, Asier Polo, or Susanne Barner, among others.
In his pedagogical facet, he has offered master classes at the "Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory", the "Frederic Chopin Academy", the "Tbilisi State Conservatory", "Sydney Conservatory", "Baremboim-Said Foundation", "Trinity Laban Conservatoire" or the University of Hamburg, among many others. He is also a regular jury member of several international piano competitions such as the Edward Grieg, Vigo, Gerswin, Mozarte, Ferrol, Petrof, among others. He is founder and artistic director of the International Piano Competition "Ciudad de Vigo".
He has been awarded the silver medal at the Global Music Awards in 2017 and 2018, and the "Premio Gregorio Baudot de la Música", the Gold Badge of the city of Ferrol, and has been named "Gallego del año 2021". He currently combines his concert activity with his position as professor at the "Conservatorio Superior de Música de Navarra".
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Date
March 21, 2025
Time
19:30