Anthony & Joseph Paratore

Anthony & Joseph Paratore called an internationally known piano duo, consisting of brothers Anthony Paratore ( born June 17, 1944) and Joseph Paratore ( born March 19, 1948) is. The pianists play a large part of the repertoire for two pianos and piano four- hands, also works with orchestra and arrangements of orchestral works.

Career

Anthony and Joseph Paratore were born in Boston into a musical family of Italian origin. They studied with scholarships at Boston University and the Juilliard School, where Rosina Lhévinne. Anthony graduated in 1966 from Boston, Joseph in 1970. Everyone initially began a solo career. Joseph made ​​his debut as a 17- year-old with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Anthony played in South America. Her teacher in New York had urged them to play as a duo, for she had observed how they seemed to breathe together ( " gave the impression of breathing together" ).

In 1974 she won the first prize at the International Music Competition of the ARD, the first piano ever.

In 1987 she gave the first performance of Alban Berg's version for two pianos by Arnold Schoenberg's first Chamber Symphony, Op 9 in force at the time of their creation to be too difficult. They took on the work, along with Berg transcription of his own string quartet, Op 3

In 1988, she played in Schloss Johannisberg one of the 19 concerts of the first Rheingau Music Festival. On August 27, were on the program, the Sonata for Two Pianos in F Minor, Op 34b of Johannes Brahms, which he later expanded his piano quintet Debussy's Prélude à l' après -midi d'un faune in a processing composers, arrangements of excerpts from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and his Rhapsody in Blue. Among the additions was editing the pianist of the Finale from Carnival of the Animals, which was repeated frequently in other concert halls in the castle at the request of Tatiana von Metternich.

In 1992 she taught at the Boston University a scholarship for gifted music students to read the Foundation " Paratore Brothers Scholarship Fund ".

The duo returned almost every year to the Rheingau Music Festival returns in 2001 with a program that showed especially the processing of their own works of several composers, Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole and Debussy's Prélude à l' après -midi d'un faune, and ended with Darius Milhaud's Scaramouche. The pianist took on works her boyfriend Dave Brubeck in 2001, the ballet suite Points on Jazz and Four By Four, which was originally called Centennial Suite, when it was 1949/50, composed. A concert program provided over 2004 works of Bach and Brubeck, it was recorded live. The Bach Collegium Munich, conducted by Russell Gloyd, they played Bach's Concerto, BWV 1060, and Brubeck Points on Jazz in a version with orchestra. In the second half of the program, the Dave Brubeck Quartet took part in works such as Brandenburg Gate, which alludes to the Brandenburg Concertos.

In 2012 she appeared at the 25th Rheingau Music Festival in the series " companion " on. They played at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden in a children's Ma mère l' Symphony Concert Ravel oye and Saint-Saëns ' The Carnival of the Animals with the Dresden Soloists, the connecting words by Loriot said Rufus Beck.

New Music

Manfred Trojahn composed on their behalf in 1982 La folia / music for two pianos, premiered at the 32th Berlin Festival on September 16, 1982. Wolfgang Rihm composed for her in 1985 mask for two pianos, which they performed for the first time in Badenweiler on March 8, 1986. On their behalf William Bolcom wrote his Sonata for Two Pianos, which they brought to the world premiere in 1994.

Price

1974: International ARD Music Competition, First Prize