Cyprien Katsaris

Cyprien Katsaris (Greek Κυπριανός Κατσαρής - Kyprianos Katsaris, born May 5, 1951 in Marseille ) is a French pianist and composer of Cypriot descent.

Life

Cyprien Katsaris, who is regarded as dazzling technician, his training began, unusually, in Cameroon, where his parents lived before he could change the Paris Conservatoire in 1964.

In addition to many other awards, he was the 1972 major Concours Reine Elisabeth, 1974 Cziffra Competition and 1977 the Tribune international des jeunes interprètes decide for themselves.

In 1976 he founded a piano - dance duo with the Prima ballerina of the Paris Opera, Noëlla Pontois.

He specializes in romantic transcriptions and concert paraphrases, which he draws himself. Legendary is the first recording of the complete Beethoven symphonies transcribed for solo piano by Franz Liszt, the Katsaris also played live and despite the difficulties already eminent knew even with additional illustrative votes. For them, he received several major record awards.

Cyprien Katsaris can point to an impressive discography, including: Sony Classical, EMI, German Grammophon, BMG - RCA, Decca, Pavane, PIANO 21 and Teldec ( Grand Prix du Disque Frédéric Chopin, Warsaw 1985, Grand Prix du Disque Liszt, Budapest in 1984 and 1989, British Music Retailers Association 's Award 1986 Record of the Year in 1984, Germany, for Beethoven / Liszt Symphony No. 9 ).

He heads since 1978, the International Music Festival Echternach ( Luxembourg ) and master classes in Salzburg, The Hague and Hong Kong.

1992 produced the Japanese NHK TV, a thirteen part series on Chopin with Cyprien Katsaris, including a solo recital and Katsaris ' interpretation courses.

On October 17, 1999, he received a standing ovation at Carnegie Hall at the concert, which he gave to the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin. In January 2001, Cyprien Katsaris decided to start with 21 Piano own independent music label. There he published since their own recordings, some new editions of existing recordings, some previously unpublished. On January 27, 2006, the 250th anniversary of Mozart, he was a soloist in the opening concert of the Mannheim Mozart Orchestra, led by its founder Thomas Fey. In March 2006 Cyprien Katsaris gave master classes at the Franz Liszt's house in Weimar and was the first pianist to 1886 taught there since the composer's death. In August 2008, he was invited to Beijing to enter the Olympic Games in the National Center for the Performing Arts two concerts. After the world premiere of the China Jubilee, a concert of Cui Shiguang for ten pianos and orchestra, he improvised as a tribute to the universality of the Olympic Games among other things, a melody from ancient Greece and melodies from China.

On October 1, 2012 Katsaris suffered a stroke during a performance at the Small Hall of the Konzerthaus Berlin. He noted that he could not feel his left hand, and was then treated immediately inpatient in a hospital. End of November 2012, he had already recovered from it.

Awards

Discography

Complete discography of recordings under the label Piano 21:

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