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| NOVEMBER 2nd 2009, 730PM! "BACH TRANSCRIBED" CD RELEASE EVENT @ (le) poisson rouge in NYC - Monday, October 12, 2009CD RELEASE PARTY IN NEW YORK CITY
Really excited about this! My new CD "Bach Transcribed" will finally be out in the US. There will be a concert/party on NOVEMBER 2nd, at 730PM at the wonderful new venue "(le) poisson rouge", 158 Bleecker Street, in New York City. You are all invited. It's going to be a relaxed and fun mixed program featuring selections from the disc as well as guest jazz pianist Dan Tepfer with his take on the Goldberg Variations! See you all on November 2nd! Meanwhile you can find the cd on iTUNES, amazon.com and all other on-line music stores, directly at signumrecords.com, at (le) poisson rouge on November 2nd and if you are lucky even in one of the few record stores left in this world...
Hope to see you all on November 2nd!
Alessio
Here it is:
CD Release Event: Bach Transcribed. Alessio Bax and guest Dan Tepfer
Alessio's "Bach Transcribed" CD will soon be out in the US.
Named "CD of the Week" by Classical FM in the UK, it features works by Bach re-invented by Busoni, Godowski, Saint-Saens, Kempff, Siloti, Petri and Bax himself...
Bach's music stands the test of time and shows its versatility in ways that can challenge the artistic imagination to the limit.
Alessio will present the CD and play a handful of selections from the disc, including Busoni's glorious piano transcription of the Chaconne for solo violin, as well as Bach's own take on an Italian oboe concerto by Marcello.
*Special Guest* appearance by amazing Jazz-pianist/composer Dan Tepfer who will present excerpts from his "Goldberg Variations Project" in which he will play selection of variations from J.S. Bach's seminal work and add to it his own commentary, in the form of improvisations on each variation.
Tickets are $15
go to http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/603 for more info
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| 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant Recipient - Friday, April 24, 20092009 Avery Fisher Career Grant Winner!
It is our great pleasure to announce that pianist Alessio Bax has been awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant for 2009. These grants give professional assistance and recognition to talented instrumentalists who the Recommendation Board and Executive Committee believe have great potential for solo careers. Past winners include Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, and Gil Shaham. The announcement was made yesterday, April 23, and was accompanied by a performance which will be broadcast on WQXR on May 4 at 8:00 PM.
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| Alessio on Clavier Companion - Wednesday, March 25, 2009Alessio is the featured cover artist for Clavier Companion.
Read about it on the next issue of Clavier Companion or go to www.claviercompanion.com and listen the the complete interview!
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| Alessio's Recital on the Dallas Morning News "TOP 10 list" of Best Classical Music Events for 2008 - Monday, February 09, 2009Alessio's Dallas Recital on March 2 made it to #5 on Scott Cantrell's TOP 10 list for 2008!
....."in an amazing Caruth Auditorium recital he played to all the music's extremes; in the best sense, the music sounded made up on the spot. "....
Also,at #10 was the Mimir International Chamber Music Festival in Fort Worth, which included performances by Alessio during the summer.
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| PHOTO BLOG - Wednesday, October 01, 2008 |
| Latest News!! - Thursday, June 19, 2008June 18, 2008
Bax Joins Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS Two
Alessio Bax has been selected to participate in CMS Two beginning in the 2009-10 season.
THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
DAVID FINCKEL AND WU HAN, ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
ANNOUNCE
APPOINTMENT OF 14 MUSICIANS TO
CMS TWO RESIDENCY PROGRAM
FOR OUTSTANDING YOUNG ARTISTS
AUDITION WINNERS TO JOIN CMS INTERGENERATIONAL
ARTIST ROSTER IN 2009-10 SEASON
The Chamber Music Society is pleased to announce the appointment of fourteen outstanding young musicians to its prestigious CMS Two program. Chosen from a record-setting field of 240 applicants from thirteen countries, each one is an award-winning performer with exceptional musical training and a passionate interest in chamber repertoire. This extraordinary appointment affords these young musicians three full seasons of participation in every facet of CMS activity: performances on all stages during the New York concert season; international and national tour appearances; recordings on both the in-house CMS Studio label, and Deutsche Grammophon’s digital concert series; and numerous educational outreach opportunities. The depth of this involvement reflects the commitment of CMS, under the leadership of artistic directors, David Finckel and Wu Han, to fostering an intergenerational roster of talent.
The new CMS Two members will begin their formal three-year residency in the 2009-10 season. They are flutist Sooyun Kim; violinists Bella Hristova, Jinyeong Jessica Lee, Jung-Min Amy Lee, and Kristin Lee; violinist/violist Yura Lee; violist Mark Holloway; cellists Nicolas Altstaedt, Andreas Brantelid, Nicholas Canellakis, and Jakob Koranyi; pianists Alessio Bax and Juho Pohjonen; and harpist Bridget Kibbey. [Please see brief biographies below.]
David Finckel and Wu Han commented on the appointments:
After an extensive audition process, during which we heard an unprecedented number of stellar candidates, we have selected the group of exceptional individual artists who will be joining us beginning in the 2009-10 season. We look forward to presenting these important musicians in every aspect of CMS activity, and to enjoying the enthusiasm and artistry they will contribute to the musical fabric of CMS.
In addition to CMS Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han, the distinguished panel of judges included Norma Hurlburt, CMS Executive Director; Jeremy Geffen, Director of Artistic Planning, Carnegie Hall; Ara Guzelimian, Dean, The Juilliard School; Scott Nickrenz, Music Director, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Sharon Robinson, cellist, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio; Da-Hong Seetoo, violinist and recording producer; and CMS Artists clarinetist David Shifrin, violinist Ani Kavafian, and violist Paul Neubauer. read more ... |
| DALLAS MORNING NEWS REVIEW!!! - Monday, March 24, 2008 Dallas Morning News, Scott Cantrell, March 2, 2008
Every so often, a concert takes us away from a world of political campaigns, rising gas prices and sinking 401(k)s and into realms of magic. Such was the case with pianist Alessio Bax's recital Saturday evening at Southern Methodist University's Caruth Auditorium. Now on the faculty of SMU's Meadows School of the Arts, Mr. Bax was presented in the school's Distinguished Artist Recital Series.
In 2000, the Italian-born pianist, who did graduate study at SMU with Joaquín Achúcarro, won one of the most prestigious international piano competitions, the Leeds. And when I first heard him, he sounded like a competition winner: technically skilled and tasteful, but without a distinctive stamp.
Each time since then he has evinced more personality. This time represented a quantum leap, with playing that went all-out for expressive intensity.
Clean-cut good behavior has become too much the defining virtue of modern music-making. Mr. Bax's performances, by contrast, risked everything. In virtuoso passages of the Beethoven Appassionata Sonata and the first book of Brahms' Paganini Variations he pushed power and speed to the very edge – as both those pianist-composers reportedly did in their performing heydays.
As with old pianists captured in early 20th-century recordings, Mr. Bax went for the big gestures, bending the little notes to larger purposes. But quiet openings of the Beethoven and the Brahms Op. 10 Ballades, and two gentle Bach transcriptions by Alexander Siloti, seemed to come out of some dreamy nowhere. Never have the ballades sounded so wondrous strange, their harmonic progressions so exquisitely unpredictable.
Great music-making has the illusion of spontaneity – and a quality of ecstasy. Start to finish, Mr. Bax sounded as if improvising the music on the spot. He went wherever its spirit, now tempestuous, now sublime, took him. If clarity was occasionally sacrificed to earthquake, wind and fire, so be it. But introspective music became an out-of-body experience.
[…] go-for-broke, blood-stirring playing like this was an experience to treasure. And no one could play the Kreisler-Rachmaninoff Liebesleid, the first encore, with more delicious charm.
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 | RUSSIAN JOURNAL - Saturday, December 22, 2007HELLO TO ALL!
I HAVE WRITTEN A LONG JOURNAL ABOUT MY RUSSIAN TOUR LAST NOVEMBER. THE TOUR LASTED ALMOST A MONTH AND TOOK ME FROM EASTERN SIBERIA ALL THE WAY TO MOSCOW...
IF YOU'D LIKE TO READ IT, JUST SEND ME A MESSAGE, AS IT IS A BIT TOO PERSONAL TO POST ON-LINE
Meanwhile, to see some pictures click down here...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
ALESSIO read more ... |
 | 2007 Alessio and Lucille Photoshoot - Saturday, December 22, 2007See here the latest Alessio and Lucille Photoshoot. By Lise-Marie Mazzucco read more ... |
| 2007 GDYO China Tour - Friday, June 22, 2007This NEW link is for GDYO people. 2007 GDYO Tour of China. ...Alessio
Click on "read more" for the link: read more ... |
| Verbier Picutres - Monday, August 14, 2006 - Saturday, September 16, 2006Click on "read more" to see some pictures from the 2006 Verbier Festival and Academy! read more ... |
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Written by:
alessiobax
Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:38 PM
Summer is always Chamber Music Festival time! There is something so special, unique and wonderful about these festivals. There is never enough time, always too much repertoire, and way, way too much fun making music and spending time with wonderful people/musicians.
The Mimir Chamber Festival in Fort Worth has been a constant in my last four summers. It was also my first Chamber Music Festival. The musicians are not only top-notch, but most importantly great and fun human beings. We all get together for an intense week or two of rehearsing, performing and coaching student groups. It is so intense that every last note at the end of it feels like the most liberating and wonderful note ever played.
This year I will only perform in one concert, on the 11th of July. Joachim's Hebrew Melodies for viola and piano and Rachamaninov's Piano Trio are on the menu. I just got back from Fort Worth for the first run through of the Rachmaninov and I can't wait to perform it. My partners, violinist Nathan Cole and cellist Brant Taylor (both from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) are just wonderful.
Right after Fort Worth I will be making my debut at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. A solo recital on the 25th and another chamber music concert on the 24th. It will be Weber's piano quartet with Joshua Bell, Nobuko Imai and Steven Isserlis. Needless to say, I am very excited about this date.
I do think that playing chamber music is not only an important part, but a necessary requirement for any musicians. I wish more pianists would be encouraged from a young age to get together and play music with fellow musicians. The kind of knowledge one gets by playing good chamber music is unique and cannot be acquired anywhere else. So off we are to a good summer of wonderful music-making, bonding and, above all, learning.
For further informations go to :
http://www.mimirfestival.org
http://www.verbierfestival.com
Alessio
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12 comments so far...
Re: Chamber Music Festivals
Wow!!!!
Hello! Alessio!
Congratulations for the concert of Emparador in Guadalajara!
This blog was a bright idea!
Beethoven in this concert is breave, light and virtuoso, because at time lighten!
Bravoo!!!
Flor Jazmin from Mexico Good luck! in the Festival
By loquenoexista on
Thursday, July 06, 2006 10:06 PM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
Thank you! And congratulation on having such a wonderful theatre in your beautiful city. Hector has done a wonderful job with the orchestra too!
Alessio
By alessiobax on
Friday, July 07, 2006 6:40 AM
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Thoughts on Mimir
Mimir is almost over. I just had my concert yesterday. Joachim's Hebrew Melodies and Rachmaninov's Trio op. 9. A lot of notes, and especially in the Rach, a very tiring performance. It is a work full of grief, sadness and....notes, of course. My partners (Brian Chen, on the viola for the Joachim, and Nathan Cole + Brant Taylor from the CSO for the Rach) couldn't have been better, or nicer, for that matter.
So one more day of coaching (the student groups are simply wonderful) and the students' concert tomorrow, and I will be done. There is something special about the students at Mimir. Never had I seen such willingness and thirst to know what we have to say, nor such enthusiasm for the music they are playing. It is so refreshing to me that no matter how tired I can be at the end of the day, I am constantly with a big smile on my face! The students are there to learn, but what they don't realize, is that the faculty/performers are learning so much in process as well. Bravo, Curt Thompson, for a very successful 9th Mimir Festival.
By alessiobax on
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:57 PM
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Mimir's last night!
Yes, Mimir is over. It's been great fun, tiring but fun. It ended on a happy note with Schubert's Trout. Quite an ideal ending, really. It was a bit sad to see everyone leave, but life goes on. Wednesday we are off to Verbier: how exciting. I hope I can get enough internet access there to keep writing this blog and post some pictures from the Alps!
By alessiobax on
Saturday, July 15, 2006 12:12 AM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
Hello!
Wow! It sounds very well!
Thank you! I'm proud of the orchest and Mr.Hector, his work is magnificent.
I imagine that movie to play. I think....these students are pling with the maint and spirith. A thought exist in your maint respect to this music, something reference with they and the music in your live.
Is the thought a power that impulse to be lively.
or...is the pay?........I was only kiding....
They are artists right!
So, I think so! Im curious......how is the class?
By loquenoexista on
Saturday, July 15, 2006 11:11 PM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
(..students are plaing..)
Enjoy! Have a good time!
By loquenoexista on
Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:00 AM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
The classes were wonderful. The kids have two 1 1/2 hrs coachings a day, and played in the final concert a very demanding repertoire.
Por cierto, tambien podemos escribirnos en Espanol. Cualquier idioma esta bien en este blog! Eres musico tu tambien?
Alessio
By alessiobax on
Sunday, July 16, 2006 2:30 PM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
Uf! menos mal jaja! comenzaba a tener serios problemas...
Gracias....!
Sí, pero por ahora estoy fuera de clases, soy pianista....bueno realmente es mucho decir.....estudiaba en la Universidad de Guadalajara, en la carrera de profesional medio, hice cuarto semestres y uno que dejé inconcluso. Pero quiero regresar, porque antes no estaba segura de lo que quería y ahora sí. Ahora como ya terminé la preparatoria puedo entrar a la licenciatura y verdaderamente lo que más me importa en estos días es ponerme al corriente para pasar el examen de admisión.
Lo más difícil para mí, es el dictado y supongo es falta de práctica de los intervalos. Y como soy del hambiente musical pues me interesa mucho conocer ¡todo!. Sabemos que Clementi fue uno de los grandes pianistas, y mencionan que tocaba sin despegar los dedos del teclado(claro, lo menos posible) y ponía una moneda en sus manos para conservar la posición correcta. ¡Deve haber tenido bastante independencia y fuerza en cada dedo!.El método que ocupamos normalmente para adquirir fuerza en los dedos es "Hanon el pianista virtuoso", y adicionan Beyer o Emontz y Magdalena Bach. Estos ejercicios de Hanon los toco levantando unicamente el dedo que oprime la tecla y los demás los dejo en su lugar, sin levantar, es realmente difícil hacerlo rápido. En cuanto a las terceras levanto el brazo un poco de manera descendente con la mano derecha y viceversa.
Bueno si sigo poría saturar de dudas y comentarios, así que esto es todo por ahora.
Gracias!
By loquenoexista on
Monday, July 17, 2006 12:10 AM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
Alessio - it was so good to see you and Lucille today - have fun in Switzerland!
The blog looks awesome. Props to Boris -
Jonathan
By psychokaz on
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:18 PM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
miss you guys~~~~hope you're doing great!!!!
By xiaomin on
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:33 AM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
Hello from Verbier! We have very limited internet connection here, so I must keep this short for now! This place is just Heavenly! In every sense. The concerts went very well and we now have a week to enjoy the rest of the festival. We are hanging out every day with wonderful musicians and enjoying amazing concerts. We'll be going to Mallorca on Aug 1st. Hopefully I will have a bit of time then to start a new blog about Verbier!!!! So far we've heard Mischa Maisky, Vengerov, Kissin, Bashmet, Joshua Bell, Hillary Hahn, Steven Isserlis etc...etc... this is just the beginning!
Alessio
By alessiobax on
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:40 AM
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greate post
Hey , I finally decided to write a comment on your blog . I just wanted to say good job . I really enjoy reading your posts.
By Tutor Daily on
Tuesday, December 01, 2009 11:44 AM
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Written by:
alessiobax
Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:38 PM
Summer is always Chamber Music Festival time! There is something so special, unique and wonderful about these festivals. There is never enough time, always too much repertoire, and way, way too much fun making music and spending time with wonderful people/musicians.
The Mimir Chamber Festival in Fort Worth has been a constant in my last four summers. It was also my first Chamber Music Festival. The musicians are not only top-notch, but most importantly great and fun human beings. We all get together for an intense week or two of rehearsing, performing and coaching student groups. It is so intense that every last note at the end of it feels like the most liberating and wonderful note ever played.
This year I will only perform in one concert, on the 11th of July. Joachim's Hebrew Melodies for viola and piano and Rachamaninov's Piano Trio are on the menu. I just got back from Fort Worth for the first run through of the Rachmaninov and I can't wait to perform it. My partners, violinist Nathan Cole and cellist Brant Taylor (both from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) are just wonderful.
Right after Fort Worth I will be making my debut at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. A solo recital on the 25th and another chamber music concert on the 24th. It will be Weber's piano quartet with Joshua Bell, Nobuko Imai and Steven Isserlis. Needless to say, I am very excited about this date.
I do think that playing chamber music is not only an important part, but a necessary requirement for any musicians. I wish more pianists would be encouraged from a young age to get together and play music with fellow musicians. The kind of knowledge one gets by playing good chamber music is unique and cannot be acquired anywhere else. So off we are to a good summer of wonderful music-making, bonding and, above all, learning.
For further informations go to :
http://www.mimirfestival.org
http://www.verbierfestival.com
Alessio
Tags:
12 comments so far...
Re: Chamber Music Festivals
Wow!!!!
Hello! Alessio!
Congratulations for the concert of Emparador in Guadalajara!
This blog was a bright idea!
Beethoven in this concert is breave, light and virtuoso, because at time lighten!
Bravoo!!!
Flor Jazmin from Mexico Good luck! in the Festival
By loquenoexista on
Thursday, July 06, 2006 10:06 PM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
Thank you! And congratulation on having such a wonderful theatre in your beautiful city. Hector has done a wonderful job with the orchestra too!
Alessio
By alessiobax on
Friday, July 07, 2006 6:40 AM
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Thoughts on Mimir
Mimir is almost over. I just had my concert yesterday. Joachim's Hebrew Melodies and Rachmaninov's Trio op. 9. A lot of notes, and especially in the Rach, a very tiring performance. It is a work full of grief, sadness and....notes, of course. My partners (Brian Chen, on the viola for the Joachim, and Nathan Cole + Brant Taylor from the CSO for the Rach) couldn't have been better, or nicer, for that matter.
So one more day of coaching (the student groups are simply wonderful) and the students' concert tomorrow, and I will be done. There is something special about the students at Mimir. Never had I seen such willingness and thirst to know what we have to say, nor such enthusiasm for the music they are playing. It is so refreshing to me that no matter how tired I can be at the end of the day, I am constantly with a big smile on my face! The students are there to learn, but what they don't realize, is that the faculty/performers are learning so much in process as well. Bravo, Curt Thompson, for a very successful 9th Mimir Festival.
By alessiobax on
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:57 PM
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Mimir's last night!
Yes, Mimir is over. It's been great fun, tiring but fun. It ended on a happy note with Schubert's Trout. Quite an ideal ending, really. It was a bit sad to see everyone leave, but life goes on. Wednesday we are off to Verbier: how exciting. I hope I can get enough internet access there to keep writing this blog and post some pictures from the Alps!
By alessiobax on
Saturday, July 15, 2006 12:12 AM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
Hello!
Wow! It sounds very well!
Thank you! I'm proud of the orchest and Mr.Hector, his work is magnificent.
I imagine that movie to play. I think....these students are pling with the maint and spirith. A thought exist in your maint respect to this music, something reference with they and the music in your live.
Is the thought a power that impulse to be lively.
or...is the pay?........I was only kiding....
They are artists right!
So, I think so! Im curious......how is the class?
By loquenoexista on
Saturday, July 15, 2006 11:11 PM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
(..students are plaing..)
Enjoy! Have a good time!
By loquenoexista on
Sunday, July 16, 2006 11:00 AM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
The classes were wonderful. The kids have two 1 1/2 hrs coachings a day, and played in the final concert a very demanding repertoire.
Por cierto, tambien podemos escribirnos en Espanol. Cualquier idioma esta bien en este blog! Eres musico tu tambien?
Alessio
By alessiobax on
Sunday, July 16, 2006 2:30 PM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
Uf! menos mal jaja! comenzaba a tener serios problemas...
Gracias....!
Sí, pero por ahora estoy fuera de clases, soy pianista....bueno realmente es mucho decir.....estudiaba en la Universidad de Guadalajara, en la carrera de profesional medio, hice cuarto semestres y uno que dejé inconcluso. Pero quiero regresar, porque antes no estaba segura de lo que quería y ahora sí. Ahora como ya terminé la preparatoria puedo entrar a la licenciatura y verdaderamente lo que más me importa en estos días es ponerme al corriente para pasar el examen de admisión.
Lo más difícil para mí, es el dictado y supongo es falta de práctica de los intervalos. Y como soy del hambiente musical pues me interesa mucho conocer ¡todo!. Sabemos que Clementi fue uno de los grandes pianistas, y mencionan que tocaba sin despegar los dedos del teclado(claro, lo menos posible) y ponía una moneda en sus manos para conservar la posición correcta. ¡Deve haber tenido bastante independencia y fuerza en cada dedo!.El método que ocupamos normalmente para adquirir fuerza en los dedos es "Hanon el pianista virtuoso", y adicionan Beyer o Emontz y Magdalena Bach. Estos ejercicios de Hanon los toco levantando unicamente el dedo que oprime la tecla y los demás los dejo en su lugar, sin levantar, es realmente difícil hacerlo rápido. En cuanto a las terceras levanto el brazo un poco de manera descendente con la mano derecha y viceversa.
Bueno si sigo poría saturar de dudas y comentarios, así que esto es todo por ahora.
Gracias!
By loquenoexista on
Monday, July 17, 2006 12:10 AM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
Alessio - it was so good to see you and Lucille today - have fun in Switzerland!
The blog looks awesome. Props to Boris -
Jonathan
By psychokaz on
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:18 PM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
miss you guys~~~~hope you're doing great!!!!
By xiaomin on
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:33 AM
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Re: Chamber Music Festivals
Hello from Verbier! We have very limited internet connection here, so I must keep this short for now! This place is just Heavenly! In every sense. The concerts went very well and we now have a week to enjoy the rest of the festival. We are hanging out every day with wonderful musicians and enjoying amazing concerts. We'll be going to Mallorca on Aug 1st. Hopefully I will have a bit of time then to start a new blog about Verbier!!!! So far we've heard Mischa Maisky, Vengerov, Kissin, Bashmet, Joshua Bell, Hillary Hahn, Steven Isserlis etc...etc... this is just the beginning!
Alessio
By alessiobax on
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:40 AM
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