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FABIO MARTINO
AMIR KATZ
ZLATA CHOCHIEVA
KOTARO FUKUMA
Piano From Page 1A –––––––––––––––––––––– America, Europe and Japan. His story is unique. It epitomizes the mission of the Festival and its goal to further the careers of exceptional artists. MIPF – How did your first performance at the Festival come about? MD – I was living and studying in Italy at the time, but spending a summer at home in Serbia in 2002, when I had the chance to meet my former teacher, Kemal Gekic. Several years had passed since I was out of country, and we reminisced about the past. Maestro asked me to play Medtner’s SonataReminiscenza. At the same time, our mutual friend, pianist and piano teacher, Alan Fraser, offered to record this and several other pieces I had in my fingers back then. Kemal decided to take the recording to the US and share it with someone who was constantly hunting for pianists around the world. It was Giselle Brodsky, the founder and Artistic Director of the Festival. I
guess she liked what she heard because the next thing I knew I was booked to perform Medtner, among others, in May of 2003. MIPF - What happened next? MD - Giselle suggested that I should stay in Miami and recommended me to William Hipp, then Dean of the Frost School of Music at
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PIETRO DE MARIA
NICK VAN BLOSS
PAVEL NESERSIAN
CLAUDIO MARTINEZ MEHNER
UM. I began my studies with Frank Cooper there not long afterward on a full scholarship. After graduating from UM, I got my Master’s degree at FIU, where I returned back to those old times once again studying with Kemal, who is FIU’s Artist in Residence. MIPF – Where there any other opportunities that developed from your association with the Festival? MD- Right after my debut in 2003, I met my American parents, Carlton and Andrea Cole, with whom I’ve been living off and on ever since. Giselle recommended me to numerous venues and festivals all around the US such as Ravinia’s Rising Stars series and the Gilmore Festival. She also came up with some great musical collaborations for me with artists like Ida Haendel, Gilles Apap, and many others. MIPF – How do you feel about opening the Festival’s 17th Season this month and what have you chosen to perform? MD – To play in the Festival is like playing at home. That does not make it comfortable, as it may sound, but is quite the opposite. It is hard to play for friends and for those people who have been coming to all your concerts for the past ten years.
My program is somehow built around the idea of adjusting music to the piano which was not originally written for it – Bach did not write his Partita No.2 for the instrument we use today; Tchaikovsky’s Scherzo comes from the sixth Symphony (piano arrangement by Feinberg) and his little Lullaby is a song written for voice (arranged by Volodos); Albeniz may evoke the sound of Spanish flamenco guitars and so on. I fell in love with Mozart lately and particularly with his operas and his orchestral works. My initial idea was to play Mozart’s well known Symphony No.40, arranged for piano by his pupil Hummel, but Pappageno and his companions will show up on stage instead in my own arrangement of the Overture for The Magic Flute. MIPF – What a great program! We hope you get a great turnout for what promises to be a truly spectacular concert by an incredibly gifted artist. The 2014 Season continues with performances of other extraordinary artists during its three exciting series: Sundays at Five, a classical salon-style series at the Aventura Arts & Cul-
tural Center, will continue with performances on January 12, February 23 and April 27. The Master Series, “Romantic Spectrum” at the Amaturo Theatre of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts will focus on the works of Chopin, Schumann and Liszt on March 23 – March 25. The Discovery Series our
crown jewel at the historic Art Deco Colony Theatre on Miami Beach will present four successive evenings of brilliant piano recitals by recently discovered artists on May 15 – May 18. Please visit www.miamipianofest.com for all the details.
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