Sélim Mazari
© Fondation Louis Vuitton / Gaël Cornier
- Date
- 16 January 2020 – 8:30pm
- Place
- Auditorium
NEW GENERATION PIANO
Last year, his jubilant interpretations of Debussy and Scarlatti fired the enthusiasm of music lovers everywhere. Now, French pianist Sélim Mazari returns to the Fondation Louis Vuitton Auditorium for an encore.
With his characteristic originality, Sélim Mazari chooses Beethoven and his variation ingenuity for this performance through two cycles, including the famous Eroica. The German musician’s art echoes the energetic virtuosity of Enesco and Prokofiev. Of the Sonata No. 6, pianist Sviatoslav Richter has said, “the remarkable stylistic clarity and the structural perfection of the music amazed me. I had never heard anything like it. With wild audacity the composer broke with the ideals of Romanticism and introduced into his art the terrifying pulse of twentieth century music".
The artist
Sélim Mazari
Sélim Mazari studied with Brigitte Engerer at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, receiving his degree in 2008. He then studied with Claire Désert, obtaining his Master’s degree in June 2013 with honours. He also received precious guidance from professors and concert artists such as Rena Shereshevskaya, Jean-Claude Pennetier and Avedis Kouyoumdjian during master classes.
He has won numerous competitions, including the Concours International de Piano d'Île de France, the Flame Competition, Piano Campus 2013 (2nd Prize, prizes for Best Performance of a Contemporary Piece and Audience Choice). He won the Jury and Audience prizes from the Geneva Société des Arts in 2014.
Sélim has performed at numerous festivals, both in France and abroad, as a soloist and for concertos for orchestra. A lover of chamber music, he has participated in numerous projects with distinguished musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma, Henri Demarquette and Olivier Charlier, as well as with Juliette Hurel and Joséphine Olech, with whom he recorded the album Souvenirs de Hongrie.
In 2012, he was recognized as Best New Classical Musician by ADAMI, an award that allowed him to perform at Festival Pablo Casals in Prades, the Chorégies d’Orange and Bouffes du Nord Theatre.
He continued to train for two years with Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music in London and won the first Alain Marinaro Grand Prize at the Collioure International Piano Competition in June 2014. Sélim also won the Safran Prize in October 2014 and has been a laureate of Fondation Banque Populaire since May 2015.
He has continued his training at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna since 2015 with Avedis Kouyoumdjian.
The programme
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Variations on the Ballet "Das Waldmädchen" WoO 71
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- 15 variations and fugue op. 35 on Prométhée's Theme, "Variations Eroïca"
- Georges Enesco
- Extract from Suite for piano no. 2 op. 10
- Serge Prokofiev
- Sonata for piano n° 6 op. 82
