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SUMMARY:Marouan Benabdallah\, piano
DESCRIPTION:In a programme of Dia Succari: Samah\, from Suite Syrienne\, Am
 er Ali: Tableau\, Nabil Benabdeljalil: Raqsa [Dance]\, Paul Ben-Haim: elec
 tions from Five pieces for Piano Op. 34\, O. Respighi: Notturno\, Abel Dec
 aux: Minuit Passe [Midnight passes]\, from Claire de Lune\, Mel Bonis: Ph
 œbé Op. 30\, F. Chopin: Nocturne in D flat major Op. 27 No. 2\, F. Liszt
 : Funérailles\, from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses\, Consolation No
 . 3 in D flat major and F. Chopin: “Heroic” Polonaise in A flat major 
 Op. 53\n\nAcclaimed pianist Marouan Benabdallah is indisputably the leadin
 g representative of his native Morocco on the international concert stage.
   With a musical heritage deeply rooted in the Hungarian tradition\, Maro
 uan Benabdallah received his formal training at the Béla Bartók Conserva
 tory and the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest\, Hungary.\n\nHe first attrac
 ted international attention in 2003\, following his triumphs at the Hungar
 ian Radio Piano Competition and the Andorra Grand Prize. More recently\, h
 e was a prizewinner at the Hilton Head Piano Competition (US) and the Arth
 ur Rubinstein Master Competition where the local media proclaimed his play
 ing “miraculous” (Maariv).\n\nMarouan Benabdallah has been praised for
  his “stunning natural virtuosity” (Nice-Matin)\, “delicate stylishn
 ess” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)\, “compelling sense of momentum” (Wash
 ington Post) and “resourceful pianism\, lyrical instincts and thoughtful
 ness” (New York Times). He has been invited as guest soloist by numerous
  orchestras in Europe\, Asia\, Africa and America\, and has collaborated w
 ith conductors such as Lorin Maazel\, Zoltan Kocsis\, Iván Fischer\, Rena
 to Palumbo\, Tan Lihua and others.\n\nHe has performed on stages such as t
 he Great Hall of the Franz Liszt Music Academy and the Palace of Arts in B
 udapest\, the Salle Cortot in Paris\, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg\, the For
 bidden City Concert Hall in Beijing\, the Oriental Art Centre in Shanghai\
 , the Teatro Communale di Bologna\, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires\, the
  Maison Symphonique in Montreal\, the National Center for the Performing A
 rts in Bombay\, the Cairo Opera House\, Carnegie Hall in New York\, the Ke
 nnedy Center in Washington\, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw\, the Queen Eliza
 beth Hall.\n\nIn 2014\, he initiated the Arabæsque Music Project research
 ing and presenting classical composers from the Arab world on the internat
 ional concert stage.\n\nA Note on the Programme by Marouan Benabdallah\n\n
 I am very much looking forward to returning to Pune\, and to India in gene
 ral\, after a forced life-changing halt of 3 years\, and present a program
 me I conceived with great care.\n\nIn the first half\, I will be playing\,
  similarly as in the last 3-4 concerts\, some discoveries from my exciting
  exploration of the music from the Arab world — and beyond: Two Syrian (
 Dia Succari and Amer Ali)\, a Moroccan (Nabil Benabdaljalil) and an Israel
 i composer (Paul Ben-Haim). These pieces are all part of my programme I am
  performing at Wigmore Hall debut recital in London in April. An other int
 eresting fact: In 2011\, I received the prize for the best interpretation 
 of Ben-Haim’s Five Piano Pieces op.34 at the Arthur Rubinstein Competiti
 on in Tel-Aviv and it is very exciting to work after so many years on thes
 e pieces that blend Oriental and European motivic patterns.\n\nThe second 
 half of the programme will begin with music inspired by the night. First\,
  Respighi’s sweet and dreamy Notturno\, followed by “Minuit passe” [
 Midnight passes]  by Abel Decaux (1869-1943)\, the first movement of a cy
 cle of 4 “Clairs de Lune”-s — perhaps the most realistic musical dep
 iction of the night composed before Bartók’s Night Music [Out Doors cyc
 le].\n\nWomen composers have started to become more and more popular thank
 s to an effort to bring them out of the shadows. Among them\, Nadia and Li
 li Boulanger\, Amy Beach\, Mel Bonis\, Cécile Chaminade and many others.\
 n\nMel Bonis (1858-1937) composed several pieces — released as a cycle b
 y the publisher — inspired by mythological heroines like Salome\, Desdem
 ona\, Melisande or Phœbe. The latter\, a Titan in Greek mythology\, was i
 dentified with the moon. She inspired a quite unusual and thought-provokin
 g piece displaying fascinating harmonic modulations and a constant tonal a
 mbiguity that creates a strange sense of weightlessness.\n\nThis leads us 
 to Chopin’s Nocturne in D flat major\, a piece that brings me lively mem
 ories of the late Noel Flores teaching it during a masterclass I attended 
 20 years ago near Vienna.\n\nLiszt composed his 3rd consolation in the sam
 e key (D flat major)\, obviously as a response to Chopin’s masterpiece\,
  and we can notice the same kind of correspondence between Liszt’s Funé
 railles and Chopin’s Heroic Polonaise that will conclude the recital.\n\
 nI am preparing this concert with much enthusiasm and I do hope that many 
 of you will join us on February 26!\n\n\n\n[caption id="attachment_14622" 
 align="alignleft" width="189"] With the support of the Embassy of the King
 dom of Morocco in India[/caption]
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CATEGORIES:Piano recitals
LOCATION:Mazda Hall\, Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India
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