Piano master class by Roger Muraro
6 November 2014
Roger Muraro, French pianist is holding a master class for students of the Liszt Academy.
Time: 7 December 2014, 10:30-13:30
Location: Budapest Music Center (1093 Budapest, 8 Mátyás street)
The master class focuses on pieces by French composers, however students may apply with any pieces by other composers.
Only students of the Liszt Academy can be participants (both active and passive). To apply, please send a message to Ms. Ágnes Szabó (szabo.agnes[at]zeneakademia.hu) until 28 November 2014 the latest.
12-14 December 2014: concerts with Budapest Festival Orchestra, performing Turangalîla-Symphonie by Messiaen.
Born in Lyon in 1959, Roger Muraro first studied the saxophone, before teaching himself the piano. At the age of 19 he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Yvonne Loriod. Here he also met his professor's husband, Olivier Messiaen, and soon became an expert interpreter of the French composer's works. He recorded Messaen's complete solo piano oeuvre: the seven-disk collection was released in 2001.
Muraro's career as a pianist is marked by victories at major competitions of the instrument, including Moscow's Tchaikovsky and Parma's Liszt Competitions. The pillars of his broad repertoire include the works of Mussorgsky, Ravel, Albeniz, Rachmaninoff and Debussy, as well as of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Schumann. As a soloist, he has cooperated with conductors like Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Pinchas Steinberg, Marek Janowski, Valery Gergiev and Kent Nagano.