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Klavierlegende Maria João Pires zette twee jaar geleden de Grote Zaal in vuur en vlam. Nu keert ze terug met Beethovens Derde pianoconcert. Voor de 80-jarige Pires geldt: ‘Muziek is geen beroep, het is een missie.’ Dat is precies de reden waarom ze blijft optreden, terwijl ze al vaker heeft beweerd te willen stoppen. Wat haar zo uitzonderlijk maakt? Luister naar Beethovens Derde pianoconcert. Monster ‘De piano is voor mij een monster. Maar ik vecht er niet meer tegen,’ aldus Pires in een interview met NRC in 2021. Haar kleine handen plaatsten haar bijvoorbeeld herhaaldelijk voor problemen. NPOklassiek.nl portretteerde haar in 2024 aan de hand van zeven weetjes. Dat eindigt met een alinea over haar comfortabele outfits, tekenend voor haar houding: ‘geen opvallende verschijning creëren (…), maar juist alles in dienst stellen van de muziek’. Poëtische vertolkingen Pires wordt door fans en critici aanbeden om haar poëtische vertolkingen van componisten uit de achttiende en de negentiende eeuw. Mozart is een favoriet, maar ook Chopin, Brahms en Beethoven, van wie zij op deze zondagmiddag het Derde pianoconcert speelt.
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mreugeneohare
March 8th 2025
Wonderfull. Loved Maria and her student Ignasi
Amsterdam, Netherlands@Het Concertgebouw
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Maria João Pires Biography
Born in 1944 in Lisbon, Maria João Pires gave her first public performance at the age of 4 and began her studies of music and piano with Campos Coelho and Francine Benoît, continuing later in Germany, with Rosl Schmid and Karl Engel. In addition to her concerts, she has made recordings for Erato for fifteen years and Deutsche Grammophon for twenty years.
Since the 1970s, she has devoted herself to reflecting the influence of art in life, community and education, trying to discover new ways of establishing this way of thinking in society. She has searched for new ways which, respecting the development of individuals and cultures, encourage the sharing of ideas.
In 1999, she created the Belgais Centre for the Study of the Arts in Portugal. Maria João Pires regularly offers interdisciplinary workshops for professional musicians and music lovers. In the Belgais concert hall concerts and recordings regularly take place. In future these will be shared with the international digital community (pay and non-pay).
In 2012, in Belgium, she initiated two complementary projects; the Partitura Choirs, a project which creates and develops choirs for children from disadvantaged backgrounds as in Belgium the „Hesperos Choir, and the Partitura Workshops. All of the Partitura projects have the aim to create an altruistic dynamic between artists of different generations by proposing an alternative in a world too often focused on competitiveness. This philosophy is being spread worldwide at Partitura projects and workshops.
Read MoreSince the 1970s, she has devoted herself to reflecting the influence of art in life, community and education, trying to discover new ways of establishing this way of thinking in society. She has searched for new ways which, respecting the development of individuals and cultures, encourage the sharing of ideas.
In 1999, she created the Belgais Centre for the Study of the Arts in Portugal. Maria João Pires regularly offers interdisciplinary workshops for professional musicians and music lovers. In the Belgais concert hall concerts and recordings regularly take place. In future these will be shared with the international digital community (pay and non-pay).
In 2012, in Belgium, she initiated two complementary projects; the Partitura Choirs, a project which creates and develops choirs for children from disadvantaged backgrounds as in Belgium the „Hesperos Choir, and the Partitura Workshops. All of the Partitura projects have the aim to create an altruistic dynamic between artists of different generations by proposing an alternative in a world too often focused on competitiveness. This philosophy is being spread worldwide at Partitura projects and workshops.
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