Sunday, October 23, 2011 – 4:30 PM | Théâtre Croisette – JW Marriott Hotel – Cannes
Iannis Xenakis Aroura | Camille Saint-Saëns Concerto No. 2 in G minor for piano and orchestra, opus 22 | Georges Bizet Symphony in C
Bertrand CHAMAYOU is now among the key French artists on the musical scene
He is a very distinguished young pianist who the Regional Orchestra of Cannes Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur will welcome for the second time in Cannes.
•“He combines with his brilliant art undeniable intellectual qualities and something mysterious, where perhaps his true nature is hidden”;
•“Sensitive, luminous, flamboyant, his playing is intense and knows how to remain in service of the score he defends”;
He will be under the direction of young Greek conductor Stamatia KARAMPINI, who has just won the grand prize of the audience at the Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors.
-The concert will offer a musical journey through 2 works of French music and a work by Greek-born composer Iannis Xenakis:
Written in 1971, Aroura is a short piece for strings alone, in which the composer highlights his concept of stochastic music derived from rules and mathematical procedures;
-Composed in just 17 days, Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2, premiered in Paris in 1868, did not achieve great success, although it is now one of the great repertoire works most cherished by the public and performers. But Liszt, who was present at the premiere, praised the young composer;
Dying at 37, Georges Bizet left behind a rare work of exceptional beauty and immense popularity. The Symphony in C major, composed when Bizet was only 17, reveals a composer endowed with a formidable melodic instinct and prodigious rhythmic invention.
A concert that will offer, from Greece to France, a musical journey through works marked by the fervor of youth, the poetry of musical colors, and the deep joy that composers know how to bring forth from their creations.
