ピアニスト：ベアトリス・ベリュ Beatrice Berrut

Beatrice Berrut , born on April 19 , 1985 in Geneva ,is a Swiss classical pianist,originally from the canton of Valais .

Biography

By her training, she descends from the tradition of the Russian piano school of Heinrich Neuhaus , having trained with Galina Iwanzowa in Berlin , Esther Yellin in Zurich and Brigitte Engerer in Paris.

She began playing the piano at the age of 8 and her studies took her to the Lausanne Conservatory and then to the Heinrich Neuhaus Foundation in Zurich. She later studied at the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin with John O'Conor , a student of Wilhelm Kempff .

Her concerts have taken her to major European halls and festivals, such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Berlin Konzerthaus , the Brussels Palace of Fine Arts , the Victoria Hall in Geneva, Auditorio Stello Mollo of Lugano, Warsaw Chopin Academy . She has appeared in the United States ( Ravinia Festival , Columbia College Chicago (in) and at the Myra Hess Memorial Concerts at the Chicago Cultural Center ), and also in Argentina ( Teatro Coliseo (es) of Buenos Aires, Teatro El Circulo (es) of Rosario) and Costa Rica , together with major orchestras such as the Swiss Radio and Television Orchestra, the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, the Philharmonic Sudwestfalen , the Pays de la Loire National Orchestra, the North Czech Philharmonic, or the Staatskapelle in Meiningen. She was greatly influenced in her artistic development by her meetings with Menahem Pressler , Leon Fleisher , Miriam Fried and the late Gyorgy Sandor , student of Bela Bartok .

Chamber Music

Beatrice Berrut was invited by Gidon Kremer for several concerts at her Basel Museum Festival in 2005. She also performed with Itzhak Perlman during her festival at the Hamptons (NY) in 2011, or with artists such as Frans Helmerson , Mihaela Martin and Shlomo Mintz .

Radio and television

Beatrice Berrut has appeared and appeared in a number of radio programs, on France Musique , in the Vertigo show with Pierre Philippe Cadert on RTS La Premiere, on Radio Suisse romande Espace 2 , on the Bayerischer Rundfunk , or "Music Matters" on the BBC Three and many times on Canadian and American radio (Chicago WFMT , CKWR (en) ). She was the main guest of the Op.12 Live Music Salons. She has appeared on the set of the program Cadences of the RTS Two as well as for the Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana , Canal 9 (Switzerland) and the German channels ZDF and TV Berlin (de) .

Awards and Distinctions

Beatrice Berrut is the Swiss winner of the 2002 Eurovision Young Musicians Competition . In 2006, she received the Jean Clostre Prize from the Geneva Arts Society, and in 2009 the Johann Sebastian Bach Special Prize from the Wiesbaden International Piano Competition, awarded by Breitkopf & Hartel . In 2010, the State of Valais awarded him the triannual Music Pro scholarship. In 2011, she received the "Revelacion" prize from the Association of Argentine Musical Critics, and in 2014 the Valais State Prize for Encouragement. His CD Bach is in the "top ten" of the 2015 NDR recordings.

Reviews and references

The album dedicated to the complete piano sonatas of Robert Schumann , released under the label Centaur Records (in) was hailed by the international press. Thus Fanfare magazine speaks of "a very impressive first recording (...), as expressive as the version of Horowitz", the American Record Guide speaks, "an excellent recording, an understanding Schumann's complete music ", while the Canadian art magazine Worldcomnews praises" an exceptional result, where touch and expression give Schumann sonatas a unique and inspiring sound. The Swiss press recognizes, for its part, "its passion, its breathtaking soundness" ( Tribune de Geneve ) , "a disc more than enthusiastic" (Scenes Magazine) or "his agility feline "( Liberty ) . His tour of Argentina was hailed by La Nacion (Argentina) and Tribuna Musical de Buenos Aires as a "revelation". The Irish Times describes it as giving a "particularly transcendent performance" (...) His transcriptions of Bach by Busoni flourished calmly in multiple layers of genius and beauty (...) No matter that Busoni defies logic, this Brais Berrut's play was the sheer beauty of the music and the refinement and sober emotional depth of Bach ... "

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