Musique roger muraro biography
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An Interview with Roger Muraro
How have music changed throughout your career?
Now I am 60 years old, and I have seen how the job has changed in many ways. For example, recording a CD was highly important for musicians when I was starting out, while nowadays, a CD is used more for advertising rather than as a testimony. Personally, the job has changed as life has given me experiences that offer other points of view when listening and understanding works that I once played when I was younger. As you change, you feel the music differently.
What is the highlight of having a career as a musician?
Musical life is like a mountain, full of highs and lows. For me, the high place is when you’re happy playing music that you particularly love. For example, I once played a Mozart concerto in Japan that was so beautiful; the sounds, the piano, and Mozart all gave me a surreal, strong, sensitive and ethereal feeling. But, at the same time, it’s life. It’s Mozart! Still, being a musician has its difficulties. Travelling is not always comfortable and concerts can make you nervous. But at the end of the day you always get a consoling feeling from the music.
What was your first impression of Malta?
From the plane, I was already impressed by the blue seas, the light-yellow stones and
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Born in 1959 to Venetian parents living in Lyon, Roger Muraro began studying the saxophone there before teaching himself to play the piano. At 19, he enrolled in Yvonne Loriod’s class at the Paris Conservatoire and met Olivier Messiaen. He quickly established himself as one of the French composer’s major interpreters and, in 2001, released a recording to the complete solo piano music (7 CDs, Accord-Universal Music), which was greeted with unanimous rave reviews. His performance of Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus (without a score!) or else the monument that is the Catalogue d’oiseaux was considered not only a near-impossible wager but also an intimate appropriation of the oeuvre of Messiaen with whom he identifies totally.
Endowed with dazzling technique – he was a winner of the Tchaikovsky (Moscow) and Liszt (Parma) international competitions -, his playing is always at the service of poetry and sincerity. His art, simultaneously dreamlike and lucid, imaginative and rigorous, applies just as fully to Mussorgsky, Ravel, Albeniz, Rachmaninov or Debussy, as to Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt or Schumann, knowing how to bring out the emotion, the colours, the Romanticism and the sound atmospheres.
In February 2001, in Nantes, he received a ‘Victoire de
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