You get up tomorrow morning: what do you want to hear?
Baroque. When I wake up I want Bach.
Because?
Because I have matured. When he was a child he did not believe that baroque music was romantic and he did believe that it was rigid, stiff.
I asked him this same thing years ago.
…And did I say Mahler?
Yeah.
Mahler was my favorite composer when I woke up, because he creates spaces in your brain: new and sublime.
And, now in front of the keyboard, on a new day, what do you want to play to make fingers?
French repertoire: for example, Debussy, preludes: let the hands work: something fast and light. Afterwards, I will revisit the old horses of music: the romantics.
You started playing when you were 3 years old…
Yeah! I remember how watching Tom and Jerry playing with Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody number 2 made me speed up playing…
How do you interpret now?
I was looking for easy and light emotions; Now I find depth in others that didn’t attract me and it’s not that I make an effort or prepare much….I let myself go.
And where does it go?
To enjoy what time has revealed in my memory.
Have you ever been tempted by pop?
The old master always tells you something new; the so new pop repeats itself; pop creators want to be so innovative that they are often all innovative in the same way. But of course: I do my experiments.
Tell us.
You already know about my Disney music album…
Do you consider it pop or classical?
What I wanted to do is reinterpret popular melodies from the Disney world to give them romantic and classic resources.
Aren’t you afraid they’ll sound like elevator music?
That’s exactly what I tried not to do, that’s why I provided them with a virtual technical base…
What did you want to achieve?
Let it sound with a whole new arc of colors and harmonies so that you were listening to a Disney movie soundtrack; but also that I could feel that it was Brahms.
He got it?
I think we achieved it a little bit, but not completely.
Isn’t that being pop?
I want to be an old master, but one that contributes something to popular culture, because that is the deep meaning of the classic. Do you know that I like to play in schools?
I had read it.
Well, I have learned from them that when they start there are few pieces that they can enjoy; but it is certain that in the end they will ask me to play Frozen.
And do you enjoy it?
I confess that when asked, it saddens me to realize that many children will not be able to enjoy the immensity of experiences that music provides; but I can do one thing for them…
¿Play Frozen?
Play Frozen and continue working to bring everyone closer to music and thus get closer to the piano again as if every day were the first.
Is 10,000 hours of practice enough, says Gladwell, to be a virtuoso?
I have seen and heard many musicians who work more: 16 hours a day…And they are not virtuoso!
What turns a human into a genius?
Connecting your solo with that centuries-old tradition of musical creation is impossible. You cannot help one day if it is not with help.
So?
You need someone really great to guide you and the humility to follow them to be you.
Who would be a great genius to follow?
Well, sometimes someone as great is unjustly forgotten by the general public. Have you heard of Charlotte?
I’m afraid not.
Well, she was a prodigy of a composer at the beginning of the 20th century and worked with other composers relegated to oblivion. Charlotte is like Satie, but even more exciting.
Well go ahead.
And there are many other composers of Satie’s quality, who are not Bach or Beethoven, but are also moving, like a Max Richter or a Phillip Glass. And I give you more news…
Welcome.
I am working for Carnegie Hall with the soprano Angel Blue: we will have a Gospel repertoire and also a rehearsal with Cecilia Bartoli in a musical surprise that I will not reveal now.
Did you like any Mobile toy and why are we here?
I recommend the digital virtual keyboard that we created to learn to play and will teach millions of pianists to be one.
