Barcelona
Solo Piano

Day/Time:	Saturday, March 20th 2010. 21:00
Venue:	El Teatre més Petit del Món, Barcelona

Ticket sales end onThursday, March 18th 2010. 21:00

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Programme of 'Solo Piano'

Chopin, Frederic:
Various Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van:
Various Works

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus:
Various Works

de Arquer, Luis:
Improvisations

(Programme is subject to change)

About the event 'Solo Piano'

"Solo Piano" is the exquisite musical event offered every Saturday evening at "The World's Smallest Theater" in Barcelona.

The concert pianist, master of improvisation, and award-nominated film composer Luis de Arquer describes these exclusive and intimate concerts as inventive and satisfying. Set within Arquer's own home, the World's Smallest Theater (El Teatre més Petits del Món) offers nineteenth-century ambience that perfectly suits the music of Chopin, Beethoven, and Mozart, as well as the Arquer's own compositions and improvisations.

The evening ends with the luxurious pleasure of a glass of champagne in the romantic candlelit garden.  

Even the most demanding music lovers will be impressed by this lovely evening, of which the New York Times travel guide wrote, "This may be your most charming musical evening in Barcelona."

Artists of Solo Piano

de Arquer, Luis

, Soloist
He began his studies in Cerdanyola del Vallés, a small town near Barcelona, coming from a family of great artists and music lovers. During his first lessons, one of Beethoven’s sonatas interpreted by his first teacher, Lolita Martínez, made such a profound impact on him that it was at this moment he decided to dedicate his young life to music. At the tender age of seven, he improvised different styles on the piano, including Bach, Chopin and Beethoven, captivating the public with his enormous ability and musical imagination. His rapid progress opened the door to the Academia Marshall in Barcelona; a meeting place in the past for the finest musicians of the time: Granados, Falla, Albéniz, Turina, and interpreters of the calibre of Rubinstein, Arrau, Katchen, Nikita Magaloff and Rosa Sabater. He finished studies with First Prize and special commendation from the Board! Carlota Garriga, his teacher, the great soloist Alicia de Larrocha and composer Xavier Montsalvatge were inspired by his talent and decided to support him so that he could continue his studies at L’Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. Here, thanks to a scholarship from the Generalitat de Catalunya, he perfected his study technique under Aquiles Delle-Vigne. Unfortunately, even having obtained the best qualifications and having been invited by special request to attend a school for exceptionally gifted musicians in Brussels, he was not awarded a second scholarship. The young musician thus experienced a difficult and unstable time of irregular concert work due to a lack of available support and management. Nevertheless, he always received wonderful reviews which hailed him an extremely sensitive, original and talented interpreter. He performed in Ecuador, Switzerland and France, in recitals in Spain, and in concerts with various Spanish and foreign orchestras. All his previous artistic experience would provide Luis de Arquer with both an artistic and technical foundation from which would develop the most surprising facet of his work, and that which today arouses the greatest interest: his compositions and improvisations. Improvisation is the most direct link between musical imagination and music per se. To be completely fluent, it requires the highest technical mastery of the instrument combined with acute musical and rhythmical intuition. Beethoven, Chopin, Granados and Liszt improvised in public in their concerts, all absorbing themselves in their musical worlds. Luis de Arquer gives us the chance to hear something unique, created in the moment and very freely developed. His improvisations enable us to hear directly the soul of a musician, without imposing filters of any kind, nor stylistic nor musical genre constraints like Jazz or Blues, nor preknown structures. His compositions —pieces for piano, operas, anthems, chamber music, and cinema, documentary and advertising soundtracks— are all absorbed from this place, from this personal well of ideas which make up all of us. Music filled with new energy; music which does not go unnoticed.

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