Informationen zu "Piano Pieces for Children under 100 years of Age 182"
Verlag: Spartan Press Music Publishers
Verlagsnummer: SP1188
EAN: 9790579981886
ISMN: M-57998-188-6
Beschreibung
Federico Ruiz finds constant inspiration in the rich popular and folkloric
music of his country. No. 10 The little Peruvian girl is featured by the
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in their Grade 4 piano exam
pieces 2013 & 2014. Clara has recorded these pieces on CD: The Music of
Federico Ruiz - on Nimbus Alliance Records (Catalogue No. NI6179). They
first met in 1993 and she became acquainted not only with his music, but,
through it, discovered the precision and the soft expressiveness of each of
the numerous rhythms of Latin America and the Caribbean. His music is a
sophisticated synthesis of Latin American styles that, amongst many other
traits, expresses the subtle interface between 'classical' and 'popular'
music of the continent. Clara Rodriguez is often described as an Ambassador
of Latin-American piano music, recognising the great number of concerts she
has given, and CDs, where this music features prominently. Born in Caracas,
Clara studied there with Giomar Narváez and with Phyllis Sellick after
winning a scholarship from the Venezuelan Arts Council to train in London at
the Royal College of Music. At the age of sixteen she made her debut playing
Mozart's last piano concerto with the Simón Bolívar Orchestra under the baton
of José Antonio Abreu which was the starting point of her international
career as a concert pianist. Her discography includes CDs of the piano music
of Venezuelan composers Moises Moleiro (Nimbus NI6104), Teresa Carreño
(Nimbus NI6103), VENEZUELA (Nimbus NI 6122) receiving glowing reviews from
international publications such as Gramophone Magazine: 'Clara Rodriguez
makes the most of her innate feel for the exuberant and languorous,
dispatching the toe-tapping cross-rhythms with panache and a light touch.
This is a treasure chest from which to cherry-pick.' She regularly plays in
London's Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, St. John's Smith Square, St. Martin
in-the-Fields, and at Barbican Centre. Clara Rodriguez teaches the piano at
the Junior Department of The Royal College of Music, London.
