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Maria João Alexandre Barbosa Pires (Portuguese: [mɐˈɾi.ɐ ʒwɐ̃w ˈpiɾɨʃ]; born 23 July 1944) is a Portuguese classical pianist, widely regarded as one of the leading interpreters of the repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Mar 1, 2024 · Listen to Joanna Gosling on Sunday afternoons, 1–4pm on Classic FM. Maria João Pires didn’t realise she had prepared the wrong Mozart piano concerto until the orchestra started playing, to a live audience. We asked what was really going through her mind at that moment.
1. Early life. Born in Lisbon on 23 July 1944, Maria João Pires played her first recital aged five. She studied composition and music theory at the Lisbon Conservatory, followed by further studies in Munich and Hanover, Germany. She made her London debut in 1986 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Biography. Born in 1944 in Lisbon, Maria João Pires gave her first public performance at the age of 4 and began her studies of music and piano with Campos Coelho and Francine Benoît, continuing later in Germany, with Rosl Schmid and Karl Engel. In addition to her concerts, she has made recordings for Erato for fifteen years and Deutsche ...
Feb 26, 2024 · 26 February 2024, 19:51 | Updated: 26 February 2024, 20:09. Maria Joao Pires was expecting another Mozart concerto. By Kyle Macdonald. The time when a top pianist learned the wrong concerto has gone down in history as one of classical music’s most bizarre and amazing moments.
May 28, 2023 · Overview. Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires has been hailed as “an elegant technician and probing interpreter” ( The New York Times ), whose playing is “modest in scale, gloriously immodest in its beauty” ( Financial Times ). Acclaimed for her recordings of music by Mozart, Chopin and Schubert, Pires makes a rare Chicago recital ...
