CYPRIEN KATSARIS
CYPRIEN KATSARIS
Genres: piano, Classical, classical music, classique, YolalaElec
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About CYPRIEN KATSARIS
Cyprien Katsaris, the French-Cypriot pianist and composer, was born on May 5 th 1951 in Marseilles. He first began to play the piano at the age of four, in Cameroon where he spent his childhood. His first teacher was Marie-Gabrielle Louwerse. A graduate of the Paris Conservatoire where he studied piano with Aline van Barentzen and Monique de la Bruchollerie (piano First Prize, 1969), as well as chamber music with René Leroy and Jean Hubeau (First Prize, 1970), he won the International Young Interpreters Rostrum-Unesco (Bratislava 1977), the First Prize in the International Cziffra Competition (Versailles 1974) and he was the only western-European prize-winner at the 1972 Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Competition. He was also awarded the Albert Roussel Foundation Prize (Paris 1970) and the Alex de Vries Foundation Prize (Antwerp 1972). He gave his first public concert in Paris, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on 8 May 1966, as a “Knight” of the youth competition “The Kingdom of Music”; he performed the Hungarian Fantasy by Franz Liszt, with the Orchestre Symphonique d'Ile-de-France conducted by René-Pierre Chouteau. His major international career includes performances with the world's greatest orchestras. His discography consists of solo works by most of the greatest masters as well as works for piano and orchestra including Bach Concertos with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Brahm's Concerto no. 2 with Eliahu Inbal conducting the Philharmonia (London), both Concertos of Mendelssohn with Kurt Masur and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (of which Mendelssohn had been music Director), and the complete Concertos by Mozart, recorded live and performed in Salzburg and Vienna with Yoon K. Lee and the Salzburger Kammerphilharmonie.
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CYPRIEN KATSARIS — Top 11 songs
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
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| Cyprien Katsaris | Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397 | ||
| Cyprien Katsaris | Waltz No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 34 No. 2 | ||
| Cyprien Katsaris | Fantaisie op.77 | ||
| Cyprien Katsaris | Fantasia sobre a Serenata e Minueto de "Don Giovanni", op. 42 | ||
| Cyprien Katsaris | Chopin: Waltz No 18 In E Flat Major | ||
| Cyprien Katsaris | Cyprien Katsaris: In Memoriam Mozart | ||
| Cyprien Katsaris | Lacrimosa From Mozart's Requiem for piano | ||
| Cyprien Katsaris | Sigismond Thalberg: Fantasia | ||
| Cyprien Katsaris | In Memoriam Mozart | ||
| Cyprien Katsaris | The Seasons, for piano, Op. 37 No. 10. October, Autumn Song | ||
| Cyprien Katsaris | Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VII. Träumerei |