165. Fanny Azzuro, piano

Sunday, May 18th, 2025 @2 PM | Golden dreams

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165.

Salon Concerts at Klavierhaus
Jed Distler, artistic director

presents

Golden dreams

Fanny Azzuro, piano

Sunday, May 18th, 2025 @2 PM

Live at Klavierhaus
790 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10019

$20 suggested donation

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Alexander Scriabin
24 Preludes, Op. 11

Frédéric Chopin
24 Preludes, Op. 28

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Born into a family of musicians with Italian roots and a prizewinner in international competitions, Fanny Azzuro imagines sounds bursting with colour, evoking memories of landscapes bathed in warm light. The luminous rays of Romanticism and of the works of the first half of the 20th century permeate her performances today. The world of sound that emerges under the hands of this Yamaha artist is nourished by her encounters. First of all, with the master with whom Fanny Azzuro studied for many years, the pianist Boris Petrushansky. And then with far-flung destinations that have stirred her emotions, from Djibouti to Brazil, via Asia and New York's Carnegie Hall. She has since transcribed her travel diaries on stage, sometimes in the dazzling hues of Ravel, sometimes in the hushed tones of Debussy and Albéniz, three great “travel- lers” brought together on the “1905 Impressions” album. Also fascinated by Slavonic repertoire, she has explored its spellbinding mysteries in a number of albums: “Russian Impulse”, followed by an exploration of the endless expanses of Rachmaninov’s Preludes in the album “The Landscapes of the Soul”. In her latest recording released by naïve, “Golden Dreams”, more Preludes—by Chopin and Scriabin—complement each other. Fanny Azzuro is a narrator who invites the listener to join her on adventures filled with multiple resonances. She performs as a soloist or in the company of other artists, and in large chamber music ensembles. Thus she plays alongside some of today's most remarkable soloists, quartets, string and wind instrumentalists, percussionists... Along the way, she enriches the vast universe of classical music with joyful steps between jazz and tango, a passion she developed with the SpiriTango Quartet. There is nothing unrelated within the construction of Fanny Azzuro's repertoire: she expresses the desire to delve deeper into the beauties of a musical era, and links between works emerge naturally over time. Today, the naïve label accompanies this highly-promising journey.