Paul Badura-Skoda: His Last Recital
Four months after his last recital, Paul Badura-Skoda passed away
on September 25 2019 at the age of 91 years in his native Vienna.
Welcome
When we established the International Piano Foundation in 1993, our intent was to provide an alternative to the many piano competitions that are—according to Béla Bartók—“for horses, not for artists.” Our aim was to pass the art of piano playing down from generation to generation. Our teachers (Karl-UIrich Schnabel, Rosaly Tureck, Alicia de Larrocha, Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleisher, Charles Rosen, Murray Perahia, and many others) helped us.
Today, we are proud that our early scholars are now our teachers. Who could teach Schnabel’s pedal technique better than those who learned it from Schnabel themselves?
In 2019, we introduced a new teaching concept: the 23–Two Cubed Piano Masterclasses. Two teachers instruct two students in two piano pieces each. Dates and tickets can be found here.
TWO CUBED PIANO MASTERCLASSES
The aim of this format is both to teach piano scholars through different interpretations and views and to inspire the resulting insights of the audience in the variety of musical scopes for design that are neither right nor wrong and neither good nor bad but express the respective artistic intentions of the pianists.
These aims are achieved through the participation of two piano teachers, who teach two scholars to play the same two pieces of music. The resulting 2 × 2 × 2 = 8 combinations are divided across a two-day program.
Two Cubed – 23 – how it works
The two teachers appoint one, “their” scholarship holder and a piano piece. Both teachers then teach both students in the two same pieces of music. This 2 x 2 x 2 format will be spread over two days of 4 lessons each.
This is illustrated by the masterclasses of Paul Badura-Skoda and Menahem Pressler:
piano masterclasses
and recitals
and recitals
Past Events
| Professors: | Dimitri Bashkirov and Claudio Martinez Mehner |
| Students: | Dominic Chamot and Marina Yakhlakova |
| Piano Pieces: | Johannes Brahms, Sonata No. 1 in C major, op. 1
Franz Liszt, Réminiscences de Norma de Bellini – Grande fantaisie, S.394 |
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