Mao Fujita à la Fondation Vuitton : le maître des trilles

By Sylvain Gaulhiac, 14 October 2018

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“Rarement l'on aura entendu des trilles si précis, si légers, si homogènes”

Reviewed at Auditorium de la Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris on 12 October 2018

Liszt, Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année, Italie: Sonetto del Petrarca no. 104, S 161 no. 5

Liszt, Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année, Italie: Après une lecture du Dante. Fantasia quasi sonata, S.161 no.7

Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody no. 12 in C sharp minor, S 244/12

Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 in C sharp minor, S 244/2

Scriabin, Piano Sonata no. 2 "Sonata Fantasy" in G sharp minor, Op.19

Prokofiev, Piano Sonata no. 7 in B flat major, Op.83

Mao Fujita, Piano

Mao Fujita takes the plunge into Romanticism at Wigmore Hall

Mark Pullinger, 2nd January

The Japanese pianist’s Mozart is highly regarded, but how would he fair in a programme ranging from Beethoven to Brahms, culminating in Liszt's greatest Wagnerian transcription?

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Mao Fujita and Semyon Bychkov deliver a virtuoso pairing in Prague

Frank Kuznik, 2nd October

A daunting program of Strauss and Shostakovich showcases conductor Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic at their very best.

*****

Mao Fujita’s Mozart and Myung‑whun Chung’s Fantastique in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 29th August

An evening at the Seoul Arts Center in which clarity matters as much as volume and the most telling virtuosity comes from a refusal to grandstand.

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Heavenly Mozart plus a cadenza world premiere from Mao Fujita

Charlotte Gardner, 20th March

In the second of his Mozart concerto appearances with the Philharmonia, Mao Fujita plays the heavenly Piano Concerto no. 25 in C major.

*****

Mao Fujita: weaving delicate sound tapestries at Carnegie Hall

Edward Sava-Segal, 10th November

Mao Fujita demonstrates his technical prowess and poetic sensitivity in Carnegie Hall's 2024-2025 ‘Keyboard Virtuosos’ series.

*****

Czech Philharmonic's resounding Glagolitic Mass at the BBC Proms

Alexander Hall, 28th August

Jakub Hrůša and his Czech forces give an impressive account of a mass which with its ecclesiastical elements, yet pantheistic spirit and visceral energy points towards a more secular age.

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Sylvain Gaulhiac

Sylvain commence l’étude du piano à l’âge de 7 ans. La découverte assez tôt de Debussy et Ravel forge en lui une passion intime pour la musique française qui s’élargira ensuite vers de vastes horizons, telle la musique russe, et notamment Scriabine dont Sylvain est un fervent défenseur. Après un DEM de piano, Sylvain poursuit assidûment la pratique de la musique, sans négliger sa passion pour la littérature et la poésie. Son exigence esthétique l‘oriente également vers les mathématiques. Élève normalien à l’École Normale Supérieure et agrégé de mathématiques, Sylvain poursuit une thèse de géométrie algébrique consacrée à des questions de géométrie anabélienne dans les espaces de Berkovich.