ppIANISSIMO BLUES
Solo Piano Recital by
Marcel
Worms
(THE
NETHERLANDS)
Excerpts from his project
New Blues for Piano
(© Cara Boerwinkel)
Ed Wertwijn (b. 1941, the Netherlands):
Blues for Mike (2011) *
* * *
Sergio Mesa (b. 1945, Colombia):
Azules (2008) *
Azules (2008) *
Alexander
Rosenblatt (b. 1956, Russia):
Etude in Blue (2011) *
Etude in Blue (2011) *
Patil Zakarian (b. 1993, Kuwait/Armenia):
Bluezjan (2014) *
Bluezjan (2014) *
* * *
Karen
Ananyan (b. 1976, Armenia):
East Blues (2011) *
East Blues (2011) *
Gerrard (Gerry) Brazell (b. 1995, England):
Earth Song (2015) *
Earth Song (2015) *
Justino
Chemane (b. 19??, Mozambique):
Nganda Blues (2000) *
[recomposed for piano by Marcel Worms]
Nganda Blues (2000) *
[recomposed for piano by Marcel Worms]
Ed Wertwijn (b. 1941, the Netherlands):
Blues for Mike (2011) *
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* Bulgarian
premiere
The event is held under the patronage of
H. E. Bea
ten Tusscher
(Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
(Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
and thanks
to the generous support of:
* * *
Marcel Worms (1951) studied at the Sweelinck
Conservatory in Amsterdam with Hans Dercksen. He has also had lessons with the
Russian pianist Youri Egorov and with Alicia de Larrocha. After graduating in
1987, he specialised in chamber music with Hans Broekman and 20th century piano
music with Alexandre Hrisanide.
Marcel Worms remains active as both chamber musician
and soloist. In 1990, he premiered early works of Schoenberg in a recital at
the Icebreaker in Amsterdam and in
1991 he performed the complete piano works of Janáček. Since 1992, he has often
performed the programme Jazz Influences
in 20th Century Piano Music on Dutch stages. In 1994, this programme
was recorded and released on the BVHAAST label. Subsequently, Marcel Worms
founded the Groupe des Sept, which
has performed, among other things, the complete works of Poulenc for piano and
wind instruments. This programme was released on CD by Emergo Classics. In 1994, Piet Mondrian’s memorial year,
Marcel Worms performed the programme Mondrian
and the Music of his Time.
The composers Willem Breuker and Theo Loevendie each wrote a work for this
project. Marcel Worms performed this programme in the Netherlands and many
other European countries, in Russia and in the United States. On the occasion
of the 100th birthday of Jean Wiéner, he performed a programme entirely
dedicated to the piano music of this French composer in the Netherlands and
France. BVHAAST released this on CD in 1996.
In 1996, Marcel Worms initiated a unique project – New Blues for Piano. By 2017, over 200
Dutch and foreign composers, from about 50 countries on all continents, have
contributed a work for solo piano. This project accounts for 7 CDs. A selection
of these newly composed blues scores has been published by Donemus (Amsterdam) and Peer
Music (Hamburg).Since 1998, Marcel Worms has performed countless concerts
comprising selections from the library of works dedicated to him and his
project. The blues pieces have been heard in the Netherlands, in most European
countries, in Russia, the Middle East, the Far East, the United States, Africa,
South America and Cuba at such prestigious festivals as: North Sea Jazz Festival (The Hague), Festival for New Music (Bucharest), Warsaw Autumn (Poland), EU
Jazz Festival (Mexico), Audio Art
Festival (Krakow), Festival de la
Música Contemporánea (Bolivia), Forum
Neuer Musik (Cologne), Festival of
Aveiro (Portugal), Fajr Festival
(Iran), Tblisi Autumn (Georgia), International Piano Festival of Bucaramanga
(Columbia).
As part of the Van Gogh exhibition in Washington D.C.
and Los Angeles, Marcel Worms recorded the CD Pictures at a Van Gogh Exhibition, which was also performed in
these cities. At the request of the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, he put together
a programme around Picasso that also appeared on CD as part of this exhibition.
A programme of tangos from Latin America and Europe was heard, among other
places, in China and in Argentina. It also appeared on CD with the BVHAAST
label.
Since 2002, Marcel Worms has been active with the
piano works of Federico Mompou. In 2007, he released two CDs with this
composer’s music and organised a three-day Mompou Festival in Amsterdam. In
2009, he debuted on CD some 40 unpublished works of Mompou that had been
rediscovered in Barcelona the year before. In 2012, Marcel Worms recorded on
one CD both Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Metamorphosis
by Philip Glass. His 2015 CDs focus on the classical music of the Caribbean
(which he performed in the Caribbean and the USA) and on the music of the
Baltic countries, including the complete works for piano by Arvo Pärt. On
his latest CDs he recorded the complete cycle The Seasons by the Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, piano music of
Erik Satie and music by and inspired by Chopin.
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