Carme Vilà i Fassier
Carme Vilà i Fassier (* 1937 in Roses ) is a Catalan pianist and music teacher . From 1997 to 2001 she was director of the Conservatori Municipal de Barcelona .
life and work
Carme Vilà was born in 1937 into a family in which three previous generations had worked as pianists. Carme Vilà began to learn the piano at the age of 4 with a private teacher.
In 1949 she entered the Conservatori del Liceu in Barcelona. She finished her studies in 1952 with awards. In 1953 and 1955 she was a finalist in the Geneva piano competition . In 1955 she perfected her playing with the Hungarian pianist Béla Síki in Switzerland and gave several concerts there. In 1958 she moved to Vienna to study with Richard Hauser at the Vienna Music Academy . In 1959 she won the Haydn-Schubert Competition of the Vienna Academy (2nd prize if 1st prize was not awarded). In the same year she made her debut in the great hall of the Konzerthaus with Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto . From this debut on, she appeared regularly in the major concert halls in Vienna and Berlin. Further concerts in London, Tel Aviv, Hamburg, New York and Madrid followed. In 1961 she graduated from the Vienna Music Academy with distinction. In 1962 she won first prize in the international piano courses given by Paul Badura-Skoda , Jörg Demus and Alfred Brendel . She completed postgraduate studies at the Academia Chigiana in Siena with Alfred Cortot and Guido Aposti . She received several awards there. In 1966 she received the Harriet Cohen Medal in London .
In 1967 she accompanied her teacher Paul Badura-Skoda to the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In 1968 she was appointed artist in residence at this university, a position she held for five years. In the same year Daniel Barenboim introduced her to the violinist Ruggiero Ricci , with whom she then went on a concert tour through South America. In the United States she made recordings for RCA .
In 1973 she returned to Catalonia. In 1977 she was appointed professor of piano at the Conservatori Municipal in Barcelona. From 1997 to 2001 she was director of this conservatory. In 1990, on the occasion of the composer Witold Lutosławski's visit to Barcelona , Carme Vilá organized a concert at the Barcelona Conservatory and invited the Basque pianist Paula Torróntegui to play Lutoslawski's Variations on a Paganini Theme for two pianos with her. Based on this experience, both women decided to form a piano duo.
In 1997 Carme Vilà received La Dracma de Roses (The Drachma of Roses) from the Roses City Council in recognition of her career. In 2007 she received the International Frechilla-Zuloaga Piano Prize from Diputació de Valladolid (Provincial Government of Valladolid) . She is also an honorary doctorate from the University of Wisconsin.
swell
- La pianista Carme Vilà, personatge il luster de Roses. In: ViladeRoses.cat. September 7, 2013, archived from the original on November 15, 2015 ; accessed on July 31, 2020 (Catalan).
- Symphony Guild presents Carmen Vila performance. October 16, 1999, accessed July 31, 2020 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Carme Vilà i Fassier in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b ViladeRoses.cat: Carme Vilà i Fassier.
- ↑ a b Jornaltimes.com: Symphony Guild presents Carmen Vila performance.
- ↑ a b c d e section after: ViladeRoses.cat: Carme Vilà i Fassier.
- ↑ Erich Romanovsky: The Haydn-Schubert Competition . In: ÖMZ . No. 14 , p. 292 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vilà i Fassier, Carme |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catalan pianist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roses |