MAGIC OF MOZART

PIANO enlivened PHILHARMONICS

Screening of Exclusive Orchestral Concerts from

the Digital Concert Hall of the Berliner Philharmoniker

with Live Piano Recitals by K M Music Conservatory

Goethe-Institut invites the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to its auditorium especially for the connoisseurs of Western classical music of Chennai.
        
We welcome you to enjoy this Digital Concert Hall with high-definition video live-screening and excellent sound in superior quality with ultra-high definition (4K UHD) and outstanding image dynamics (HDR) to get the best close-to-real experience.

With this presentation, we hope to make some of the exclusive orchestral concerts with works of great composers presented by exceptional conductors and performed by eminent soloists a reality, which may be practically impossible otherwise.

In our specially curated series, we bring you three wonderful concerts.

The Magic of Mozart

Gerardo Lara - Piano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Paradoxes have often been employed in the attempt to describe the genius that is Mozart. Pianist Arthur Schnabel once said his music was ‘too easy for children and too difficult for adults’, alluding to the challenge for performers to achieve the required balance between lightness and complexity, elegance and profundity.

Even as a young man, Mozart stunned international audiences as a violinist and, above all, as a pianist. On a three-year tour with his father and sister through Western Europe, he came into contact with the different styles of the time from an early age. In contrast to other prodigies, Mozart’s development proceeded uninterrupted and led to a probably unique versatility in all genres in the history of music: from the piano sonata and chamber music to solo concertos, sacred works and symphonies. But the key to the composer’s work lies in his stage works. The gestural vivacity and transparency that he achieves in them even in the smallest of human emotions are also shared in his instrumental works. In his short life, Mozart made the transition from a court servant in Salzburg to making a living as a predominantly freelance artist in Vienna.

The Mozart style of the Berliner Philharmoniker has gone from strength to strength since the 1990s through collaboration with chief conductors and other original sound specialists.

Gerardo Sánchez Lara studied piano and music at the Popular School of Fine Arts and at the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Mexico, where he obtained a High Diploma of Music, Bachelor in Music and a Senior degree in Piano Performance ‘Summa cum Laude’. His teachers were Eduardo Montes, Olga Chkourak, Gellya Dubrova and Cuauhtémoc Trejo Ortiz. He took advanced courses at the National Center of Arts in Mexico City with Arturo Uruchurtu and in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, with Antonio Iglesias and Manuel Carra.

He has received multiple scholarships from the State Fund for Culture and the Arts in Michoacán, the National Endowment for the Arts in Mexico and from the Music Foundation in Compostela. He has appeared as a soloist with diverse orchestras in Mexico and in the USA, as well as a solo performer in festivals of classical and contemporary music in North and Central America and in Asia.

From 2005 to 2014, he was professor of piano, history, and pedagogy at the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Mexico, where he also served as academic coordinator and artistic director. In 2017, he was resident piano teacher and pianist at the Bhutan Kilu Music School in Timbu, Kingdom of Bhutan. Currently works as a full-time piano professor at the KM Music Conservatory in Chennai, India.