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vita+= "The history of legendary pianists is rich with examples of great talents who retired from performing life. Vladimir Horowitz refused to play the piano for an audience for several long periods, Glenn Gould stopped performing in public mid-career never to return and Mauricio Pollini didn't appear on a concert stage for ten years after winning the Chopin Competition. Martha Argerich has not given a solo recital for even longer than that."+sph+"Dinorah Varsi has allowed herself similar \"time-outs\" in the course of her long and distinguished career. She considers her retreat from the public eye a luxury but also an essential phase of reflection and regeneration. For someone who first performed for an audience at the age of four and was appearing as a soloist in Brazil and Uruguay at the age of eight, the risk that she would not successfully manage the transformation from child prodigy to mature artist was great."+sph+"Erich Kleiber was one of the first to recognize Varsi's enormous potential. After studying in both Paris and New York, she found in Geza Anda her most influential teacher. Successes at competitions in Geneva, Barcelona and London followed. When Varsi won the Clara Haskil competition in Lucerne in 1967 her international career was launched. She appeared at the Salzburg, Berlin, Lucerne, Zurich, Schwetzingen, Schleswig-Holstein, Ascona, Ludwigsburg and Prague festivals and performed as a soloist with such orchestras as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic under conductors including Bernard Haitink, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Semyon Bychkov, Charles Dutoit, Rudolf Kempe, Paul Kletzki and Witold Rowicki."+sph+"After retiring from the public eye at the end of the seventies, Dinorah Varsi is now enjoying her triumphant return to the world's acclaimed concert halls. She has performed in Berlin, Munich, Prague, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Echternach Festival and the Ruhr Piano Festival. Tours and concerts with well-known orchestras and conductors around the globe figure prominently in her international career."+sph+"Pianists of Varsi's calibre, who combine flawless technique with great depth of musicality based on decades of performance, are now all too rare. Varsi came of age musically with the pianist generation best exemplified by Martha Argerich and Maria Joao Pires. Chopin figures prominently in the biographies of all three. Varsi grew up playing Chopin and her recordings of his two piano concertos on the Philips label are still considered legendary. Whether performing the great virtuoso repertory, such as the concertos and works for solo piano by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Brahms, or playing the piano concertos of Mozart of Beethoven, her interpretations remain unique."+sph+"Dinorah Varsi's wonderful playing and strong musical personality have been well documented in countless television and radio productions, television portraits and CD-recordings. March 03 " vita+= " |