Today I am preparing for our next concert in Amsterdam. This means that I have to study hard (as always). I usually record myself either when I play alone or when I rehearse with my chamber music collegues. Doing so, I try to avoid the sad feeling of being or sounding very different from what I think I sound.
We are following the saying that it's not a good musician who is a good musician but the one who studies. This is a relief for us. When your concert is well done, it's so because you studied, if the concert is not what you expected it's because you didn't study or you made strategy-mistakes when studying. We apply this saying because doing so, we avoid questioning ourselves as human beings.
STUDYING OR NOT STUDYING this is the question!
Now, let's go and talk about Chamber Music! my first love! (my husband knows it and he isn't jealous :-)))
It's a widespread belief that musicians are "doomed" to be teachers or members of orchestras.
It's not true.
Personally I naturally shifted in the Chamber Music environment. Naturally, because it happened that I found people like me who didn't stand to play in orchestras and enjoyed being creative but loved sharing their creativity without obeying with blind eyes to a conductor. With these people we gathered and formed chamber music groups. And I also enjoy a lot teaching. I learn a lot by teaching and I don't feel doomed at all :-))).
Today I would like to say some word about Duo Resonare Fibris. It happened that when I moved to Barcelona in 2007 I went to teach in a small music school in a nice outskirt of this city. There the Director started to call me Lucie...and I politely told him each time, that I wasn't Lucie, I was Lisa. After a couple of weeks he kept calling me this but he apologized and confessed me that there was a piano teacher in the school that was very similar to me in appearance and figure. That's why he was mistaking my name. Ok. I thought, let's find out who is taking after me!
So I met Lucie Croce, a very talented French pianist with Italian origins. After a couple of years we were forming a steady Duo that originally was called Duo Babylon because of our multicultural reality (I am Italian married to a Dutch/ Catalan bilingual man and She is French married to a Mexican man, everybody living in Barcelona, Catalan capital in Spain).
After a few months we changed our name in Duo Resonare Fibris (Latin name that I'll explain later) and dropped the idea of Babylon because we discovered that this word was and is often misused in the Internet.
Anyway, we started playing in Finland, Spain, Italy, France, Hungary, Austria and many other countries. We originally played French and Italian repertoire; now we play quite EVERYTHING :-))) We fell in love with Tango repertoire adapted to classical music... a kind of fusion.
Here you can freely listen to us: Tango and Opera repertoire.
Ah! I forgot to tell you how our trip in Vienna finished...
Here you have the end of Vienna trip!
Classical Musicians go to parties too! ;-)))) Distressing!
http://salondemusicos.over-blog.es/
And of course, she is Director but she gets my name right! :-)))
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