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ROGER MURARO
Roger Muraro
Born to Venetian parents in Lyon in 1959, Roger Muraro began studying the
saxophone in his native city before teaching himself to play the piano. At the age
of nineteen he entered Yvonne Loriod’s class at the Paris Conservatoire and met
Olivier Messiaen. He quickly became established as one of the leading interpreters
of the French composer, towhomhe devoted a complete recording of the solo piano
works, finished in 2001, that earned unanimous critical acclaim. His performances
without a score of
Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus
and the complete
Catalogue d’oiseaux
are regarded as not only a prodigious feat, but also an intimate appropriation of the
works of Messiaen, withwhich he identifies totally.
While he is gifted with a dazzling technique, having studied for several years with
Éliane Richepin and won prizes at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the
Liszt Competition in Parma, his playing is invariably placed at the service of poetry
and sincerity. His artistry, at once oneiric and lucid, imaginative and rigorous, is
equally at home in Mussorgsky, Ravel, Albéniz, Rachmaninoff, Debussy and in
Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, fromwhosemusic he extracts the full range of
emotion, colours, hypersensitive Romanticismand sonic atmospheres.
Roger Muraro is a welcome guest as a recitalist in the world’s leading concert halls,
andworks with today’s foremost conductors andmost prestigious ensembles.
Eclectic, open to a musical world without frontiers, he now distils his experience as
a pianist and his pedagogical skills for the students of the Conservatoire National
Supérieur deMusique et de Danse de Paris.
www.rogermuraro.com