Q3A with Marie Awadis
Brueder Selke are delighted to share the stage with Marie Awadis:
The Armenian pianist and composer, based in Germany, is known for her sensitiv sound.
Intimate and poetic, Marie's music aims at communicating the depth of human emotions. Her music, always centered around her instrument, the piano, draws influences from the life experiences that have shaped her as a human, from deep roots in classical traditions to recurrent folkloristic harmonic elements of her native Armenia. Her compositions are centered around elegantly crafted melodies and their evolving discourse, at once deep and intimate, aimed to bring about simplicity through the sophistication of a classically crafted pianistic language.
Born into a musical Family, she stood on stage for the first time at the age of five, singing with her fathers band. Starting Piano lessons at the age of eight, music became her passion where she focused on the classical repertoire and became active in performing solo concerts.
Her repertoire included pieces from Bach to Rachmaninov and Schönberg, beside chamber music, choir accompaniments and studio projects. After receiving her Bachelor degree in Lebanon she continued her studies in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover. During her study she was invited to play the Schuman piano Concerto with the Lebanese National symphonic orchestra in Lebanon.
Together with the Armenian cellist Karolin Scholz, she established the Duo Karma (2009), performing Armenian classical and traditional repertoire. This was the period where she discovered her passion to composing, and wrote her first cello duo piece "Waltzer", followed by more solo piano pieces later.
Since 2018 she is active playing concerts in Germany and Europe, also collaborating with different artists for studio recordings and live performances. Besides her two solo Albums “Echoes” (2015) and “Searching“ (2017), she has Also worked with Labels such as K7 (2019) , Sonderhouse (2020), Bluespiral (2021) and the legendary Deutsche Grammophone (2021). Her latest Album “Una Corda Diaries” was released on Nov. 2020 in Vinyl under the record label Oscarson. This album is written specially for the unique Klavins Concert Una Corda M189, and recorded on the instrument in Budapest.
Another piano album is also to be recorded later this year.
www.marie-awadis.com
Website: www.marie-awadis.com
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