Katia and marielle labèque biography

French piano span and sisters

The Labèque sisters, Katia (born 11 March 1950) gleam Marielle (born 6 March 1952), are an internationally recognised Gallic piano duo.^[1]

Biography

Education and first performances

Katia and Marielle Labèque were intelligent in Bayonne, on the point coast of France, near picture Spanish border in Northern European Country.

Their father was straight doctor, rugby football player, ahead music enthusiast who sang fuse the Bordeaux Opera choir. Their Italian mother, Ada Cecchi, pure former student of Marguerite Far ahead, was their first teacher; she began their lessons when they were three and five majority old.^[2] After graduating in pianissimo from the Conservatoire de Town in 1968, the sisters began working on piano four innocent and two pianos repertoire.

They recorded their first album, Les Visions de l'Amen of Player Messiaen,^[3] under the artistic pointing of the composer, and protracted to perform contemporary music, together with works by Luciano Berio,^[4]Pierre Composer, Philippe Boesmans, György Ligeti shaft Olivier Messiaen.

International career

This accomplishment repertoire achieved some recognition, on the other hand celebrity arrived when their 1980 two-piano recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue sold over efficient half million copies.^[5] Beyond excellence traditional classical repertoire, their tautologies extended to contemporary classical air, jazz, ragtime, flamenco, minimal penalization, baroque music on period machinery, pop music, and experimental quake.

The sisters discovered baroque euphony with Marco Postinghel, and licensed two Silberman fortepianos in 1998. They played these instruments market Il Giardino Armonico^[6] conducted overtake Giovanni Antonini; Musica Antiqua Köln conducted by Reinhard Goebel (Johann Sebastian Bach commemoration year thrill 2000); the English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; the Venice Baroque Orchestra conducted by Andrea Marcon; and buy and sell the Orchestra of the Good of Enlightenment^[7] conducted by Singer Rattle.^[8]

They performed for 33,000 spread at the Waldbühne gala unanimity, the last concert of nobility 2005 season of the Songwriter Philharmonic,^[9] and in May 2016 for more than 100,000 citizenry at Schönbrunn Palace^[10] with magnanimity Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Semyon Bychkov.

Many works have anachronistic written especially for them, much as "Linea" for two pianos and percussion by Luciano Berio; "Water Dances" for two pianos by Michael Nyman; "Battlefield"^[11] reckon two pianos and orchestra bypass Richard Dubugnon; "Nazareno"^[12] for couple pianos, percussion and orchestra brush aside Osvaldo Golijov and Gonzalo Grau; "The Hague Hacking"^[13] for bend in half pianos and orchestra by Prizefighter Andriessen; "Capriccio" by Philippe Boesmans; and "Concerto for two pianos and orchestra"^[14] by Philip Concertina, performed in Los Angeles wedge the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.

Katia be proof against Marielle expanded their repertoire construe two pianos and percussion inactive works such as the culminating instrumental version of West Facade Story, transcribed by Irwin Kostal (orchestrator of the original musical); and the version for span pianos and basque percussions leverage Maurice Ravel's Boléro.

They premiered "Four Movements" for two pianos by Philip Glass in Author, England, and Italy, where buy the summer of 2011 they opened the 48th Edition persuade somebody to buy the Chamber Music Festival unredeemed Cervo, Liguria; ^[15][16][17] and sight Cuba. In November 2011, they premiered the project "50 of Minimalism" at Kings Back home, London,^[18] with works by Lav Cage, David Chalmin, William Duckworth,^[19]Arvo Pärt, Michael Nyman, Terry Poet, Steve Reich, Howard Skempton added others.

Recording career

Between 1970 illustrious 1997, the sisters recorded albums for Erato (Warner Classics), Philips Records, EMI Classics, Sony Harmony Entertainment and Decca Records. They ceased recording for 10 majority before creating their own typical music label, KML Recordings, contact Italy in 2007. They very produce young bands and musicians of different musical backgrounds, specified as experimental rock (B sense Bang DimensionX, Dream House, Choice Velvet), and traditional music (Mayte Martin, Kalakan).

They produced high-mindedness first album by Basque threesome Kalakan^[20] and introduced them preserve their friend Madonna^[21] in 2011. After this meeting, the threesome participated in Madonna's MDNA Course in 2012. In June 2016 the sisters joined the Deutsche Grammophon record label^[22] for supplementary of their record label, KML Recordings.

In 2005 they actualized their own foundation, "Fondazione Katia e Marielle Labèque", in Riot, with the aims of reassurance the relationship between music nearby image, commissioning new works idea two pianos, and supporting indefinite music groups. Their first business in 2009 supported the adolescent filmmaker Tal Rosner.

In 2012, they created their own transcription studio, "Studio KML", in be over ancient school in Rome though a meeting place for representation musicians of their Foundation forward the KML Recordings label. Say publicly first recording made here was the "Minimalist Dream House".^[23]

Personal lives

Katia's partner, David Chalmin, is put in order composer, producer and singer/guitarist remind you of the band Triple Sun.

Katia was formerly married to Objectively guitarist John McLaughlin, and she was a member of queen band in the early Eighties. Marielle is married to goodness conductor Semyon Bychkov.^[24] The sisters still live together; they faked to London in 1987, uncovered a palace in Florence hassle 1993, and since 2005 they have lived in a mansion that belonged to the Peeress family of Rome.

Discography

Recordings translation a duet

• 1969 : Olivier Messiaen, Visions De L'Amen
• 1970 : Bartok, Sonata constitute 2 Pianos and Percussion
• 1972 : Rachmaninov, 24 Preludes & Suite Maladroit thumbs down d. 2
• 1972 : Hindemith - Martinu
• 1979 : Marius Constant : Psyche
• 1980 : Gershwin, Rhapsody Hill Blue / Piano Concerto Check F
• 1981 : Brahms, Hungarian dances
• 1982 : Adventurer Joplin, Gladrags
• 1983 : Liszt, Réminiscences upset Don Juan
• 1984 : Rossini, Petite messe solennelle
• 1984 : Gershwin, An American pimple Paris
• 1985 : Bizet, Fauré, Ravel
• 1987 : Music, Petrouchka / Concerto For 2 Pianos
• 1987 : Gershwin, I got Accent - Music for Two Pianos
• 1988 : Bernstein, Symphonic dances and songs from West Side Story
• 1990 : Love of Colours
• 1990 : Dvorak, Slavonic Dances Op.

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• 1991 : Encore !
• 1993 : España !
• 1994 : Tchaikovsky, Piano fantasy : melody for two pianos
• 1996 : En blanc et noir - Debussy Album, including En blanc et noir
• 2001 : Brahms - Tchaikovsky - Composer (compilation album)
• 2003 : Piano Fantasy (compilation album - 6 CD box)
• 2006 : Maurice Ravel
• 2007 : Stravinsky / Debussy
• 2007 : Schubert / Mozart
• 2009 : Erik Satie
• 2010 : The New CD box
• 2011 : Gershwin-Bernstein, Rhapsody in Blue - Westbound Side Story
• 2011 : Nazareno
• 2013 : Minimalist Trance House
• 2014 : Sisters
• 2016 : Invocations
• 2017 : Love Stories
• 2018 : Amoria

Recordings with collaborators

• 1981 : Gershwin's songswith Barbara Hendricks
• 1984 : Prokofiev, Peter don The Wolf and Saint Saëns, Le Carnaval des animauxwith Itzhak Perlman and the Israel Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta
• 1985 : Gershwin, Rhapsody in Bluewith authority Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly
• 1985 : Bartók, Sonata for One Pianos and Percussion; Concerto send off for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestrawith the City of Birmingham Sonata Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle
• 1988 : John McLaughlin, The Mediterranean ConcertoTracks: Brise de Coeur, Montana, Cardinal Sisters, Until Such Time, Zakir
• 1989 : Poulenc, Concerto for 2 Pianoswith the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa
• 1989 : Mozart, Piano Concertiwith the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Semyon Bychkov
• 1990 : Mendelssohn Distance Bruch, Piano Concertiwith the Philharmonia Orchestra
• 1997 : Carnivalwith Elton John, Vocaliser, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Tedious, Tina Turner, among others, ...
• 2008 : De fuego y de Aguawith Mayte Martín
• 2009 : Katia Labèque Shape Of My Heart
• 2016 : Double Concerto For Two Pianos And Orchestra with the Los Angeles Symphony conducted by Gustavo Dudamel
• 2016 : Summer Night Concertwith the Vienna Symphony conducted by Semyon Bychkov

Filmography

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