Maria João Pires

Maria João Alexandre Barbosa Pires (lahir 23 Juli 1944) adalah seorang pianis klasik Portugis, yang secara luas dianggap sebagai salah satu penafsir repertoar terkemuka abad ke-18 dan ke-19. Pires lahir di Lisbon, Portugal, putri anumerta João Baptista Pires dan istrinya Alzira dos Santos Alexandre Barbosa. Dia memiliki tiga saudara kandung: Hugo Alexandre Barbosa Pires, Maria Regina Alexandre Barbosa Pires dan Maria Helena Alexandre Barbosa Pires. Pertunjukan pertamanya adalah pada usia lima tahun, dan pada usia tujuh tahun dia sudah memainkan konser piano Mozart di depan umum. Dua tahun kemudian dia menerima hadiah utama Portugal untuk musisi muda. Pada tahun-tahun berikutnya, dia belajar dengan Campos Coelho di Lisbon Conservatory, mengambil kursus komposisi, teori, dan sejarah musik. Ia melanjutkan studinya di Jerman, pertama di Musikakademie Munich bersama Rosl Schmid dan kemudian di Hanover bersama Karl Engel. Ketenaran internasional datang pada tahun 1970, ketika ia memenangkan Kompetisi Bicentennial Beethoven di Brussels. Selanjutnya, ia tampil dengan orkestra besar di Eropa, Amerika, Kanada, Israel dan Jepang, menafsirkan karya-karya Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Mozart, Brahms, Chopin dan komposer klasik dan romantis lainnya. Profesionalismenya mendapat pengakuan dunia ketika film dokumenter tahun 1998 Attrazione d'amore menarik perhatian pers dan menjadi viral pada tahun 2013, dan sekali lagi pada tahun 2024. Pada awal latihan terbuka makan siang dengan konduktor Italia Riccardo Chailly di Amsterdam, Pires menyadari bahwa dia telah mempersiapkan konser Mozart yang berbeda, "Piano Concerto No. 23", bukan "Piano Concerto No. 20" yang dimiliki orkestra mulai bermain. Dengan cepat pulih, dia memainkan konser yang benar dari ingatannya tanpa kesalahan. Pires tampil di BBC Proms pada tahun 2010. Dalam sebuah wawancara sebelumnya, dia mengatakan bahwa setelah 60 tahun resital dan konser dia telah mengurangi penampilannya tetapi tidak berkomitmen untuk pensiun. Dari tahun 2012 hingga 2016, dia menjadi Master in Residence di Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel di Waterloo, Belgia, di mana dia memberikan pelajaran piano dan kelas master kepada pianis muda berbakat dari seluruh dunia. Untuk membina musisi muda, ia meluncurkan Proyek Partitura. Pada tahun 2017, dia mengumumkan pengunduran dirinya dari panggung dan tur untuk tahun 2018, tetapi dia terus mengadakan konser. Pada tanggal 20 Februari 2019, ia dianugerahi gelar Doktor Kehormatan oleh Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. Pada tahun 2023, dia dianugerahi Hadiah Jean Gimbel Lane dalam Pertunjukan Piano dari Sekolah Musik Bienen di Universitas Northwestern. Sumber: Artikel "Maria João Pires" dari Wikipedia dalam bahasa Inggris, berlisensi CC-BY-SA.

Maria João Alexandre Barbosa Pires (born 23 July 1944) is a Portuguese classical pianist, widely regarded as one of the leading interpreters of the repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries. Pires was born in Lisbon, Portugal, a posthumous daughter of João Baptista Pires and his wife Alzira dos Santos Alexandre Barbosa. She has three siblings: Hugo Alexandre Barbosa Pires, Maria Regina Alexandre Barbosa Pires and Maria Helena Alexandre Barbosa Pires. Her first recital was at the age of five, and at the age of seven she was already playing Mozart piano concertos publicly. Two years later she received Portugal's top prize for young musicians. In the following years, she studied with Campos Coelho at the Lisbon Conservatory, taking courses in composition, theory, and history of music. She continued her studies in Germany, first in the Musikakademie of Munich with Rosl Schmid and then in Hanover with Karl Engel. International fame came in 1970, when she won the Beethoven Bicentennial Competition in Brussels. Subsequently, she performed with major orchestras in Europe, America, Canada, Israel and Japan, interpreting works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Mozart, Brahms, Chopin and other classical and romantic composers. Her professionalism achieved worldwide recognition when 1998 documentary Attrazione d'amore was drawn to the attention of the press and went viral in 2013, and again in 2024. At the start of a lunchtime open rehearsal with Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly in Amsterdam, Pires realized that she had prepared for a different Mozart concerto, "Piano Concerto No. 23", instead of "Piano Concerto No. 20" which the orchestra had started playing. Quickly recovering, she played the correct concerto from memory without error. Pires performed at the BBC Proms in 2010. In an interview beforehand, she said that after 60 years of recitals and concerts she had cut back her performances but was non-committal about retirement. From 2012 to 2016, she was a Master in Residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, Belgium, where she gave piano lessons and master classes to young talented pianists from all over the world. To foster young musicians, she launched the Partitura Project. In 2017, she announced her retirement from the stage and tours for 2018, but she continued giving concerts. On February 20, 2019, she was awarded with a Doctorate Honorary Degree by Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. In 2023, she was given the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. Source: Article "Maria João Pires" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.