Beyond Music… A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Tamás Vásáry plays the piano, conducts and talks about music. Anyone who has ever attended such an event will know it’s not easy to decide which the greatest or most elemental experience is. This time the Kossuth Prize artist examines Frédéric Chopin, the lonely genius and poet of the piano who was brilliant at improvisation and a deliberate composer. Naturally, as the title suggest, Vásáry always goes beyond the music because, as he puts it, “what interests me most in this life is where we come from and where we are going. What is the significance behind phenomena? In music, what is behind the notes and where did it come from? What is that intangible intellectual wellspring from which music and all artistic creation derives? Whenever I play I have to find what it is that is truly my inspiration. It might be a sunset, a person, a poem. It is essential to discover what and who we are, and this is not easy. When I teach – I give master classes – I try to get across that anyone who wants to play music must seek their own inspiration: their own being.”