Ramin Bahrami piano recital A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Born in Iran, Ramin Bahrami is one of the most significant Bach performers of our age. Nothing better reveals his dedication and the profundity of his mission than the fact that in 2004, at the age of 28, he recorded one of the most complex pieces in keyboard literature, the Goldberg Variations, and then just three years later The Art of Fugue, a Bach work that is even more intense. Bahrami completed his musical studies at the conservatoire in Milan (he was a child when, for political reasons, he left Teheran), and he then took part in several master classes, including courses given by András Schiff, Charles Rosen and Robert Levin, while he says that in a spiritual and artistic sense he received the most from the legendary Rosalyn Tureck. His concert in the Liszt Academy features popular pieces by his favourite composer and a rarely performed youthful Aria variata, alongside sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, born in the very same year as Bach. Bahrami’s piano playing is apparently untouched by the historical performance style; rather it reflects the 20th century ‘grand tradition’. His exclusive contract with Decca and his album sales both suggest that there is today still great demand for the type of venerable Romanticism and high-minded piano playing he represents.