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The third edition of the music festival It’s All About Piano<\/i> returns to the\u00a0Institut fran\u00e7ais\u00a0at the end of March, with a wide variety of piano-themed events featuring musicians and artists from all around the world.<\/p>\n

Curated by the Institut\u2019s Head of Classical and Contemporary Music, Fran\u00e7oise Clerc,\u00a0It’s All About Piano\u00a0<\/em>is the only festival in London that’s dedicated to this, the “king of instruments”. The festival aims to give its audience a chance to become more familiar with the instrument\u00a0through events that combine piano playing with art, film and theatre. The festival also allows artists from a wide variety of different disciplines to\u00a0work together.<\/p>\n

\"It's<\/a><\/p>\n

The festival will open on Friday 27th March with two multimedia recitals that will fuse animated images by the Brothers Quay and Kandinsky with music by Jan\u00e1\u010dek and Mussorgsky, commissioned by the Cit\u00e9 de la Musique in Paris and performed by Uzbekistan-born French pianist Mikhail Rudy. That same evening, French-Cypriot pianist\u00a0<\/strong>Cyprien Katsaris will\u00a0improvise to a champagne tasting given by French Bubbles co-founder Maud Fierobe; this will be followed by a\u00a0recital given by British jazz pianist John Taylor. All of these events will be held at Kings Place.<\/p>\n

On the Saturday and Sunday of the festival, events will move to the Institut fran\u00e7ais itself\u00a0with recitals\u00a0and readings, film screenings, a sing-along concert, a story-telling event, and\u00a0free tuition for beginner piano players, plus\u00a0workshops on How to Build Your Own Piano<\/em> and\u00a0The Art of Piano Tuning<\/em>. The\u00a0Institut fran\u00e7ais’ house bistro will also be turned into a ‘piano bar’ on these two days, with improvised jazz sessions being performed\u00a0on both days.<\/p>\n

\"It's<\/a>

Pictured left to right: Angela Hewitt (credit Bernd Eberle) Cyperien Katsaris (credit Jean-Batptise Millot) Fran\u00e7ois-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Guy (credit Benjamin de Diesbach) Mikhail Rudy (credit mr) Peter Donohoe (credit Sussie Ahlburg)<\/p><\/div>\n

These weekend events will include\u00a0recitals from international pianists Fran\u00e7ois-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Guy and Peter Donohoe;\u00a0a concert from Julien Gonzales, who is the\u00a08-time winner of the Accordion World Championship; the London premi\u00e8re of Messiaen\u2019s La Fauvette Passerinette <\/i>given by pianist and scholar Peter Hill who discovered the work in 2012; a collaboration between students from the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and students of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama recorded by BBC Radio 3; a masterclass with Angela Hewitt; and cin\u00e9-concerts with improvised accompaniment to French classics created by Louis Feuillade and Max Linder.<\/p>\n

Locals will of course know of the\u00a0Institut fran\u00e7ais as a famed language centre, which\u00a0today also comprises a multimedia library, cinema and French bistro. The centre also strives to contribute to London’s cultural life with many of its events that are held throughout the year – these include live broadcast screenings of the Op\u00e9ra national de Paris and the Aix-en-Provence Festival; family chamber concerts organised in collaboration with the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust; and a network of contemporary classical music projects organised in partnership with the Franco-British fund for contemporary music, Diaphonique.<\/p>\n

The full line-up of\u00a0It’s All About Piano<\/em> can be found at institut-francais.org.uk\/itsallaboutpiano<\/a>, where you can also book tickets for all events.<\/p>\n

It’s All About Piano<\/strong><\/span>
\n27th – 29th March 2015
\n<\/strong><\/em>Institut fran\u00e7ais
\n17 Queensberry Place
\nSW7 2DT<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Kings Place
\n<\/strong>90 York Way
\nLondon, N1 9AG<\/p>\n

institut-francais.org.uk\/itsallaboutpiano\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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