Friday 13, July > 20h Opéra Berlioz / Le Corum

Fazil Say
Sonate pour violon et piano - Création

Jorge Sanchez-Chiong
Crin pour violon solo

Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonate pour piano n°17 opus 31 n°2 « La tempête »
Sonate pour violon et piano n°9 en la Majeur opus 47 « A Kreutzer »


With the support of the Société Générale

A complete artist—pianist, composer, improviser, arranger…—, Fazil Say has been a regular guest at the Festival since his first public concerts in Montpellier and Menton in 1995. Whether in concert or on disc, this zealous interpreter of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, Gershwin and Haydn (his latest disc), Fazil also plays in a jazz quartet whilst composing highly-inspired scores for orchestra and his instrument, something not all that frequent in contemporary music… The Nazim, in his birthplace, Ankara (Turkey), his 4th Piano Concerto in Lucerne in 2005, and his ballet Patara, based on Mozart (commissioned by the Vienna Mozart Festival in 2006), should not overshadow his pianist’s career, which is now international in scope. Montpellier fittingly welcomes this astonishing tightrope-walker of the keyboard for some Beethoven (Sonata No. 9 ‘Kreutzer’), partnering the young violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaya, who will also be appreciated in his own Sonata for Violin and Piano.

Franck Mallet