Lithuania 2016 MARIA JOO PIRES Maria Joo Pires

Lithuania 2016 MARIA JOÃO PIRES

Maria João Pires was born in Lisbon, Portugal, 23 July 1944, and she is a portuguese pianist.

Musical studies 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 Schmidt and then in Hanover with Karl Engel.

Professional career International fame came in 1970, when she won the Beethoven Bicentennial Competition in Brussels. Subsequently she performed with major orchestras in Europe, Ameri ca, Canada, Israel and Japan, interpreting works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, S chubert, Mozart, Brahms, Chopin a nd other classical and romantic composers.

Her professionalism achieved worldwide recognition when a film (from 1999) was drawn to the attention of the press and went viral in 2013. At the start of a lunchtime concert in Amsterdam, she realised that she had rehearsed for a different Mozart concerto from the one the orchestra had started playing; quickly recovering, she played the concerto from memory.

Nowadays In 2006 she moved to Lauro de Freitas—a town near Salvador, Brazil— and continued performing. At the time of her move, she commented that she had suffered much adverse publicity in Portugal due to her Belgais Centre project to help tackle the significant problem of underprivileged children, a project that the Portuguese Government helped to fund but publicly shied away from. The centre continued to operate at her farm in Portugal and she subsequently started similar projects in Brazil.

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