All Around Classical : Performances and Behind the Scene with Classical and Jazz Artists

Summary

Welcome to the newest episode of Tuesday Conversation with Friends. Today I have the privilege to have International Concert Pianist Laurent Boukobza with me.   In today’s conversation, we open with his performance of Chopin’s Etude in C# Minor (Op. 10 #4). 

Today’s offering is a chat about the making of a concert pianist. How he started as a precocious little boy in Paris, France, where’s he’s been, who he is today and his philosophy on teaching and the lifelong work of a concert pianist. We also get to hear Debussy’s Clair de Lune, the grand ending of Liszt’s “Apres une lecture de Dante” and to finish with Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement (47:44) in its entirety at the end.   

Laurent Boukobza’s Bio:   A Parisian native, Laurent Boukobza is a prize-winner of many international competitions, including First Prize in Piano and Chamber Music from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris and from the prestigious International Academy Maurice Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France. A recording artist with many CDs, Laurent tours widely in Europe, the Americas, and the Far East. His teachers included Catherine Collard, Germaine Mounier, Yvonne Loriod, and Michel Beroff.  Laurent is in the process of recording the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas endorsed by a major record label, releasing at the end of 2022.  

Your Hostess: Shirley Wang, Operatic Soprano, Pianist, Educator, International Best Selling Author, and Content Creator.  

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Laurent’s Instagram: @laurentboukobza_pianist 

Laurent’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/LaurentBoukobzaPianistandTeacher/featured 

Links to Complete Performances on YouTube: 

Chopin’s Etude in C# Minor: https://youtu.be/pm-kslxT6OE 

Debussy’s Clair de Lune https://youtu.be/ptJs3T8XEdI

Liszt’s Apres une lecture de Dante: https://youtu.be/erQa8_V_wgI 

Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement Tutorial + Performance: https://youtu.be/c3XA27LhXNs

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Summary

Continuing to celebrate the AAPI Heritage Month, joining me today for a new episode of Tuesday Conversation with Friends is violinist, Cory (Corin) Lee, not your regular violinist. Juilliard trained, founder of The Liberated Performer (an organization to work with performers to overcome performance and audition anxiety), and a member of the string quartet ETHEL which is acclaimed as “unfailingly vital” (The New York Times), “brilliant,” “downtown’s reigning string quartet” (The New Yorker), and “one of the most exciting quartets around” (Strad Magazine).   

In this interview we will start with an incredible work of ETHEL: CIRCUS WANDERING CITY, Cory’s beginning (you won’t want to miss this story!), managing performance anxiety, shifting from a skill centric conservatory mindset to be audience-focused. You get to watch him perform a humorous edition of Paganini’s Caprice No. 5 and finish with his arrangement of Steve Reich’s Violin Phase.     

Featured Guest Cory (Corin) Lee: 

Corin’s collaborations include performances with Grammy Award-winning artists such as Native American flute player Robert Mirabal, jazz pianist Laurence Hobgood, Latin jazz pianist Pablo Ziegler, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang, MacArthur Genius composer Julia Wolfe, and DJ Mako.   

Corin has performed on, FOX, NBC, From The Top, TED, TEDx, SiriusXM, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. In addition to concert work, he is the founder of Liberated Performer®, a program that guides and trains musicians to defeat performance anxiety, prepare for auditions and concerts, and achieve peak performance.   

He has taught at National YoungArts Foundation (New York and Miami), directs the audition preparation programs at the New York Youth Symphony, and has given lectures at conservatories like The Juilliard School and San Francisco Conservatory. Corin studied with Ani Kavafian, Hyo Kang, Naoko Tanaka, Wei He, Camilla Wicks, Robert Mealy, and Cathryn Lee. He received degrees from Juilliard (BM), Yale (MM), and an honorary doctorate from Denison University.  

Your Hostess: Shirley Wang, Operatic Soprano, Pianist, Educator, International Best Selling Author, and Content Creator.

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Clubhouse: @MsShirleyWang

To watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ENg4TNP9Ark

To stay in touch with the featured guest:

Ethel: http://www.EthelCentral.org 

“A Wondrous Space” by Dorothy Lawson (ETHEL’s Circus: Wandering City): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCuBK68DTZA

Mini Paganini Caprice No. 5 by Corin Lee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_BIGkX_azQ

Violin Phase by Steve Reich, Arr. by Corin Lee for Electronic Violin, Cello & Bass: https://youtu.be/Pxg1tuQiBF8

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