The Viennese Connection

Hosted by the Gustav Mahler Centenary Conference

When?

Saturday 9 July 2011, 13.15

Where?

PATS Studio One

Open to:

Public, Staff, Students

Admission price:

Admission free

Programme:

Twelve Variations on Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman - MOZART
Valse-Caprice No 6 from Soirées de Vienne - LISZT/SCHUBERT
Sonata in E flat Major, Op 31 No 3  - BEETHOVEN

www.emiliecapulet.com

This event is part of the Mahler Centenary Conference: 'Mahler: Contemporary of the Past?' taking place at the University of Surrey from 7-9th July 2011.  For more information on this conference please click here.

Emilie Capulet Biography:

Emilie Capulet’s fingers skim over the keys with exquisite charm, her technique always serving a musicality of
great maturity. Zibeline Magazine

Franco-British pianist, Emilie Capulet, was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. She studied the piano at the Conservatoire there and in Marseille where she was awarded several prizes, making her solo recital debut at the age of 14 in the Aix-en-Provence Summer Music Festival Rising Stars series. She subsequently spent a year at the Conservatorium in Sydney, Australia, studying with William Corbett-Jones, visiting professor from the University of San Francisco. In 2000, she gained a place at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, in Advanced Instrumental Studies, studying with Professor Paul Roberts. She was awarded a Master of Music degree in 2001 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Music Performance in 2002. Since then, Emilie has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in international music festivals and renowned concert halls in Europe, the USA, and Latin America. She is also regularly invited on luxury ocean cruise liners as guest artist on Musical Festivals at Sea as well as musical river cruises down the Danube and the Rhine. She has just released a CD of works by Beethoven and Chopin with BMP.

In addition to her successful solo career, Emilie has built a strong reputation as a lecture-recitalist, giving illustrated talks on the relations between music, literature and painting. Her interest in the arts as a whole has earned her an MA on Shakespeare as well as a PhD on the musicality of Modernist literature. She published a book on Virginia Woolf and Music with Bloomsbury Heritage in 2009 and has also written many articles on Impressionist music, Modernism, the musicalization of fiction, and multimedia performance practices.

In 2008, while touring Latin America, Emilie received the ‘ExpressArte’ award for her exceptional contribution to Nicaraguan culture and art.

Emilie Capulet is an associate lecturer in the Music Department at the University of Surrey.