The perfect musician has to think with his heart and feel with his brain
Nadia Boulanger
My study career begins about five years ago when I fell in love with jazz music. After a whole life spent on listening to classical and Opera ...I had the meeting that changed my life...
Open Jazz Club...Nursery Four!
Now I grew up a little bit more and I study jazz piano with the pianist that I first listened to that night: Mauro Schiavone.
I come from a family where about everybody is a musician: my mom teaches piano and for years she's been a concertist...she played in duo with my uncle that is cellist for a lot of time during their teens...
Then, I've two aunts...one teaches piano and another teaches history of music...and, at least, I've got another uncle that plays flute.
So...OF COURSE...I'm a musician too!
I attend the first year of Jazz Courses in the Conservatory 'V.Bellini' of Palermo.
About my 'classical side' I can say that it began very early. When I was born...if not before!
In that iccasion my dad gave to my mom one of the first portable CD player with the first part of Beethoven Piano Sonatas played by Daniel Barenboim.
That would have become an important part of my life.
In fact I soon began to play piano.
I did not sudy because my family was pulling me too much. They wanted me to become a musician but I refused. At that time it was not in my plans.
I have never imaged that someday I would have choosen music as longlife companion :)
After about six months of studying piano I abandoned to start violin. Three months. Than stop.
I was not ready to LIVE music.
But I was a great listener. I listened to every concert I could.
This gave me the chance to know a lot of new things and a lot of new artists and today I'm proud of it.
The passion for jazz began when my parents divorced and my mom started a relation with a man who loves jazz.
Today I've to say thank to that man if he only wouldn't be a fucking piece of shit.
By the way they're still together...no comment please.
As I said I first met my teacher that night in that club. He playied and I fell in love with all the circumstances...
Perhaps for him that has been a night like many others...but for me...well, it changed my whole life.
I begun to study with him about 5 years and last July I passed the exam to be admitted to Jazz Courses of the Conservatory of my town.
Next month a dream of mines will be come true: a jazz laboratory with one of my favourite artists, Stafano Bollani.
My way of thinking about music is divided in two sides.
One is about my 'classical side' : is that part of me that gives the rules to my anarchic part...to that part that, through jazz, is wild, totally free.
Is my elegant part, that charming side of my carachter.
Sometimes it gives me an old woman behaviour ;) but it's not my fault :D
Sometimes it makes me feel the Faith., sometimes makes me feel Pain.
Classical music is Pain, Pathos and Joy.Together.
The other side of myself is made by Jazz...that free part that is not able to buils rules all by itself...so is 'regulated' by 'another ME'.
Is not a feeling or musical topic...is more psychological.
Or physical.
I live music for what it is, I try to reach in it all the possible experience.
I do it on playing, on listening and on living in it.
When you think to a piece you put yourself into it with all your body and soul, trying to understand every meaning of every note in the deepest way you can.
As a musician, on the one hand, I constantly learn new works, I reach new results. But on the other I keep coming back to and studying again some of the things I've known since I'm in touch with music.
Both on listening and playing.
As I continue my life in music, the distinction becomes clearer between the works that have an occasional interest and those that have become lifelong companions.
On the otherside music not only expresses emotions which exist between human beings, but it is itself a human creation which aims to imitate nature in its most profound sense.
So you HAVE TO live it with all every micropart of your being.
You MUSTN'T do otherwise.
CREDITS
There are no many people behind me to support what I do.
They're few.
First of all my dad. He realisez I needed his help only recently...and now he's putting himself with all his capacities in everything I do. He supports me more than others.
Than my aunt Valeria. Thanks to her I discovered my passion for Opera.
So...thanks to my teacher Patrizia Pace.
After there's my teacher who I'd like to dedicate my first composition, Mauro.
He's a great point of reference for me. Patient and only.
For my 'human side' I'd like to say thank to M° Daniel Barenboim.
He won't never know but he's been an important point in my whole life.
A fixed point expecially after our first meeting last year in Salzburg.
He's present in my life since I was born, as I said, and I'll never stop to be.
And finally, a person that I admire and I take as sample for his human and professional side: my mom.
She's a great teacher and a great woman.
I'm sorry I've to say she's not as good as mother, but this is another topic...
I learnt a lot from her.
And , in her way, she's been constantly present in my life and I couldn't do anything.
Now I'm just trying to build myself with all experiences I've collected during my walk.
Who will I be?...and Where?
I'm leaving below some addresses of other pages about me. Please, contact me through email for job or for pleasure.
Thanks.
My MSN Space:
http://aquilarco.spaces.live.com/
My personal blog dedicated to Arts:
http://aquilarco.wordpress.com/
My personal blog dedicated to Sicily, my homeland:
http://caliaesemenza.wordpress.com/
Bye,
Francesca