Gabriella Torma in Concert This piano concert was a truly moving experience for everyone! The “listed” medieval tower of the “Bourgon-Montourtier” castle is in poor condition; vegetation is growing through the cracks, and action must be taken.
A wonderful piano concert awaits you to help fund the piano’s restoration. Thank you to the artists who love this venue and to everyone who will come to support this project in one way or another. Piano concert: Sunday, August 30, at 4:00 p.m. Bach, Haydn, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Busini, Nerini…
Performers: Gabriella Torma and her students “Gabriella TORMA, an internationally renowned Hungarian pianist, has made the most of her extraordinary musical memory, which she calls ‘the memory of emotions.’”
Last year, she embarked on a unique venture: presenting recitals in which the audience chooses the pieces they want to hear from a selection of about fifty, each lasting twenty to thirty minutes.
“All the artist has to do is perform—but without a score…” *Le Nouvel Observateur*, 2003. Born in Hungary (Budapest), Gabriella Torma trained at the “Liszt Ferenc” National Conservatory in Budapest (Tibor Wehner) and in Moscow (Tatiana Nyikolaïeva), and furthered her studies with Yvonne LEFEBURE in Paris. Her achievements include: National Competition of Regional Conservatories on Hungarian Television: 1st Grand Prix; “Liszt–Bartók” International Competition in Budapest: 3rd Grand Prix; “Georges Cziffra” International Competition (Versailles): 2nd Grand Prix, “Debussy” International Competition in Saint-Germain-en-Laye: 1st Grand Prix, “BEMUS” International Competition in Belgrade: 3rd Grand Prix and Special Prize for the required contemporary work.
Since 1968, Gabriella Torma has toured as a soloist and with major state and radio symphony orchestras in the “Eastern Bloc” countries (performing concertos by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Brahms, Grieg, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff…).
He has regularly recorded for national radio and television stations in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and other countries (works for solo piano by Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Wagner, Fauré, Bartók, and composers from Macedonia…).
She moved to France in 1983 after being invited to teach at the European Conservatory of Paris. Since then, Gabriella Torma has given hundreds of recitals and performed concertos with orchestras such as the Ural Orchestra, the Yekaterinburg Orchestra, the Grenoble Orchestra, the Arco de Moscou Orchestra, the Kazan Orchestra—under the baton of Fuat Mansourov—the Gorky Orchestra, and the Flaine Festival Orchestra… in numerous cities across France, on France Musique, on television, as well as in Germany, Belgium, the United States, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Mexico… Gabriella Torma is also renowned for her “à la carte” recitals, in which the audience selects their preferences from various “catalogs,” each containing about fifty major works or groups of works.
Passionate about chamber music, she has also given numerous concerts with partners such as the Arpeggione Quartet, Isabelle Flory, William Lewis, Frédérique Added-Lewis, Evgueny Bushkov, Devy Erlih, Michel Strauss, Zoria Chikhmourzaeva, Grigory Zhisline, Laszlo Hadady, Michel Arrignon, Daniel Marillier, Philippe Cuper, Elizabeth Laurence, and many others.
CD: solo piano: Liszt, Brahms; with orchestra: Ravel, Vincent d’Indy. (Hungaroton, CD reissues in 2000), works by Bartók with the “Bernard Tetu” Soloists’ Choir, various works with Daniel Marillier (double bass), and works for solo piano by Nerini.
She is also passionate about teaching and trains young musicians not only at a conservatory but also at music academies such as those in Flaine, Courchevel, Pont Saint-Esprit, and especially “Musique à Flots,” which she founded in 2002.
Gabriella Torma has a deep interest in the role music can play for people with Alzheimer’s disease, so she participates in research in this field, organizes concerts, and gives recitals in Parisian hospitals.
The Piano et Compagnie association—which she initiated, founded, and has chaired since 2001—provides a very active forum for musicians from all backgrounds to hone their skills “in situ” (on stage) by organizing musical events (afternoons or concerts) in Paris.
Château de Bourgon Concert Tour Poster