Maria Joao Pires bounces back
NewsThe Portuguese pianist will resume her concert career next week, having recovered from a bad fall and hospitalisation in Riga two months ago.
Physiotherapy helped, she says.
She returns to the stage in France on November 13.
So good to have her back.
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Word on the grapevine was that over lockdown she was giving online piano lessons at an extortionate €300 per hour!!
You are not aware I assume that Leon Fleischer sitting in Baltimore was charging a double amount.
Oh how awful.
“I care about the next generation of musicians and want to help nurture them, and I care about the music” and all that codswallop.
If you really care about the younger generation and you really care about the music then you wouldn’t charge that amount. Simples.
I hope they lose a lot of it through paying tax – I’m sure they’re declaring this income truthfully and in full (ahem).
This is a comment is sadly representative of the modern Left in general, though many people of all political stripes wouldn’t say a thing like this if their lives depended on it.
300$ per hour , but it’s a steal!
Yes, quite a literally a steal indeed.
Quite right Ya what. Pires is a fine pianist- frequently excellent- but nobody should be charging that amount for teaching. Its pure greed plain & simple. If Pires wants to earn big bucks- she should return to performing & find the right agent. Ok teachers must learn a living also but there’s a difference between that and a ‘steal’ as you say.
This is such good news.
Thank you.
Fantastic news! Really hope this great artist will make it to her 3 x London concerto appearances (!!) between May & July next year with Blomstedt/Philharmonia & JEG/LSO
Good for her, but I had been under the impression she had retired at least once in the past five years.