Carmen Martínez-Pierret - Round About Mozart (2021)

“Carmen Martínez"Pierret performs Mozart; Guillaume de Chassy responds, improvising in his dual language of jazzman and classical musician. Un fuego cruzado” pianístico tremendamente lúdico, para escuchar Mozart "y la improvisación" de forma muy distinta a la habitual. “Carmen Martínez"Pierret plays Mozart, Guillaume de Chassy responds by improvising in his double language as a jazzman and classical musician. A playful cross"fertilization around a piano to listen to Mozart and improvisation in a different way. “Carmen Martínez"Pierret plays Mozart, Guillaume de Chassy answers her in his double role of jazzman and classical musician. A playful crisscross round a piano – to listen to Mozart as you know him and discover him anew in improvisation. “
Carmen’s discography, unanimously praised by the music press, reflects her musical commitments. For the Ventilador Music label she recorded “Lalai”, devoted to the works of the composers Pauline Viardot, Lili Boulanger, Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and Grazyna Baczevicz, among others; for the Sello Autor label she has recorded the complete piano works of the Spanish composer Marisa Manchado (“Water and Dreams”); and “Requiebros” (“Gallant Compliments”), with the cellist Angel Luis Quintana, which brings together rare works by Cassadó, Falla, Nin, Ginastera and Piazzolla (La ventana azul label) Recently she recorded Mompou’s ‘Música Callada’ (‘Music of Silence’) for the label La Nuit Transfigurée.

She is a member of the jury of prestigious international competitions, such as the Epinal Piano Competition and the Bordeaux Quartet Competition. A sought"after teacher, she has taught at the Conservatorio Superior de Música and the Juan Pedro Carrero School in Barcelona, as well as at the Ecole Normale Alfred Cortot in Paris and the CRR in Rueil"Malmaison.

Carmen Martínez"Pierret is also the artistic director of the Academy and the International Festivals Pirineos Classic & Jazzetania, which take place in the Spanish Pyrenees.