Dear Mariangela, I was priviledged to meet you along with my 12 year old son at the Little Italy restaurant in Inverness, Florida. I am 65 years old and have followed the careers of many great pianists. You are like Horowitz in his prime and I feel that your future will be stunning and countless people will be blessed and filled with the joy of music. Your abilities certainly prove the existence of a loving God. Our best to you always, Jim, Lora and Joseph Johns
+2#3retired eminent scholar —
bill chamberlin2010-03-04 06:41
what did you play for a comment in Gainesville Thursday night? What is similar? You and the music were sensational. Of course, your performance of the fourth symphony was special. I am glad I could hear you. A music teacher next to me was ecstatic. Bill
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Kristina Lewis2009-12-07 21:03
You are, without a doubt, one of the greatest influences I have ever come across in my life, as far as piano is concerned. Your technique is just incredible and your musicality is sublime. Your version of Ravel's Ondine is my favorite piece you perform. I listen to it over and over again, whenever I'm in the mood for Ravel. I just want to thank you for your committment and hard work into your career and the piano.
The first time I heard you was at the Franz Liszt competition in 1999 in Utrecht, here you got the 2nd prize. I was very impressed! To a colleague I said: keep attention to this young lady!
The years after that I listened often to you on Youtube and my admiration became greater and greater. So I was very astonished and disappointed that you weren’t admitted to the first six laureates in the Queen Elizabethcompetition 2007. Unbelievable!
Also at the Van Cliburn competition 2009 I was very astonished and disappointed that you didn't get a medal. But I think you are a too sober person than that you will become disillusioned bij these things. Competitions are often a strange phenomenon.
But you played marvellous, with a serene attitude, very professional, an enormous musical vision and last but not least with a fenomenal technique! For instance your interpretation of the nocturne by Scriabin (for the left hand) was heavenly beautiful!
Some people are comparing you with Alicia de Larrocha or Marta Argerich, but that’s nonsense of course. You don’t resemble these artists, they resemble you!
I hope your career will take a high international flight and that your star will raise more and more!
I’m playing also the piano (and the organ) but not as good as you do of course, oh no…
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Our best to you always, Jim, Lora and Joseph Johns
The first time I heard you was at the Franz Liszt competition in 1999 in Utrecht, here you got the 2nd prize.
I was very impressed!
To a colleague I said: keep attention to this young lady!
The years after that I listened often to you on Youtube and my admiration became greater and greater.
So I was very astonished and disappointed that you weren’t admitted to the first six laureates in the Queen Elizabethcompet ition 2007. Unbelievable!
Also at the Van Cliburn competition 2009 I was very astonished and disappointed that you didn't get a medal.
But I think you are a too sober person than that you will become disillusioned bij these things.
Competitions are often a strange phenomenon.
But you played marvellous, with a serene attitude, very professional, an enormous musical vision and last but not least with a fenomenal technique!
For instance your interpretation of the nocturne by Scriabin (for the left hand) was heavenly beautiful!
Some people are comparing you with Alicia de Larrocha or Marta Argerich, but that’s nonsense of course. You don’t resemble these artists, they resemble you!
I hope your career will take a high international flight and that your star will raise more and more!
I’m playing also the piano (and the organ) but not as good as you do of course, oh no…
Many greetings
Frans ter Beek
The Netherlands.
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