Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires hospitalized in serious conditionafter an accident this Sunday in Latvia.
The information from the SIC was confirmed by the artist’s family.
The pianist was going to perform at the Riga Music Festival in Jurmala, at the National Opera of Latvia.
During the festival, musician Martin Engström and executive director Zane Chulkstena stated that the pianist fell on a Riga street during the day and was in a hospital “in serious condition.”
The Portuguese was replaced by the Japanese pianist Mao Fujita, who had performed the day before.
Maria João Pires is 77 years old.
Maria Joao Pires
The pianist runs her Center for Music Research in Belgae, in the Castelo Branco area, and is one of the most famous performers in the world, especially composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Mozart, for whom she has recorded right now. the beginning of an international career in the 1970s, an integral part of Sonatas, which remains one of the reference interpretations in the recording market.
At the age of nine, he received the Portuguese Musical Youth Award, and in 1970 he won the International Beethoven Competition organized by the European Broadcasting Union. In 1984, she was one of the protagonists of the Mozart Festival in Salzburg, Austria.
In 2002, the Lisbon-born pianist was awarded the International Music Council (IMC) Prize, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and in 2015 she received the Gramophone Prize. interpretation of the 3rd and 4th concertos by Beethoven with conductor Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Pesoa Prize, in 1989, one of the famous pianists in the Deutsche Grammophon catalog, Maria João Pires received the 2019 Medal of Merit for Culture from the Ministry of Culture of the Portuguese Government.
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