JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

As a member of the Trio Ardin Aissa Bah studied chamber music at the Hochschule fur Musik Köln in Germany with Harald Schoneweg (Cherubini Quartett) and the Alban Berg Quartet. She also plays in a duo regularly with the cellist Mikko Susitaival.Aissa Bah is a prize winner of the 1998 Nordic Piano Competition (Denmark), the 2001 Jyväskylä Piano Competition (Finland), the 2002 Tenuto Competition (Belgium) and the 2002 Nordic Piano Competition of Malmö (Sweden). Aissa Bah has participated twice in the Chopin Festival at La Châtre-Nohant in France. She has also performed as a soloist with the Strasbourg Youth Orchestra, the Town Orchestras of Joensuu, Kuopio and Jyväskylä (Finland) and the Flamish Radio Orchestra (Belgium) and given solo and chamber music recitals in Finland, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland and Sweden. Aissa Bah has a large repertoire and in 2006 she gave very successful "Début-recitals" in Finland and in Belgium with the entire "20 Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus" by Messiaen.

Historical Composers & Artists

"After my coffee and cigar we went to one of the recording rooms where they had a Blüthner piano Well, this Blüthner had the most beautiful singing tone I had ever found. I became quite enthusiastic and decided to play my beloved Barcarolle of Chopin. The piano inspired me. I don’t think I ever played better in my life.“

Arthur Rubinstein 

„My Many Years“ (page 281)

 

„In das Exil nach Amerika begleiteten mich nur zwei Wesen von Bedeutung: meine Frau Natalja und mein kostbarer Blüthner.“

“There are only two important things which I took with me on my way to America. My wife Natalia and my precious Blüthner.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 “Almost in the middle of the room, the black Blüthner grand stood, free of music, book or photographs. Debussy was proud of his grand piano, and before I played he showed me a new device invented by Blüthner: an extra string set on top of the others. Although not touched by the hammers, it caught the overtones, thus increasing the vibrations and enriching the sonority. This was a piano he had rented during a stay in Bournemouth, and liked so well that he had bought it and had it shipped to Paris.” “He played a number of passages and the tone he extracted from the Blüthner was the loveliest, the most elusive and ethereal I have ever heard”. 

letter from Maurice Dumesnil, friend

Claude Debussy

Debussy's Blüthner at the Musée Labenche