Veteran Pianist Gerhard Oppitz on the Marvellous World of Arts and Music, and Sharing Artistic Insights with His Audiences
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Thursday, February 27, 2020 Rajab 3, 1441 AH Doha today 160 - 230 COVER Let’s play STORY Veteran pianist Gerhard Oppitz on the marvellous world of arts and music, and sharing artistic insights with his audiences. P4-5 REVIEWS SHOWBIZ Insanely pretty version Malaika says ‘iconic’ Chaiyya of Jane Austen novel. chaiyya shouldn’t be recreated. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Thursday, February 27, 2020 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.42am Shorooq (sunrise) 6.00am Zuhr (noon) 11.47am Asr (afternoon) 3.06pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.34pm Isha (night) 7.04pm USEFUL NUMBERS Emma Woodhouse, who lives in Georgian- and Regency-era England CAST: Josh O’ Connor, Bill Nighy, Anya Taylor-Joy and occupies herself with matchmaking - in sometimes DIRECTION: Autumn de Wilde misguided, often meddlesome fashion. 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WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Thursday, February 27, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “Great music has never been admired by the majority of mankind” — Gerhard Oppitz, pianist Munich concentrating on the works conductors and orchestras. By Mudassir Raja of Beethoven. His main interest is the classical- It is lamentable that In 1977, he was awarded first romantic repertoire, although he there are not so many prize at the Arthur Rubinstein has always devoted himself to music he 67-year-old German Competition after convincing an of the 20th century, as well, with young persons who pianist Gerhard Oppitz international jury, with Arthur premier performances of several began playing the Rubinstein himself as its head, piano concertos. appreciate the great instrument at the age by performing the fifth Piano In addition to Gerhard busy of fi ve. He debuted with concerto by Beethoven and the playing the pianist, he also has a heritage of classical aT performance of Mozart’s Piano First Piano Concerto by Brahms. broad spectrum of other interests. music Concerto in D Minor when he was This event marked the beginning He is a qualifi ed professional air only 11. of his worldwide concert activities pilot and frequently pilots himself Along with his great enthusiasm — recitals in the major music to his concert engagements across for school, especially for science centres of Europe, America and Europe. He is an informed gourmet — Gerhard Oppitz and mathematics, he continued his East Asia, as well as collaborations and connoisseur. He speaks seven ‘ ’ musical education in Stuttgart and with the most renowned languages and lives with his Thursday, February 27, 2020 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY Japanese wife near Munich. joy of life. I am still enjoying travel, The pianist, with an unusually meeting people in various parts of broad repertory earlier performed the world and exploring their ways two Mozart (No. 20 & 21) and two of living. Apart from these positive Beethoven Concertos (No. 4 & 5) aspects, I enjoy remaining in close with Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra touch with the marvellous world since his fi rst appearance in Qatar of arts, in general, and of music, in in 2011. particular, having the privilege to The internationally famous share my artistic insights with my specialist on Johannes Brahms audiences. recently had a solo performance with the orchestra in Qatar at What’s your view on the Katara during the concert named classical music scene at ‘Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2’. present? Is there a crisis? Excerpts from an e-mail interview It is quite obvious that in some with the pianist. parts of the world the average age of concert audiences is becoming Do you have a special higher and higher. Children and relationship or any personal teenagers are engulfed by so many connection with Brahms 2nd new inventions which are attracting Piano concerto? their attention and are consuming The second piano concerto by precious parts of their free time, and Brahms has been accompanying so it is understandable and, at the my life for almost 50 years and same time, lamentable that there it has proved to be a wonderful are not so many young persons who source of inspiration during appreciate the great heritage of the past decades of my artistic classical music. On the other hand, development. Unlike various looking back to the last decades piano concertos by numerous and centuries, great music has other composers this work is not ON SONG: Gerhard Oppitz performing at the Opera House Katara. Photo by Shemeer Rashid. never been admired by the majority just a concerto for solo piano with of mankind, it has always been some kind of secondary orchestral moments with love and respect, considered or appreciated in one On a more general note: a sophisticated kind of message accompaniment — this is actually a without ever losing awareness or two centuries from now. But I What’s the hardest part about which is reaching out to a minority large-scale symphony for piano and of the entire context and the have got a very good feeling about being a musician and what’s the of people who are interested to be orchestra with equally distributed architectural structures, there will the music of the wonderful Polish best? inspired by this magical language.