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"Pianist Katia Michel, a young soloist with an assured personality, demonstrated a deep and inspired interpretation in the 3rd concerto for piano and orchestra by L.v.Beethoven"
Juan Maria Rodriguez. " El Mundo"
“ Katia Michel catches the audience in the nets of her great musicality and poetic elegance. Her Mozart concerto no 25 was almost a model, vivacious and triumphal in the Allegro, of a fantastic calm and poeticism in the Andante and with a bulletproof security in the Finale allegretto, whose repititions grew as a happily climbing plant.”
José Luis López López. "ABC"
“ The crystalline and pure sound of the pianist Katia Michel, adding to her musicality and good taste, floored us.”
Ismael G. Cabral. “El correo de Andalucía”
“ The very young pianist Katia Michel has embroidered the Andante... We will certainly talk again about her.”
Pablo J. Vayón. “Diario de Sevilla”
“ It is possible that the major arch of the phrase is due to the powerful sound of the young Swiss-Spanish Katia Michel (Geneva, 1981), a pianist whose physique appears fragile, but who is capable of extracting from the instrument a muscular and deep sound, as she demonstrated in her magnificent Andante.”
Xavier Casanoves-Danés. “Avui”
“ Katia Michel has interpreted with a great intelligence and a brilliant technique the Concerto nº 1 of Liszt."
Antonio Iglesias. "ABC"
“ Katia Michel, Swiss pianist, was the brilliant soloist capable of dominating the always difficult octaves of the Liszt Concerto with intelligence.”
Jorge de Persia. "La Vanguardia"
“ Katia Michel made a splendid interpretation of the young pianist in the Concerto nº1 of Liszt; a convincing sound, an expressivity and musicality that demonstrate a personality who has a lot to say. ”
Diario de Mallorca
Prokofieff the Longest Applause
by Aguiló de Cáceres
“Sensitive, passionate and possessor of a sense of interpretation which permits her to establish with precision the mood and the message of each piece, it was easy to evaluate globally as unsurpassable, despite the fact that her rendering of the second sonata Op.14 by Prokofieff, the most difficult piece in the programme and the one which closed the recital was even more unsurpassable.
Katia Michel balances sentiment and technique very inteligently... She produced an incisive, superb and amazing Prokofieff, there were no doubts about her uncommon quality as a performer. “
Critical Review Newspaper: Bundner Tagblatt
At the End of the 2003/4 Season of the Konzertverein Chur ( Concert Society of Chur Switzerland) The Bohemian Philarmonic and the Pianist Katia Michel Gave us the Best Quality Music
by Christoph Albrecht.
” It was brilliant in all senses.
Katia Michel constantly controlled the development of the famous Concerto for Piano, Opus.37 in C minor by Ludwig Van Beethoven. She decided its direction and dinamics and was undisturbed when the reaction of neither the conductor nor his orchestra were up to the mark.Undistracted she ran up the solo cadences directly to the mark, separating the theme from the surrrounding sound with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel. Thus the piano concierto composed 203 years ago was the object of the freshest and most delightful interpretation. ”
Diari de Sabadell
Vicente Macian “Diari de Menorca”
A Pianist Who Showed Great Quality : The Young Pianist Gave a Brilliant and Much Aplauded Performance
“Katia Michel showed clarity and brightness in her fingering, well constructed phrasing and she dominated the performance and the character of the different styles,
…She achieved a Beethoven of great depth in the Sonata Op. No. 3 in C Major.
The continued applause of a very satisfied public rewarded the brilliant performance of Katia Michel. Already launched onto the concert circuit, she possesses such an excellent curriculum that she is sure to be guaranteed many more opportunities to perform. "
Murrharter Zeitung
III Concert of the International Piano Academy
by Christian Pohl
“Possessor of numerous prizes from international competitions, Katia Michel completely dominates the keyboard. The most difficult passages appeared to be no problem to her. With her expressive and convincing personality, her performance introduced a new accent at the end of the evening.
Torroella de Montgrí
The Birth of an Artist
by Eduardo Rincon
“ magnificent version of the adaggio in the same piece played with such dramatic density. This revelation was confirmed by her performance of a frankly interesting Chopin Scherzo, full of personality and a far cry from the cloying interpretation of other young pianists,followed by Schumann's Fantasiestucke Op.12. All of these are works which can only be performed by a master of the piano. It seemed to me that her clear vigourous technique, which is at the same time attentive to the developement of the piece, was reminiscent of the Russian school.”
Critical Review Newspaper: Bonner Rundschau
KAMMERMUSIKSAAL : Final Concert of the X European Academy of Music in Bonn
by Barbara Mecke
"After the intermission the young Spanish pianist Katia Michel impressed the public with her astonishing musical maturity. Despite her age, only 17 years old, she enchanted the hall not only with her performance of the Scherzo No.2 Opus 31 in B Flat minor by Chopin but also with her natural charm."
Diari de Sabadell
Katia Michel Played Works Which Few People her Age Could Confront
by D.R.M
The concert by the 16 old pianist was a gift to the academy and the audience.
Phenomena like her don't happen every day and we can surely assert that a star with a very promising future is born.
Katia Michel demonstrated all her worth in two pieces by Granados which she played as masterfully as an adult. The Catalan composer sounded brilliant with expressive virtuosity in the little hands of the future
Magazine: Revista Musical Catalana
by X.C.-D.
"Katia Michel filled the hall to overflowing and left everyone amazed by her maturity and high level of technical preparation. She is only sixteen and represented spain last year in the European Federation. She has won all the competitions she has entered and faces a limitless future. Masterly… The way she played the Partita No.1 by Bach and pieces by Mendelssohn and Granados show her to be a potentially international artist. A recital for the record and a name to be remembered from now on. "
Newspaper El Norte de Castilla
The Pianist Katia Michel Played in La Alhóndiga
by J.A.G. Segovia
“The pianist Katia Michel Corcoy ,who is only fifteen years old, played in the classical music festival for young people. Despite her youth Katia Michel surprised us all with her precise technique, clearly evident in her rendering of pieces like Bach's Partita No.1 or the sonata Les Adieux by Beethoven.”
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