Future Classic Women Awards – Margherita Torretta

Hello and welcome to future Classic Women Awards with me, Stefania Passamonte on Women's radio station, the program where we search for the most amazing new female artists on the classical panorama. Today is the week of Halloween, I think you've seen in the pictures. So we got the bat looming around in the studio, but we have a very special guest that didn't get scared away, and that's pianist Margherita Torretta. Morning. Good morning, Margarita. So, Margherita, you're here to promote your upcoming album, your debut album. So how did you decide to record an album? Yes, this is my first CD and I recorded 20 keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and will be released on January. And I'm very excited. This is my first album. Why now? Why now? At the Beat album and not before, for example, or. But actually I practice a lot before I record this. I did a lot of works, so. And Scarlatti is absolutely my favorite composer. And I record the 20 sonata. I simply choose a sonata I like best. You play more than the 20 sonatas? I. I wouldn't say that I practice all his sonata because I compose actually 600, something like that, 555 sonatas. But I. I think I. I studied almost 400. Oh, wow. And ism. I think it's my daily routine. Every day I sit at the piano and I read one. Then, yes, I choose just 20. And that doesn't mean you won't record the others. You might do the opera one day, maybe. I chose sonata by style, by mood, by different mood, different feeling. And I think that Scarlatti, to me is amazing because he offers a certain freedom for personal expression. And we know that sonata has been composed for harpsichord, but for keyboard, really, isn't it? Yes. So it would be even other instruments like the Spinetta or the Virginale or whatever keyboard was available. It was possible to perform these sonatas. Yes. So let's explain to the audience that they're not used to. To know classical music, because we have passionate of classical music listeners, but also people that are just interested about, you know, what's happening in the classical worlds for women's working in this sector. So Scarlatti was a Baroque composer and he's from Naples. Yes, born in Naples and he made his career actually the court, the Spanish court. So funny enough, it's considered by Spanish composer by adoption, if you like. But he's totally Italian. Yeah, he was from Naples, so. And then he moved to Rome and Venice, then he moved to Lisbon at the end of Spain and He composed most part of his sonatas when he was in Spain. So we can find in his music a lot of Italian and Spanish elements like. Like songs and dance and popular song also. Yeah, it was the first crossover composer, if you like. Yes. And we can find for example the Canteion do the Ciguidilla or the Tarantella, which tarantella is a folk dance. And so I had a lot of fun actually. And yeah, let's say I think Scarlatti is still quite an up to date composer. The way he's composing, the music that is produced is very fresh. It's quite fun actually. Sometimes. Sometimes it's very moving as well. And it's short. So it's sort of like pop song after time, if you like. Instead of being the long sweets or you know, longer toccatas and fantasies. These are very short. But I mean, not necessarily. You've chosen some that are actually long, like seven minutes, but in general the longest one slow and very singable. Cantabile. Yeah, because I think that, I mean before studying properly this composer and his composition, I actually thought that Scarlatti, that Scarlatti sonata should be played with lightness and very fast. But actually it's not true because Scarlatti also can be very romantic and very dramatic. And I think he has a theatrical personality. So incredible. And for this reason, to me it's amazing because I really can express a lot of the. Especially with the piano. Because with the piano we can do a lot of colors, a lot of dynamics and a lot of different touches. So. Absolutely. Well, the fact that he composed for the keyboard and not specifically for which type of keyboard that means the harpsichord or the organ even, that means that if he had the piano, that was invented in 1774, I think in Venice, so it was invented a few centuries later. He would actually been happy to explore the same music on the piano with the colors and the possibilities that the modern instruments offer to the piano player, to the keyboard player. So it's not wrong because you know, there is the purist that they say, oh, you should perform the original music in the original instruments because it was intended for those original instruments. But like Bach, the well Tempered Clavier, he didn't compose the piece specifically for the. For the Rpsichord, but he composed it for the keyboard in general. So it's. I. Yes. For example, if we, if we read Scarati Sonata, we can maybe read and the title is Cantabile, but it should be really singable. So Legato. A lot of color accent dynamics. But also the virtuoso sonata must be played with like, with a quasi Listian fury as well. So. So the first sonat actually that you choose to listen to is the K. K is the catalog number, so K135 and is in E major. Why did you choose this sonata? So how is this sonata normally the major one? It's very virtuoso and it's actually so difficult, I think. I think with the 119 is another one is the most difficult. I one of the most. The most played. So. So let's see. Virtuoso Margherita Toretta playing Scarlatti Sonata K135 in E. Welcome to Women's Radio Station. I'm Sarah Louise Ryan and welcome to Love Lessons live on Women's Radio Station. Hello and welcome to future Classic Women Awards with me, Stefania Passamonte on Women's Radio Station. Hello and welcome to Julie Mae is listening. 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Our guest today is Italian virtuoso pianist Margherita Torretta. Margherita, how did you decide to become a classical pianist? Well, this is very interesting question actually I decided to become a professional pianist and I decided to yes to be performer when I was 18. So very old age. I mean let's explain very old in classical music and particularly in piano because piano virtuoso they start super little, they already perform and by 18 they have a proper career gone before I was a classical dancer. So I think my dream was to become a professional dancer or I also like photography fashion designer. So I think I might absolutely was not my dream to become a pianist but then something happened in my life because I lived a very traumatic event in my life because I had a big health problem when I was 18 so I didn't work for a long time and I was at the hospital for, for a while so I stopped dance and so the only thing that I could do it was just play the piano, make music. I had a piano tone because my mom used to play the piano when she was young and also to me was quite natural approach to the piano because during my training in the dance, yeah, I always listen classical music but yes, absolutely I didn't, I can't, I can't say even now that I'm a pianist, actually. So. Yeah, so to me, the music was really therapeutic. Playing the piano was really therapeutic. And I. I survived thanks to the music because it was, to me was. I had a specific problem to my legs, so I didn't walk. And you know, as it was, I was. So how is it for a ballet dancer to lose the opportunity of walking? Yeah, I. And of course of dancing. Yes. So it was dramatic for me. This has changed completely. My life changed. So 17. This happened 18, 18. So I mean, this is a super. You're at the beginning of a fantastic new. I didn't have a normal life until I was 24. So to me it was. And still now, it's not easy, but I. But Margarita now walks, she can walk. I. I'm. Yes, absolutely. Just to explain, because people don't understand, you know, from the radio. So I. Yes, I started to play the piano because music made me feel alive. So I was actually obsessed with music because I start playing, practicing like nine hours every day. Beautiful. Yeah. And. But just because I. I really focus on. On the music and I did everything so fast, I can't. I mean, to me was incredible. I did such amazing experience, such misadventure. I can say that it was a really adventure for me. So I started conservatoire very late when I was 19, then I finished at 25. So. So you flew through the degree. And I did very well. I think I'm very proud of myself. But to me, the most important thing is not just. Is not just because now I'm a pianist, I can perform, I do concert, but because I want to show that everything is possible. If you really want, if you really need focus on what you want, you can get it. And this is. I want to express this through my music. Absolutely. So I'm very happy about what I'm doing now and I really want to bring this experience to people because when I was little, I love to dance and ballet. I really am a big fan. I always go to see ballet if I can. And I always wanted to be a ballet dancer, but my dad is a musician and he told me, first of all, you learn piano and music, and then maybe later you can do something else. But you know, with ballet you have to start little, you can't start later. Yeah. And also he always told me, you know, ballet dancer, they retire early, they retire at 30, something like that. 33, I think, because it's so physical and you know, your body is your instrument and this is something that get used so Much and that actually get used too much so that you have to. You cannot have a longer career like with the piano instead or with music in general. You can actually do it all your life. There is famous concert pianist like Horowitz for example, Pollini already right now. Then in the 70s, Horowitz went on until his 80s to perform. So this is something that actually doesn't have an age. So you can start later like you did at 18 and you can go on for forever and ever. Yes, I'm quite satisfied because I played a very important stage in theater and now I'm releasing my cd. But you know, I still grow. I need. I get in touch with most important personalities in this world. And I was so lucky. It was to me was incredible and. But I think that, you know, I'm. I feel that I want to see, grow and learn from other people around me. And I. I don't feel like a. Only a pianist. I'm. I feel like an artist. So I want to express my personality through different things. So through music. Absolutely. This is my main thing. But also fashion, also photography also. Yeah. So one question, your background as a ballet dancer, did it give you any special. Any different if you like prospecting approach to the piano? Yeah, I think that. That this helped me a lot. Because the rhythmical side, for example. Yeah, the rhythmical. And also for the coordination of our body. Because when we play an instrument we use our body and we have to be aware of what's going on. We use the hand and also the feet and also the shoulders, everything. So I think for their family. Yeah. This be a dancer, I think was absolutely useful for me. Helped me a lot. So. Because when we play we use every. All our body, not just finger. Because when. When people think that to your piano, show me your finger. No, but it's not just fingers, it's a coordination of everything. So I normally show. Show the muscles actually my arms and my. This is. Yeah. Was my most challenged things to develop my muscle and arm and wrist and everything. Because for this reason that I practice so much, because I have to. And I felt a lot for a long time behind other people because people of my age were already concert performers and pianists. Concert pianists. But I. 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For more information on how you can sponsor a show, go to womensradiostation.com women's radio station supporting women's well being. Welcome back to future Classic Women Awards on Women's Radio station, the program where we search for the most amazing new female artists on the classical panorama. We've been talking this morning to Margherita Toretta, an Italian pianist with an amazing story. First of all, Margherita, you are saying you've been very lucky to meet very important people that inspired you. Would you like to mention some of them? Yes. When I was 26, I was admitted in one of the most important academy in the world, which is International Piano Academy Lake Como with the president Honor Marta Argerich and my teacher William Gram Nambore and to me it was a very important experience because I get in touch with important personality and like for example my roommate Julian Avdeva who won the Chopin competition and Romanovsky and Dmitry Mashlev. A lot of great pianists are my close friends and when I did the audition my teacher said actually I was not. I didn't realize that was so important academy because only seven people in the world are selected there any four years and actually I'm the only Italian pianist there, so with Alessandra Mara, but Sandra Mara is another generation, so we are just two women female pianists there. Oh wow. So the rest are all men? Mainly men, yeah, no, they are also women. But I'm talking, talking about Italian, so Italian country, so just me and Alessandra and so I was scared because I get in touch with this incredible pianist and I say oh my goodness, I can't, I can't do it. I. I literally saw a big Manta in front of me and I said I can't do it. But then yes, I think I did slowly. And these pianists to me were very important not just because they were an example like pianists, but also for the friendship that I found with them. So I get a lot of inspiration from them and I remember that they were studying like Schuppanitude or Czechosy Concerto and I was like really plain but just simple things because I had to understand still what. What I have to do because I told you I start very late, so. But my teacher believed in me a lot and, and said you, you will do it very well. And I think I did. So did they, did they help you find Scarlatti or you found him yourself? No, I think I found in myself but my teacher always said you have to be an artist, not just a pianist, you have to find your way because in your career you can maybe win an important competition. But I didn't, I don't Think even maybe I'm not able to do it. Or maybe you can find your personality through different way. Maybe you can be unique in one composer. So I found. I don't know, actually, I don't remember how I exactly realized that. Sclatti is amazing for me. I just. I don't know, I did a lot of repertoire and when I play Scalati, something happened to me and I say, wow, I love it. And so I just decided to. I don't know, I just like it. And every day I play one sonata and then another one and then say, wow, I want to do all of them. And. But as I said before, because with Calati, I really can express my personality. I have a lot of fun to finding different touch articulation. I want to express this. I want to express another feeling. I want to express this mood. And this is so funny for me, it's like to be a painter, you can paint with different colors. And it's amazing to me. Yes. Now I have to ask you, what was the most exciting moment in your career? Actually, my most exciting Moment was my first concert when I was, I think, 25, and it was in a small theater, actually in my small country, because I'm from Italy, from Piacenza, which is small city. It was not a super important event, but we were just in a season, local season. But to me it was a great victory because I went on stage and I said, wow, I'm doing my first concert. I mean, proper concert, so people pay a ticket for you. Have you been on stage as a ballet dancer? Yes, yes, yes. Did you feel it different to be on stage as a ballet dancer or being on stage as a pianist? Yes, yes, I think. I think, yes, Because I started dancing when I was five, so to me was natural. But go on stage, you know. But when. But as a pianist? No, no, was absolutely different. Because what you were by yourself as well as a soloist? Yes, by myself. And I was doing so new thing for me. So my first concert was in. Very important question. When you are a ballet dancer, normally you are with the tutu on stage. You're kind of, you know, your body is very exposed. Absolutely, yes. And when you are at the piano, you are with a beautiful concert dress, long etched, so you're kind of covered. But do you feel you're exposed in a different way? For example, like your soul is more exposed when you are performing as a pianist or is there any difference in that sense, or is the same? Yes, I think because when I play the piano, I'm just Me on stage and I'm not doing anything, just focused on the music. So I think my soul is more exposed to the audience, to the people I don't know. To me it's a very strong experience when I play on stage, when I play the piano on stage and like it's two different things on the stage. As a ballet dancer, you expose your body. Is this body that is expressing? Yes, yes. You talk with your body. Exactly. While when you're playing the piano, you are exposing your soul. Yes. Yeah. Is it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. We still move in our body, but. Yeah, but it's not the same, you know, it's different. Art absolutely is a. We don't. When you are ballet dancer, of course, you, you, you talk with, with, with your movement, with the coordination, with your body, with. But with the piano. No, it's just music. No, I mean, it depends what you do. Maybe there are pianists that maybe, I don't know, start dancing during the normal time. Maybe. Yeah. But anyway, I like dresses. Dresses. So I, I try to wear amazing dresses because I, I like. And I also, I like to design my dresses. Oh, really? Oh, wow. So, so you wear your own design? I, I not all of them, but I made three, three dresses with my friend's help, of course. I can't do by myself, but I designed them and we, we make it. Yeah. So I, I love dresses as a woman, probably. All right, well, let's listen out. The Scalatti Sonata K27 in B minor. Foreign. Welcome to women's radio station. I'm Sarah Louise Ryan and welcome to Love Lessons live on women's radio station. Hello and welcome to future classic women awards with me, Stefania Passamonte on women's radio station. Hello and welcome to Julie Mae is listening. 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We're a registered charity operating in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo and we produce and share podcasts via Bluetooth on mobile phones, focusing specifically on women and girls excluded from information due to extreme poverty. We empower those living in rural areas with media that transforms how they access, own and share information. To find out more and be part of this movement, come check out our website@mediamattersforwomen.org you're listening to women's radio stations supporting women's wellbeing. Women's Radio Station is creating a global network for the empowerment of women and we want you to be involved. Join us on Instagram and Twitter womensradio Station, that's womensradio Stn or Facebook Women's Radio Station to keep up to date with all our exciting programs. Welcome back to future Classic Women Awards on Women's Radio Station. Our guest today is pianist Margherita Torretta. Margherita, we've been talking a lot about your career. How did you decide to become a concert pianist? Now it's time for the odd question. So do you have any strange hobby to free or relax your mind? Maybe during my free time I just relax and I love photography so I have my camera so I like to take pictures. So maybe go to the park or maybe on the river. So just for hobby, I'm not professional but I did like some session on photography, but I can't say that I'm good as a photographer, but I like photography. And you were talking to me about designing. Yes. And I love dresses, so I love. Not shopping also. Who doesn't love shopping? So I just go to nice shops and look to nice dresses and I used to design some dresses as well and evening dresses. So you design your own dresses for concerts? I dip sometime. Yes. I. I made three dresses. Oh, wow. Okay, one question. Why do you think women are so passionate about dresses? I don't think men are that passionate about it. Apart that maybe they have less possibilities. Less possibilities. But actually I have some friend. Men friend that like being very well dressed up and shopping. I don't know, I. To me, I just love dresses and. But I have also friends that they don't care about, so. But anyway, I'm addicted. So this. I'm a very special case. So I. You are telling me you would like to design. Yes. A dress for each. Yes, for each music composition. Absolutely. So, for example, Debussy. I imagine that we can. We have like a blue dress. Not blue, maybe light blue dress. Yeah, totally. Yeah. With tule. Very fluffy. Very. Maybe Brahms more. I don't know, with the Tafta. With some. If I think a color Brahms to me is like brown something that. Me too. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So like that brown Bordeaux, you know that mix? Yeah, totally. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder why. How do we have the same idea? What about Chopin? Chopin to me is. Is quite light. Like maybe white, but white, I think. White, yes. Okay. I know that's not my color for Chopin. And what about her to make. Chopin is passionate, so it's totally red, gold intense. Yeah. But quite strong. Well, Chopin is my. Scarlatti is your favorite composer. Chopin is my favorite composer. So I have a very strong Chopin. That is not the. The normal idea of, you know, being romantic or whatever. So what about Scarlatti then? Scarlatti? I have a Betty. I would give white to Scarlatti. White and silver, maybe. To me it's red. There you go. You see, this is my favorite. I don't know. Absolutely. Yeah. Red, maybe for us is like sort of kind of colored. Is very. Yeah. I think it depends, you know, from the meaning that you're giving to the music and what you're trying to say. So definitely the color. It's something that goes very much with music and goes very much depending on who is the performer, isn't it? Yes. All right. So do you have any superstition or ritual before going on stage? I Have. I have not rituals, but I just eat chocolate and a banana. Oh yeah? And some nuts. Okay. And Yes. I can't really. I don't know, I can't go on stage without eat those stuff. I had always with me a banana and three nuts and some chocolate. Okay, three. I like the number three. And any embarrassing moment in your career or funny moment, not embarrassing, but maybe scaring, because when I was going to Lisbon, so I relied on the plaint that I forgot my scores. What? So to me, for us, you, Stefania, which you are pianist. You know very well what I mean. So anyone, really. Any musician? Yeah. Although we normally play by heart, still we need the music for practicing, isn't it? Yes, I usually play by heart, but to me I read my score before a concert is very important. Just think for the psychology thing, it's just for one month to get more relaxed. I don't know, just for this. Of course I know. My music, my music. But still important. Totally. Yeah. So what's your next project or concert Collaboration? Yes. Now I'm London, so I am relaxed a bit. But from January I will be in Lithuania. Then February I have a concert in London at the embassy. Yes, Italian institute. Ah, very good. And then I will go in Australia, my first time, very, very far away. And also Moscow in April. Then Poland and Belgium. Yes. So yeah. Are those concerts to promote your upcoming CD or. It's various programs. I mean, do you only play Scarlatti or you actually play other composers? No, I can't play. I will console Karlate, I think is gonna kill me. No, no, just first part, of course, because I have to promote my city. But the second part, I put play Schumann and Chopin. Oh, what about what was gonna be Schumann? I played. Oppos6 and also I play sometime Papillon. So the. Yes, yeah, Chopin, Some Vaults and Preludes and. Yes, but mainly. Yeah, really? Okay, wonderful. And so I just want to ask you super quick, before we finish, what about this project that you've done behind the scar? Because we didn't say it before, but the fact that you couldn't walk is because. Yes, I. When I was 18, I survived a house fire. So basically I have my. My body full of scars. Beautiful scars, I can say now. And I get in touch with Sophie Maiano, which is incredible photographer, she's amazing, she's a British photographer and she creates this project behind the Scars. So that supports women with physical and psychological issues. And so to me, this project was absolutely important because helped me to celebrate my body and get over my bad experience. So and there is a very special meaning that I would like to you to. To give to the audience before closing before listening to your last piece. And yes that the greatest things are created from sometime from a very bad experience, very dramatic experience. So I won't say so everybody but especially for to women that we, we, we if we fight we can, we can really get over our bad experience. We can born again. This is actually what I what I did so from a dramatic experience and which is so. So yes was a drama, literally a drama and my life changed my body change and it's still very hard for me because you know I have my body is not. It's not normal body as I had before. So I did I accept what happened now. But it took me 10 years to do it. So I didn't expect my body for a lot lot of time I tried to hide my scar, to hide my body. But no, we have to accept what we are and with our imperfections because the beauty of the womb, the beauty is just who we are not depends from if we have scars or we are not from beauty external beauty. The soul is most important thing. Totally. So let's listen now to Scalati Sonata K492 in D major. Sa. And this was Sonata in the major played by the fantastic and Margherita Torretta. If you have any questions that you would like to ask to our guest or nomination for our future Classic Women Awards, please email presenters@womensradiostation.com or tweet womensradiostn. 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