Name: Comparsa de Ernesto Lecuona by Lydie Solomon
Duration: 1 min 35 s
Description: La Comparsa est une danse afro-cubaine, qui est devenue un tube de la musique cubaine. Ernesto Lecuona la composa à l'âge de 17 ans.

La Comparsa est une danse afro-cubaine, qui est devenue un tube de la musique cubaine. Ernesto Lecuona la composa à l'âge de 17 ans.

Comparsa de Ernesto Lecuona

From the album Brahms "Alpha et Omega" by Axel Lenarduzzi

Brahms Six pièces pour piano, Op. 118: No. 2, Intermezzo, in A Major

Lydie Solomon has a unique and astounding artistic path behind her.

A child-prodigy, she started the piano at the age of two by playing Beethoven’s Ode to Joy by ear.
She gave her first recital at ten at the “Printemps Musical de Silly” in Belgium and her first concert with orchestra at thirteen, with the “Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine”, at Radio France, the concert being broadcast on France Musique.
She was awarded a “Premier Prix de Perfectionnement” at the “CNR de Paris”, with the jury’s unanimity and congratulations, was then admitted at Jacques Rouvier’s class at the “CNSM de Paris”, from which she was awarded at eighteen a “Premier Prix” with “Mention Très Bien”.
At fifteen she was chosen by Paul Meyer and Eric Lesage to perform chamber music concerts, then toured several times South Korea (Seoul, Daejeon) where she gave recitals (with a CD produced by Dichter Liebe Classics) and concerts with orchestra under the conduction of Nanse Gum (with a TV and radio broadcast in Korea).

At eighteen Lydie started exploring other fields of experience.
After preparatory classes at the « lycée » Henri IV, Lydie was admitted at ESSEC business school, from which she graduated in 2006 with an MBA.
Then she discovered the movie scene, studying at the “Cours Florent” and being trained to the Actor Studio technique.
As an outcome she acted (under the Lydie Waï pseudo) as a pianist in an autobiographic role in Yvon Marciano’s full length movie “Vivre !”, released on the screens in France in 2009 and in Russia in 2010.
From 2008 to 2010, Lydie (Waï) wrote and sung her own compositions, recorded in a CD (Harmonie) with an American, Argentinian and Brazilian rhythm section, and performed concerts as a singer.

Up to 2007, Lydie still played classical music in public, giving recitals (La Charité-sur-Loire, Silly, Madrid…) and chamber music concerts, in particular with renowned artists such as François-René Duchâble (Annecy and Biarritz), François Salque (La Chaise-Dieu) and Laure Favre-Kahn (Val d’Aulnay).
She then interrupted her pianist career during three years.

Enriched by these complementary experiences, having broadened her understanding of the music environment, having developed her theatrical personality and her sense of communication, and having strengthened her artistic maturity, Lydie made her comeback to the piano scene in 2011 with a recital at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, “Eldorado”, published by Intrada. “Eldorado” was highlighted as “Coup de Coeur” by the journalist Alain Duault on RTL and was the subject of articles in Le Figaro and the Est Républicain.

Since her album was released, Lydie Solomon gave 40 “Eldorado” recitals. In 2012, she toured Cuba. The tour was reported on Cuban TV channel Cuba Visión and Radio Habana.

In the last quarter of 2012, Lydie performed a new program, “Romantique” (Bach, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Granados, Fauré…) in which she created her composition, Rhapsolydie (American Cathedral and Théâtre de l’Île Saint-Louis, Paris).

Lydie’s spiritual quest, which is upstream of her artistic path, drew the attention of the media (Le Parisien, KTO TV, Radio Notre-Dame).

Still passionate with acting, Lydie Solomon played Sophia Kaplan, a gifted but naive young criminologist, in the French TV series Profilage (Season 4, episode 11, “Dans la Lumière”), which was broadcast in October 2013 on TF1, with 8 million viewers.

From June-July 2013, Lydie Solomon unveiled her brand new program, “From Chopin to Cuba”, which she performed around 15 times in Paris and in Biarritz, France. In this program, Lydie explores the influence Chopin had on Cuban music, through his friend Julian Fontana. Besides, Lydie Solomon unveiled in this program her new composition, Invocation.
She was invited to talk about her “From Chopin to Cuba” program on TV channel France 5 (March 2014), Radio France Internationale (July 2013) and Radio Libertaire (July 2013).

On June 30th, 2014, Lydie Solomon’s CD “De Chopin à Cuba” was released, revealing another composition, Invocation. This new CD was presented on Radio Libertaire (June 2014) and in an article in the Est Républicain (July 2014).

Another facet which draws attention to the media is Lydie Solomon’s pianistic precocity. This led to an article in Le Figaro (February 2014) and a report in the television news on France 2 (May 2014).

Lydie Solomon loves sharing her passion with music all over the world, like in her recent tours in Poland (May 2014) and Mexico (September 2014).

Lydie Solomon will be part of a documentary on Frédéric Chopin, which will be broadcast in October 2014 by South Korean TV channel EBS.

Comparsa de Ernesto Lecuona

Lydie Solomon

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