Argentina Durán, Veracruz pianist with talent and love to convey

You are the dream of the great -grandmotherhis family tells Argentina Durán. Doña Estela yearned for a pianist son. None was. Then he grabbed his grandchildren, because he was blind, and told them that they had pianist’s hands, but none fulfilled the prediction. Finally, it was she who became a concertist at the head of the beautiful box with ropes and keys.

He began studying as a child in his native Xalapa, first driven by his older brother and then professionally. However, seeing their little hands the teachers discouraged her, You will never touch anything important from the pianistic repertoire. This March will demonstrate how that trial was wrong, because in this month he plays Shostakovich and will make a world premiere by Eduardo Florence.

Yesterday, International Women’s Day, the Veracruz pianist was part of the concert Forever divas 2, Organized by the Orizaba Women’s Orchestra, in which the director Liliana Mejía Velázquez, singer Cinthia Carolina Bazaldúa and all the members of the genre that this month stands out with the call to equity were summoned. I am not aware that there are many female orchestras in Mexicoso, in addition to commemorating the date, It is a celebration to make a women’s concert.

It was planned that in the Veracruz city his work would be touched, but finally the Symphony Orchestra of the National Polytechnic Institute will be released. On the other hand, in the city with a volcano name, as a guest soloist, he will interpret Rhapsody in blue, of the American composer George Gershwin.

His first work that will premiere works from the pandemia, “a very dark moment that I had. I started to capture it in the composition. I suffered very close losses, so that affected me a lot. I started getting my heart and this concert arose that was born with an influence of music from Prokófiev and Debussy.

I learned that Gabriela Ortiz, Mexicana, won two Grammys. Somehow it opens this path to women, since they have been historically very relegated, but there are also many prejudices around. I have noticed it in comments from other musicians, who talk about women are not so good to compose or that for physical issues we compose different.

In the interview at his home, where a tail and another vertical piano occupy almost the entire room, he talks about these two new areas in which he starts the way, not only as a concertist. Composition and management imply a lot of study in which it is starting. After mastering the interpretation of your instrument, going to other areas is complex. In the case of the composition, he is studying with Eduardo Florencia, an outstanding Ecuadorian author.

I believe that life is ahe states. And when we are young, well, also even if we are old, we must always do what helps us learn, go for more and complement our training. Nourish us from all areas, make us an integral artist.

March of premieres

In March it has an accelerated agenda. After March 8, he returns to Mexico City, where on March 14 and 16 he will make the world premiere of the piano concert opus 10 In the Palace of Fine Arts, a work dedicated to it, composed of Eduardo Florencia (Guayaquil, 1985).

It has me very excited, not only learn from him, but now play his music, which is very complex. It is tonal as a neorromántico, with obvious influences from Rachmaninov, Brahams, Scriabin and Sibeliussays. After sounding with the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ludwig Carrasco, it will have its national premiere in May, in Ecuador.

He considers that he has meant a different, complicated shoe, because he is a genius that becomes very demanding, in addition to that there is no previous reference, such as when you can search YouTube for some interpretation of Martha Argerich, for example. Sometimes I feel with this concert as if I were doing weights; I am adapting, because my hand is very small. It’s fine.

Argentina Durán affirms: I like to say this: I did not choose music; chose me. When learning accompanied by her brother, feeling close to the family, made love to the instrument arise, Because it is very important that your family supports you. He believes that one of the three things necessary for the formation of a concertist, along with a good teacher and talent, have coordination, sense of rhythm, love to convey, because it is not only about touching the notes.

Despite interpreting the piano for 20 years, I still strive, studying 10 hours a day. It has not been a blow of luck. It has been a lot of effort, many tears, a lot of sweat, even injuries.