Andre Mehmari at Toledo Museum Of Art

To experience a Mehmari solo piano recital is to travel with one of the most fertile musical minds of the 21st century. His instinct for music was inherited from his mother, a pianist whose adventurous spirit seamlessly embraced classical, jazz and Brazilian styles. This borderless world would be carried forward into the artistic life of her son, freeing his talent to take up ideas from any source based solely on the strength of their message. Whether from the Great American or Great Brazilian Songbook, whether from the turn of the 19th to the 20th century in Brazil or in the USA, Mehmari drilled down to the essence of each composer's ideas, elucidating and elaborating them into new and powerful expression...

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To experience a Mehmari solo piano recital is to travel with one of the most fertile musical minds of the 21st century. His instinct for music was inherited from his mother, a pianist whose adventurous spirit seamlessly embraced classical, jazz and Brazilian styles. This borderless world would be carried forward into the artistic life of her son, freeing his talent to take up ideas from any source based solely on the strength of their message. Whether from the Great American or Great Brazilian Songbook, whether from the turn of the 19th to the 20th century in Brazil or in the USA, Mehmari drilled down to the essence of each composer's ideas, elucidating and elaborating them into new and powerful expression. And like them he, too, became a composer, contributing to the literature what he could not find in the works of others. A Mehmari concert requires no specialized or technical knowledge, only an open ear and heart to reap the fruits of Western music from the hands of one of its greatest practitioners.

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