Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux Jean-Jacques Bedikian

• Sergueï Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943): Études-Tableaux, Op. 33:
• 1 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 33: No. 1 in F Minor. Allegro non troppo 02:28
• 2 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 33: No. 2 in C Major. Allegro 02:20
• 3 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 33: No. 3 in C Minor. Grave 05:45
• 4 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 33: no. 4 in D Minor. Moderato 03:03
• 5 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 33: No. 5 in E-Flat Minor. Non allegro - Presto 01:39
• 6 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 33: No. 6 in E-Flat Minor. Allegro con fuoco 01:58
• 7 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 33: No. 7 in G Minor. Moderato 04:17
• 8 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 33: No. 8 in C-Sharp Minor. Grave 02:43
• Études-Tableaux, Op. 39:
• 9 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 39: No. 1 in C Minor. Allegro agitato 03:23
• 10 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 39: No. 2 in A Minor. Lento assai 07:27
• 11 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 39: No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor. Allegro molto 03:02
• 12 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 39: No. 4 in B Minor. Allegro assai 03:43
• 13 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 39: No. 5 in E-Flat Minor. Appassionato 05:15
• 14 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 39: No. 6 in A Minor. Allegro 02:47
• 15 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 39: No. 7 in C Minor. Lento lugubre 07:06
• 16 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 39: No. 8 in D Minor. Allegro moderato 03:18
• 17 Rachmaninov: Études-Tableaux, Op. 39: No. 9 in D Major. Allegro moderato. Tempo di marcia 03:50
• Total Runtime 01:04:04

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How did you develop a taste for both music and piano? Jean-Jacques Bedikian: Simply in the family context. My father liked to gather at home friends or relatives who were amateur musicians, and he enjoyed these improvised concerts which took a large part of traditional, popular, or film music, as well as the classical repertoire. I would stay up as late as possible to listen, I would even wake back up to do so, and this is how the first contact with music took place, and also the awakening of the desire to get my hands on the piano keys. In fact, when I heard a piece of music that moved me, I would try to play it, without having taken any lessons, to replicate first the melody, then a semblance of a harmonic framework. So I had the desire to learn the piano, which is why I was introduced to my first teacher. She asked me if I knew how to play anything, and without apprehension, I played by ear the main theme from the music of Nino Rota’s Godfather and the Waltz from Dmitri Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite No. 2. She accepted me as a student, and then prepared me for the entrance exam to the Marseille Conservatory.

Jean-Jacques Bedikian, piano

Jean-Jacques Bedikian
In 2010, he was awarded 1st prize at the J.S. Bach competition at the Marseille Conservatoire; in 2013, he was a prizewinner at the Corbelin International Piano Competition; a semi-finalist at the Lyon International Piano Competition, he was selected the same year for the Virtuoses du Coeur competition in Paris.

He joined Boyan Vodenitcharov’s class at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel for his Bachelor’s degree, and also studied with Fernando Rossano at the Crr de st-Maur.

He studied in the Cycle d’Excellence at the CRR in Rueil-Malmaison and in Boulogne Billancourt in the class of Jean-Baptiste Fonlupt in Paris. He has also taken part in numerous masterclasses and received advice from Ilja Scheps, Cyril Huvé, Désiré N’Kaoua, Éric Tanguy, Philippe Hersant and Claire Désert.

In 2015, he took part in a series of concerts conducted by Vladimir Cosma.

In 2019, he had the honour of being invited to sit on the jury of the Concours International Music Festival Paris.

He has since performed in recital on numerous occasions, including the Chopin-Sand Festival at La Seyne-sur-Mer, the Fort Napoléon, the Castellet Festival, the 6th World Water Forum – Pigna (Corsica), the Palais Longchamp, the Mozart Amphitheatre in Avignon, the Abbaye Saint Victor, the Musée de la Marine in Toulon, the Palais du Pharo, for the Lions Club, the Sahak Mesrop Cultural Centre, the Maison de la Philosophie in Marseille…

A member of the contemporary music ensemble “Da Pacem”, he also practices improvisation, jazz and film music.

Since 2018, he has collaborated regularly with mandolinist Vincent Beer-Demander on concerts, premieres and recordings of works by Vladimir Cosma, Richard Galliano, Jean Claude Petit, Claude Bolling, Mike Marshall, etc.

Deeply attached to his Armenian roots, he performs regularly with Doudouk player Levon Khozian, with whom he will be recording “Mayrig” in 2019 alongside mandolinist Vincent Beer-Demander, an extract from Henri Verneuil’s film and music by Jean Claude Petit.

Passionate about teaching, he teaches piano at the Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional de Marseille.

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