Artur Cimirro

Artur Cimirro (born September 30, 1982) is a Brazilianpianist, composer and art critic.

Born in Bagé, Brazil, Artur Cimirro started his musical studies in 1995 with the acoustic guitar and in 2001 dedicated himself only to the piano. Cimirro had classes with Leandro Menezes Faber and attended several Master-Classes of different pianists.

Artur Cimirro has played in Brazil and in other countries like: Spain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Poland, Bulgaria, New Zealand and Australia, invited by Music Universities and International Festivals.

Throughout his studies Artur Cimirro developed an interpretative technique which he calls "Scientific Interpretation System" where the works are analyzed taking into consideration their historical factors involving composer and work, with a faithful reading of the score in the compositional context (contrapuntal/harmonic/analytic).

As a composer, Artur Cimirro is strongly influenced by the composer/pianists of different languages such as Franz Liszt, Leopold Godowsky, Ferrucio Busoni, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji. Among Cimirro's works there are a Piano Sonata (his Op.3) which takes 2 hours to be played in its 6 mouvements as well as symphonic works including two Symphonic Poems (No.1 "The Masque of the Red Death" based on Edgar Allan Poe's tale with the same name, and No.2 "Curupira"). At the present time an opera entitled "The King of the Jews", with text in aramaic, based in the life of Jesus Christ is being composed by Cimirro. Cimirro made his second set of Eccentric Preludes Op.13 specially for Stuart & Sons 102 key pianos and he was the first composer in the world to make piano pieces using the range limits of 108 keys from contra C to the top b in his Eccentric Preludes Op.20.

Cimirro was the first foreigner to win in Poland the “V Konkurs na Projekt Nagraniowy Zapomniana Muzyka Polska”, in 2008, with the CD recording project of the complete works by the virtuoso composer Carl Tausig (1841-1871). The first CD is already available by the Polish label Acte Prealable [1]

Since then some musical critics compared him to the greatest icons of the virtuoso piano music like Liszt, Godowsky, Cziffra and Horowitz. Because of his transcriptions and paraphrases Cimirro was also called "The Reincarnation of Liszt"

In May 2010 Artur Cimirro received in Rio Grande do Sul state (Brazil) the trophy “Bravo – Álvaro Godoy” in recognition to his prominence as a pianist worldwide.

In 2011 he was invited by Stuart & Sons Handcrafted Pianos to make recordings and concerts in Australia, the result of this tour is the CD & DVD "Cimirro plays Stuart & Sons in Terra Australis".

Artur Cimirro was also the first international pianist to play on the biggest piano in the world, a 5.7 metres long piano made by the 23 years old Kiwi Adrian Mann, making two special concerts in a shed on Timaru's countryside (New Zealand).

Artur Cimirro is the creator of Opus Dissonus blog where he works also as art critic.

WORKS WITH OPUS NUMBER

• Op.01 8 Etudes for piano
• Op.02 Reminiscences of Carmina Burana for piano
• Op.03 Sonata for piano with 108 keys
• Op.04 Variations in etude-form on 'Dies Irae' for piano
• Op.05 Nocturne No.1 for piano
• Op.06 Prelude, Passacaglia & Chacona for piano
• Op.07 Homage to Cziffra - 6 Concert Paraphrases on famous themes for piano
• Op.08 3 Eccentric Preludes for piano
• Op.09 Tocata, Intermezzo & Romance for piano/left hand alone
• Op.10 2 Scherzi for piano
• Op.11 Nocturne No.2 for piano
• Op.12 4 Romantic Pieces for piano
• Op.13 2 Eccentric Preludes for piano with 102 keys (Stuart & Sons pianos)
• Op.14 Quantum Tocata for piano
• Op.15 Symphonic Nocturne for orchestra
• Op.16 The Masque of the Red Death - Symphonic Poem No.1 for orchestra
• Op.17 Exu for orchestra
• Op.18 Curupira - Symphonic Poem No.2 for orchestra
• Op.19 Nocturne No.3 for piano
• Op.20 3 Eccentric Preludes for piano with 108 keys

WORKS WITHOUT OPUS NUMBER

• 53 Experiments [piano] (1998-2000)
• Concerto [piano & orchestra] (1999/2001)
• 3 Preludes [piano] (2001)
• Amazonic Arabesque [piano] (2001)
• Devil's Dance [piano] (2001-2)
• Fantasy [piano & orchestra] (2002)
• 2 Valses [piano] (2002-3)
• Overture to 'Édipo' [orquestra] (2003)
• A Mephisto Waltz - Homage to Franz Liszt [piano] (2003-4)
• Puppets [piano] (2004)
• Homage to K.Sorabji [piano] (2007)
• 5 Variations on a Beethoven's Theme for W.Prado [piano] (2009–11)

Over 70 transcriptions of works by Albeniz, Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Bernstein, Brahms, Cervo, Chopin, Duruflé, Honegger, Liszt, Mozart, Nepomuceno, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Rimsky-korsakov, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Schumann, Schütz, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Villa-lobos, Vivaldi and Wagner.

2011 - Artur Cimirro plays Stuart & Sons in Terra Australis

2016 - Karol Tausig (1841-1871) - Complete Original Piano Works (AP 0359) [1]

2016 - Aleksander Michałowski (1851-1938) - Piano Works 1 (AP 0365)[2]

2016 - Géza Zichy (1849-1924) - Complete PIano Works (AP 0371)[3]

2016 - Géza Zichy (1849-1924) - Complete Piano Transcriptions (AP 0372)[4]