Romania’s Pavilion at EXPO 2010 Shanghai hosted, Tuesday, 12 October, a piano recital by young Spanish virtuoso Ivan Macias. The recital was part of a string of artistic and cultural events of the “Travelling Piano” programme organized by the European Union Pavilion for the World Exhibition in Shanghai.
Ivan Macias has worked with some of today’s greatest pianists: Ramzi Yassa, Ferenc Rados, Christopher Elton, Sequeira Costa, Rita Wagner, Gyorgy Sandor, Ilan Rogoff, Eugen Indjic, Ramón Coll, Almudena Cano and Claudio Martínez Mehner.
Since he graduated from the Conservatory in Seville and Madrid top of his class, he has won many awards at major international contests. In 2003 he won the interpretation prize of the Santa Isabel Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Seville. The media and the specialized critics are currently considering him the most representative pianist of the new Spanish piano school.
Ivan Macias began studying the piano at the age of four, under his mother’s guidance, and at six he first played in public.
The “Travelling Piano” concerts organized by the European Union on the Romanian Pavilion’s stage also included recitals by pianist Peter Pazicky from Slovakia and guitarist Hugues Navez from Belgium (26 September), French pianist Bruno Fontaine (15 June) and Chinese pianist Mu Wu Ye (21 August 2010).
The “Travelling Piano” programme staged by the European Union Pavilion is aimed at bringing before the EXPO 2010 audience the works of famous European composers who drew inspiration from the cultural specificity of their countries of origin and of the countries they visited. The images screened in the background show the artists’ home countries and are in tune with the compositions they perform.
The World Exhibition in Shanghai is the biggest public diplomacy event Romania has participated in. Expo Shanghai, centered on the theme “Better City, Better Life,” stretches over an area of six square kilometers, and has so far had 62 million visitors.
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