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Maria João Pires

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2003 - Piano Concertos Nos. 13, 14 & 23

2000 - Piano Concerto / Piano Quintet

1999 - 14 valses

1997 - Le Voyage Magnifique: Schubert Impromptus

1996 - Nocturnes: A Selection

1996 - Nocturnes

1995 - Partita no. 1 / English Suite no. 3 / French Suite no. 2

1995 - Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 17 & 21

1995 - Piano Duets

1995 - Piano Concerto No. 2 / 24 Preludes

1993 - Klavierkonzerte No. 14 & 26 "Krönungskonzert"

1993 - Violin Sonatas

1993 - Piano Sonatas K. 281, K. 282, K. 533/K. 494

1992 - Piano Sonatas K.279, K.280, K.311, K.576

1991 - Sonatas for Piano and Violin, K. 301, K. 304, K. 378, K. 379

1990 - Mozart: The Complete Sonatas for Piano, Volume 5
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1990 - Piano sonatas, KV 331, KV 457 / Fantasies, KV 397, KV 475

1989 - Klaviersonaten: K. 310, K. 333, K. 545

1989 - Piano Sonatas K310 & K457 / Fantasia K475 / Rondo 'Alla turc

1989 - Sonata, D 784 / 6 Moments musicaux, D 780 / 2 Scherzi, D 593

1988 - Sonate Op. 78 / Impromptus Op. 90 Nos. 1-2

1987 - Piano Sonata Selection
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1985 - The Complete Sonatas for Piano, Volume 3

1985 - Kinderszenen / Waldszenen

1978 - 2 concertos pour piano

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Lisbon, Portugal

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Pianist

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1944

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Maria João Pires (born in Lisbon, Portugal, July 23, 1944) is a Portuguese pianist.
Her first recital was at the age of five, and at the age of seven she was already playing Mozart piano concertos publicly. Two years later she received Portugal's top prize for young musicians. In the following years, she studied with Campos Coelho at the Lisbon Conservatory, taking courses in composition, theory, and history of music. She continued her studies in Germany, first in the Musikakademie of Munich with Rosl Schmidt and then in Hanover with Karl Engel.
International fame came in 1970, when she won the Beethoven Bicentennial Competition in Brussels. She has since then regularly performed with major orchestras throughout the world, interpreting works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Mozart, Brahms, Chopin and many other classical and romantic composers. She appears regularly with major world orchestras in Europe, America, Canada, Israel and Japan.
She appears as a solo artist and in chamber music: her many successful recordings include Moonlight, featuring Beethoven sonatas, Le Voyage Magnifique, the complete Impromptus of Schubert, Nocturnes and other works by Chopin, and Mozart Trios with Augustin Dumay (violin) and Jian Wang (cello).
She won the Pessoa Prize in 1989. She also founded the Belgais Centre for Study of the Arts.
Gramophone selected her recordings of the Chopin nocturnes as the best version available: "I have no hesitation in declaring Maria João Pires—a pianist without a trace of narcissism—among the most eloquent master-musicians of our time" (Bryce Morrison).
One of her acclaimed recordings is "Mozart: The Piano Sonatas". According to the Penguin Guide: "Maria João Pires is a stylist and a fine Mozartian. She is always refined yet never wanting in classical feeling, and she has a vital imagination. She strikes an ideal balance between poise and expressive sensibility, conveying a sense of spontaneity in everything she does".