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Piano lessons by invested teacher and graduate HEM Geneva and CNSMD LYON

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My keywords:
Passion for music, flexibility, tension and relaxation, having fun = enjoy playing, being efficient and focused = music is a demanding discipline, independence of hands and fingers, regularity of work

My method is first of all to fascinate the student, and the music must above all give pleasure.
Then comes the choice of my working method adapted to the level of each one.
Of course, we will work on technique, listening, flexibility, posture, breathing, style, interpretation, but also self-confidence, and psychological self-encouragement, inner singing, anatomy and the correct posture of the musician (back, arms, wrists, fingers). All to develop a healthy position and a comfortable and fulfilled piano playing.

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Léo is a multi-talented Franco-Turkish concert pianist and an artist of great sensitivity. He expresses his pianistic art through the classical repertoire, jazz, and is fond of improvisation and composition.
After musical studies in Antibes, Nice and Paris, he was unanimously admitted to the University of Music in Geneva - HEM where he is currently studying with Cédric Pescia and Gabor Nagy Takacs. He also follows the Master of Pedagogy at the conservatory.
His touch on the piano is balanced by a mixture of French and Russian schools. He studied with professors Rena Sheresheskaya, Florence Paumier, Cécile Collin and Bernard D'Ascoli.
He also works with great pianists such as Paul Badura-Skoda, Jacques Rouvier, Pavel Gililov, Louis Lortie, Bruno Rigutto, Alain Planès, Fred Hersch, Frank Avitabile and Marc Perrenoud.
Associations such as Ars Antonina, Piano Cantabile, Le Cercle Musical de Cannes and the Académie Villecroze support him in his artistic development.
A talented and promising young pianist, he won several prizes and distinctions in numerous competitions: the piano competition of the Lions Club of Sanremo and Nice, the Steinway competition in Cannes, the international competition in Île de France and the Philomuses prize in Paris. .
For several years, he simultaneously studied flute, cello and drums. In 2010, he won 1st prize at the National Flute Competition in Menton on the Côte d'Azur.
Léo performs in many countries around the world (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Russia, Cuba, Turkey, China).
Appreciated for his temperament and his sensitivity, he plays in various festivals such as the Vence Festival, the La Côte Festival in Switzerland, the Moscow Flute Festival, the Cuba Festival, at the Théâtre des Variétés in Monaco, at the Auditorium Kosma, at the Dior Chapel in Montauroux, or at the Auditorium de la Seine Musicale in Paris.
As a soloist, he gives concerts with several orchestras such as the Orchester de Chambre de Genève, the Orchester Symphonique de Cannes, the Orchester de Chambre de Mersin, the Orchester Camerata d'Istanbul, the Orchester Mozarteum de Havana. He regularly plays chamber music in duos, trios and quintets, notably with vocals, flute and jazz trio.
This year he founded a cello-piano duo, two piano quintets in which he performed Schumann, Mozart and Beethoven.
Léo gives several charity concerts for the benefit of the association "Coline en Ré" which helps disadvantaged children in Madagascar and Reunion.
Selected in two academies such as the Phillipe Jaroussky Academy in Paris and the Villecroze Academy, he performed at the Seine Musicale, where he studied with countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, pianist David Kadouch during masterclasses filmed by Medici TV .
During the Academy of Villecroze, the meeting with the pianist Louis Lortie is decisive in his training. He invited him to the Queen Elisabeth Chapel in Belgium to work on Chopin and Mozart.
At the same time, he made an exciting encounter with the Russian-Swedish pianist Julia Mustonen with whom he worked in a masterclass and will soon go to Sweden to perform at its international piano festival.
Regularly collaborating with the Italian composer Armando Ghidoni, Armando chose him as the official pianist of his compositions and dedicated a double concerto for flute and piano to him entitled "Magical Concert". He is also the ambassador for this piece as far away as Shanghai and Havana. It will be recorded with the Belgian label "Chant de Linos". He created the European premiere of Ghidoni's "Captivating Story" Piano Concerto.
He has already recorded the piece "Music Wonderland" in the chamber music disc of Ghidoni's work.
Léo currently lives in Geneva, he is passionate about pictorial art, opera, ethnomusicological conferences, travel, the study of languages such as German, English and Spanish. He learns to play on historic pianos such as the pianoforte with Pierre Goy. He plays in a jazz and current music group at the conservatory.
Recently, he completed a semester in Sweden as an exchange program, after meeting piano teachers Julia Mustonen & Mikael Kanarva at the Glafsjordens Festival in Arvika. There he prepares a new classical repertoire and works on a new way of approaching his piano. He is currently preparing his recital diploma at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Genève, international competitions, an album in solo repertoire and with orchestra for the Chant de Linos label.
Coming from a family of teachers, his mother also a renowned concert pedagogue, he has been teaching the piano since a very young age and is passionate about explaining and solving the difficulties that his students may encounter. He is currently doing a Masters in Pedagogy in Geneva and is looking for two young students for regular work at the Haute École de Musique de Genève.

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The class is taught in:French, English

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