Sandrine Erdely-Sayo

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Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, born October 11, 1968, in Perpignan, France, is a Jewish French-American pianist. She was a child prodigy who could play Bach and read music before knowing how to read a book. Sandrine Erdely-Sayo began studying piano at the age of four at the Perpignan Conservatory in France, with Michèle Puig (Pablo Casals' goddaughter). At ten, she was awarded first prize at the Bellan Competition in Paris. Three years later she won gold medals in piano and chamber music and the following year, the "prix d'excellence à l'unanimité". She continued her musical studies with Denyse Rivière and with Christian Manen (First Grand Prize of Rome) at the Conservatoire de Paris where she received first prize for specialization in solfège. There, she pursued special studies in harmony, counterpoint and fugue. She became the youngest recipient of the French minister of Culture Prize at the age of thirteen. Four years later, she won first prize at the Scène Française International Piano Competition, in Paris, was a prize winner at the IBLA International Competition in Italy, and was semi-finalist at the "Torneo Internazionale di Musica" in Rome, Italy. At the age of 14, she wrote three pieces for chamber orchestra which were played at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. She came to the United States in 1990 for graduate studies with Susan Starr at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia where she received a Master's Degree in piano and composition, and won the Orchestra Competiti

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Voyage: Debussy, Liszt, Manen, Piazzolla, Poulenc, Scriabin, Thalberg

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ONCLASSICAL | Piano Recital (Debussy, Liszt, Scriabin, Thalberg) | Classical music

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Watermark

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Majestic Liszt

Sandrine Erdely-Sayo: Platero and I

Primitivo Lazaro

Primitivo Lazaro Works for Piano Vol.1

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Platero y Yo

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Voyage: Debussy/Liszt/Manen/Piazzolla/Poulenc/Scriabin/Thalberg

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ONCLASSICAL | Piano Recital (D

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Primitivo Lazaro (Bonus Track)

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