Gile Bae's piano makes music dance

It is music that enhances the sense of dance and rhythm that Gile Bae played at the Trento Philharmonic.

The internationally renowned pianist played Johann Sebastian Bach's English Suite No. 4, Ludwig Van Beethoven's Sonata No. 18 (The Hunt) and Sergei Prokofiev's Second Piano Sonata. The universal language of music is the leitmotif of the setlist, which combines pieces by very different composers who lived even centuries apart.

'I chose these pieces,' Bae explains, 'because, although they are from very different eras (from Bach to Prokofiev there are 300 years of history), they all have rhythm and, above all, a sense of dance in common. The combination, therefore, allows us to hear how in three different periods of musical composition the same criteria were used, namely melody and a strong sense of rhythm, albeit in three very different ways. In addition, listening to the three pieces in sequence helps to understand the spirit that animates each composer'.

This is not the first time that Bae has taken part in the Festival of Economics, and she thought of a programme that would appeal to a diverse audience, who took advantage of the event to listen to her at the piano. "Every year," says Bae, "I hope that there will be more and more young people, because passing on the passion for classical music is an important goal for us musicians and, in particular, for the younger ones, who can have an influence on the new generations and who can find more effective ways to attract young people, our audience of tomorrow, to the concert halls.

Children do not get very close to classical music because they have little education in listening to it. Gile Bae, on the other hand, began studying the violin at a very young age with her musician mother, and then switched to the piano at the age of five, partly so she could play with her.