Sometimes he will throw back his head, eyes closed. The catharsis that Gavrylyuk now finds in playing is clear from film of his recitals.
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“I want to get under the skin of the composer, find the emotions that prompted them to write that music, and let those lead the way.” So now after I have memorised the notes on the page, I keep researching,” Gavrylyuk says. “Stanislavski’s approach was not to ‘act’ but to transform into the character. The father of “method” acting proved the key to unlocking his newfound musical purpose. PIANO PRODIGY Group and individual piano lessons for developing gifted and talented children Adelaide, South Australia. I wanted to create an energy that inspires communication between people, no matter their background.”Īs he was recuperating, Gavrylyuk read the books of Russian theatre director Konstantin Stanislavski. I realised there must be a reason I am still here, and that is to unite people during a concert. 21K views, 180 likes, 28 loves, 24 comments, 36 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from ABC Classic: Watch Australian pianist Geoffrey Tozer grapple with media attention at an early age. “Afterwards it became a much more selfless relationship. In Ukraine that’s how you are taught, it’s very strict,” he says. “Before my focus when I played was all on myself, and on controlling everything that happened. “It showed me the meaning of freedom, and it saved my life.” “I’ll always be drawn back to Australia,” he says. Yet here is Gavrylyuk, balancing a plastic piano keyboard on his lap inside his room at the Novotel Melbourne, as he speaks with the AFR Weekend while completing quarantine ahead of a performance at Sydney’s City Recital Hall on Thursday. Peter BraigĪs the concert halls there begin to reopen, Gavrylyuk will be in demand at any of them – his combination of virtuosity and emotional intensity has led to his fronting philharmonics from New York to Moscow under the baton of conductor royalty such as Vladimir Ashkenazy. He took out citizenship in 2003, yet by 2006 had followed the path of many a promising antipodean musician, and was back in Europe.Īlexander Gavrylyuk, seen here at City Recital Hall on Friday, has learnt to let the emotion in the music “lead the way” during performance. It took almost dying for Ukrainian-born Australian pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk to begin to live through his music.Ī talent as internationally acclaimed as that of Roger Woodward or David Helfgott, Gavrylyuk moved to Sydney in 1998 as a 13-year-old piano prodigy on a scholarship with the Australian Institute Of Music.
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