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Video: “Open or Closed”

With his brilliant technique and captivating improvisations, the pianist takes the listener on a journey through multiple worlds. For this series of solo piano concerts, Casimir Liberski proposes a selection of musical pieces that have marked his life since childhood, inviting us on the emotional path down the "songs of his life". 

What interests him lies not in theory, but in "that which cannot be learned". To him, theory is merely a method, perhaps what mathematics is to architecture; a system to help in the elaboration of a structure. While this method may be necessary and even beautiful, the artist must always rely on intuition and sensitivity.

One can certainly "learn" anything, but there will always be something to elude explanation: feeling. It is precisely that feeling that musicians seek to convey through the intimate reality and shared time of a concert.The "songs of my life" repertoire features the "small masterpieces" that have marked the pianist's personal history. Referring to a sense of collective memory as well as childhood’s nostalgia, they are picked from jazz, soundtracks, classical music and pop. Undoubtedly though, a certain approach to musical language seems to rise above personal tastes and memories.

Could this be Ornette Coleman's "sound grammar", carrying its universal emotional meaning? This would be Casimir Liberski's hope, bidding on the inescapable and precious mystery that lies at the heart of any "masterpiece", whether big or small.