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Etudes Melodiques

Marie Awadis opened the 26 January 2024 Berlin - Säälchen, Yellow Lounge event with a performance of five of the 12 tracks on her forthcoming Deutsche Grammophon debut album, Études Mélodiques. This inspired composer and conservatory-trained pianist has long followed her own path, refusing to compromise, and simply allowing her music, which bridges the classical and contemporary worlds, to speak for her.

The album version of one of the pieces performed live in Berlin – Étude No. 2: Breathless – comes out digitally today. “This étude is about duality,” explains Awadis. “It represents the constant change of feeling between joy and disappointment, hope and despair, the excitement of experiencing love and the doubt that it will be everlasting.” Études Mélodiques, meanwhile, is released on 6 September 2024.

Awadis’s route to working with DG says much about her personal and artistic integrity. The label’s A&R department was originally interested in one of the tracks from her then unreleased 2020 album Una Corda Diaries, but this felt wrong to the composer: “I wanted to stay honest to myself and knew that it would be like taking one sibling out of a family.” DG accepted her decision and in 2021 chose a different piece, Alone, to include in their “Project XII” contemporary music series. When Awadis completed Études Mélodiques, she discussed it with DG and the album project took off.