After more than 50 years of career and 80 years of life, Maria João Pires takes to the stage in Braga for the first time.
Considered one of the most virtuoso pianists of all time, she began playing the piano on her own at the age of three, a year before her first public performance. Her international career began in the 1980s, when she made her recital debut in London at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and in New York at Carnegie Hall. His sublime interpretations of Schubert, Mozart and Chopin are universally admired, both solo and with orchestra – a list that includes the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Vienna Philharmonic.