People have different associations when they hear the sounds of a piano, but in general, these emotions are pleasant. The sounds of a piano awaken a whole palette of feelings in a person. Especially, the emotional characteristics Happy, Romantic, Comic, Calm, Mysterious, Shy, sometimes Heroic, Angry or Sad. Piano is like an orchestra, the one who can play it well, becomes a master of Music! Almost every good pop song or a rock ballad melody was composed on the piano, and a serious songwriter, even if composed with another instrument, would often check if the song works well withing the piano arrangements. Anna is a pianist, composer, a singer-songwriter and author with more than a hundred albums and singles released.
Today she mainly focuses on piano music composition. Based in France, she has founded a Piano Revenge Festival, which 1st edition will take place in Paris in June.
Her new EP is called Arômes du printemps, and its release date is set for the Piano Day, on the 29th of March.
Is it possible to compare composers’ music at all, which is certainly what music critics and musicologists do? What drives a composer today? Is there a chance to create anything new in piano music after the world had such geniuses as Mozart, Chopin or Scriabin? Reading Anna’s latest interviews, it seems that she continues to search for her mystical accord, and finds inspiration in life itself, with each new piano album she brings out new sensations. But let’s get back to music itself, and why the artist-musician is the most sensitive of artists. Perhaps this is so because it is through music that one can see the invisible. And isn’t the invisible that divine, that incomprehensible perfection to which the human soul strives… Only if a person finds time at all in today’s world and thinks about these things? BIG IF.
All that is required is an inner space into which new music can be let in. And today it is not at all easy, since the world has undoubtedly moved into a new digital dimension, and it is extremely hard not to get lost in this matrix. Many admire the ability to abstract and create, it can even cause envy, and for an artist it is not easy to maintain artistic individuality, to remain oneself in a musical sense is even more difficult. In a world that lives on tabloids and ratings, creating music that doesn’t immediately seek to charm the audience is a real feat. Starting with the albums Extravaganza and Mysterium, something different appeared in Anna Bondareva’s piano sound, a new direction that she is developing.
She boldly uses dissonance as a key, as an alchemical initiation. Her piano music stimulates thought processes, it is not festive, not salon and not cautious.
It is Fearless, just like one her piano song titles, touching and avant-garde. The lyrics of the song immediately hypnotize the listener, the sensual voice merges with the sounds of the piano, and then only music, only love remains.
When you listen to Anna’s live performances, you don’t always understand whether these piano compositions were created, conceived in advance, or whether they are born directly on stage during the concert. If we consider improvisation, then she certainly does it superbly.