RICHARD CLAYDERMAN – The Romantique Concerts
World’s most successful pianist announces three NZ concerts
Accompanied by strings section
- WELLINGTON 21 June 2013 Michael Fowler Centre
- NAPIER 22 June 2013 Municipal Theatre
- AUCKLAND 23 June 2013 Civic Theatre
He never intended to be a performer – let alone become a superstar – but Richard Clayderman has outsold Bob Dylan, Coldplay, Adele, Jay Z and Lady Gaga. Today, his distinctive piano reinterpretations of familiar tunes from every era and genre are still heard in every corner of the world. Whether we know it or not, his music has become the soundtrack of our lives.
Stewart and Tricia Macpherson proudly announce that Richard Clayderman – just weeks after the release of his latest album Romantique – will perform in three very special New Zealand concerts of the same title.
Featuring hits from his latest album Romantique, concertgoers can expect favourites including Spartacus Adagio, medleys from Les Miserables and West Side Story, his mega hit Ballade Pour Adeline, The Flower Duet, Adele’s Someone Like You, Hallelujah, You Raise Me Up and Puccini’s Nessun Dorma. He will be accompanied by a dazzling strings section.
Fans are urged to be quick as Richard’s concert sell out worldwide.
Described as doing more than anyone else to popularise piano since Beethoven, the shy Frenchman is arguably the world’s most successful pianist, having sold over 85 million albums. With his trademark style of smooth, lavishly orchestrated reinterpretations of popular hits, show tunes and well-known pieces from the classical repertoire, Clayderman has collected 267 gold and 70 platinum discs in almost every country in the world. Not bad for a session musician who became a star by accident.
As a small boy, he could read music better than his native French. At 12 he won a place at the Paris Conservatoire and graduated with first prize. But instead of embarking on a career as a classical pianist, he became a studio musician to support his sick father and young family.
Until one day in 1977 when he received a call from French music producer Olivier Toussaint, who was looking for a pianist to play a brand new tune composed to celebrate his musical partner Paul de Senneville’s newly-born daughter Adeline.
Extraordinarily, and unlike any pop song before it, the popularity of ‘Ballade Pour Adeline’ spread slowly around the globe over the next five or six years, conquering one country after another until there was almost no corner of the world immune to its melodic charms.
Ticketing Information
From Friday 17 May till 9am on Monday 20th May a limited number of tickets are available at $79. As from 9am Monday 20 May Premium tickets will be $95 and limited number of tickets for Senior Citizens (holders of Gold Card only) will be $79.
Wellington Michael Fowler Centre Book Ticketek
Napier Municipal Theatre Book Ticketek
Auckland The Civic Theatre Book The Edge
