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LA BELLE ÉPOQUE

Music of its composers and the Ballet Russe

This album is a celebration of an epoch when music, dance and art inspired one another in abundance. This album brings us back in time to Paris 1871-1914. Imagine reliving “La Belle Époque” through a soundscape of music and composers of this era. As a classical pianist and fashion designer, the idea of music and creativ­ity simultaneously stimulating one another resonates with my artistic voice. Ever since I picked up a pencil to sketch designs, it unlocked a creative portal in my musical mind, sparking new compositional ideas. In this album, there are three composers from this beautiful era, La Belle Époque (1871-1914) and three works from the Ballet Russe, a ballet company based in Paris that was instrumental in bringing artists across disciplines together such as Coco Chanel, Pablo Picasso and Stravinsky. As this album unfolds through this artistic journey, it finishes with my own original composition: Improvisation on Scheherazade. It is inspired by one of the magnificent productions of Ballet Russe, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, a symphonic suite based on One Thousand And One Nights, also known as The Arabian Nights.