Press
Mehdi Ghazi: déjà, à 21 ans, un grand pianiste
Claude Gingras / La Presse
…Les trois Intermezzi op. 117 de Brahms, qui ouvraient le programme, sont chargés d’une émotion que cache leur apparente simplicité. Cette émotion, le jeune Mehdi l’a communiquée avec un art soutenu qui évoquait Wilhelm Kempff, rien de moins…
At the piano, a cultural crossroads
Ingrid Peritz / The Globe and Mail
…Inside a recital hall in downtown Montreal Saturday, a young man from Algeria is set to take the stage for a debut concert of classical piano. While the repertoire of Brahms and Schumann may cover familiar ground, the performance itself marks the culmination of an uncommon journey…
Dazzling debut, departure
Ted Shaw / Windsor Star
…Ghazi delivered one meltingly beautiful passage after another in notes of gemlike lustre. He never rushed the music and let the piano parts to blend inseparably with the orchestra…
Oakville Symphony and pianist Mehdi Ghazi delight the audience in the inaugural concert for a new Steinway Grand
David Richards / Toronto Concert Reviews
…The highlight of the program for me came next. Guest soloist Mehdi Ghazi made the new Steinway sing with a beautiful clear tone in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15. Ghazi’s articulation and melodic lines rang through the orchestra with breathtaking beauty. Both Ghazi and the Steinway lived up to expectations. Rarely is the balance between orchestra and soloist so deftly managed…
Medhi Gahzi, dans la lignée de Beethoven
Michèle Fizaine / Midi libre
…La vedette, le bonheur du programme, c’est Mehdi Ghazi, 24 ans, qui est bien au-dessus de ses partenaires dans le triple concerto de Beethoven…
