Although the pianist Sofiane Pamart has a classical training, her name has become very popular in France for her collaborations in the hip hop scene, collaborating with rappers and becoming their reference pianist.
This mix has made his name, his style and his style have a unique sound. And his presence today at the Barcelona Jazz Festival is more than timely (Conservatori del Liceu, 8:30 p.m.). La Vanguardia subscribers have a 15% discount on the price of tickets, as long as they buy them at Entradas de Vanguardia.
However, and to avoid potential confusion, Pamart plans to offer today a strictly solo piano session, without effects or amplification. A somewhat intimate proposal and a few weeks a few weeks before playing in the immense Accor Arena in Paris before thousands of spectators.
In his solo career Pamart, which is the one that can be tasted today, has released three albums: Planet (2019) is a journey through twelve places in the world (Chicago, Sicily, Paris, Nagasaki, Havana, Medellín, Bora Bora... ); Planet Gold (2021), second part of the first LP, and finally Letter, which appeared in 2022.
All his solo works are composed and performed by him, and all of them feature evocative, moving and delicate contemporary classical music.
As an example of his versatility, it is also worth turning to the notes of the Voll-Damm Barcelona Jazz Festival -which were the ones used by the Barbican in the British debut of the French pianist on July 17-, where you can read that "Charged with an energy and vigor not often heard on a solo piano, Pamart invites us into a dreamlike world through his sound, with influences ranging from Claude Debussy to Philip Glass to Erik Satie."
Pamart's transgressive dimension and constant search is based on an outstanding piano skills, which soon materialized at the Lille Conservatory, where he won the gold medal.
He entered there at the age of seven despite the fact that in his family, of Berber origin and dedicated to mining, there was no previous link with classical music.
Since then, a universe of its own has been forged, difficult to classify, and with a score on the lectern that crosses all genres. What does not mean that his music was in 2021 one of the 10 most listened to via streaming in France, where he collaborates, as was said at the beginning, with urban artists, rappers or producers of brands such as Cartier, Kappa or Lacoste.
