Sodi Braide (s.braide), Piano

Biography

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"Sodi Braide is
(…) prodigiously gifted. His sound is clear, his playing both powerful and
fluid, he also possesses an innate sense of colours and melody.”(Mathias
Heizmann, Arte.tv)

A cosmopolitan artist influenced by numerous
cultures, Sodi Braide likes to explore a large repertoire, of different styles
and periods. Currently living in Paris, he performs recitals and chamber concerts
in France (Radio France, Salle Cortot,
Bagatelle Chopin Festival, Serres d’Auteuil Festival, Chambord Festival,
“Flâneries musicales” Reims festival, amongst others). He has also
performed in the United Kingdom (Harrogate, Cheltenham and Cambridge Summer Music Festivals), Belgium, Italy, Germany, Spain, Luxemburg, Romania and
the United States (notably in the Ravinia Rising Stars series, the Dame Myra Hess recital series and the Houston "Impulse Artists" series). He was invited to perform in South Africa in 1994,
thus becoming one of the first black African pianists to perform there after
the end of apartheid. His Paris debut recital in 2001 was recorded by Radio
France for the “Declic” CD series, sponsored by the French Foreign Ministry,
after which he was invited for extensive tours of Latin America (Mexico,
Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador).

 Born of Nigerian parents in Newcastle (United
Kingdom), Sodi Braide started playing the piano at the age of 3 in Dublin,
Ireland. He continued his musical studies in Nigeria until 1988, when he was
noticed by the French pianist Eric Heidsieck during a competition organised by
the Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON). He was subsequently invited to take
part in the televised concert “Classic Aid II” at UNESCO, Paris, in which
artists such as Placido Domingo, Barbara Hendricks and Lorin Maazel performed
also. He then continued his musical studies in France, first of all at the
Orleans Conservatory, then with Jacques
Rouvier at the Conservatoire
National Supérieur, Paris and with Françoise
Thinat at the Ecole Normale, Paris.
He moreover obtained the French scientific baccalaureate.

 In order to pursue his musical development, he
entered the postgraduate course (Troisième Cycle) at the Paris Conservatory,
studying under Gerard Fremy, and then was admitted into the
class of Dimitri Bashkirov at the Reina Sofia School,
Madrid. He was then granted residency at the prestigious Lake Como Piano
Foundation where he took part in masterclasses by internationally renowned
musicians such as Leon Fleisher, Fou Ts’ong, Andreas Staier, Alicia de Larrocha and Charles Rosen, amongst
others.

Sodi Braide has won numerous prizes and awards.
He was notably a laureate of the “Natexis
Banques Populaires” foundation from 2001 to 2004; as well as a prize-winner
in the international competitions of Pretoria,
South Africa (1996), Leeds (2003)
and Van Cliburn (Jury Discretional Prize, 2005).

 Sodi Braide is an avid chamber music performer.
He has also performed with orchestras such as the Neue Philarmonie Westfalen,
the Inter Loire Orchestra, the Paris International Orchestra, the Toulouse
Tempo Orchestra and the Caracas National Philharmonic Orchestra.

 Sodi Braide took part in the 2003 DVD recording of Saint-Saens’ Carnaval des Animaux for LORCOM
productions, with Pierre Arditi as narrator. His 2006 solo recording of piano works by César Franck for the French label Lyrinx received excellent reviews
in France and other countries. Sodi’s performances have been broadcast on TV by MEZZO and the BBC.

WEBSITE : www.sodibraide.com