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Gen Tomuro

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Born in 1989, Gen Tomuro is a pianist whose stylish playing reflects a childhood spent abroad. This album is devoted to Poulenc, the composer he loves above all others. It opens with the Three Novelettes and has at its centre the 15 Improvisations of 1932; among these, No. 15, “Hommage dith Piaf”, written for a singer Tomuro adores, shows Poulenc’s elegance at its most characteristic. Napoli, made up of three pieces written over a wide span of years, is equally beautiful – an intriguing work in which the best of Italy and of France are fused.From Gen Tomuro2019 marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of Francis Poulenc, and I wanted to make a CD of the composer I love most among all the French music I have studied. This is my debut recording, and I have chosen the pieces that mean most to me from Poulenc’s many piano works. I lived in Paris for more than ten years, studying with the pianist Phi