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Praxedis Genevieve Hug

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This is the debut album on Sony Classical by pianist Placidis Genevive Hugg, born in Zurich in 1984.Whats more, she makes a grand debut right off the bat with a 3-CD set featuring Liszts piano transcriptions organized by theme.Genevive Hugg began playing the piano at the age of five and studied under Theo Lehrch at the Zurich Conservatory. She received guidance from such distinguished pianists as Chesnack, Karl Engel, Weissenberg, and Zimmermann, and began to attract attention after winning music competitions in Hamburg and Switzerland. She is also known for her duet performances with her mother, a harpist.Liszts works are a specialty of Genevive Huggs repertoire, and her performances have already received high praise from critics, who have described them as unprecedented, brilliant virtuosity delivered with style, a performance brimming with the vigor and beauty of fireworks, and her