“Music can save souls,” she says: facing the snow-capped peaks of the Alps, virtuoso violinist Alexandra Conunova settles down on her balcony to offer her neighbors a lyrical interlude in their existence paced by the pandemic.
“I do good to people”
In the setting sun, there are many of them this Friday, at their window, in their garden, in the street, looking towards the top floor of a small building in Lausanne from where legati and stacatti rise.
Formed in particular by Renaud Capuçon, Alexandra Conunova summons Glück, Vivaldi and Bach, accompanied by the recorded score of a piano.
“I think I have never felt as useful as an artist as during this confinement because I know that I do good for people,” said the 31-year-old woman, born in Moldova, AFP.
These concerts under the stars are for her “a common prayer” with her neighbors.
“We don’t know how life is going to be after but the music, I think we realize that it is a magic way to care for souls,” she says beautifully.
Winner of the Tchaikovsky competition
Alexandra Conunova was also scheduled to perform Friday evening in Heidelberg, Germany, but the concert was canceled.
“In a few months, when life resumes its course, I am sure that even more people will want to go to concert halls because they will have understood how much music can be …, yes, that the music can somehow save souls, “predicts the young woman.
First Prize in 2012 of the famous International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition in Hanover, Germany, she was also winner in 2015 of the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
(dpa / nxp)
Created: 04.25.2020, 7.46 p.m.
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