Followed by hundreds of thousands of subscribers on social networks, the musician opens the doors of clical music to all generations.
She plays Tchaikovskyjust as it takes up the theme of the saga Hunger Games : violinist Esther Abrami wants to p on her love of clical music to the younger generation, by sharing it on social networks and reinterpreting cinema hits. “This is my pion. Clical music, I love it», Confided the 27-year-old musician to AFP. She says she lovesthe vibration» from his violin, “the fact that we are so close“, that he “is stuck to the throat“.
An elitist and “closed” world
As a child, she even hadreally felt like it was (his) voice ping through the instrument“. It was her grandmother, a violinist herself, who introduced her to it when she was three years old. She took her first lessons around 9-10 years old and fell “in love with the instrument» and said he had “wanted to do this for life“.
She began with the Aix-en-Provence Conservatory, before Chetham’s School of music in Manchester, the Royal College of music in London and, finally, the Birmingham Conservatory… Many studies, during which she visited however, considers how the world of clical music can be “impressive“, elitist and “farm“.
“It is extremely sad to think that, perhaps“, clical music “may no longer be listened to by the younger generation“, that she “may die with a generation aging», laments the violinist, black eyes, pale complexion and long black hair. “So we just need to make it a little more current», she continues.
Despite “a lot of judgments and criticism”, she decided in 2016 to launch herself on social networks. On TikTok, some videos have been viewed 4 million times and show her playing and asking her more than 400,000 subscribers to guess her song, or in concert or recording her latest album. “People’s reaction has been overwhelmingly positive“, she says, “I gained a lot of followers” and Fformed a community on many networks» (Esther has nearly 300,000 subscribers on Instagram.
“In your playlists”
Esther Abrami also wanted to “create bridges» by recording music from films or series «that everyone knows“. “It’s orchestral music, it’s written like clical music“.
Hence the album Movie theater, released in September and which she presents on tour, including a performance on January 24 at Salle Gaveau in Paris. There is an adaptation of the hits from the series The Witcher or feature films such The fabulous destiny of Amelie Poulain, The chorists, In the mood for love Or Hunger Games. “I would really like everyone to be able to listen to clical music the way they listen to rap, pop or rock. Let it be in your playlists!“, she says.
What is also close to her heart: introducing female composers. At the end of her 15 years of musical studies, she realized that despite many musicians studied, “I was never taught the history of a woman, never“.
“I want to change that, on my own scale», enthuses the young woman, who discovered, in a short album (Spotlight, 2022), American composers Amy Beach and British composer Angela Morley. She also wants to increase collaborations with Rachel Portman, the first woman to receive an Oscar for her music in 1997.