I’m very pleased to announce that my mother, Felicja Blumental, has been recognised as one of “The Great Women Artists Who Shaped Music” in recent interview with Janet Horvarth for “Interlude” website.
She opens her article with:
Polish-Brazilian pianist Felicja Blumental was one of the few women who attained a solo career as a pianist in the early 20th century. Born in Poland in 1908, she was a brilliant artist whose probing interpretations exhibited Brazilian flair in works of Heitor Villa-Lobos and compelling intensity in music of Lutoslawski and Penderecki. Her shimmering elegance and pianistic poetry was enough to melt any listener. Recently, more than two decades after Blumental’s death, her daughter, soprano Annette Céline, stumbled upon drawings hidden in Céline’s attic, nestled between the pages of one of her childhood autograph albums. Blumental, it turns out, was also an exceptionally talented painter.
