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Cyprien Katsaris and Piano 21-"Attracted like a Magnet"

"I remember very precisely," says pianist Cyprien Katsaris. "When I was three and a half, my parents bought a piano for my sister, who is a little bit older than me. I have a mental image of when the transportation guys brought it and put it in the living room-I was attracted like a magnet and tried to play themes like La Marseillaise with one finger." At the time, he was living in Cameroon, "which was a French colony. My parents left Cyprus in the late forties, and there was a very strong Greek community there. When my mother was pregnant, she wished to have a son who would be a conductor. And she claims that when I was five or six months old, I was trying to sing this famous Mexican song, ...

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