WATCH: Caroline to perform at Circa this month
SAXONWOLD – Caroline Leisegang claimed her spot as a classical composer and pianist when she nabbed the title, winner of iTunes for the Best of 2015 Award for Best Classical Album in 2015.
By the time Caroline Leisegang was close to completing her first year at varsity, she had already made up her mind that she will bring a feeling of calmness to the world with her piano and cello talents.
“People always want you to perform your own work. It means you are expressing what you have written. It’s all about having a conversation with your listeners. This is what I will be giving my fans on this special day of my concert.”
Having been out of the game for a period of 14 months, Leisegang will be performing at Circa, Rosebank on 10 May, and you can hold your breath as she has specified that there won’t be the fully-dressed, timid girl you would anticipate.
“I would love more listenership. I am going to strip down for this one. I am in jeans and heels this time around,” she said. “I am going to start as a fairly timid girl. I am going to marry the relationship between composer and performer.”
The inspiration behind her new songs that will be performed at the concert is her episodic in-and-out of the hospital for the past 14 months, and her album Body of Preludes lets her fans in on the health problems she’s had to endure and conquer since before even her teenage phase.
Her health is quite complicated as she puts it. “I have multisystemic immune diseases and neurological conditions. I get too much pressure on my brain and start feeling funny and I don’t respond to medication.”
The petite beauty receives weekly chemotherapy sessions and is hoping to undergo a heart surgery as she is on a waiting list.
“I had a death scare about three and a half months ago,” she said. “My heart rate went above 170 in a minute the other day and I wasn’t even stressing about anything. It just happened. And that is why I am on chemotherapy. We are still trying to figure out what the problem might be.”
While she awaits her turn to go under the knife for a heart surgery before July, she is relentlessly working towards her album, which hopefully drops between September and October this year.
The world’s best doctors are still finding it difficult to provide her with a permanent cure. However, her body cannot absorb more treatments and surgeries.
The upcoming performance will exclusively be all about Leisegang and she said she is hoping the turnout will be satisfying.
“We have stars who are hyped up by publicity and having a large number of followers on social media, but for me, music is more like sharing with people.”
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