JUBILATE CONCERT
RIGA, 13TH OF FEBRUARY, 2012, AT 7PM, GREAT GUILD HALL
PART I
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG (1919-1996)
Concertino for violin and strings Op. 42(1948) Riga premiere!
I Allegretto cantabile
II Cadenza. Lento - Adagio
III Allegro moderato poco rubato
Soloist: Gidon Kremer
GIYA KANCHELI (1935)
Chiaroscuro for violin, strings, piano and percussion (2012)
Dedicated to Gidon Kremer. Riga premiere!
Soloist: Gidon Kremer (violin)
PART II
PĒTERIS VASKS (1946)
Epiphany for string orchestra (2011)
Kremerata Baltica
DMITRIY SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
Concerto Nr. 1 for piano, trumpet and strings in С minor. Op. 35
I Allegretto
II Lento
III Moderato - Allegro con brio
Soloists: Lukas Geniušas (piano), Clemens Stahmer-llgner (trumpet)
LEONID DESYATNIKOV (1955)
Fragments of Target - film music transcribed for chamber orchestra
In honor of 65+15 anniversary of Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica.
Riga premiere!
I Vivaldi's January
II Cadenza
III At the Races
IV Tannhauser
V Foxtrot
Soloists: Gidon Kremer (violin), Anastassiya Dranchuk (piano),
Clemens Stahmer-llgner (trumpet)
CHIAROSCURO
"A great personality always brings something to a piece that musical notes and symbols cannot express. Looking forward to the premiere of Chiaroscuro by Gidon Kremer in Brussels and Paris, I was convinced that I was once again waiting to engage with this mystery, which I never cease to admire. After all, great personalities with unique talent, become co-authors of the works they perform."
I wrote these words in anticipation of the world premiere. Now, that the concerts have taken place, I have a desire to rearrange the accents as the real author of this work was Gidon Kremer, and I feel like a happy co-author.
As always, a wonderful orchestra Kremerata Baltica has surpassed all my expectations.
EPYPHANY is dedicated to the PeterisVasks' close friend, soul mate and masterly interpreter of Vasks' work, the Finnish conductor, Juha Kangas on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The world premiere was in the summer of 2011 in Kokkola.
"...our composer Pēteris Vasks is the envy of his colleagues, contemporary composers. He doesn't aspire to spectacular innovation nor impressive complex intellectual constructions in new music; he can afford to write simply, truthfully, with emotion, from the heart.
Furthermore, he does it in his native language - in a clearly audible Latvian intonation, with a Latvian folksong./../ He plays on, as opposed to playing with, the strings of the soul, mindful of how old fashioned and banal that may seem today - to simply open our hearts", wrote the newspaper Diena music critic Inese Lūsiņa.
The articulation and atmosphere of Epiphany is very similar to one of Vasks' much earlier opuses - Musica Dolorosa (1984) for a string ensemble, which has been one of the cornerstones of Kremerarata Baltica's repertoire for over 15 years.
An epiphany is not only a literary genre, brought to life so eloquently by Imants Ziedonis, but also the Star of Bethlehem in the Gospel, which showed the way to hope.
FRAGMENTS OF TARGET (2011) is a work made from the material for the more than 80-minute soundtrack of the film Target (directed by Alexander Zeldovich, screenplay by Vladimir Sorokin). It's a cinema-utopia where the action takes place in Russia in 2020. The authors paint a picture in which Chinese cultural expansion at this point has reached such a significant degree, that the distinct "chinoiserie" taste in music pervades the film. There are five parts to the suite: January Vivaldi, Cadence, Horse Racing, Tannhauser, Foxtrot. Target Fragments is dedicated to my dear friends - Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica Chamber Orchestra musicians - and written in commemoration of their joint 65+15 year anniversary.
LUKAS GENIUŠAS was born in 1990 in Moscow, into a family of musicians. He started learning the piano at the age of 5 (his grandmother, Vera Gornostaeva, a prominent teacher, was his first mentor) at the Frederic Chopin Music College in Moscow, from which he graduated with top honours in 2008. From the age of 12, Lukas begins to take part in international competitions and festivals and goes on to win ten of them!
2002-International Young Pianist Competition A Step to Mastery in St. Petersburg (1st prize); The 2003 First Open CMS Competition (1st Prize); Moscow International Chopin Youth Piano Competition 2004 (2nd Prize); Gina Bachauer Youth Piano Competition in Salt Lake City 2005 (2nd Prize); Scottish International Piano Competition 2007 (2nd Prize); 7th Youth Delphic Games Russia, 2008 (Gold Medal); Musica Viva 2008 III Piano Competition in San Marino Italy (2nd Prize); International Piano Competition Musica della Val Tidone in Pianello, Italy, 2009 (1st Prize) and 1st Prize at the Gina Bachauer International Artists Competition in Salt Lake City, 2010). His most recent and most important victory is winning the 2nd prize at the 16th Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw in October 2010.
Lukas has appeared with numerous orchestras including the Symphony orchestras of Hamburg and Duisburg in Germany, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Kremerata Baltica, the Lithuanian State Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic and. He has performed in France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Japan, South Korea, USA, Germany and other countries. In April 2012 he will perform in Riga ahagain - with Latvian National Symphony Orchestra.
Lukas Geniusas has an extensive repertoire that ranges from Baroque to contemporary composers. The young pianist is inquisitive which makes him an excellent partner for exploring new or rare repertoire, a speciality of the Kremerata Baltica orchestra.
ANASTASSIYA DRANCHUK was born into a musical family in Kazakhstan in 1989. She moved to Berlin in 2001 to study with Galina Ivanzova at the Hanns Eisler School HFM. She was later tutored at the Julius Stern Institute (Head: Doris Wagner-Dix) and subsequently by Yelena Lapitskaya at UDK Berlin. From 2009 to 2011 she continued her studies with Pierre-Laurent Aimard at HFM Cologne. Anastassiya Dranchuk also attended master classes with Bernd Glemser, Pavel Gililov, and Boris Bloch.
Anastassiya Dranchuk is an active concert soloist in Europe and she has performed widely throughout Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Germany and Luxemburg. She has performed with ensembles like the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Berliner Symphoniker and the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, with the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt/Oder, the Polish Philharmonic Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Halle. Anastassiya Dranchuk has performed as a guest at the Bad Kissinger Festspiele, Germany, and the Armonie sotto la Rocca Festival in Italy.
CLEMENS STAHMER-ILGNER
after his first trumpet lessons in his hometown of Bonn, Germany, Clemens Stahmer-Ilgner began his studies at the Kolner Musikhochschule with Prof. Adam Bauer at the age of sixteen. He continued his education at the University of the Arts Berlin under Prof. Konradin Groth. During this time, he was a scholar of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
Already as a student, Stahmer-Ilgner was hired as an intern with the Staatstheater Braunschweig's orchestra and served as principal trumpet of the Landeskapelle Eisenach. Since August 2007, Stahmer-Ilgner has been assistant principal trumpet of the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra. He has participated in master classes held by Reinhold Friedrich, Thierry Caens and Håkan Hardenberger. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras such as the Landeskapelle Eisenach, Berlin Chamber Soloists, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin and the Berliner Sinfoniker. In 2011, Stahmer-Ilgner was asked to take part in a concert tour to Japan with the Bavarian State Orchestra of Munich led by Kent Nagano.
PrintRIGA, 13TH OF FEBRUARY, 2012, AT 7PM, GREAT GUILD HALL
PART I
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG (1919-1996)
Concertino for violin and strings Op. 42(1948) Riga premiere!
I Allegretto cantabile
II Cadenza. Lento - Adagio
III Allegro moderato poco rubato
Soloist: Gidon Kremer
GIYA KANCHELI (1935)
Chiaroscuro for violin, strings, piano and percussion (2012)
Dedicated to Gidon Kremer. Riga premiere!
Soloist: Gidon Kremer (violin)
PART II
PĒTERIS VASKS (1946)
Epiphany for string orchestra (2011)
Kremerata Baltica
DMITRIY SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
Concerto Nr. 1 for piano, trumpet and strings in С minor. Op. 35
I Allegretto
II Lento
III Moderato - Allegro con brio
Soloists: Lukas Geniušas (piano), Clemens Stahmer-llgner (trumpet)
LEONID DESYATNIKOV (1955)
Fragments of Target - film music transcribed for chamber orchestra
In honor of 65+15 anniversary of Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica.
Riga premiere!
I Vivaldi's January
II Cadenza
III At the Races
IV Tannhauser
V Foxtrot
Soloists: Gidon Kremer (violin), Anastassiya Dranchuk (piano),
Clemens Stahmer-llgner (trumpet)
CHIAROSCURO
"A great personality always brings something to a piece that musical notes and symbols cannot express. Looking forward to the premiere of Chiaroscuro by Gidon Kremer in Brussels and Paris, I was convinced that I was once again waiting to engage with this mystery, which I never cease to admire. After all, great personalities with unique talent, become co-authors of the works they perform."
I wrote these words in anticipation of the world premiere. Now, that the concerts have taken place, I have a desire to rearrange the accents as the real author of this work was Gidon Kremer, and I feel like a happy co-author.
As always, a wonderful orchestra Kremerata Baltica has surpassed all my expectations.
Giya Kancheli
Antwerp, 5th of February, 2012
Antwerp, 5th of February, 2012
EPYPHANY is dedicated to the PeterisVasks' close friend, soul mate and masterly interpreter of Vasks' work, the Finnish conductor, Juha Kangas on the occasion of his 65th birthday. The world premiere was in the summer of 2011 in Kokkola.
"...our composer Pēteris Vasks is the envy of his colleagues, contemporary composers. He doesn't aspire to spectacular innovation nor impressive complex intellectual constructions in new music; he can afford to write simply, truthfully, with emotion, from the heart.
Furthermore, he does it in his native language - in a clearly audible Latvian intonation, with a Latvian folksong./../ He plays on, as opposed to playing with, the strings of the soul, mindful of how old fashioned and banal that may seem today - to simply open our hearts", wrote the newspaper Diena music critic Inese Lūsiņa.
The articulation and atmosphere of Epiphany is very similar to one of Vasks' much earlier opuses - Musica Dolorosa (1984) for a string ensemble, which has been one of the cornerstones of Kremerarata Baltica's repertoire for over 15 years.
An epiphany is not only a literary genre, brought to life so eloquently by Imants Ziedonis, but also the Star of Bethlehem in the Gospel, which showed the way to hope.
FRAGMENTS OF TARGET (2011) is a work made from the material for the more than 80-minute soundtrack of the film Target (directed by Alexander Zeldovich, screenplay by Vladimir Sorokin). It's a cinema-utopia where the action takes place in Russia in 2020. The authors paint a picture in which Chinese cultural expansion at this point has reached such a significant degree, that the distinct "chinoiserie" taste in music pervades the film. There are five parts to the suite: January Vivaldi, Cadence, Horse Racing, Tannhauser, Foxtrot. Target Fragments is dedicated to my dear friends - Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica Chamber Orchestra musicians - and written in commemoration of their joint 65+15 year anniversary.
Leonid Desyatnikov
St. Petersburg, 23rd of January, 2012
St. Petersburg, 23rd of January, 2012
LUKAS GENIUŠAS was born in 1990 in Moscow, into a family of musicians. He started learning the piano at the age of 5 (his grandmother, Vera Gornostaeva, a prominent teacher, was his first mentor) at the Frederic Chopin Music College in Moscow, from which he graduated with top honours in 2008. From the age of 12, Lukas begins to take part in international competitions and festivals and goes on to win ten of them!
2002-International Young Pianist Competition A Step to Mastery in St. Petersburg (1st prize); The 2003 First Open CMS Competition (1st Prize); Moscow International Chopin Youth Piano Competition 2004 (2nd Prize); Gina Bachauer Youth Piano Competition in Salt Lake City 2005 (2nd Prize); Scottish International Piano Competition 2007 (2nd Prize); 7th Youth Delphic Games Russia, 2008 (Gold Medal); Musica Viva 2008 III Piano Competition in San Marino Italy (2nd Prize); International Piano Competition Musica della Val Tidone in Pianello, Italy, 2009 (1st Prize) and 1st Prize at the Gina Bachauer International Artists Competition in Salt Lake City, 2010). His most recent and most important victory is winning the 2nd prize at the 16th Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw in October 2010.
Lukas has appeared with numerous orchestras including the Symphony orchestras of Hamburg and Duisburg in Germany, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Kremerata Baltica, the Lithuanian State Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic and. He has performed in France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Japan, South Korea, USA, Germany and other countries. In April 2012 he will perform in Riga ahagain - with Latvian National Symphony Orchestra.
Lukas Geniusas has an extensive repertoire that ranges from Baroque to contemporary composers. The young pianist is inquisitive which makes him an excellent partner for exploring new or rare repertoire, a speciality of the Kremerata Baltica orchestra.
ANASTASSIYA DRANCHUK was born into a musical family in Kazakhstan in 1989. She moved to Berlin in 2001 to study with Galina Ivanzova at the Hanns Eisler School HFM. She was later tutored at the Julius Stern Institute (Head: Doris Wagner-Dix) and subsequently by Yelena Lapitskaya at UDK Berlin. From 2009 to 2011 she continued her studies with Pierre-Laurent Aimard at HFM Cologne. Anastassiya Dranchuk also attended master classes with Bernd Glemser, Pavel Gililov, and Boris Bloch.
Anastassiya Dranchuk is an active concert soloist in Europe and she has performed widely throughout Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Germany and Luxemburg. She has performed with ensembles like the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Berliner Symphoniker and the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, with the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt/Oder, the Polish Philharmonic Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Halle. Anastassiya Dranchuk has performed as a guest at the Bad Kissinger Festspiele, Germany, and the Armonie sotto la Rocca Festival in Italy.
CLEMENS STAHMER-ILGNER
after his first trumpet lessons in his hometown of Bonn, Germany, Clemens Stahmer-Ilgner began his studies at the Kolner Musikhochschule with Prof. Adam Bauer at the age of sixteen. He continued his education at the University of the Arts Berlin under Prof. Konradin Groth. During this time, he was a scholar of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
Already as a student, Stahmer-Ilgner was hired as an intern with the Staatstheater Braunschweig's orchestra and served as principal trumpet of the Landeskapelle Eisenach. Since August 2007, Stahmer-Ilgner has been assistant principal trumpet of the Essen Philharmonic Orchestra. He has participated in master classes held by Reinhold Friedrich, Thierry Caens and Håkan Hardenberger. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras such as the Landeskapelle Eisenach, Berlin Chamber Soloists, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin and the Berliner Sinfoniker. In 2011, Stahmer-Ilgner was asked to take part in a concert tour to Japan with the Bavarian State Orchestra of Munich led by Kent Nagano.
