TROIS NOVELETTES

In the small hall

Performers:

MYROSLAVA KOTOROVYCH (violin, Ukraine)

ARTUR SHUTOV (piano, Ukraine)

In the program:

Valentyn Silvestrov - Violin Sonata and for piano "Post scriptum"

Francis Poulenc - Three Novelettes for solo piano

Cesar Franck - Sonata for violin and piano in A major

Ukrainian pianist, laureate of national and international competitions, participant of various master classes and projects ARTURAS SHUTOVAS actively performs concerts in Lithuania and throughout Europe. He in 2022 graduated from the Odessa National Academy of Music, this year from the VDU Music Academy. The pianist works as a concertmaster and tutor at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater and regularly collaborates with the most prominent Lithuanian and foreign performers.

He has performed in various concert halls as a soloist. , chamber music performer, pianist-concertmaster, performed in Germany, in the Einbeck Town Hall and Gudrun Petzold concert halls, in Austria, in the Vienna Philharmonic, In the halls of "Mozarthaus" and "Borromäus". With his concert programs, the pianist strongly contributes to the spread of Ukrainian and Lithuanian music.

Ukrainian violinist MYROSLAVA KOTOROVYCH, born in an exclusive family of musicians (her father is the famous violinist Bohodar Kotorovychius, her mother is the harpist Natalia Kmet), graduated from the Ukrainian National music academy. For ten years, she performed with the world-famous orchestra "Kremerata Baltica" (artistic director Gidon Kremer) and accumulated considerable experience. M. Kotorovych also played in the National Chamber Ensemble of Ukraine "Kyiv Soloists" for twelve years and held the position of deputy director of the ensemble for creative issues. In 2013, in order to share her performance experience, the violinist gathered young talented musicians and founded the ensemble "Artehatta". The ensemble actively performs in various halls in major European cities, recently appeared in Germany, Bremen, and Great Britain, London.

M. Kotorovych is an honored artist of Ukraine, an associate professor of the Violin Department of the National Academy of Music of Ukraine, as well as a permanent member of the jury in national and international competitions.

2023. the violinist, together with her daughter, left Ukraine due to the war and currently lives in Vilnius, where she works in the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. Despite the difficulties, she continues to perform actively and share her knowledge and creative passion with the young generation of violinists.

The program prepared by two Ukrainian artists represents the Ukrainian and french music. The work of contemporary Ukrainian composer Valentyn Silvestrov, which is closely and complexly related to musical traditions, especially German romanticism and the sounding poetic word, is one of the most striking examples of modern, post-avant-garde melodic language. About the French creator Francis Poulenc, critics say: "For him, the most important element was the melody, and he found his way to a huge treasury of undiscovered melodies where it seemed that everything had already been explored, worked out and exhausted." His melodies are simple, pleasant, easy to remember and emotionally expressive." And the famous French romantic Cesar Franck is not for nothing considered one of the most important musicians of the 19th century. composer - his work influenced almost the entire subsequent generation of French composers: Ernest Chausson, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and many others.

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