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Wed, 20 Nov 2024, 18:00
Price:
16.10 €
In the Small Hall
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Klaipėda Piano Masters winner
EMILIJA ŠUKYTĖ (Lithuania-Germany)
Programme:
Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin, Maurice Ravel, Ottorino Respighi
The Kaunas State Philharmonic Orchestra and the largest piano academy in the Baltic States Klaipėda Piano Masters have been fostering a collaboration since 2017, which has been bringing to the Kaunas public the most talented young pianists from around the world. This time, Klaipėda Piano Masters laureate Emilija Šukytė will perform on the Kaunas Philharmonic stage. She will present an emotional and mystical concert programme "Dancing in the Shadow". The unifying piece of the programme will be Maurice Ravel's "Noble and Sentimental Waltzes", where you will hear a unique synthesis of romance, impressionism and jazz. There will also be Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Sonata in C minor, revealing a side of Mozart that is not often found in Beethoven, and Frederic Chopin's Barcarolle, one of the composer's last works, which demonstrates his musical maturity.
Pianist EMILIJA ŠUKYTĖ, with her versatility and romantic musical sensibility, has performed extensively in Germany and other European countries as well as in the USA as a soloist, a Lied pianist and a chamber musician, and she has appeared in most of the major concert halls in Lithuania, and has performed in the concerts supported by the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation's Live Music Now. Between 2023 and 2024, she performed at the German Embassy in Rome, Renhof Castle and the Historical Hall of Wuppertal. She also collaborates with the Opus 125 Symphony Orchestra and performs as part of it.
E. Šukytė is a multiple laureate of young pianists' competitions in France, Turkey, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic and Latvia, a scholarship holder of the Winter Academy Feuerwerk in Einbeke, Germany, and a recipient of the prestigious "German Scholarship" for 2021-2023. She completed her Bachelor studies in Germany at the University of Music in Düsseldorf (class of Prof. Paolo Giacometti). Since 2024 she has been studying at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (in the class of Prof. Jurgis Karnavičius). He also studies privately with G. Januševičius in Hanover.
