We invite you to experience an exclusive percussion concert by Arkady Gotesman, where the artist, who is bursting with new ideas, presents his latest project "FRAME", inspired by artworks.
Lithuanian landscape of percussion is unimaginable without Arkady Gotesman - one of the most creative and prolific representatives of jazz scene. Actually, not only jazz. Arkady's inclination often takes him to the theatre, poetry or cinema. "FRAME is a working studio with the sounds produced by various metal and wood percussion instruments. Together, it all becomes a colourful percussive tutti, the sound of which is produced by whisks and sticks representing the artist's brush. The visual backdrop of FRAME is two clanging metal frames, symbolising the beginning and the end of the painting.
Arkadiy Gotesman's love for the metallic sounds of percussion began with his grandfather, who was a blacksmith. Arkady Gotesman is an associate professor and lecturer at the LAMT. He is known not only as a percussionist and composer, but also as a poet, director, teacher and producer. He is the soul of the Vilnius Klezmer Orchestra and the artistic director of two music festivals, the Jewish Art Festival in Lithuania and the Utena Percussion and Jazz Festival, as well as the founder of the theatre Theatrum solius quadri. He composes and records music for theatre, performs it in plays, writes scripts for musical performances and installations, organises projects with dancers, writers, actors and visual artists, and creates original performances. Arkady is one of the enthusiasts of live silent films, popularising this genre in Lithuania with musicians from different countries. The percussionist plays not only jazz, but also the latest academic music, and has presented world premieres of works by Osvaldas Balakauskas, Anatolijs Šenderovas, Zita Bružaitė, Šarūnas Nakas and other composers.
Arkadijus Gotesman manages to find new jazz scenes on the periphery and to involve world jazz figures in his projects. He has improvised with a wide range of coryphiles, including Roland Dahinden, Vladimir Volkov, Vyacheslav Gaivoronsky, Arkady Shilkloper, Julian Joseph, John Zorn and Jack Siron, Frank London, Anthony Coleman, Charles Gayle, Tim Daisy, Joey Baron, Barry Guy, Dominic Duvall, Dave Douglas, Nate Wooly, Albert Beger, Martin Küchen, Mark Tokar, Warren Smith, Andrew Lamb and others. His regular partners in Lithuania include Vyacheslav Ganelin, Petras Vyšniauskas, Dmitrijus Golovanov, Jan Maksimovičius.
In 2018, Gotesman was awarded the Grand Prize of the International Jazz Festival Birštonas, and in 2015 he received the Vilnius Jazz Festival Prize for his contribution to Lithuanian jazz.
