We invite you to listen and see a joint project between artists from two countries - Japan and Lithuania. Experience an exceptional evening where the music of the polyphonic genius Johann Sebastian Bach for violin solo and the contemporary Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's works for violin and piano will be intertwined in the premiere of Antanas Jasenka's work, which will be transformed into the sound of violin, piano and electronic music.
Saturday 17 August, 7.30 pm.
COSMIC MUSIC I | Resonant by Bach/Pärt/Jasenka PREMIERE
Mayumi Kanagawa (violin, Japan)
Eglė Kasteckaitė (piano)
Antanas Jasenka (composer, electronics)
Mayumi Kanagawa is a Japanese American violinist. She has been praised by music critics for her rich and colourful sound and her collected and engaging musicality. She is a 2019. She is the winner of the 2019 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the 2018 Long-Thibaud Crespin Competition in Paris, as well as the first prize at the Princess Astrid, Jascha Heifetz and Irving Klein Competitions.
Mayumi has performed and performs regularly with many orchestras, including the Belgian National Symphony Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. She is currently an ambassador for El Sistema Japan's new project "Tape" and has been teaching at the Higher Künste Bremen since October 2023.
Mayumi's musical education has been shaped by the musical influences of Kolya Blacher, Yoshiko Nakura, Masao Kawasaki, and Robert Lipsett.
Eglė Kasteckaitė is the artistic director of the Marijampolė Music Park Festival, and with the help of artists from other disciplines, she presents original, never-before-heard premiere chamber music programmes every year. The pianist graduated from the J.Naujalis School of Art and the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and completed a traineeship at the Mozarteum Music School in Salzburg. She is a laureate and graduate of national and international competitions. She has performed with various chamber ensembles, soloists and choirs in Latvia, Finland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway and other countries. Eglė Kasteckaitė is the Head of the Art Centre of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.
In 2022, for her contribution to the culture of Marijampolė and the dissemination of professional art in the city through the organisation of the festival "Marijampolė Music Park", Eglė Kasteckaitė was awarded the St.
Antanas Jasenka is one of the most prominent composers both in the academic contemporary music community and in the experimental music scene in Lithuania, Europe and the USA. Since 2008, Jasenka has been a member of the electronic music collective Diissc Orchestra, an associate professor at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and an ambassador of the European Capital of Culture KAUNAS 2022. In 2010-2015 he worked as the artistic director of the largest electronic music festival in the Baltic States "Jauna Muzika", the founder of the festival in 1993.
The composer's works have been performed at Lithuanian and international contemporary music festivals in Europe, America, Japan, Mexico, China, etc.., The composer has participated in various projects abroad and in Lithuania with artists such as Ralf Wehowsky, The Hafler Trio, Eimuntas Nekrošius, Oskaras Koršunovas, Birutė Letukaitė, Yana Ross, etc.
