Yannas Tiersen will return to Vilnius in the spring with a new concert program
in 2024 March 14 The famous French multi-instrumentalist and composer Yannas Tiersen will hold a concert in Vilnius, in the Compensa concert hall. After a 9-year hiatus, the musician returning to Lithuania with the concert tour "Kerber Complete Tour: Solo Piano + Electronics" will invite the listeners to a two-part performance: the first will feature Y. Tiersen's best-known pieces performed on the piano, the second will include electronic music.
This tour by Yann Tiersen is unconventional, during which the musician will focus on what would be impossible during regular tours: personal connection, searching for interesting people and places. Alone, without a team and a list of requirements, Y.Tiersens will travel all over Europe in his camper, avoiding highways, holding performances in various cities, towns and villages. The instrumentalist hopes that during the tour, which will start in Orléans and end in Brittany, he will be able to have lunch or dinner at the home of a different local person - friend, concert organizer or fan - every day.
Tickets for March 14 Yann Tiersen's concert, which will be held at the Compensa concert hall in Vilnius, will be available for purchase on the Bilietai.lt website from 2023. November 15
Yann Tiersen's name is most often associated with the dreamy melancholy melodies of the romantic comedy "Amelie of Montmartre" (starring the charming Audrey Tautou) and the soundtrack of the German tragicomedy "Good Bye, Lenin!". However, his music is much more than just the world of cinema: critics compare Y.Tiersen's work to the works of Philip Glass and Michael Nyman, there is no doubt that he is one of the brightest and most original composers of this era. Although Tiersen's musical style is easy to recognize but difficult to define, each of his albums is different, a melancholic sound masterfully composed with elements of classical, folk, pop and rock music.
In his compositions, Yann Tiersen uses an endless variety of instruments, some of which cannot even be called musical: from classical to toy piano, from different guitars to bouzouki and lute, from horn and saxophone to metallophone, vibraphone, tam-tam drums, typewriter, kitchen appliances and sounds of bicycle wheels. It is also impressive that he plays all these instruments himself, both in the recording studio and in live performances.
Although Tiersen has said in an interview, "I'm not a composer and I don't have a classical musical education," this could be seen as coquettish. Having started playing the piano at the age of four, Yannas was already learning to play the violin by his sixth birthday, later deepening his knowledge at music conservatories in Rennes, Nantes and Pajūris Boulogne. While studying at René, Tiersen became fascinated by bands such as Nirvana, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television, Suicide, and at the age of 13, succumbing to teenage maximalism, he broke his violin, bought a guitar and founded a rock band.
The band soon disbanded and Tiersen began experimenting with synthesizers, samplers, drum machines and recording his own music. Searching for his imagined perfect sound and listening to a lot of different music, he decided that what he was looking for and couldn't find, he could create it himself. In the summer of 1993, using guitar, violin and keyboard accordion, the musician created 40 compositions, which turned into Yann Tiersen's first music albums. The composer called his work "a vision of musical anarchy", because he was not guided by classical canons when creating, but by intuition and his inner vision.
1995-1996 in just half a year, Y. Tiersen's first two albums "La Valse Des Monstres" and "Rue Des Cascades" (a collection of short pieces created using a toy piano, harpsichord, violin, keyboard accordion and mandolin) were released. His third album Le Phare, released in 1998, earned Tiersen not only commercial success, but also enthusiastic critical acclaim: they called the music creator one of the most original and leading composers of the new age.
After gaining popularity in France, Yann Tiersen soon became famous all over the world - in 2001. J.P. Jeunet's film "Amelie of Montmartre" appeared on the screens, the soundtrack of which was created by the talented composer. The extremely popular romantic comedy featured new compositions and some of the works from the first three Y.Tiersen albums, their author was awarded the Cesar Award for the best music written for the film, the World Soundtrack Academy Award, and Amelia of Montmartre ” soundtrack album reached the music charts of many countries, including number one on the French album chart.
