July 20, 2022.
The information was prepared by Indra Vilipsone, Head of Communications.
On July 22, at 20.00 in the Dzintari concert hall, a real piano music festival is expected with the outstanding pianists and chamber orchestra of the Osokina dynasty as part of the Jūrmala festival.
The union of three Osokins – two sons and a father – has become a brand of piano art both in Latvia and beyond its borders. The piano playing of the brothers Andrejs Osokins and Georgis Osokins has earned considerable recognition in the international arena, while their father – a knight of the Order of the Three Stars and a doctor of arts, professor Sergejs Osokins – is one of the main cornerstones of Latvian pianism. The Osokins’ joint concerts feature the most beautiful, emotional and sophisticated golden repertoire of piano music, they are masterpieces of classical music in specially designed covers for four-handed, two and even three pianos. The grandiose sound of three grand pianos performed by pianists Osokins is always a highly anticipated event in the largest Latvian concert halls, including the Latvian National Opera, the concerts of the pianists’ dynasty have been broadcast on the German internet television Klassik.Tv, and Latvian Television has created a documentary film about the Osokins family: «Osokini. The musical energy of thirty fingers». The concerts of the Osokin dynasty in the Dzintari concert hall are one of the most anticipated summer events in Latvia for piano music lovers. This year, alongside the pianists, a chamber orchestra will play in Dzintaros, but it will be possible to see Giorgi Osokina as the conductor.
At the concert on July 22, the audience will be offered a new and diverse program of piano music, starting with the opuses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart up to the masterpieces of the 20th century. Sergey Osokin will perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Variations and Fugue in Eb minor op. 35, which are devoted to the Heroic Variations. The program also includes First Polonaise and Revolutionary Etude in C minor by Frederic Chopin, the genius melodist, aristocrat of piano keys, which will be played by Andrejs Osokins. We will also hear the first part of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, which the composer composed in 1940 after the start of World War II while in exile in the USA. The composer created this last piece of his life as a last will and imbued it with melancholy, tragedy and longing for the homeland. At the end of the evening, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s legendary Concerto for three pianos and orchestra in F major, which was written and dedicated to three aristocrats, lovers of the piano – Mozart’s patron, Countess Maria Antonia Lodron and her two daughters, will be played in the interpretation of the Three Osokins. It is noteworthy that concerts for such a lineup of musicians are very rare.
Sergej Osokin is an excellent large-scale virtuoso and a careful analyst, whose interpretations are characterized by serious observation and insight into the core of the compositions. He is one of the most outstanding piano teachers in Latvia, with whom a number of well-known Latvian pianists studied: Elīna Bērtiņa, Andrejs Osokins, Vestards Šimkus, Georgijs Osokins, Aurelija Šimkus, Katrīna Gupalo, Arta Arnicāne, Rihards Plešanovs and many others.
Andrejs Osokins is a laureate of the world’s most important international pianist competitions – the Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv, the Margarita Long and Jacques Thibault Competition in Paris, the Leeds Competition and the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Brussels. The globally sought-after Latvian pianist regularly performs in legendary European concert halls – Berlin Philharmonic, Konzerthaus Berlin, Milan’s La Verdi Hall, Dublin National Concert Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, Gasteig Concert Hall in Munich, La Monnaie Concert Hall in Brussels, Opera Comique Hall in Paris and others.
Georgy Osokins, the youngest of the representatives of the Osokins dynasty, has become a pianist sensation since participating in the Chopin Competition in 2015 and has been invited to perform in many countries around the world, at the most prestigious music festivals and concert halls, such as the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Elbe Philharmonic, the Ruhr Piano Festival and the Bern International Piano Series. Since 2018, he regularly performed with Gidon Kremer, and in 2019 Georgijs became the permanent guest artist of the orchestra “Kremerata Baltica”.
The festival is supported by the municipality of Jūrmala
Tickets – bilesuparadize.lv
Additional information:
Indra Vilipsone
Communication manager
E-pasts: [email protected]
Phone: 26320977
www.dzintarukoncertzale.lv
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