On Monday, September 6, Pēteris Vasks will be awarded the prize of a lifetime contribution of the Istanbul Music Festival, musicologist Orests Silabriedis informed “Delfi”.
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This award has previously been received by Daniel Barenboim, Philip Glass, Gidon Kremer, Misha Maiskis, Zubin Mehta, Arvo Pert, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Marijs Peraija.
The award ceremony will take place before the concert, in which the Modigliani Quartet (Modigliani Quartet, France) will perform Peter Wax’s Sixth String Quartet, which will be performed for the first time in Turkey, and Franz Schubert’s 15th String Quartet.
The first violin of the Modigliani Quartet, Amore Coeytaux, told Silabried in a telephone conversation that he had known Peter Vasco’s music before and that he had addressed him greatly; Wax music enters the quartet repertoire for the first time, it is not easy to play, because of the high intensity of music, but the excitement for musicians is huge.
According to the musicologist, the composer himself will not be present at the moment of awarding, because he participates in the rehearsals of his Second Violin Concerto “Evening Light” in Riga. As reported, the Latvian premiere of “Vakara lights” will take place on Thursday, September 9, in the concert hall “Cēsis” – music will be given to the addressee of this opus and world premiere Hugo Ticciati, “Sinfonietta Rīga” and conductor Normunds Šnē. Pēteris Vasks will be represented in Istanbul by the Ambassador of Latvia to Turkey Pēteris Vaivars.
The clients of the sixth quartet are the Istanbul Festival, the Autumn Chamber Music Festival (Latvian Concerts with the support of the SCCF), the Essen Philharmonic and the London Vigmorzall with the support of Andre Hoffmann, President of the Swiss Hoffman Foundation. The world premiere of the quartet took place in September 2020 in Portugal, at the beginning of October of the same year the quartet was performed in Liepaja and Dzintari.
The world premiere of the Second Violin Concerto “Evening Light” took place on June 16, 2021 in Stockholm, with Hugo Titchati playing with the orchestra “O / Modernt” conducted by him. On September 1, the concert was performed in Copenhagen, played by the “DUEN Orchestra” conducted by Morten Rilund.
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