The first event of the new concert cycle “From Baroque to the 20th Century” will take place

The first concert of the new concert cycle “Latvia’s New Talents” “From the Baroque to the 20th Century” will take place in the chamber hall of VEF Culture Palace on October 20 at 7 p.m.

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According to Sandra Zandberg, the artistic director of VEF Culture Palace, the concert will feature young musicians – violinist Daniils Bulajevs and pianist Maksims Taničevs – performing the violin of German composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms and French composer Francis Pulenka.

According to Zandberga, inspired by the Latvian orchestra’s centenary youth orchestra project “Born in Latvia”, VEF Culture Palace has created a new concert cycle in its 60th anniversary year – a platform that will allow young talents from all over Latvia to start performing arts in Latvia. in a public concert.

The concert cycle will be started by violinist Bulajevs playing with pianist Taničevs, this year’s graduate of Emils Darzins Music High School. The young musicians have included in their program four violin sonatas by composers of different eras – Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Pulenka, as well as the “Moldavian Rhapsody” by Mjačlavs Weinbergs.

Bulaev was born on April 16, 2004 in Riga. He is currently mastering the violin at the Leopold Mozart Center in Germany, under Peter Munteanu, and is also a student of Nellie Sarkisyan at the Emils Darzins Music School. Bulaev is a laureate of several international competitions, performing as a soloist with orchestras, collaborating with such chamber orchestras as Austrian “Chamber Chamber Soloists”, Italian “Archi De Sono”, Russian “Moscow Virtuosi”, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Latvian National Opera Orchestra, Liepaja Symphony Orchestra orchestras, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra, Armenian National Symphony and Chamber Orchestra and others.

In turn, Tanichev graduated from the Emils Darzins Music School in 2020, studying piano with Ligita Muizaraja and Professor Sergejs Osokins of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. He started his career as a musician at the age of seven, entering the Latgale suburban music school with teacher Violeta Karpova. Under her leadership, Tanichev began to take an active part in various competitions, winning mostly first places and even a “Grand-Prix”. At the age of 11, Tanichev was invited to join the Emils Darzins Music High School, where he continued his studies in the Piano Class of the Manor. In the future, the young musician plans to join the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music to study chamber music as well as conducting.

Tickets for the concert can be purchased on the “Biļešu paradīze” website “bilesuparadize.lv”.

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