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The Lithuanian embassy is delighted to inform about the forthcoming concert by Duo Zubovas who will perform works of the most famous Lithuanian composer and painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911) on Sunday, 11 September at 12 noon in the Hugh Lane Gallery.  In 2011 the 100th death anniversary of M.K Čiurlionis is celebrated throughout the world in association with UNESCO. Free admittance.

DUBLIN CITY GALLERY THE HUGH LANE

SUNDAYS @ NOON CONCERT SERIES

Sunday September 11th 2011

Admission Free - Concerts start at 12.00

IN PURSUIT OF SOUNDSCAPES

featuring music and images of the Lithuanian painter, composer, and writer

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911)

In Association with the Embassy of Lithuania

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911) is Lithuania’s most distinguished artist. This painter and musician has become a symbol of the Lithuanian identity, and was an inspiration to his people at the most difficult times in their history, while his artistic legacy is a tribute to early 20th-century Modernism in Europe. In his early life, aesthetic feelings and imagination were shaped by the heavily forested and exceptionally beautiful surroundings of the Dzūkija region, as well as local folk songs, tales and legends. These merge in his art with the forerunning modernist ideas to produce works that have an irrefutable Lithuanian character while tackling universal questions as grand as that of the structure of the universe. His mature musical compositions are cited by musicologists as unique examples of tonal serialism. Among Čiurlionis’ paintings are works based on intricate musical compositional techniques, which took the Symbolist ideas of merging painting and music a step further and are a unique phenomenon in European art history

Rokas Zubovas, pianist-lecturer and member of the piano department of the Lithuanian Academy of Music, was a faculty member at the Music Department of Saint Xavier University in Chicago between 1994 and 2001. Mr. Zubovas, a winner of the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition in New York and the M. K. Čiurlionis International Piano Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania, has studied music at the Lithuanian Academy of Music, De Paul University (Chicago), and International Heinrich Neuhaus Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. He has appeared in recitals throughout the US, Canada, Argentina, Uruguay, Switzerland, Norway, France, Italy, Greece, Lithuania, Russia, Bulgaria, and other countries of Europe. The works of M.K. Čiurlionis, the pianist’s great grandfather, occupy a special place in his repertoire.

Pianist Sonata Deveikytė-Zubovienė graduated from the M.K.Čiurlionis School of Arts and Music in Vilnius under M. Lapėnaitė, continued studies at the Lithuanian Academy of Music under P.Stravinskas, and graduated with Master in Music Degree from De Paul University in Chicago, where she studied with Prof. Dmitry Paperno. She has also studied with pianists Esther Yellin, Andrius Kuprevičius and Edward Auer. A prize winner at several international competitions, Sonata has appeared with orchestras in Lithuania and the US. As a recitalist, chamber musician and as a member of Zubovas Piano Duo, Sonata has performed in Lithuania, the US, Argentina, Uruguay, Norway, Latvia, Russia, France, Switzerland and other countries.

Sonata Deveikytė-Zubovienė and Rokas Zubovas started performing together in 1997. Duo Zubovas has appeared in international festivals in Lithuania, Norway, France, Italy, performed in South America (Argentina and Uruguay), North America (the USA and Canada), and throughout Europe. The core of Duo’s repertoire encompasses works originally written for piano four hands (Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Reger, Debussy, Ravel, Corigliano, etc.),transcriptions for piano four hands (Stravinsky “The Rite of Spring”, Haydn “Die sieben letzten Worteunseres Erlösers am Kreuz”, Ravel “Spanish Rhapsody”, Debussy “Spring”, !iurlionis String quartet, Gershwin “Cuban Overture” and “Rhapsody in Blue”, etc.) as well as works for piano four hands and two pianos by Lithuanian composers.