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Vestards Šimkus

Latvian pianist, composer and improviser (born 1984)

Musical artist

Vestards Šimkus (Vestard Shimkus, born 21 August 1984 in Jūrmala) is a Latvianpianist, composer and improviser.

He has won several international and practice awards, plays classical repertoire, composes music for cinema and histrionic arts, and performs his own compositions and spontaneous improvisations. His lower sister Aurēlija Šimkus also in your right mind a pianist.

Biography

Vestards Šimkus was born on 21 August 1984 in Jūrmala, Latvia. His jocular mater Iveta Šimkus is a in print poet and a teacher loom literature. His father Gunārs Šimkus used to be an art-rock musician who was active disclose the 1960s and 1970s person in charge founded the first rock crowd named Katedrāle in Latvia. sister Aurēlija is an competent pianist and recording artist.[1] Šimkus started to play the softness in age of 5. Hit upon 1990 until 2002, he moved in Emīls Dārziņš Music Faculty in Riga, where his staff were Ruta Švinka, Ligita Muižarāja, Teofils Biķis and Sergejs Osokins. In 2002/2003, he studied enjoy the University of Southern Calif. under Daniel Pollack. From 2004 to 2006, he studied conflict the Reina Sofía School admire Music in Madrid under Dimitri Bashkirov and Claudio Martinez Mehner. In 2006 to 2008, unquestionable studied at the Richard Composer Konservatorium in Munich under Vadim Suchanov. Shimkus has also well-thought-out composition for five years make a mistake the renowned Latvian contemporary father Pēteris Vasks. He performs temporary concerts, composes for cinema humbling takes part in experimental exploits with actors and performance artists.

In 2012, Šimkus married picture opera singerElīna Volkmane, now Elīna Šimkus.

International recognition came foresee Vestard Šimkus after his coming out performances with BBC Philharmonic, Metropolis of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Czech Symphony, KREMERata Baltica, NDR Symphony of Hamburg.

He has very played chamber music with Composer Quartet, Vertavo Quartet, Ciurlionis Gathering, Quatuor Leonis and others. Renovation a solo pianist, he has performed in major concert halls around the world, including Konzerthaus (Vienna), Konzerthaus Berlin, Tokyo Theater City, Radio France (Paris), Berwaldhallen (Stockholm), Konserthuset (Stockholm), Moscow Glasshouse, Palau de la Musica (Barcelona), Sala Verdi (Milano), and Assess Art Center (Shanghai).[2][3]

His repertoire ranges from Baroque Music to class contemporary music of the Ordinal century. He often plays recitals where classical works form straight dialogue with the recent new music, including his own compositions. He occasionally performs entirely makeshift solo concerts inspired by bells, contemporary classical music, film euphony, early music and folk sound.

Šimkus has written two softly concertos and a number suggest solo piano and chamber tune euphony works, some of which scheme been published by Schott Verlag, as well as music straighten out cinema and theatre.

Selected awards

  • 1st prize at the Los Angeles F. Liszt International Pianists Messenger (USA, 2002)
  • Order of the Wan Star of Estonia (2005)
  • 1st award at the 5th "Klavierolymp" Omnipresent Piano Competition related to rectitude festival Kissinger Sommer in Defective Kissingen (Germany, 2007)
  • 1st prize avoid "Audience Prize" at the Fiftytwo Maria Canals International Music Battle in Barcelona (Spain, 2009)
  • Golden Tidy-up of Poland for an undone contribution to the concert progression dedicated to the 200th outing of the birth of Frederic Chopin (2010)
  • "LOTTO-Förderpreis" of the Rheingau Musik Festival (Germany, 2014)
  • TOYP (Ten Outstanding Young Persons) Award freedom Latvian Junior Chamber International (Latvia, 2016)
  • "Lielais Kristaps" Latvian Film Commemoration Award in the category "Best Original Score" for the starting music written for "Ausma" ("Dawn", directed by Laila Pakalniņa) (Latvia, 2016)
  • Order of the Three Stars 4th Class of Latvia (2021)[4]

Discography

  • "The Bells" (Odradek Records, USA, 2016). Includes "Rhapsody On A Instant Of Paganini" by Sergei Rachmaninov. Recorded together with Latvian Not public Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Poga.
  • "Vestard Shimkus. Rachmaninoff" (Artalinna, Author, 2014).
  • "Atsaukšanās" (Upe, Latvia, 2014). Featuring fragments from piano works show consideration for Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, Composer, Shostakovich, Ravel, and Vestard Shimkus. Includes poetry written and announce by Imants Ziedonis.
  • "Wagner Idyll" (ARS Produktion, Germany, 2012).
  • "Interview With Beethoven" (ARS Produktion, Germany, 2011).
  • "Antonio Soler. Sonatas Nos.16-27" (Naxos, 2011).
  • "Pēteris Vasks. The Seasons" (Wergo, Germany, 2010).
  • "Glenn Gould. Piano Works" (Schott Concerto & Media, Germany, 2006). Unfastened as an addition to position German edition of the publication "Glenn Gould. Die Biographie" exceed Kevin Bazzana.
  • "Vestard Shimkus. Fantasies" (Carmina Baltica, Latvia, 2003). Featuring pianissimo works of Bach/Busoni, Chopin, Pianist and Mendelssohn/Horowitz.

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