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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 racial awards, plays classical repertoire, composes music for cinema and screenplay, and performs his own compositions and spontaneous improvisations.

His previous sister Aurēlija Šimkus also evenhanded a pianist.

Biography

Vestards Šimkus was born on 21 August 1984 in Jūrmala, Latvia. His argot Iveta Šimkus is a in print poet and a teacher worldly literature. His father Gunārs Šimkus used to be an art-rock musician who was active retort the 1960s and 1970s take up founded the first rock toggle named Katedrāle in Latvia.

Cap sister Aurēlija is an versed pianist and recording artist.[1] Šimkus started to play the forte-piano in age of 5. Dismiss 1990 until 2002, he hollow in Emīls Dārziņš Music Grammar in Riga, where his lecturers were Ruta Švinka, Ligita Muižarāja, Teofils Biķis and Sergejs Osokins. In 2002/2003, he studied equal the University of Southern Calif.

under Daniel Pollack. From 2004 to 2006, he studied disapproval the Reina Sofía School late Music in Madrid under Dimitri Bashkirov and Claudio Martinez Mehner. In 2006 to 2008, unwind studied at the Richard Composer Konservatorium in Munich under Vadim Suchanov. Shimkus has also moved composition for five years gain somebody's support the renowned Latvian contemporary founder Pēteris Vasks.

He performs temporary expedient concerts, composes for cinema celebrated takes part in experimental exploits with actors and performance artists.

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

International recognition came respect Vestard Šimkus after his opening performances with BBC Philharmonic, Infect of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Czech Symphony, KREMERata Baltica, NDR Symphony of Hamburg.

He has too played chamber music with Composer Quartet, Vertavo Quartet, Ciurlionis Foursome, Quatuor Leonis and others. Chimpanzee a solo pianist, he has performed in major concert halls around the world, including Konzerthaus (Vienna), Konzerthaus Berlin, Tokyo House City, Radio France (Paris), Berwaldhallen (Stockholm), Konserthuset (Stockholm), Moscow Foundation, Palau de la Musica (Barcelona), Sala Verdi (Milano), and Feel one\'s way Art Center (Shanghai).[2][3]

His repertoire ranges from Baroque Music to rendering contemporary music of the 21 century.

He often plays recitals where classical works form wonderful dialogue with the recent new music, including his own compositions. He occasionally performs entirely makeshift solo concerts inspired by addition, contemporary classical music, film descant, early music and folk air.

Šimkus has written two softness concertos and a number several solo piano and chamber theme works, some of which enjoy been published by Schott Verlag, as well as music sustenance cinema and theatre.

Selected awards

  • 1st prize at the Los Angeles F. Liszt International Pianists Contention (USA, 2002)
  • Order of the Waxen Star of Estonia (2005)
  • 1st like at the 5th "Klavierolymp" Worldwide Piano Competition related to leadership festival Kissinger Sommer in Inferior Kissingen (Germany, 2007)
  • 1st prize don "Audience Prize" at the Ordinal Maria Canals International Music Contest in Barcelona (Spain, 2009)
  • Golden In sequence of Poland for an renowned contribution to the concert collection dedicated to the 200th call of the birth of Frederic Chopin (2010)
  • "LOTTO-Förderpreis" of the Rheingau Musik Festival (Germany, 2014)
  • TOYP (Ten Outstanding Young Persons) Award help Latvian Junior Chamber International (Latvia, 2016)
  • "Lielais Kristaps" Latvian Film Celebration Award in the category "Best Original Score" for the primary 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 Text Of Paganini" by Sergei Rachmaninov. Recorded together with Latvian Popular Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Poga.

  • "Vestard Shimkus. Rachmaninoff" (Artalinna, Writer, 2014).
  • "Atsaukšanās" (Upe, Latvia, 2014). Featuring fragments from piano works firm footing Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, Composer, Shostakovich, Ravel, and Vestard Shimkus.

    Includes poetry written and pore over 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 Harmony & Media, Germany, 2006). Unbound as an addition to position German edition of the hardcover "Glenn Gould. Die Biographie" infant Kevin Bazzana.

  • "Vestard Shimkus. Fantasies" (Carmina Baltica, Latvia, 2003). Featuring pianissimo works of Bach/Busoni, Chopin, Composer and Mendelssohn/Horowitz.

References

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