Music on Thursdays
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Ezo Sarici
violin
Ignas Maknickas
piano
Programme
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No 1 in G major, Op 78 Rain Sonata (1878-79)
I Vivace ma non troppo
II Adagio - più andante - Adagio (Eb major)
III Allegro molto moderato (rondo in G minor, coda in G Major)
Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108 (1886-88)
I Allegro
II Adagio
III Un poco presto e con sentimento
IV Presto agitato
Concert duration approx: 40 minutes = 27+
courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music
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Ezo Sarici
Ezo started music aged 4 at the Royal Academy of Music "First String Experience" programme. She continued her musical studies at Junior Guildhall for a further five years before attending the Yehudi Menuhin School.
She has performed in concert halls including: Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre,
Birmingham Symphony Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, St John's Smith Square, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. Many of Ezo’s solo engagements have taken place across Europe including in Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey and the Czech Republic.
Ezo has been invited to several international masterclasses playing to Ani Kavafian, Pierre Amoyal, Ning Feng, Boris Brovstyn, Barnabas Kelemen, Gordon Nikolic, Krystof Wegeryn, Esther Haffner, Jan Bjoranger, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Mari-Tampere Bezrodny, Cihat Aşkın and Vaclav Hudacek. She has had many successes at international competitions recently including as a semi-finalist at the Lipizer
International Violin Competition and she was awarded the most Artistic Performance and Temperament prize.
As a multi-instrumentalist, she had a guest principal viola role in the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast in October 2022 and performed in a headline show in the London Jazz Festival alongside Nick Smart, head of Jazz at the Academy.
Ezo is also a composer having had her piece called A Bagatelle for Beethoven, in honour of his 250th birthday celebrations, premiered in the Beethoven House in Bonn.
Aged 17, she set up the Apollo Philharmonic Orchestra based in London and they had their premier concert in October 2019 with performances of Schubert’s 5th and Beethoven’s 7th symphonies. Ezo is now studying at the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship with LSO principal, Roman Simovic.
She has performed in concert halls including: Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre,
Birmingham Symphony Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, St John's Smith Square, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace. Many of Ezo’s solo engagements have taken place across Europe including in Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey and the Czech Republic.
Ezo has been invited to several international masterclasses playing to Ani Kavafian, Pierre Amoyal, Ning Feng, Boris Brovstyn, Barnabas Kelemen, Gordon Nikolic, Krystof Wegeryn, Esther Haffner, Jan Bjoranger, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Mari-Tampere Bezrodny, Cihat Aşkın and Vaclav Hudacek. She has had many successes at international competitions recently including as a semi-finalist at the Lipizer
International Violin Competition and she was awarded the most Artistic Performance and Temperament prize.
As a multi-instrumentalist, she had a guest principal viola role in the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast in October 2022 and performed in a headline show in the London Jazz Festival alongside Nick Smart, head of Jazz at the Academy.
Ezo is also a composer having had her piece called A Bagatelle for Beethoven, in honour of his 250th birthday celebrations, premiered in the Beethoven House in Bonn.
Aged 17, she set up the Apollo Philharmonic Orchestra based in London and they had their premier concert in October 2019 with performances of Schubert’s 5th and Beethoven’s 7th symphonies. Ezo is now studying at the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship with LSO principal, Roman Simovic.
Ignas Maknickas
In July 2021 Ignas Maknickas received “The Queen’s Commendation for Excellence” as the highest-scoring graduate of the Royal Academy of Music. He has taken First Prize at the XIX Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Youth in Szafarnia, First Prize at the XX Piano Competition “Young Virtuoso” in Zagreb, Third Prize at the Aarhus Piano Competition and, in 2021, was the semi-finalist of the Vendome Prize.
Ignas has appeared with the Aarhus Symphony, Alicante Philharmonic, Dartington Festival Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony, Lithuanian State Symphony, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Royal Academy of Music Chamber Orchestra.
2023-24 highlights include Mozart K. 467 with London Mozart Players in London, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 with Bloomington Symphony Orchestra in Indiana and solo recital at the Wigmore Hall in London.
Born in California in 1998, Ignas was raised in Lithuania. In 2017, graduating from the National M.K. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius, he was honoured by the President of Lithuania, H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė. With his sister and three brothers the talented Maknickas Family Ensemble has represented Lithuania on National Television and at State Occasions.
Ignas completed his Bachelor of Music at the Royal Academy of Music on full scholarship under Professor Joanna MacGregor. In September 2021 he commenced the Master of Arts Programme with Professor MacGregor, also on full scholarship. He is a recipient of the Julien Prize, the ABRSM Scholarship Award, the Imogen Cooper Music Trust Scholarship, Munster Trust Mark James Award, Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation Award, Tillett Trust and Colin Keer Trust Award and Hattori Foundation Award. He is an Artist of the Munster Trust Recital Scheme.
He has attended masterclasses with Dmitri Bashkirov, Dame Imogen Cooper, Christopher Elton, Stephen Hough, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Marios Papadopoulos, Menahem Pressler, Geoffrey Simon, Tamás Ungár, Arie Vardi and Ilana Vered.
As a soloist he has appeared at London's Steinway Hall, Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, Charlottenborg Festival Hall in Copenhagen, Ed Landreth Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, Lithuanian National Philharmonic in Vilnius, and Kinross House in Scotland.
Ignas has appeared with the Aarhus Symphony, Alicante Philharmonic, Dartington Festival Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony, Lithuanian State Symphony, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players and Royal Academy of Music Chamber Orchestra.
2023-24 highlights include Mozart K. 467 with London Mozart Players in London, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 with Bloomington Symphony Orchestra in Indiana and solo recital at the Wigmore Hall in London.
Born in California in 1998, Ignas was raised in Lithuania. In 2017, graduating from the National M.K. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius, he was honoured by the President of Lithuania, H.E. Dalia Grybauskaitė. With his sister and three brothers the talented Maknickas Family Ensemble has represented Lithuania on National Television and at State Occasions.
Ignas completed his Bachelor of Music at the Royal Academy of Music on full scholarship under Professor Joanna MacGregor. In September 2021 he commenced the Master of Arts Programme with Professor MacGregor, also on full scholarship. He is a recipient of the Julien Prize, the ABRSM Scholarship Award, the Imogen Cooper Music Trust Scholarship, Munster Trust Mark James Award, Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation Award, Tillett Trust and Colin Keer Trust Award and Hattori Foundation Award. He is an Artist of the Munster Trust Recital Scheme.
He has attended masterclasses with Dmitri Bashkirov, Dame Imogen Cooper, Christopher Elton, Stephen Hough, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Marios Papadopoulos, Menahem Pressler, Geoffrey Simon, Tamás Ungár, Arie Vardi and Ilana Vered.
As a soloist he has appeared at London's Steinway Hall, Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, Charlottenborg Festival Hall in Copenhagen, Ed Landreth Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, Lithuanian National Philharmonic in Vilnius, and Kinross House in Scotland.
Ignas Maknickas to appear at the Wigmore Hall - click image for info
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Ignas Maknickas
will perform a solo lunchtime concert at Wigmore Hall 1pm, Wednesday, 13th September 2023 Tickets: £10 +£4 per booking (not per ticket) part of the Royal Academy of Music Piano Series |
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No 1 in G major, Op 78 Rain Sonata (1878-79) [27m]
I Vivace ma non troppo
II Adagio - più andante - Adagio (Eb major)
III Allegro molto moderato (rondo in G minor, coda in G Major)
We have chosen this sensitive performance by Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos, accompanied by Yuja Wang showing herself to be a class chamber player as well as an exceptional soloist:
Violin Sonata No 1 in G major, Op 78 Rain Sonata (1878-79) [27m]
I Vivace ma non troppo
II Adagio - più andante - Adagio (Eb major)
III Allegro molto moderato (rondo in G minor, coda in G Major)
We have chosen this sensitive performance by Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos, accompanied by Yuja Wang showing herself to be a class chamber player as well as an exceptional soloist:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108 (1886-88)
I Allegro • II Adagio
III Un poco presto e con sentimento
IV Presto agitato
Ithak Perlman performs this sonata in under 22 minutes, whereas others take around 27 minutes. How do you find his tempi? Here he is with pianist Samuel Sanders in Tokyo's Suntory Hall, in a recording from 1989:
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