International Summer Music
Concert 4

Maxim Rysanov viola
Evgeny Samoyloff piano

Friday 17 July 7.30pm

Johann Sebastian Bach  Cello Suite No.1 (arr. for viola)
Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
(arr. Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev)  Concert Suite from the ballet
The Nutcracker Op.71a (arr. for piano)
(posted 27 June)
Sergei Prokofiev  Romeo and Juliet Fragment
Dmitri Shostakovich  Sonata

Below: Storm was brewing all afternoon

Below: Then the heaven opened

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'This amazing young artist looks like giving the viola’s profile a definite boost' The Telegraph, Dec 2008

‘Maxim Rysanov plays the viola with an assurance which is breathtaking. Hearing him play is like hearing music for the first time – not a succession of notes but something close to poetry. It was the high point of my concert-going this year.’
Simon Collings, Oxford Times, Nov 2008

‘… It is rare for a musician featured in the current issue as our One to Watch already to be on his second Editor’s Choice…, but such is the pace of viola-player Maxim Rysanov’s rise that it’s difficult to keep up. His playing is fabulous and deeply moving in these works. Or, as our reviewer David Fanning puts it, ‘mind-blowing’…’
Gramophone, Nov 2007 (on maxim’s latest cd of works by Kancheli and Tavener)

‘The Viola Concerto composed from fragments was taken on by the excellent soloist Maxim Rysanov… his instrument can whisper, bark, threat, wail: Rysanov, the Viola Devil.’
Mannheim Morgen

www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

Maxim Rysanov, viola

Recognised as one of the world’s best and most charismatic viola players, Maxim Rysanov is the winner of the prestigious 2008 Classic FM Gramophone Young Artist of the Year.

Additional awards include the Tertis and Geneva competitions as well as the 2007 BBC New Generation artist scheme.

Originally from the Ukraine, Maxim is now based in London. He is regularly invited to perform as a soloist and chamber musician in the UK and abroad and has been a guest of many festivals and venues worldwide.

He performs with symphony and chamber orchestras throughout the UK and is a frequent soloist abroad including invitations from the European Union Youth Orchestra, Residentie Orkest, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Orchestre Royale de Chambre de Wallonie, China National Philharmonic, Guangzhou Symphony, Bayerischer Rundfunk Kammerorchester, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie, Geneva Chamber Orchestra, Basel Sinfonie Orchester, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra among others.

He works with artists such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Jirí Belohlávek, Augustin Dumay, Martin Frost, Janine Jansen, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Viktoria Mullova, Donald Runnicles and Maxim Vengerov.

Highlights of the current season 2008-09 include concertos with a clutch of BBC orchestras including the BBC Symphony (Schnittke), the BBC Philharmonic (Hindemith), the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (Martinu), as well as a tour with the Britten Sinfonia (Britten and Woolrich) and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Sinaisky (Berlioz). Outside the UK, he will make his debuts with the Residentie Orkest and Neeme Jarvi (Britten and Kancheli Double Concertos with Janine Jansen), the Sinfonia Varsovia (Mozart Sinfonie Concertante with August Dumay), and the Schleswig Holstein Orchester and Mihkal Kutson (Kancheli Styx). He will perform the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations with the Cape Town Philharmonic, the Belgrade Philharmonic, and the Lithuanian National Symphony among others.

Earlier this summer he also made his US concerto debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York (with Jiri Belohlavek) and at the Grand Teton Festival (with Donald Runnicles). He has been invited back to Grand Teton in 2010 for a performance of Kancheli Styx.

Maxim’s interest in new music is strong. The BBC has commissioned Dobrinka Tabakova to write a new work for him – A Jazz Suite – which will be premiered at Bridgwater Hall in Manchester in January 2009. Concertos dedicated to him include works by Tabakova, Artyom Vassiliev and Elena Langer.

Maxim’s recording projects include a double CD of Brahms viola repertoire (Onyx) released in September 2008. A disc of Bach Inventions with Janine Jansen and Torleif Thedéen on Decca reached number 1 in the I-Tunes charts in the USA. Other commercial recordings include a concerto disc of Tavener and Kancheli (Onyx) and a recital disc with Evelyn Chang (Avie) both of which were named Gramophone Editor’s Choice. Other forthcoming recording plans include a disc of unaccompanied Bach and a disc with Tchaikovsky and Tabakova works with orchestra: both on the Bis label.

Maxim also has a burgeoning career as a conductor. This season he has a re-invitation to the Basel Sinfonie Orchester and will conduct the Swedish premiere of a cello concerto by Dobrinka Tabakova with Kristine Blaumane and the Dala Sinfonietta.

Maxim is delighted to have a Giuseppe Guadagnini (1780) viola on extended loan from the Elise Mathilde Foundation.

www.maximrysanov.com

Evgeny Samoyloff, piano

Born in 1972 into a musical family and displaying exceptional musical talent from an early age, Russian pianist Evgeny earned Master's degrees in music in his native country before furthering his studies in England after receiving a British Council Queen's Award in 1996 and subsequent awards in 1998 and 1999 from the Hattori Foundation.

In a ten-year period from 1993 to 2002 he won many prizes and awards at international piano competitions in Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, the Czech Republic, England, Switzerland, Brazil and Macau, thereby launching a hugely successful professional career. As a soloist he has performed with such orchestras as the London Philharmonic and the Czech Radio Symphony, while as a recitalist he has been acclaimed in the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, and St Martin's-in-the-Fields, among others, also at important music festivals.

Recently dubbed ‘Lion of the Keyboard’ by critics after performances in Riga, he has also been universally praised for his poetic inspiration, brilliant technique, capacious imagination and unique individuality. He is well known for his radio broadcasts and television appearances, and his live recording of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3 garnered a Best Recording of the Year Award.

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Anonymous
The concert was excellent, the catering out of this world and the wine just divine. A fabulous evening.

C.M. Ruddock, Rougham
Evgeny Samoyloff was extraordinary – what powerful playing – but able to play delicately and sensitively too. Should have a solo concert. We must get both of these artists back again soon.