Gintaras Januševičius

Gintaras Janusevicius (born 16 January 1985 in Moscow) is a Lithuanian pianist. His repertoire includes interpretations of works by Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Liszt and Mussorgsky, as well as many works by Lithuanian composers.

Biography

Training

Gintaras Janusevicius was born in Moscow into a family of musicians. His father is of Lithuanian Algirdas Janusevicius trumpeter and his mother the Tatar - Jewish composer Nailia Galiamova. 1987 left the Moscow family and moved to Klaipeda in Lithuania. Janusevicius began his musical training at the age of four years at the Eduardas - Balsys School of Arts Klaipeda. In 1993, the family decided to move to the capital Vilnius, where his father was appointed principal trumpet of the Lithuanian State Orchestra, which was led by Gintaras Rinkevičius. Janusevicius then began his musical training at the National Mikalojus - Konstantinas - Čiurlionis School of the Arts.

Received his first piano lessons at Gintaras Janusevicius Valentina Potejenko in Klaipeda. Later he was taught by Vale Kulikauskienė (1993-1998) and Jurgis Bialobžeskis (1998-2003 ). After leaving school in 2003 Gintaras began his studies at the Music and Theatre Academy in Lithuania Jurgis Bialobžeskis. This was his teacher and main advisor until his death in May 2008. Janusevicius In 2004 moved to Hannover, Germany, at the University of Music and Drama, where he was taught by Vladimir Krainew until his death in April 2011. In October 2011 he joined the piano class of the German pianist Bernd Goetzke.

Janusevicius is often advised by Professors Zvi Meniker and Jan Philip Schulze. Since 2001, he also received lessons with numerous well-known pianist, in particular at Lazar Berman and his wife Valentina, Naum Starkman, Malcolm Bilson, Ewa Kupiec and others.

Achievements

Gintaras Janusevicius won his first two national competitions Balys Dvarionas and Johann Sebastian Bach at the age of 16 years. In 2002 he won the 'Grand Prix' at the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Narva, Estonia. In 2003 he reached the final of the International MK Čiurlionis Piano and Organ Competition in Vilnius and in 2004 the final of the International Concours Musical International de Montréal. In 2005 he won the Yamaha Price in Lithuania. In 2006 he reached the final at the 1st International Piano Competition Tallinn. In 2007 he won the third prize at the International Piano Competition " Piano Campus " in France and the International MK Čiurlionis Piano and Organ Competition. In March 2010, he reached the 2nd prize and the " Patrizia Cerutti Award" for the best performance of a Beethoven Sonata at the International Piano Competition in Pinerolo Italy. Two months later he won the second prize at the International Piano Competition " New Stars " in Wernigerode and reached the first prize at the International Piano Competition "Palma de Mallorca " - The Rotary Club of Palma rewarded Gintaras 2010 and 2011 with concerts in Spain, both as a soloist and with orchestra. In the same year he won the second prize at the XIX International Ibiza Piano Competition. His recent successes, both in 2011: 1st prize at the 13th International Competition of Chopin Society of Hannover, Germany, as well as a special prize of Shenzhen Piano Competition in China.

Major concerts

His orchestral debut at the age of 15 Gintaras Janusevicius years. He played the Capriccio Brillante, Op. 25 by Felix Mendelssohn with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Vytautas Lukočius. In the same month he played in the great hall of the Moscow Conservatory 's Piano Concerto in A major, K. 488 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

To date, Janusevicius has performed with over 30 orchestras, including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Balearic Islands, Yekaterinburg Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Chisinau Symphony Orchestra, etc. He has played in famous concert halls, such as the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, ​​Sala Mozart in Zaragoza, Salle Wilfrid- Pelletier in Montreal, Estonia Hall in Tallinn, Shenzhen Concert Hall, etc. His solo concerts were held in most cities of Lithuania, also in Paris, Berlin, Tallinn, the European capital of Culture 2005 Cork, Moscow, Warsaw, Chisinau, Hamamatsu and other cities. He participated in the famous music festivals, including the International Chopin Piano Festival in Duszniki -Zdrój, the Besançon Music Festival, the Braunschweig Classix, the Dresden Music Festival, etc.

Repertoire

Janusevicius preferred piano compositions by Rachmaninoff. He plays all of his Études - Tableaux, Morceaux de Fantaisie and Preludes, his romances, suites for two pianos Op. 5 and Op. 17, Trio No. élégiaque. 1, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Piano Concertos No.. 1 and No. 2, Cello Sonata Op. 19 and other compositions. More of Gintaras most played solo works include Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118 by Brahms, Dante Sonata by Liszt, Waldstein Sonata by Beethoven, waltz, Scherzi and Barcarolle by Chopin, etc.. Janusevicius played piano concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Ravel, Martinu, etc. His repertoire also includes a large number of sonatas for violin or clarinet and piano, piano trios and quintets by Stravinsky, Schumann and Reinecke, songs by Mozart, Schumann, Mahler, Poulenc, Mussorgsky, Debussy and others.

Recent Activity

Gintaras Janusevicius lives in Hanover, Germany since 2004. Since 2008 he is the artistic director of the chamber music series " Plathner 's Eleven " in Hannover. 2009-2011 he headed the international " Plathner 's Eleven " composers competition. 2013 he called the music competition " The Hanoverian exchange of music talents " to life. Since January 2014 Gintaras Janusevicius has worked as artistic director of the concert and cultural center Tango bridge in Einbeck.

Since 2009 he has been open master classes in Japan, China, Spain, Israel, Romania and Moldova. In the spring of 2012, he debuted as a member of the jury at the International Piano Competition "Palma de Mallorca ", 2013 in the competition " Young Musicians ".