Varna Summer International Music Festival
28.07. 7:00 PM – City Art Gallery
Piano Trio
Veselin Demirev – violin, Yoanna Prodanova – cello, Galin Ganchev – piano
Program:
B. Britten – Introduction and Allegro (50th anniversary of the composer’s death)
F. Mendelssohn – Piano Trio №2, Op.66
M. Georgiev – New Piece, premiere
Dm. Shostakovich – Piano Trio №2, Op.67
Each of this three refined musicians has built a career of their own. Now they return to their native city Varna with a carefully designed program that includes a specially commissioned work by the conductor and composer Martin Georgiev, also born in Varna, who lives and works in London and is a Staff Conductor of the Royal Ballet of Covent Garden. Pianist Galin Ganchev and cellist Yoanna Prodanova, they both have studied in London and have won numerous awards; the “British line” in this program features also music by one of Britain’s most significant composers, Benjamin Britten. The trio’s violinist is Veselin Demirev – a concertmaster of the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in Denmark and a permanent guest concertmaster of the oldest symphony orchestra in Spain, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid.
The three artists share a common love for chamber music: Yoanna Prodanova is a member of the Barbican Quartet and with this ensemble has won “Joseph Joachim” competition; Galin Ganchev is awarded the “Tunnell Trust” prize for his performances with Anthony Poon. Two landmark trios, separated by a bit more than 100 years, give the structure of the program. Mendelssohn and Shostakovich composed them at the same age (even opuses are almost the same) and both are in a minor key, yet they tell different stories. Mendelssohn dedicated his trio to the famous composer and violinist Louis Spohr, and it had been first performed at his sister Fanny Mendelssohn’s birthday (this trio‘s influence can be heard in Brahms’s Third Piano Quintet). In contrast, Shostakovich dedicated his trio to one of his closest friends, Ivan Sollertinsky, who passed away before Shostakovich had finished the first movement and the whole spectrum of emotions has become a part of this piece.
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