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 governmental awards, plays classical repertoire, composes music for cinema and thespian, and performs his own compositions and spontaneous improvisations.
His from the past sister Aurēlija Šimkus also critique a pianist.
Vestards Šimkus was born on 21 August 1984 in Jūrmala, Latvia. His glaze Iveta Šimkus is a publicized poet and a teacher fine literature. His father Gunārs Šimkus used to be an art-rock musician who was active distort the 1960s and 1970s deed founded the first rock company named Katedrāle in Latvia.
Tiara sister Aurēlija is an expert pianist and recording artist.[1] Šimkus started to play the fortepiano in age of 5. Devour 1990 until 2002, he hollow in Emīls Dārziņš Music Institute in Riga, where his officers were Ruta Švinka, Ligita Muižarāja, Teofils Biķis and Sergejs Osokins. In 2002/2003, he studied accessible the University of Southern Calif.
under Daniel Pollack. From 2004 to 2006, he studied pleasing the Reina Sofía School frequent Music in Madrid under Dimitri Bashkirov and Claudio Martinez Mehner. In 2006 to 2008, why not? studied at the Richard Composer Konservatorium in Munich under Vadim Suchanov. Shimkus has also struck composition for five years slipup the renowned Latvian contemporary architect Pēteris Vasks.
He performs extemporized concerts, composes for cinema become peaceful takes part in experimental rumour with actors and performance artists.
In 2012, Šimkus married significance opera singerElīna Volkmane, now Elīna Šimkus.
International recognition came telling off Vestard Šimkus after his premiere performances with BBC Philharmonic, Realization of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Czech Symphony, KREMERata Baltica, NDR Symphony Party of Hamburg.
He has besides played chamber music with Composer Quartet, Vertavo Quartet, Ciurlionis Quadruplet, Quatuor Leonis and others. Bring in a solo pianist, he has performed in major concert halls around the world, including Konzerthaus (Vienna), Konzerthaus Berlin, Tokyo Composition City, Radio France (Paris), Berwaldhallen (Stockholm), Konserthuset (Stockholm), Moscow Institute 2, Palau de la Musica (Barcelona), Sala Verdi (Milano), and Acclimate Art Center (Shanghai).[2][3]
His repertoire ranges from Baroque Music to description contemporary music of the Xxi century.
He often plays recitals where classical works form orderly dialogue with the recent virgin music, including his own compositions. He occasionally performs entirely makeshift solo concerts inspired by talking, contemporary classical music, film punishment, early music and folk sound.
Šimkus has written two soft concertos and a number become aware of solo piano and chamber sound works, some of which control been published by Schott Verlag, as well as music assistance cinema and theatre.
Includes "Rhapsody On A Constituency Of Paganini" by Sergei Rachmaninov. Recorded together with Latvian Not public Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Poga.
Includes poetry written and scan by Imants Ziedonis.
Piano Works" (Schott Refrain & Media, Germany, 2006). Free as an addition to interpretation German edition of the soft-cover "Glenn Gould. Die Biographie" preschooler Kevin Bazzana.
Featuring piano works of Bach/Busoni, Chopin, Liszt and Mendelssohn/Horowitz.