Violinist Sergei Dogadin will perform with the Lithuanian Orchestra this Thursday, January 20 in Lanzarote, as part of the tour he will be doing on the occasion of the Canary Islands Music Festival. The concert will be at the El Salinero Theater in Arrecife at 8:00 p.m. Dogadin will replace Sergej Kyrlov, who will finally be unable to attend this year due to health reasons.
The Canary Islands Music Festival faces its second week with a tour of concerts by the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra (LCO), one of the cultural treasures of that Baltic country, an ambassador of its music and recognized as one of the best chamber ensembles in the world. It will tour, in addition to Lanzarote, La Palma, Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria.
The tour will be very intense and will begin on Tuesday the 18th at the Teatro Circo de Marte, in La Palma. From there, it will offer a concert almost every day. On Wednesday it will be at the Tenerife Auditorium, on Thursday at the El Salinero Theater, in Lanzarote; on Friday at the Fuerteventura Congress Palace and on Sunday at the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium in Gran Canaria. Tickets can be purchased through the festival website or on the usual sales platforms of these spaces.
In the remarkable history of the Lithuanian Orchestra, which began in 1960, there are a hundred performances with masters of the stature of Rostropovich or Yehudi Menuhin, who said about this group: “It is inspired by an idea of pure music. For them it is not just a profession or an entertainment, it is everything.”
That group of enthusiastic young people, led until 2004 by Saulius Sondeckus, would continue to grow with the arrival in 2008 of Sergei Krylov (concertmaster and director), a musical association that critics consider “harmonious and conspiring” and that has been maintained over time.
Biography of Sergei Dogadin
If on the occasion of the 34th edition of the Festival it was Krylov who replaced Pinchas Zukerman, suffering from health problems, now it is he who is forced to absent himself from the event. His place will be taken by a young talent: Sergei Dogadin, a brilliant violinist from the Russian school who has established himself with a solid international career as a soloist and chamber musician.
Winner of 10 International Competitions, it is worth highlighting the First Prize of the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition (2019), which earned him the opportunity to play with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, as well as his participation in the great classical festivals of the summer. In addition, he offered concerts with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and Norichika Iimori, and various recitals. He has also shared concerts with most Russian orchestras.
Passionate about chamber music, Dogadin has performed, among others, at the Grafenegg 2021 Festival with Denis Kozhukhin and does so regularly with internationally renowned musicians. He plays a Domenico Montagnana violin from 1721 loaned by the Rin Collection in Singapore.
Critics have said about him: “Sergei Dogadin, who knows himself to be a prodigy, shows his skills and surprises us with the skillful handling of his instrument”; “It was then, to Dogadin's credit, that his performance avoided any sense of flashy virtuosity, opting instead to counter a light sprezzatura with a serious, almost philosophical expressiveness”; or also: “Dogadin's solo entry into the Singapore International Violin Competition was impressive, as if he were saying to his audience: "You will listen to me and you will listen to me well."
Information about the program
The program, dedicated to compositions for violin and orchestra, opens, appropriately, with the piece 'Distant Light', by the Lithuanian composer Peteris Vasks, composed between 1996 and 1997 for Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica. A concerto for violin and string orchestra in a meditative and ethereal style on a dramatic background. Music possessing a lyricism of a romantic character and also a great expressive power.
Nino Rota's Concerto for strings, in four movements, will be played, which this composer of mythical soundtracks for cinema (War and Peace, White Nights, Rocco and his Brothers, The Leopard, Romeo and Juliet or The Godfather I and II) dedicated to the prestigious ensemble I Musici.
Also included in the program is 'Meditation', by Jules Massenet, a beautiful intermezzo from his opera Thais. Although this composer is not one of the great opera composers of all time, his works reveal enormous mastery in matching musical theater. This piece in particular is considered among the most beautiful works of classical music.
And this concert closes with the work Gypsy Airs (perhaps it would be more accurate to speak of Gypsy Airs), by the Spaniard Pablo Sarasate, who introduced distinction, charm and refinement into the art of violin performance. It premiered in 1877 in the German city of Leipzig and is considered one of the most important works in his catalog and one of the few that did not have a direct relationship with Spain.
