Concert of the Winners of the 10th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors and the "Young Musician of the Year" competition will take place on October 27th, 2018 at 7.00 pm in the Witold Lutosławski Polish Radio Concert Studio. Sinfonia Iuventus will perform under the baton of Lithuanian conductor Modestas Barkauskas along with flautist Marta Chlebicka.
Modestas Barkauskas is one of the most talented and recognizable Lithuanian conductors of the young generation. Since 2008, he has been the artistic director of the youth orchestra at the B. Dvarionas School of Music in Vilnius, and has performed concerts with the orchestra in Germany, Belgium, France, Poland and Latvia. He also became artistic director and conductor of the St Christopher Chamber Orchestra in Vilnius, lectures at the Faculties of Conducting and Singing of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In 2017, he won third prize in the 10th Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Conductors in Katowice, and the October performance with the Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra is the realisation of one of the competition awards, which honour its winners in this way. He will conduct the performance of Symphony in E minor No. 1 by Pyotr Tchaikowsky.
The charming Flute Concerto in G major by Carl Stamitz will be performed by Marta Chlebicka, a pupil of the Z. Brzewski Secondary School of Music in Warsaw and the winner of the prestigious "Young Musician of the Year" competition (2018), which selects the Polish participant in the "Eurovision Young Musicians" competition (this year’s edition took place in Edinburgh in August). The style of Stamitz’s music is often compared with the clarity and charm of Mozart’s youthful works (the latter owed much to the achievements of the “Mannheim School”), which is why one of his last masterpieces, the brilliant overture to the Magic Flute, will be the perfect complement of the programme.
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.
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