Yuval Gotlibovich has won the first prize as a violist in the Lionel Tertis (UK), Fischoff (USA) and Aviv (Israel) competitions.
His debut album for the NAXOS record label, together with the Catalan Chamber Orchestra featuring the viola music of Ramón Paus, has gained international recognition as it entered the top ten best-selling albums of Naxos worldwide in the first month of its release.
His passion for performance, composition and improvisation have led him to the creation of original music that accompanies silent films from of the golden era of films which he presented often in collaboration with his brother, cellist Jonathan Gotlibovich in various film and music festivals.
Gotlibovich is the artistic director of the International Music Festival Ciudad Monumental de Cáceres. He is a viola professor in Switzerland and Spain and has been a professor at Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music, the same school he has graduated from in the class of his teacher and mentor Atar Arad.
Première!
6.6.
Naantali Music Festival starts with a bang! Duo per Due, composed especially for this concert by Auli Sallinen, is premiered by Arto Noras, who has led the Music Festival for 40 years, and the new artistic director, violinist Elina Vähälä. Belgian composer César Franck’s works are filled with passion and the pathos of late Romanticism, while Korean composer Jeajoon Ryu’s cello sonata translates the beauty of the 19th century into contemporary language.
Finnish music was born in the forest. Finnish music was born in the forest. Jean Sibelius heard the echoes of both his great symphonies and his aphoristic piano pieces in birdsong and humming trees, and it was from nature’s mysterious seduction that the thrilling story of the Wood Nymph was born. For Outi Tarkiainen, inspired by the nature of Lapland, the forest provides a hiding place, a platform for spiritual growth and a home for ancient stories. Outi Tarkiainen is one of the fastest rising Finnish composers of her generation internationally.
New, old, borrowed
11.6.
It sounds antique, it has an ancient name and a patinated surface – but is it old? While Ottorino Respighi and Alfred Schnittke’s series resonate with the glories of early Baroque, Anna Clyne’s Rest These Hands brings about goosebumps with sounds from beyond history. The concert takes listeners on a journey into a past that may never have existed. The programme culminates in the performance of the youngest performer of the Naantali Music Festival of all times, violinist Lilja Haatainen, who is only 12 years old but has already won her share of international competitions.
Schubertiade
11.6.
In the concert Schubertiade we’ll hear the most beloved works of Franz Schubert performed by soprano Helena Juntunen and pianists Barry Douglas and Paavali Jumppanen.
All the darkness in the world is not enough to extinguish the light of a single candle, and without shadows there would be no light. Sebastian Fagerlund’s dramatic Transient Light and Ralf Gothóni’s melodrama, based on a Zen Buddhist story, bring us face to face with age-old questions. Paavali Jumppanen performs Franz Liszt’s most iconic piano work, the Piano Sonata in B minor, which reaches from darkness to light.
