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Sunday, September 27th, Carnegie Hall, Victor Paukstelis’ performance ‘The Recital of Restless Paintings’.  

The fans of classical music should expect a unique event: the artist is combining his two talents - painting and the classical piano - that has no analogy on the classical scene. “The Recital of Restless Paintings’ is a show of both, the music from the baroque and romanticism eras and the video projections of Victor’s paintings: colourful, modern, full of expression and dinamism. Two forms of art will balance each other out, as the scale of sounds will be enlarged by the visuals and the sights will vibrate acoustically. Victor Paukstelis, the author of the project, says that the main uniting force behind two forms of art is doublessly himself and his emotions. “It would be too difficult to pin a storyline between my paintings and the music of
the great composers, but I promise that ‘The Recial of Restless Paintings’ will be driven by my inner energy’, he says.

The extremely successful project was already introduced to the public on quite a few occasions, most notably at the Berlin Philharmonic in March, where it received standing ovation and overwhelmingly positive reviews.

The geography of the recitals spreads across the concert venues of the USA, Germany, France, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, where Victor’s talent is highly appreciated. The famous French pianist and professor Jean Marc Luisada has described Victor as an extremely sensitive artist with extraordinarily intellectual pursuit of form, sound full of volume and space and a thoughtful performance technique. Unique interpretation of form, gentility, expressiveness, bravety are the main features of Mr. Paukstelis. He views traditional compositions through the looking glass of his artistic personality: the stage is not the place for him to offer cliche musical interpretation. Victor holds that music and fine art are two intertwined components, as
the raw impusiveness of his paintings gives him experimental courage on stage.

Victor was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, is a graduate of the National M. K. ciurlionis School of Art and Balys Dvarionas Music School, he has obtained a Bachelor's, Master's and a Licentiate of Arts degree from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, and has studied at Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. He has taken lectures with Gary Graffman, Jiří Hlinka, Boris Petrushanskij, Michail Voskresenskij, Anthony di Bonaventura.

Victor started painting a decade ago. His most notable teacher was the famous Israeli painter Leo Ray.

Victor’s discography includes two CDs: 'Bach Liszt Debussy Victor Paukstelis' in 2013 and 2014 'Bach Lyadov Scriabin Piano Music’ in 2014.

The Carnegie program:
Johann Sebastian Bach French Suite Nr. 5 G-Dur, BWV 816

Robert Schumann Kinderszenen, op. 15

Jean-Philippe Rameau Aus Pièces de Clavecin: Le Rappel des oiseaux, La Villageoise, Tambourin, Les Tendres Plaintes und Les Tourbillons

Jean-Philippe Rameau Aus Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin: La Poule und Les Sauvages
Frédéric Chopin Scherzo No 1 Op. 30

Claude Debussy Aus Préludes (Deuxième Livre) Canope und Feux d'artifice.

http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/9/27/0730/PM/Victor-Paukstelis-Piano/

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