Invitation to Piano Music Concert by Duo Zubovas in Riga
Embassy of Lithuania in Riga and the Latvian National Museum of Art have the pleasure to invite you to the French Music Concert Jeux D‘Paris by famous Lithuanian pianists Duo Zubovas (piano four hands) on 4 November, 2014 at 6 p.m. at the Art Museum Riga Bourse, 6 Dome Square, Riga. The program of the Concert you can find here. Tickets can be purchased at the Art Museum Riga Bourse (Dome Square 6 ), for availability and more information, please call tel. 67225209.
The Lithuanian pianists Sonata Deveikytė-Zubovienė and Rokas Zubovas started performing together in 1997. Both pianists, winners of international competitions, received music education in Lithuania (Lithuanian Academy of Music), Switzerland (Heinrich Neuhaus Institute, Zürich) and the USA (De Paul University, Chicago), where they studied under guidance of pianists Povilas Stravinskas, Jurgis Karnavičius, Esther Yellin, Andrius Kuprevičius, Edvard Auer and Dmitry Paperno.
Duo Zubovas has appeared in international festivals in Lithuania, Norway, France, Italy, performed in South America (Argentine and Uruguay), North America (the USA and Canada), and throughout Europe. Besides performing the canon of repertoire for two pianos, Duo Zubovas’ special interest are works originally written for piano four hands by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Reger, Debussy, Ravel, Faure, Rachmaninov, Corigliano, and other composers, as well as transcriptions for piano four hands including Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”, Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos”, Haydn’s “Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz”, Ravel’s “Spanish Rhapsody”, Debussy’s “Spring”, “The Sea”, Čiurlionis’ String quartet and Symphonic Poem “In the Forest”, Gershwin’s “Cuban Overture” and “Rhapsody in Blue” and others. The Duo performs with various symphony and chamber orchestras in Lithuania and abroad and has a number of works by Lithuanian composers dedicated to them.
