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SOUND UP forte
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July 25, 20:00
Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val 
Speaking of the “piano music”, one often remembers the introductory rumble of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 or the openwork passages of Chopin's nocturnes. The virtuoso romance, which marked the 19th century, has become identical to piano music in general in our perception. However, over the past hundred years, this instrument went through changes which took it extremely far from Schumann and Liszt. The 20th-century composers interpreted the piano as a percussion instrument. They were interested in its timbre side, turning it into an analogue of Javanese gamelan, “detuned” it to hear its capabilities in the field of micro intervals and combined it with unexpected instruments (from bells to traditional Indian instruments). They came up with a toy piano, interfered with the mechanics of the instrument, “filled” it with foreign objects or used for playing not only its keyboard but also the body of the piano itself. The 21st century brought the piano to an alliance with electronics which made its sound capabilities absolutely unlimited.
The SOUND UP new music festival is launching a new formal - an annual piano festival SOUND UP forte which will offer a chance to deep dive into the infinite piano universe and get to know its many faces and voices. The festival will bring together representatives of different musical styles with different approaches to the instrument (academic, electronic, experimental and even pop music) and present their most interesting works to the audience.
The first "SOUND UP forte" will represent a dialogue between the artists of the academic scene and electronic music.
The curator of the academic part of the festival was the famous Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov. His favorite colleagues and students, Mikhail Dubov and Vladimir Ivanov-Rakievsky, will conduct an excursion on the metamorphosis that occurred with piano music in the second half of the 20th century, performing compositions ranging from Philip Glass to Hauschka. The festival will open with the classic of Russian minimalism - “Correspondence” by Vladimir Martynov and Georg Pelecis.
The electronic part of “SOUND UP forte” will feature three special projects by bright Russian producers experimenting with the synthesis of acoustic and electronic sound. St. Petersburg-based beatmaker George “Long Arm” Kotunov connects neoclassical sound with a downtempo and will perform a special piano set involving electronics and a chamber ensemble. Producer and composer Azamat, also known as Agraba, will add a string quartet and vocal to the roll of the piano and electronics. Roman “Mujuice” Litvinov will present the premiere concert performance of his album “Metamorphosis” with piano and chamber orchestra.
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