Masterclass in Orchestral Playing at LMTA

On October 26-31, 2014, a masterclass in orchestral playing led by the world famous orchestra concertmasters will be held for the first time in Lithuania. Orchestral rehearsals with the LMTA Students’ Symphony Orchestra will be guided by Boris GARLITSKY (violin professor of the National Conservatory of Music and Dance in Paris and the Folkwang University of the Arts (Essen, Germany), visiting concertmaster of London, Vienna ORF, Covent Garden Opera, the Hamburg Philharmonic symphony orchestras) and Anton BARAKHOVSKY (student of Dorothy DeLay and Itzhak Perlman, former concertmaster of the Hamburg Philharmonic, currently the concertmaster of the Bayerischen Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra).

The orchestra will work on two famous orchestral pieces: Franz Schubert Symphony No. 5 D. 485 and Dmitry Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8, op. 110, version for string orchestra. Three violinists were chosen for the position of concertmaster: Bernardas Petrauskas, Ieva Daugirdaitė and Minadora Šernaitė. The master classes will take place at the Grand Hall of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Gedimino pr. 42, Vilnius). During those days, B. Garlitsky and A. Barakhovsky will also give individual violin lessons. After the masterclass, six concerts will be conducted by Martynas Staškus and Modestas Pitrėnas.

The masterclass is part of the project “Performer’s Polyfunctionality in Musical, Cultural and Social Processes”, funded by a grant (No. MIP-095/2013) from the Research Council of Lithuania.