Ravel - Pavane pour une infante defunte - Vestard Shimkus

Pianist Vestard Shimkus plays "Pavane pour une infante defunte" by Maurice Ravel.
Recorded live, February 2006.

Vestard Shimkus (Vestards Šimkus) studied in Riga, Los Angeles, Madrid and Munich with professors Dmitri Bashkirov, Daniel Pollack, Vadim Suchanov and others. Has also studied composition with Peteris Vasks.

Among his prizes are 1st prize at the international Bad-Kissinger KlavierOlympiade piano competition (Germany, 2007), Los Angeles Liszt Piano Competition (2002) and Stockholm Performing Artists Competition (2001). In 2002 he was awarded with the Grand Music Prize of Latvia (2002) and "White Star" order of Estonia (2005).

Shimkus has given performances throughout Europe, the USA, the Middle-East and Japan. Festival appearances have included Bergen Festival (Norway), Lockenhaus Gidon Kremer Festival (Austria), Kissinger Sommer Festival, Al Bustan Festival (Lebanon), amongst others. He has performed with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, KREMERata Baltica, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie and Tallin Chamber Orchestra and has collaborated with such conductors as Lawrence Foster, Vassily Sinaisky, Eri Klas, Woldemar Nelsson, Anu Tali, Jonathan Darlington, Andris Nelsons and Olari Elts.

Shimkus has released two solo CD albums and has had compositions published by Schott Music. His own newly composed piano concerto was premiered on July 2008.

Info: www.geocities.com/vestards

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[jcwchang]

beautiful

[Mawis1987]

Wow , beautiful.

[Doodleclipse]

@Imbetterthanmost Actually, i kind of agreed with you. haha...

wuohhh~~~ is it haunted 0.0' lol. Joke

[Andreapiano95]

perfect.

[Serfinn]

Viņš ir mans brālis, yo!!!!!!

[Andreapiano95]

So nice! Perfect interpretation ;)



[crazyasianbtang]

A little jumpy at parts :(

[Imbetterthanmost]

for some reason every recording of this song has weird background noise

[bnardish]

@nixonburgers yes, sure, you 're right.

[bnardish]

Ce pianiste joue de façon romantique la pièce; il surjoue; cela ne convient pas à l'esprit de la pièce. De plus le piano est faux dans les aigus; c'est quand même gênant

[bnardish]

@nixonburgers  yes, sure, you're right

[bnardish]

il joue de manière trop romantique; il ne respecte pas l'esprit de la musique de Ravel ; il surjoue... Le piano est faux dans les aigus !