Antonina Luzko biography

Girls warmly recall that performance and hot reception of the public. That is why the performance in the Vologda Philharmonic in this January was among the first to enter the program of their grant project “Preservation and popularization of Russian piano ensemble performances of the Gnesinsky school”, supported by the presidential fund of cultural initiatives.

And again - a full hall, a diverse program from Mozart, Brahms and Tchaikovsky to Rosenblat and screams “Bravo” after each work. One of the most promising modern piano ensembles, laureates of many international competitions and participants in prestigious music festivals last week presented the Vologda people with the filigree art of duet piano musicalization. Before the concert, Antonin and Sophia told Cultinfo how their duet developed, why they decided to apply for a presidential grant and whether they have a work of Valery Gavrilin in their repertoire.

Antonina Luzko: We studied at the Gnesin Academy in the classroom with one professor - People's Artist of Russia Yuri Rozum, and after graduating from the Academy, our duet developed. I was absolutely accidental-we just decided to play something together, went to the notes store on Tver Boulevard, took the fantasy of Gershvin from Porgie and Bess-and made a concert version of this work written for four hands, already for two roots.

But they did not stop there, made a shift for two piano and a jazz orchestra - and presented this work at one of the concerts in Moscow. After that, we realized that we are thinking in one direction, we like to do concert processing - that is, not only to perform original works, but also to engage in creativity - and from that moment we play together. Sofya Sakhnova: The piano ensemble is such a unique genre where two parties are absolutely equivalent, equivalent - that is, such a symbiosis occurs here, and you need to feel when the second or first batch comes to the fore.

Therefore, the ensemble does not have a leading and a led. A subtle feeling of each other, a subtle sense of music determines who is currently coming to the fore. Antonina Luzko: We have a huge repertoire. There are original works in 4 hands written by composers for four -handed performance behind one piano - approx. Recently, a very original essay appeared in our repertoire-the “Carnival of Animals” by Saint-Sansa-an imprisoned for two royals, but for the festival “Denis Matsuev represents: dialogue of generations”, where we were asked to play on the same tool, we found this version, finalize it so that it sounds most fully and reflected everything that the author conceived, and now we can fulfill it now "Carnival of animals" with an orchestra both on one piano in four hands and two.

We also promise that in our repertoire the music of your fellow countryman - composer Valery Gavrilin, will certainly appear, very bright and interesting. Sofya Sakhnova: We wanted to fully open the genre of the piano ensemble to people. In fact, he is not as widely known as we would like. Many people are now approaching us at concerts and say that they have never seen how they play four hands.

Antonina Luzko: For more popularization, this genre we came up with the project “Preservation and popularization of the piano ensemble performance of the Gnesinsky school”.

One of the main points that prompted us to apply for a grant was the summer anniversary of Elena Fabianovna Gnesina, celebrated last year, and the flight from the date of the foundation of the School of the Gnesins, which will be celebrated in this. We won this grant and now we have such an opportunity - to introduce the audience to excellent music performed by our piano duet. Within the framework of the PFKI grant “Preservation and popularization of the piano ensemble performance of the Gnesinsky school” before the concert in the Vologda Philharmonic, the pianists have already visited Khabarovsk.

After Vologda they are waiting in Arkhangelsk, Voronezh, Chelyabinsk. In total, 10 concerts will be held in different regions of the country.