Edvinas Minkštimas
Edvinas Minkstimas (b.1980) studied music at J. Naujalis Gymnasium of Music, Kaunas. In 1997 – 2003, he studied piano at the Lithuanian Academy of Music with Prof. V. Vitaitė, in 2002, at the National Conservatoire of Paris (Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique de Paris) with M. Beroff. In 2003, the performer received an MA from both institutions. Currently, Edvinas Minkstimas is studying at The Juilliard School in New York with Jerome Lowenthal. The pianist has attended master classes held by B. Hesse-Bukowska, N. Petroff, V. Ashkenazy, I. Biret, and M. Francoise-Bucquet.
Minkstimas’s biography as a soloist started in 1995, when 14 years of age he performed Grieg’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra A minor together with the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Later the pianist performed together with the Lithuanian Chamber (Lietuvos kamerinis) (led by S.Sondeckis) and Lithuanian Academy of Music Symphony Orchestras under the baton of Lithuanian and foreign conductors. Since 1990, Minkstimas has been performing abroad: in Russia, Byelorussia, Poland, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Canada and USA.
Edvinas Minkstimas is one of the most prominent young Lithuanian pianists; he is well known to Lithuanian and foreign music professionals and audiences. At the age of 24 he is a laureate of nine international piano competitions including P. Tchaikovsky (Moscow, 1992) and L.Knezkova-Hussey (Canada, Bathurst, 1996).
In 2001, Minkstimas won The International Competition European Piano Days in Pontoise (France), and in 2002 and 2003, The International Competition Music without Limits (Muzika be sienų) in Lithuania. In 2007 the pianist won the 1st Prize in the International Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Piano and Organ Competition.
In 2002, the pianist performed in Denmark and France as well as to Charles, Prince of Wales, the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom, during his visit to Lithuania.
In February and November 2003, Minkstimas gave two particularly successful concerts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and US Baltic Foundation Annual Gala in Washington, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in USA.
In 2001, Minkstimas was granted a two-year residency at the prestigious Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In summer 2002, he as a soloist and performer of chamber music participated in Summer Music Festival held by the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara (USA, California).
Minkstimas has won many scholarships and prizes including those from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture, Meyer Foundation in France and Music Academy of the West.
Edvinas Minkstimas has also tried composition. He has written opuses for piano, chamber and symphony orchestras, which he has repeatedly performed in Lithuania and abroad. He has recorded a CD including opuses for piano solo and with orchestra, such as Concerto D minor No.1 by J. Brahms, Concerto F minor No.2 by F. Chopin and Concerto for the Left Hand by M. Ravel.
Chamber Works
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite for violin and piano in A major, BWV 1025
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for violin and piano No.9 in A major (Kreutzer), op.47
E. Boza
Agrestide, for flute and piano
Johannes Brahms
Sonata for two pianos in F minor, op.34b
Hungarian Dances, for piano four hands (First Book)
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, op.25
Piano Quartet No.3 in C minor (Werther), op.60
Sonata for violin and piano No.3 in D minor, op.108
Romances and songs (5) for voice and piano, op.84
Piano Quartet No.2 in A major, op.26
Ernest Chausson
Songs for voice and piano
George Crumb
Nocturnes (4) for violin and piano (Night Music II)
Claude Debussy
Bilitis, arranged for violin and piano, L.96/5
Henri Dutilleux
Sonatine for flute and piano
Gabriel Fauré
Piano Quartet No.2 in G minor, op.45
Jacques Ibert
Concerto for flute, arranged for flute and piano
Andre Jolivet
Chant de Linos, for flute and piano
Gustav Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, cycle of songs for voice and piano
Kindertotenlieder, cycle of songs for voice and piano
Olivier Messiaen
Le merle noir, for flute and piano
Edvinas Minkštimas
Sonatine for flute and piano
Piece for flute, clarinet, bassoon and piano
Three songs for high voice, flute, percussion and piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for flute No.1 in G major, K. 313 (aranged for flute and piano)
Concerto for flute No.2 in D major, K.314 (arranged for flute and piano)
Modest Mussorgsky
Pesni i pliaski smerti / Songs and Dances of Death (4), cycle of songs for voice and paino
Conlon Nancarrow
Study No.15, for piano four hands
Sergei Rachmaninov
Suite Nr.1 (Fantaisie-tableaux) for two pianos in G minor, op.5
Camille Saint-Saens
Songs for voice and piano
Arnold Schoenberg
Fantasy for violin and piano, op.47
Franz Schubert
Variations Trockne Blumen for flute and piano in E minor, D.802 (Op. posth. 160)
Winterreise, cycle of songs for voice and piano, D.911 (op.89)
Robert Schumann
Frauenliebe und -leben, cycle of songs for voice and piano, op.42
Richard Wagner
Wesendonk Lieder, cycle of songs for voice and piano
Works for piano solo
Johann Sebastian Bach
Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1, No.21 in B flat major, BWV 866
Well Tempered Clavier, Book 2: No.20 in A minor, BWV 889, No.22 in B flat minor, BWV 891
Toccata in E minor, BWV 914
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata No.7 in D major, op.10 Nr.3
Sonata No.8 in C minor, op.13 (Pathetique)
Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, op.27 Nr.2 (Moonlight)
Sonata No.23 in F minor, op.57 (Appassionata)
Johannes Brahms
Variations (28) on a Theme of Paganini, in A minor, op.35
Variations on a Theme of Schumann, in F sharp minor, op.9
Intermezzi, op.117
Frederic Chopin
Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, op.35
Etudes op.10: No.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12
Etudes op.25: No.2, 6, 12
Ballade No.1 in G minor, op.23
Ballade No.2 in F major, op.38
Ballade No.4 in F minor, op.52
Fantasy-Impromptu in C sharp minor, op.66
Claude Debussy
Images, Book I
Préludes
Minstrels, prelude
Feuilles mortes, prelude
Cesar Franck
Prélude, choral et fugue, M.21
György Ligeti
Desordre, etude No.1, Book I
L’escalier du Diable, etude No.13, Book II
Franz Liszt
Vivo, etude in E minor (Grand Paganini Étude No. 4), S. 141/4
La Campanella I, etude in B minor (Transcendental Paganini Etude No. 3), S.140/3
Aprés une lecture du Dante I, fantasia quasi sonata, S.158c
Totentanz, S. 126
Sonata in B minor, S.178
Réminiscences de Don Juan (after W.A. Mozart: Don Giovanni), S.418
Hungarian Rhapsody, No.2 in C sharp minor , S.244/2
Hungarian Rhapsody, No.13 in A minor, S. 244/13
Mephisto Waltzes
Edvinas Minkštimas
"Bugs", cycle of pieses
"Intervals", cycle of pieces
Variations on Original Theme
Variations on the Theme of Paganini
"Mirror and reflection"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata No.14 in C minor, K. 457
Sonata No.8 in A minor, K.310
Sonata No.14 in C minor, K.457
Sergei Rachmaninov
Polka W.R., in A flat major
Preludes (13), op.32
Maurice Ravel
Le tombeau de Couperin
Arnold Schoenberg
Six Little Pieces
Franz Schubert
Sonata No.14 in A minor (Grande Sonate), D. 784 (op. posth. 143)
Impromptus (4), op.90
Robert Schumann
Arabesque in C major, op.18
Stefan Wolpe
Form IV: Broken Sequences, C.171
Works for piano and orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach
Piano Concerto No.5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Bela Bartok
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3, Sz 119, BB 127
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, op.37
Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, op.15
Frederic Chopin
Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, op.21
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor, op.16
Charles Ives
Emerson Overture, Concerto for piano and orchestra, S.22
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Koncertas Nr.20 Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K. 466
Piano Concerto No.21 in C major (Elvira Madigan) K. 467
Piano Concerto No.23 in A major, K.488
Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor, K.491
Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in D major (For Left Hand)
Carl Maria von Weber
Konzertstück in F minor, (op.79)
L. van Beethoven Concerto for piano and orchestra op. 19 No. 2, Part I
Chopin Nocturne in F Major
Concert in the Museum of Applied Art, Vilnius, 2014 November 30
Enchanted by Romantic Music
Performers
VILNIUS STRING QUARTET
Soloist EDVINAS MINKŠTIMAS (piano)
CÉSAR FRANCK – Piano quintet in F minor, Op. 14 / M. 7
JOHANNES BRAHMS – Piano quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Concert at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall, 26 November 2014
Bouquet for Professor
To mark the 75th anniversary of Veronika Vitaitė
Performers:
Graduates of Prof. Veronika Vitaitė’s piano class:
GUODA GEDVILAITĖ
DARIUS MAŽINTAS
EDVINAS MINKŠTIMAS
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH – Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH – French Suite No. 6 in E major, BWV 817
ALBERTO GINASTERA – Sonata No. 1, Op. 22
FRANZ LISZT – Valse Infernale, piano transcription from Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le Diable
FRANZ SCHUBERT – Impromptu No. 1 in F minor, D. 935
Concert at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall, December 16, 2009
Concert series “String Quartet and the Piano”
8th programme
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
Piano quintet in A minor, Op. 14
EDWARD ELGAR
Piano quintet in A minor, Op. 84
VILNIUS STRING QUARTET
Concert at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall, 08 11 2008
Vytautas Barkauskas
Konzertstück Nr. 2
Bela Bartok
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3, Sz 119, BB 127
Sergej Prokofiev
Symphony No. 5, in B flat major, op. 100
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
Soloist EDVINAS MINKŠTIMAS (piano)
Conductor MODESTAS PITRĖNAS
Concert at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall 2005 10 01
L. van Beethoven Concerto No.3 in C minor, op.37
Luis De Freitas Branco Suite Alentejana No. 2
Enrique Granados Intermezzo from opera „Goyescas”
Tomas Breton ”El Baile de Luiz Alonso”
Jose Ferreira Lobo - conductor, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
