Rusnė Mataitytė (violin)
Rusnė Mataitytė, a graduate of the National M. K. Čiurlionis Art School and Moscow P. Tschaikovsky Conservatoire, studied with famous Russian teachers of violin: Viktor Radovich, Valery Klimov and Igor Bezrodny. With their guidance she won the Jaroslav Kotsian Competition and became a laureate of David Oistrakh and Ludwig Spohr International Violin Competitions. The violinist also remembers the 1992 concert of Antonin Dvořák’s chamber music in Wiener Konzerthaus where she performed together with the famous Czech violinist Josef Suk. Later R. Mataitytė participated in many significant events: Ost-West Musikfest (Austria), Bradva Festival (Yugoslavia), Cascades (Germany), Gaida, Spring of Klaipėda (Klaipėdos pavasaris) and Christopher Summer festivals.
The violinist has a traditional violin repertoire and studies the most recent music. CDs of opuses by Eastern European composers (Proudsound, United Kingdom) and music by Osvaldas Balakauskas (ASV, UK; BIS, Sweden) that she has recorded were internationally acclaimed by critics.
As a soloist R. Mataitytė has performed together with symphony and chamber orchestras in Lithuania, Russia, Germany, Austria and Yugoslavia. Composers O. Balakauskas and A. Martinaitis have dedicated their concertos for violin to her, which she performed together with the Lithuanian National Symphony and St. Christopher Chamber Orchestras. With the latter the violinist has recorded a concert for violin and chamber orchestra that the English composer Sadie Harrison has dedicated to her.
R. Mataitytė is committed also to chamber music; she is a member of Kaskados Piano Trio and Gaida ensemble. Together with her permanent partner Margrit Julia Zimmermann, the violinist organised the Kaskados festival in Kassel (Germany) in 1997 – 2000; now Lithuanian ensembles often give concerts during the festivals and also play music by Lithuanian composers.
Among recent significant R. Mataitytė’s appearances on stage are concerts during Oldbore and Newberry festivals in England, Sao Paulo festival and Carnegie Hall in New York (USA). In 2003 she performed in the famous St. John’s, Smith Square, London. In 2004, together with the St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra she participated in the Europamusicale festival, Germany, and gave concerts in the most famous halls of Berlin, Munich and Leipzig.
The violinist’s recitals are often accompanied by exhibitions of her paintings.
Lithuanian Composers
Feliksas Bajoras
Concerto for violin and symphony orchestra
Osvaldas Balakauskas
Concerto Brio for violin and chamber orchestra (dedicated to R.Mataityte)
”Like the touch of the see wave” for violin and piano
Magiore-Minore for violin and piano
”Rain for Cracow” for violin and piano
Sonata for violin and piano
Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano
Vytautas Barkauskas
Partita for violin solo
Julius Gaidelis
Sonata for violin and piano
Vladas Jakubėnas
Melody-Legend for violin and piano
Arvydas Malcys
Variations for violin and piano
Algirdas Martinaitis
Concerto for violin and symphony orchestra “Eurassic park” (dedicated to R.Mataityte)
Concerto for violin, viola and chamber orchestra “Waiting for…”
”Seeing Friend F.Schubert off...” for violin and piano
”Waiting for F.Schubert” for violin and piano
Juozas Pakalnis
Piano trio
Raminta Šerkšnytė
Vortex for violin solo and ensemble
Chamber Works
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano trio in D major, op. 7 No. 5
Trio No. 10 in E flat major Op. 44
Piano Trio No.1 in E flat major, op.1 no.1
Trio in D major (after Symphony No. 2)
Trio No.2 in G major, op.1 no. 2
Trio No.3 in C minor, op. 1 no. 3
Trio No.4 in B flat major, op. 11 “ Gassenhauer”
Trio No.5 in D major, op.70 no.1 “Ghost”
Trio No.6 in E flat major, op.70 no.2
Trio No.7 in B flat major, WoO.38
Trio No.8 in one movement in B flat major, WoO 39
Trio No.9 in E flat major WoO.38
Piano Trio No.11 in G major major, op.121a.” 10 Variations on Wenzel Muller’s song
Piano Trio in E flat major, op.38
Triosatz in E flat major
Johannes Brahms
Piano Trio in B major, Op.8
Piano Trio in C minor Op.101
Piano Quartet in C minor, op.60
Piano trio in C major, op. 87
Antonin Dvorak
Piano trio in C minor, op. 90 Dumki
Piano Quartet in E flat major Op.87
Gabriel Faure
Piano trio op. 120
Jean Francaix
Piano trio in D major
Sadie Harrison
“Geda’s Weaving” for string quartet
Joseph Haydn
Piano trio in G major a l’ Ongarese
Olivier Messiaen
“Quatour pour la fin du temps” for clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano trio in G major, KV 564
Arvo Part
Mozart – Adagio ( in memoriam Oleg Kagan)
Maurice Ravel
Piano trio in A minor
Camille Saint-Saens
Piano trio in F major, op. 18
Dmitri Schostakovich
Piano trio op. 67
Franz Schubert
Piano trio in B flat Major, op. 99
Robert Schumann
Piano trio in F major, op. 80
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Piano trio in A minor, op. 50
Solo Works
Sadie Harrison
”Songs for Rusne” for violin solo
Works for Violin and Orchestra
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for violin, strings & continuo No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041
Concerto for violin, strings & continuo No. 2 in E major, BWV 1042
Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in D minor ("Double"), BWV 1043
Violin and Oboe Concerto in C minor BWV 1060
Ludwig van Beethoven
Triple Concerto in C major op.56
Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op. 26
Aram Chaczaturian
Violin Concerto
Sadie Harrison
Concerto for violin and chamber orchestra “An unexpected Light“ (dedicated to R.Mataityte)
Joseph Haydn
Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra in G major Hob.VIIa:4
Édouard Lalo
Symphonie espagnole, for violin and orchestra in D minor, Op. 21
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor op.64
Concerto for piano, violin, and string orchestra in D minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No.3 in G major K.216
Violin Concerto No.5 in A major K.219
Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in E flat major K.364
Franz Schubert
Rondo for Violin and String Orchestra
Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor op.47
Igor Stravinsky
Violin Concerto in D major
Karol Szymanowski
Violin Concerto No.1 op.35
Giuseppe Tartini
Violin Concerto in D minor
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major op.35
Peteris Vasks
Violin Concerto “Distant Light”
Antonio Vivaldi
”The four Seasons”, Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in E flat major Op.8/5, RV 253
Works for Violin and Piano
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata for violin & piano No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 12/3
Sonata for violin & piano No. 4 in A minor op. 23
Sonata for violin & piano No.5 in F major op.24 ”Spring”
Romance for violin & orchestra No. 2 in F major, Op. 50
Johannes Brahms
Sonata No.3 in D minor op. 108
Ernest Causson
Poeme op.25
Claude Debussy
Sonata in G minor L.140
La plus que lente, waltz, L. 121
Antonin Dvorak
Romantic Pieces op.75
Manuel de Falla
Suite Populaire Espagnole
Gabriel Faure
Sonata in A major op.13
Cesar Franck
Sonata for violin & piano in A major, M. 8
Sadie Harrison
“An Angel reads my open book…” for violin and piano
“A hidden Light“ for violin and piano
Felix Mendelssohn
Sonata for violin & piano in F major
Sergei Prokofiev
Sonata No.1 F minor op.80
Sonata No.2 in D major op.94a
Five melodies op.35 bis
Maurice Ravel
Tzigane, rapsodie de concert, 1924
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Alfred Schnittke
Sonata No.1
Franz Schubert
“Grand Duo” for violin and piano in A major D 574
Sonata in A major, D 547
Robert Schumann
Sonata No.1 in A minor
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Five Pieces for Violin and piano
Vytautas Germanavičius "Tonight My Shadow Sinks into the Wall"
Concert at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall, 10 10 2014
FELIKSAS BAJORAS
Exodus II for orchestra;
Concerto for violin and orchestra, 1 & 2 mvts.;
Promise for accordion and orchestra;
Oratorio The Bell Rising for soloists, choir and orchestra (lyrics by Jonas Strielkūnas); premiere of a work for symphony orchestra
Performers
LITHUANIAN NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Soloists:
RUSNĖ MATAITYTĖ (violin)
RAIMONDAS SVIACKEVIČIUS (accordion)
ASTA KRIKŠČIŪNAITĖ (soprano)
NORA PETROČENKO (mezzo-soprano)
TOMAS PAVILIONIS (tenor)
TADAS GIRININKAS (bass)
With the participation of AIDIJA Choir and M. K. Čiurlionis National School of Arts choir
Conductor ROBERTAS ŠERVENIKAS
In Prokofjews fruher f-Moll-Sonate ließ die Violinistin ein wahres Feurwerk virtuoser Kunste abbrennen. Geschwindigkeits - oder grifftechnische Probleme existierten nicht, die Intonation blieb auch in rasenden Laufen kontrolliert. Der Reichtum an Klangfarben, der Rusne Mataityte zu gebote steht, machte dieses kompromißlos ausdrucksstarke Werk faszinierend vielgestaltig.
Michael Schafer, Mit viel Gefuhl und Leidenschaft, Gottinger Tageblatt, 05 10 1993
Dem hochst anspruchsvollen Solopart der Violine nahm sich dabei die aus Vilnius stammende Rusne Mataityte mit großem Ernst und technischer Brillanz an. Deutlich ist ihrem Ton der Schmelz der russischen Schule anzumerken, doch spielte sie ihren Vivaldi nicht auf pure Klangschonheit. Mit angezogenen Tempi in den schnellen Satzen und dem Drang zu weiten Bogen in den langsamen setzte sie auf eine Interpretationshaltung, der Extreme fremd sind, die aber in jedem Moment Aufmerksamkeit fur sich beanspruchen kann.
Michael Kube, Bunter Straub musikalischer Bonbons, Kieler nachrichten, 19 08 1998
Mit Temperament, Energie und Klangsinnentfaltete Rusne Mataityte auf ihrem Instrument einen klaren, strahlenden Ton von großer Fülle und Leuchtkraft, kraftvoll von der sonoren Tiefe bis zur glasklaren, fast stahlernen, nie aber scharfen Höhe.
Hingabe an den Klang und leidenschaftliches Ausschöpf, Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine – HNA, 24 09 1998
The big news here, at least for me was Osvaldas Balakauskas Like The Touch of a Sea Wave. (…) It‘s a finely chiselled offering that suggests light on glistening crystals, the sort of peace Manfred Eicher might cull for his ECM label although I doubt that even he could commission a better performance than the one recorded here, where the Lithuanian-born violinist Rusne Mataityte and Russian-German pianist Margrit-Julia Zimmermann serve to underline the score‘s many stylistic subtleties. (…) Barkauskas (…) playful unaccompanied violin Partita was popularized by Gidon Kremer, whose violinistic wit must have made real mischief of its many jokes and surprises. Not that Mataityte can be found wanting. Her tonal palette is both wide and accommodating and she makes great play with the syncopated ”Toccata” fourth movement. (…) the performances are extremely convincing.
Robert Cowan, Gramophone Reviews Galley 63, 05 01 1996
Die aus Litauen stammende Geigerin Rusne Mataityte, Konzertmeisterin der Göttinger Symphoniker und des Göttinger Kammerorchesters, und die russischdeutsche Pianistin Margrit Julia Zimmermann sind im Duo ebenbürtige Partnerinnen. Sie haben beide am Moskauer Konservatorium studiert. Die eigentümlich fließende und schwebende Geruhsamkeit geht ihnen so überzeugend von der Hand, daß die Atemzüge dieses Singens nirgends stereotyp wirken und die dynamischen Feinunterschiede den Anschein von Natürlichkeit vermitteln.
Georg Borchardt, Das Orchester, 1997/1
