KOTORART TRIO

2020-08-15 21:30

Church of the Holy Spirit

Saturday, August 15
Church of the Holy Spirit, 9:30 p.m.
KOTORART TRIO
 
PETAR GARIĆ, clarinet (Montenegro)
DMITRY PROKOFIEV, cello (Russia / Montenegro)
RATIMIR MARTINOVIĆ, piano (Montenegro / Serbia)
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PROGRAM
 
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 11
Allegro con brio
Adagio
Theme and Variations
 
Eugène Bozza (1905–1991)
Aria for Clarinet and Piano
 
Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998)
Suite in the Old Style
3. Minuetto
4. Fuga
 
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114
Allegro
Adagio
Andantino grazioso
Allegro
 
Petar Garić, clarinet, after completing the Vasa Pavić Secondary School in Podgorica under Professor Veselin Bogićević, obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree with honors in Clarinet at the Music Academy in Cetinje, under Professor Ante Grgin. Since 2003, Petar Garić has served as principal clarinet of the RadioTelevision Montenegro Symphony Orchestra and upon the founding of the Music Center of Montenegro, he has been engaged as principal clarinet of the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra. Petar Garić began his pedagogical career as a Teaching Associate at the Music Academy in Cetinje, where he currently has Clarinet students under his tutelage. As a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician, he has performed in Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Northern Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Italy, Austria, France, Germany, and Turkey.
 
Dmitry Prokofiev, violoncello, obtained his bachelor’s (2003) and master’s degree (2005) at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Professor Natalia Gutman. He is a prize winner of numerous international competitions, such as the Alexander Tansman Competition (Poland), the P. I. Tchaikovsky Competition (Russia), and the Antonio Janigro Competition (Croatia). Since 2000, Dmitry Prokofiev has been the soloist of the Moscow Virtuosos State Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov. Since 2008, he has worked at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and since 2016 also been employed at the Music Academy of the University of Montenegro. He is Principal Cello of the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Artistic Director of the Ars Industria NonGovernmental Organization. As a soloist, he has performed in prestigious halls, as well as at many festivals, including the Vladimir Ashkenazy Festival (Finland), the Oleg Kagan Memorial in Kreuth (Germany), the Moscow Fall Festival, Primavera Classica in Moscow and KotorArt, among others. Dmitry Prokofiev has performed in chamber ensembles with Vladimir Spivakov, Natalia Gutman, Nikolai Lugansky, Jessye Norman, Jean Guillou, Ilya Gringolts, Eliso Virsaladze, and others. He recorded his first CD at the age of 16 with Aleksey Nasedkin, Professor of the Moscow Conservatory, and in 2004 with Alexander Kobrin, featuring music by Debussy, Brahms, Schumann, and Paganini.
 
Ratimir Martinović, piano, after studying under Professor Emilija Spasojević, then under Professors Frederik Stanković and Arbo Valdma, found in Kemal Gekić, one of the greatest virtuosos of today, a pedagogue under whose tutelage he remained for several years. He graduated in 1999 and received his master’s degree in 2002, conducting and performing the works of Mozart and Haydn, with a full-length concert featuring Bach’s compositions. Ratimir Martinović studied under Gekić at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and Florida International University in Miami (USA). He is the founder and director of the KotorArt Festival and the Vasilije Mokranjac Foundation. Ratimir Martinović is one of the youngest Full Professors in the history of the University of Novi Sad. He has performed over 700 concerts with over 60 orchestras in Europe, Asia, and South and North America, in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Parco della Musica in Rome, Rudolfinum and the Dvořák Hall in Prague, the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, the Glen Gould Hall in Toronto, and the Lisinski Hall in Zagreb, among many others. He holds master classes and regularly appears as a jury member of piano competitions in Italy, Great Britain, South Africa, Turkey, Germany, Croatia, and other countries. Ratimir Martinović has released three compact discs, the first featuring the Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach, the second with compositions by Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms and Prokofiev, and the third comprising the complete piano works of Vasilije Mokranjac.