November 20th 2024 – 20:00-22:00
Piano recital for 4 hands, with Annie Kraus and Lynn Orazi
Musics by Clara Schumann, Marie Jaëll, Helen Buchholtz, Amy Beach, Germaine Tailleferre and No Time Anymore composed by Tatsiana Zelianko decidacted to Annie and Lynn.
In this piece, a ball is thrown in the piano. The ball represents the shot – the heavy spherical ball – at shot put. This element is a tribute to the olympics games of 2024 in Paris.
It represents the heavy weighted troubles that we are trying to throw away, to get rid of, but that come back.
The sphere is also an allegory of the planet Earth that we are silently letting down, until it hits the ground, here the strings of the piano, and generated a thunderous noise.
The noise is a complaint, is the complaint of the planet, thrown by us humans, when it reaches the ultimate point of failure.
The noise hurts as much as we hurt the Earth.
This piece founds its source, its inspiration in the recent news.
It is polythematic, with the Summer Olympics on a hand and the climate change on the other hand.
In my piece we collect the ball and restart. This represents the 3 catastrophes that the Earth survived with the Asteroid hitting the planet and eradicating the dinosaurs, the second being the industrial and post industrial era, exhausting the resources of the planet, generating that poisoning pollution, the third and ultimate being ahead of us if we don’t act.
The pianist says 3 times no time anymore, as for every catastrophe, every cataclysm, when noticed, it is too late to reverse the course of action, to stop the journey leading to the end of the know world.
The ball is also the heavy spherical ball at shot put.
Each athlete is entitled to 6 attempts. instead of measuring the distance at which the shot is put, the measurement is made by the thunderous sound generated when hitting the strings.
While the athlete heavily expires when throwing the shot, and very often shouts, it is replaced by the pianist voice no time anymore we are burning the score, with the same necessity as the athlete when putting. The score can be understood as the partition of course, but as well as the mark that the athletes reach.
The piece is polystylistic. It is inspired by and mixes the characteristics of the ancient music, namely the madrigals of Gesualdo, the neoclassical music and the tango.
The aim is to mix these styles to create a balanced mix, using the best of the bread of these universes.
On November 23rd 2024, my latest composition Kronos will be played at the Grand Auditorium of the Philharmonie of Luxembourg.
Who wears the pants in Luxembourg operetta?
Plitsch, platsch! Mehr als hundert Jahre nach der einmaligen Aufführung des Musicals An der Schwemm (1922) der luxemburgischen Komponistin Lou Koster wird nun eine Adaption beim Festival de Wiltz aufgeführt. Der Schriftsteller und Journalist Batty Weber verfasste damals das Libretto in luxemburgischer Sprache. Inszeniert wird die Geschichte von Lory, einer selbstsicheren Schwimmerin, die im Schwimmbad den Avancen des Beamten Zengerlé widersteht und sich zugleich in den schönen Soldaten und Schwimmlehrer Reddy verliebt. Das Schwimmbad symbolisiert den Schmelztiegel des gesellschaftlichen Lebens der 1920er Jahre. Die Bühne gehört ganz und gar der Hauptfigur, die für ihre Freiheit wirbt.
Belarus, she was trained at the Academy of Music in Minsk where she obtained a Master’s in instrumental performance (piano) and graduated as a piano teacher and chamber artist. She then worked at the Philharmonic of Brest, Belarus, as a concert pianist.After moving to Luxembourg in 2008, she turned to contemporary composition and began studying writing and musical analysis at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, of which she won two first prizes. In 2015, she won first prize in the Senior section at the International Composition Competition “Artistes en Herbes” in Luxembourg. A year later, Tatsiana Zelianko obtained governmental artist status in Luxembourg.She has to her credit several dozen of diverse and varied musical creations. The composer has already carried out a large number of musical commissions in Luxembourg in collaboration with Noise Watchers Unlimited, the CAPe, National Literature Center of Mersch, Ensemble Lucilin, Ars Musica, the CID | Fraen an Gender, the Philharmonie Luxembourg and the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg.Her partitions have been created in other countries such as France, UK, Belarus and Bulgaria. Since 2013, her works have been included in the catalog of the “Luxembourg Music Publishers a. s. b. l.» bringing together Luxembourgish composers.In 2015, she carried out several State commissions, including one from the Philharmonie Luxembourg as part of the Rainy Days Festival in co-production with the Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg. The 90-minute work was composed for a cine-concert based on Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Lodger. Its world premiere was performed by United Instruments of Lucilin under the direction of David Reiland, on November 25, 2015 at the Philharmonie Luxembourg.