2015: CONCERTO  for violin and orchestra

Performances:
17 and 18 February 2016 ISO under Ariel Zuckerman,
Sergey Ostrovsky – violin,  Tel-Aviv Art Museum

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Publications: IMI

My violin concerto is a work that presents and is built upon the spectrum of styles I have been dealing with during my musical life, from Russian folk melodies, through synagogue prayers, from post-romantic gestures to the harmonious coloristic shading of blues and jazz. All these elements are part of my musical world, and therefore should not be viewed as a trivial eclectic collection of multiple genres, but rather as an attempt to synthesize them, reflecting on the path I have followed in the  world of music so far.

Formally, there are two movements in the Concerto, but the second movement actually includes three parts performed as one in a sequence. Among other technics, a use of Leitmotifs characterizes the piece as a whole, whereas the initial theme appears repeatedly throughout the work in different variations and forms, so it is more appropriate to talk about development and process rather than the form of a concerto in the classical sense.

The Concerto was commissioned by the Israel Chamber Orchestra with a support of the Israeli Ministry of Culture and is dedicated to an internationally acclaimed violinist Sergei Ostrovsky, who premiered it on February 2016 in the Recanati Hall of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art with maestro Ariel Zuckerman as a conductor.