盧卡斯‧金紐薩斯 Lukas Geniušas

俄裔立陶宛鋼琴家盧卡斯‧金紐薩斯（Lukas Geniušas）是當今新生代音樂家中最才華出眾且令觀眾期待的一位。英國衛報稱他的演出「技藝高超又成熟」。世界著名的演出場館，如威格莫爾音樂廳、阿姆斯特丹音樂廳、巴黎夏沃音樂廳、盧浮宮演播廳、紐約弗里克收藏館、菲利普美術館、卡洛·費利切劇院、米蘭威爾第音樂廳、莫斯科音樂學院音樂廳等，皆爭相邀請他蒞臨舉辦獨奏會。此外，他也經常受邀參加國際音樂節，如Gilmore鍵盤音樂節、法國La Roque d‘Anthéron 國際鋼琴音樂節、雅各賓鋼琴音樂節、萊茵高音樂節、魯爾鋼琴音樂節，Schloss-Elmau 與 Lockenhaus 音樂節等。

盧卡斯和全球許多頂尖交響樂團合作演出過，包含法國廣播愛樂樂團、里昂國家管弦樂團、NHK 交響樂團、伯明翰城市交響樂團、聖彼得堡愛樂樂團、波羅的海室內樂團、俄羅斯國家管弦樂團、馬林斯基劇院管弦樂團、多倫多交響樂團、華沙愛樂樂團、聖加侖交響樂團等。合作過的指揮家包含葛濟夫、普雷特涅夫、史拉特金、夏爾·杜特華、安德里·博雷科、圖岡·索契夫、紹柳斯·鬆德茨基斯、安東尼·維特、拉斐爾·帕亞雷等。

2020 年，盧卡斯和巴黎管弦樂團以及指揮家埃薩-佩卡·薩洛寧合作，在巴黎愛樂廳開啟了他的20/21樂季第一場演出。不幸的是，後續的許多演出計畫，包含與巴黎管絃樂團的澳門/日本巡演，以及和費城交響樂團、斯塔萬格交響樂團/安德里斯·波加、國立臺灣交響樂團/尼爾森、羅亞爾省國立愛樂管絃樂團/強納森·海沃德的合作演出，都因為疫情而被迫取消。但盧卡斯也得以在這段期間至俄國及波蘭等地進行多場演出，包含在聖彼得堡與新西伯利亞模範交響樂團的合作演出，以及在華沙國家愛樂廳和諾漢肖邦音樂節的演出。之後，他也和蘇格蘭室內樂團/葉梅里亞尼切夫、奧爾貝格交響樂團/安德里斯·波加，以及法蘭德斯管弦樂團/克里斯蒂娜·波斯卡合作演出，並在 Piano àLyon系列音樂會中獨奏。此外，他也和女高音阿斯米克·格里戈里安一起在歐洲數個極富盛名的音樂廳中演出，如日內瓦歌劇院、法蘭克福歌劇院、漢堡易北愛樂廳、米蘭斯卡拉歌劇院。2023 年，他們將再次合作於薩爾茲堡音樂節、普羅旺斯埃克斯音樂節、維也納音樂廳，以及蘇黎世歌劇院演出。

2022/2023 樂季其他預計演出還包含與費城交響樂團/圖岡·索契夫的協奏曲首演、和圖盧茲市國家交響樂團/迪瑪‧斯洛波德紐克的演出，以及和斯塔萬格交響樂團/安德里斯·波加再次合作。為紀念拉赫瑪尼諾夫誕辰 150 週年，盧卡斯將舉辦一系列音樂會，在作曲家的瑞士故居塞納爾別墅（以及蒙特婁、波爾多、大加那利島和巴黎等地）公開首演拉赫瑪尼諾夫第一鋼琴奏鳴曲的原始未刪節版本。此外，他也預計演出弗雷德里克·熱夫斯基的兩首朗誦鋼琴曲，曲中除了彈奏外，將同時朗誦來自作家魯賓斯坦及王爾德的散文。

盧卡斯對音樂有廣泛的好奇心，因此他的演奏曲目相當多元，從巴洛克、貝多芬，到亨德密特、約翰·亞當斯，或是其他現代作曲家，他無不涉略。而對於俄國作品，如柴可夫斯基、拉赫曼尼諾夫、普羅高菲夫等人的曲目，也有深厚的興趣。除了大型協奏曲，他也熱衷於室內樂，並樂於探索新的表演形式與現代作品，或是推廣鮮少受到演出的冷門曲目。

這些特色也反映在盧卡斯的錄音作品中。他的專輯裡包含了來自貝多芬、布拉姆斯、拉赫曼尼諾夫（前奏曲全集）、蕭邦（練習曲 Op. 10, Op.15）的鋼琴曲，以及來自拉威爾、斯特拉文斯基、德夏特尼科夫、蕭斯塔高維奇、柴可夫斯基的室內樂作品。他和 Aylen Pritchin 以及 Alexander Buzlov 合作的錄音由 Melodiya 唱片公司發行。他和 Mirare 合作錄製的第一張普羅高菲夫的奏鳴曲專輯榮獲了法國音樂雜誌 Classica 的最佳推薦獎，以及被 Diapason 選為 2019 年最佳獨奏 CD。他和Mirare合作的第二張專輯以蕭邦作品為主，而最新的專輯「Chants populaires」則包含了來自戴西亞特尼科夫、巴爾托克，以及柴可夫斯基的作品。

盧卡斯‧金紐薩斯 1990 年出生於莫斯科，2008 年畢業於莫斯科蕭邦音樂學院。他曾獲多個國際比賽獎項，包含 2015 年柴可夫斯基大賽以及 2010 年國際蕭邦大賽銀牌獎。2015 年起，盧卡斯成為位於多倫多的慈善計畫「Looking at the stars」的其中一位主要藝術家。該計畫目的是將古典音樂帶到較缺乏音樂欣賞機會的環境中，如監獄、醫院、庇護所等。

Russian-Lithuanian pianist Lukas Geniušas has firmly established himself as one of the most exciting and distinctive artists of his generation. Praised for his ‘brilliance and maturity’ (The Guardian) he is invited to give recitals in the most prestigious venues all over the world such as the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Salle Gaveau, Louvre Auditorium, Frick Collection New York, Phillips Collection, Teatro Carlo Felice, Sala Verdi in Milan and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. He is also regularly invited to festivals including the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, Rheingau, the Ruhr Piano Festival, Schloss-Elmau and the Lockenhaus Music Festivals.

Lukas Geniušas performs with numerous orchestras including Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, National de Lyon Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Kremerata Baltica, Russian National Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic and St Gallen Symphony Orchestra under the batons of conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev, Leonard Slatkin, Charles Dutoit, Andrey Boreyko, Tugan Sokhiev, Saulius Sondeckis, Antoni Wit and Rafael Payare to name but a few. Lukas began the 2020/21 season performing at the Philharmonie de Paris with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Orchestre de Paris, though subsequent invitations to join the orchestra on tour to Macau and Japan, as well as engagements with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and Andris Poga, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra and John Nelsons and Orchestre national des pays de la Loire and Jonathan Heyward fell victim to the pandemic.

However, during this time Lukas was able to give many performances notably at the Moscow, St Petersburg and Novosibirsk Philharmonies, the National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw and at the Nohant Chopin Festival.He has since given concerts with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Maxim Emelyanchev, the Aolberg Symphony Orchestra and Andris Poga, a tour with the Flanders Symphony Orchestra and Kristiina Poska, recitals at the Piano à Lyon series and given concerts with the soprano Asmik Grigorian in some of Europe’s most prestigious halls including the Geneva and Frankfurt Opera houses, the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg and La Scala in Milan. In 2023 they will perform at the Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence Festivals, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Zurich Opera House.

Further highlights of the 2022/2023 season include Lukas’s concerto debuts with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Tugan Sokhiev, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse with Dima Slobodeniouk and a return to the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra with Andris Poga. In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rachmaninov, Lukas is dedicating a series of concerts in which he will give the first public performances of the original, unabridged version of Rachmaninov’s First Piano sonata, which he will perform in a special concert at the Villa Senar, the composer’s Swiss residence, as well as in Montreal, Bordeaux, Gran Canaria and Paris. In another major project, he performs two pieces for speaking pianist by Frederic Rzewski: Rubenstein in Berlin with text from the diaries of Rubenstein and De Profundis after Oscar Wilde.

Known for his innate curiosity and extensive musical interests, Lukas Geniušas explores a wide range of repertoire, from the baroque to works by contemporary composers. His repertoire spans from Beethoven Piano Concerti through to Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis and John Adams, as well as a strong interest in Russian repertoire such as Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and, of course, Prokofiev. He is an avid chamber musician and an extremely inquisitive performer and enjoys working on new works by modern composers, as well as resurrecting rarely performed repertoire.These aspects of his career are reflected in Lukas Geniušas’ critically acclaimed discography, which includes works by Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninov (the complete Preludes); Chopin (Etudes opus 10 and 25), and recordings of chamber music (Ravel, Stravinsky, Desyatnikov, Shostakovich and Tchaïkovsky with Aylen Pritchin and Alexander Buzlov for Melodiya. His first recording on MIRARE Prokofiev Sonatas was awarded the ‘Choc’ de Classica and the Diapason ‘Recital CD of the Year’ in 2019, his second was dedicated to Chopin (Sonata no. 3 and a selection of Mazurkas) and his most recent –Chants populaires - to Desyatnikov, Bartok and Tchaikovsky.

Born in Moscow in 1990, Lukas Geniušas graduated from the Chopin Music College Moscow, in 2008. He is the laureate of several prestigious international competitions, notably Silver Medalist at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the 2010 International Chopin competition. Since 2015, Lukas Geniušas has been a featured artist of "Looking at the stars" a philanthropy project based in Toronto, whose purpose is to bring classical music to institutions and organizations (prisons, hospitals and shelters) where people may not have an opportunity to experience it live in a traditional setting.

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