Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Trianon Theatre
72 N Fifth Street
San Jose, CA 95112
Rovshan Mamedkuliev is an extraordinarily talented
Azerbaijani-born guitarist who is taking the classical guitar world by storm.
Since 1999 he has won more than 20 awards in national and international guitar
competitions, including the 2012 Guitar Foundation of America (GFA)
International Concert Artist Competition. His playing is unique and
captivating. At his upcoming San Jose concert you will hear music by composers
from Italy, Spain, Latin America, England, Russia, and Azerbaijan. Join us for
his San Jose concert on April 13. Not to be missed. Seating is limited.
Mamedkuliev was born in 1986 in Baku, Azerbaijan and grew
up in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. He showed exceptional musical talent as a child
and began guitar lessons at the age of 11. In 2004, he was accepted into the
Nizhny Novgorod Conservatoire where he studied with nationally renowned
guitarist Aleksey Petropavlovsky and joined the faculty immediately after
graduation. He now teaches classical guitar at the Maimonides Academy of the
A.N. Kosygin Russian State University in Moscow.
An advocate of new music, Mamedkuliev has premiered many
new works for guitar, including the Concerto No. 3 “Antony” for guitar and
orchestra composed by Philippe Lemaigre and the Concerto “Famalicao” by Elena
Lebedeva for guitar with chamber orchestra.
He also performs his own arrangements. He has published
arrangements of music by Russian composers, Masters of Russian Composition:
Alexander Borodin and Anatoly Lyadov (MelBay Publications, USA, 2014), and an
arrangement of the music by the native Azerbaijani composer Fikret Amirov, Six
Miniatures (LACG Editions, USA, 2015). The Amirov miniatures are on his program
for the upcoming San Jose concert.
His CDs include “Con Anima” (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia,
2011), a CD in the GFA Laureate Series on the prestigious Naxos label (Toronto,
Canada, 2012), a CD “Semi-Awake, Semi-Dream” on the Contrastes Records
(Sevilla, Spain, 2015). In January of 2016 Rovshan Mamedkuliev recorded his
second CD on Naxos (Toronto, Canada).
Program
1st part
Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) – Two sonatas for guitar
solo
Dionisio Aguado (1784-1849) – Rondo brilliante (ор.2, №3)
William Walton (1902-1983) – Five bagatelles:
1. Allegro
2. Lento sognando
3. Alla cubana
4. Sempre espressivo
5. Con slancio
2nd part
Agustin Barrios (1885-1944) – La Cathedral:
– Preludio saudade
– Andante religioso
– Allegro solemne
Fikret Amirov (1922-1984) – Six Miniatures (transcription
by R. Mamedkuliev):
– Ballad
– Ashug’s Song
– Lyrical Dance
– On Hunting
– Nocturne
– Toccata
Nikita Koshkin (born 1956) – Sonata №2:
1. Allegro moderato
2. Adagio – con moto
3. Allegro
Cost: $25 - $35
