Milda Daunoraite

Performers

Notes on the performers

Milda Daunoraite (b.2001) began her piano studies at the age of six. She received her formative education at The Purcell School of Music (London) and is currently studying with Tessa Nicholson at the Royal Academy of Music, under a full fees scholarship, where she is a recipient of the ABRSM Scholarship award. She has been supported by The Keyboard Charitable Trust , ‘SOS Talents foundation – MS’ and Mstislav Rostropovich Charity and Support Foundation.

Milda’s performances were featured live in 40 countries through Mezzo TV, as well as Radio Classique, TV5 Monde and Lithuanian National Television and Radio. Milda performed the 4th V. Bacevičius concerto for Piano and Orchestra in Lithuanian National Philharmonic with LNSO as a result of having EMCY publish her profile on their website. This performance was broadcast across Europe by Euroradio (EBU).

She has performed at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Musikhuset Aarhus, United Nations headquarters in Geneva, at the EMMA World Summit of Nobel Prize Peace Laureates in Warsaw and many others. In addition, she has performed in countries such as Spain, Latvia, Ukraine, Georgia, Sweden, and in many cities across Lithuania. Milda’s recent performances include Laeiszhalle Recital Hall in Hamburg, Deal Music&Arts Festival, The Petworth Festival, Biarritz Piano Festival and Palermo Classica Festival.

Milda has won the Purcell School concerto competition which lead her to perform the Ravel piano concerto in G major at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank.

Milda is a prize winner of numerous international competitions, such as the 1st Prize in the international V. Krainev Piano Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine; the ‘jury‘ prize in the PIANALE International Academy & Competition; Grand Prix in the 10th and 15th international piano competitions “Music Without Limits” in Lithuania which lead her to perform in Frankfurt, Germany and Aarhus, Denmark; 1st prize in the 4th international Piano Competition in Stockholm; Milda is also a four-times Prize winner in the national and international Balys Dvarionas competitions.
Milda is a part of a concert series “Piano and Art” at Künstlerfinca Can Brut, Mallorca, where she is regularly invited to perform solo recitals.

Programme

Programme notes

Franz Schubert

Sonata in A minor, D.537, Op 164

1. Allegro ma non troppo
2. Allegretto quasi andantino
3. Allegro vivace

Schubert composed this sonata in 1817. The piano sonata is featured in the 1985 film adaptation of E. M. Forster’s A Room with a View, as protagonist Lucy Honeychurch is practicing piano.

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Frédéric Chopin

Scherzo No. 4, Op. 54, in E major

The scherzo was published in 1843. Unlike the preceding three scherzi (Op. 20, Op. 31, Op. 39), the E-major is generally calmer in temperament, though it still possesses some exceptionally passionate and dramatic moments.

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György Ligeti

Etude No 16, Book3 “Pour Irina”

1. Andante con espressione, rubato, molto legato
2. Allegro con moto, sempre legato
3. Allegro vivace – Molto vivace

The Hungarian composer György Ligeti composed a cycle of 18 études for solo piano between 1985 and 2001. Etude No 16 has a gentle beginning, becoming more and more frenetic due to the introduction of progressively shorter note-values and additional pitches. The étude is dedicated to Irina Kataeva.

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Franz Liszt

Après une lecture de Dante, Années de Pèlerinage, Second year, Italy, S.161

Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata (‘After a Reading of Dante’; also known as the Dante Sonata) is a piano sonata in one movement, written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in 1849. It was first published in 1856 as part of the second volume of his Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage). This work of program music was inspired by the reading of Victor Hugo’s poem “Après une lecture de Dante” (1836).

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