On December 10, 2019 the Church of St. Catherine will host a unique event: the great-granddaughter of the great Russian theater director V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko - a brilliant pianist, graduate of the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, visiting professor of the Paris and Toulouse Conservatory Ekaterina NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO (Germany) will be the guest of the festival “Orthodox Christmas in Lithuania”. She will perform in an ensemble in Vilnius with an excellent clarinet player, laureate of international competitions, a teacher at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music - Jevgenij Voravko (Russia). Together they will present the program "Composers of Paris".
Programme:
Claude Debussy: Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano;
Maurice Ravel: Jeux d'eau (Fountains);
Jean Françaix: Theme and Variations;
Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano;
Igor Stravinsky: 3 Pieces for Solo Clarinet;
Joël Holmès. Molto lento;
S. Lansen: Antilles Mazurka;
Astor Piazzolla: 3 tangos from the suite “History of Tango”;
George Gershwin: Blues from the symphonic poem “An American in Paris”.