Mattina Musica featuring Vaida Rozinskaite

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Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Reception 9:45 AM Performance 10:30 AM

Co-presented by Sarah Hagen and the Sid Williams Theatre Society

Mattina Musica returns to the Comox Valley for an exciting third season.

Italian for �Morning Music�, Mattina Musica is a 5 concert series of classical music, each taking place on a Monday morning. Patrons are warmly invited to meet in the Sid lobby at 9:45 am for tea, coffee, and conversation before the 10:30 am concert.

The series is hosted by pianist Sarah Hagen, who is thrilled to have flautist Krzysztof Kaczka, cellist Ariel Barnes, harpist Heidi Krutzen, violinist Martin Chalifour, tenor Ken Lavigne, and violist Vaida Rozinskaite bring their world-class artistry to the Comox Valley. The musicians, all known for their perceptive, eloquent and entertaining commentary, will take time to offer personal insights into the music.

Can you think of a better way to spend a Monday morning?

For the final concert in this season's Mattina Musica, violist Vaida Rozinskaite joins pianist Sarah Hagen in a programme of Schumann and Schubert.

Originally from Lithuania, Vaida now makes her home in Frankfurt, Germany, where she is a sought-after freelance musician and invited to play in chamber recitals around the world. Sarah and Vaida first met at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2004 and have since performed together in Canada and in Germany.

Vaida Rozinskaite - Viola

Lithuanian born viola player Vaida Rozinskaite started her intensive musical career as a concert and chamber musician during her studies in the classes of Hariolf Schlichtig, Thomas Riebl and Diemut Poppen.

As a member of numerous chamber music ensembles Vaida Rozinskaite is frequently invited to play in Europe, Canada, South America, China, Singapur, Malaysia and Indonesia. Her chamber music partners have included Paul Coletti, Christoph Richter, Ida Levin, Oleg Kogan, Silke Avenhaus, Nicolas Altst�dt, Sayaka Shoji and Alain Trudel. She has participated in many festivals, including the Open Chamber Music Fastival in Prussia Cove, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Hambacher Musikfestival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Norre Vosborg Chamber Musik Festival, Festival Musical de los Siete Lagos (Argentina), and Salzburger Festspiele.

Her present commitments are the Ensemble Modern, Midt Vest Ensemble in Denmark, Amici Ensemble Frankfurt, Lukas String Trio, Guoda Piano Quartet, the Orchestra of the Staatsoper Munich, Bamberger Symphoniker and Radio-Sinfonie Orchestra Frankfurt.

Vaida Rozinskaite�s development as an artist was hugely influenced by her participation in the master courses with Erich H�barth, Ferenc Rados, the Cleveland Quartet and the Amadeus Quartet. Of great importance was the education she received in the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada and her annual attendance to IMS Prussia Cove in England.

Vaida has received scholarships from the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now foundation in Munich and the Mainz-based Villa Musica Foundation. With her former string quartet Quadriga, she has recorded for SWR and WDR.

Vaida plays a viola made by Valentinus De- Zorzi, Firenze 1887.

Sarah Hagen - Piano

Pianist Sarah Hagen has been heard in concert halls and on the airwaves to critical acclaim throughout North America and Europe. Originally from the Comox Valley, she has performed as soloist and guest artist with the Victoria Symphony, the Emily Carr String Quartet, Ballet Victoria and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, among many others.

Sarah is the Artistic Director for Pro'ject Sound, a performance project involving live piano with large-scale projected images. She curates, hosts, and performs on four recital series in British Columbia, sharing the stage with artists from Canada, the United States and Europe. Miss Hagen has been heard on Swedish Radio 2, CBC Radio 1 and 2, WDAV (North Carolina) WOSU (Ohio), KFUO (Missouri), CKUA (Edmonton), WKAR (Michigan), WITF (Pennsylvania), 98.1 KING FM (Seattle) and has appeared on Bravo Television. Her solo album, Glass House Dancing, was nominated for Classical Recording of the Year at the 2009 Western Canadian Music Awards.

Sarah�s primary teachers and mentors have been Jamie Parker, Glen Montgomery, Gregory Chaverdian and Christine Purvis. Passionate for inspiring students of all ages, she is in demand as an adjudicator and clinician and is on faculty at the Vancouver Academy of Music. She is the director of the Piano Programme at the Comox Valley Youth Music Centre where she has been on faculty for over a decade.

Since her move in 2011 to an artist loft in one of Vancouver�s most vibrant neighbourhoods, she has become deeply involved with intricate projects inspired by urban vitality.

Sarah's motivation is the belief that music has the power to be a window into our souls regardless of age or knowledge.

http://www.sarahhagen.com/

�Exquisite phrasing and a refreshingly imaginative approach make her one to watch.�
-Marcia Adair, TheOmniscientMussel.com

�Her Bach and Haydn were outstandingly inventive � this is a young woman ready to take interpretive risks.�
-University of Waterloo Gazette

Interested in the entire Mattina Musica series?
Buy all 5 performances for $115. Member price for the series is $90.