Piano Phase: Sound Meditation - Debussy, Ravel, Čiurlionis
UA250010 (Ulysses Arts, CD)
FIRST RELEASE (18 April 2025)
Tracks: 10
℗ 2025 Anna Szałucka and Monika Lozinskienė
© 2025 Ulysses Arts
Received: 16 December 2024
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Anna Szałucka and Monika Lozinskienė, piano
Claude Debussy:
Petite Suite:
1 En Bateau
2 Cortège
3 Menuet
4 Ballet
Maurice Ravel:
Ma Mère l'Oye
5 Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant
6 Petit Poucet
7 Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes
8 Les entretienes de la belle et de la bête
9 Le Jardin féerique
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis:
10 In the Forest
Anna Szałucka's and Monika Lozinskienė's first creative music installations, Summertime and Piano Phase, were showcased in Lithuania at Vilnius' MO Museum in 2021 and 2022. Monika's and Anna's varied individual experiences contribute to the Duo's projects, providing a dynamic energy and interpretational uniqueness. Monika is a co-founder of the international piano festival Kaunas Piano Fest, a producer of the openARTed podcast and the curator of the online international platform PianoBuffs. Anna, in addition to creating electronic music, is a chamber music lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music and has released solo and chamber music albums with labels such as October House Records, Naxos and LINN.
In 2022, the Duo became artists of London's City Music Foundation, performing in venues such as St Martin in the Fields, Wiltshire Music Centre, Sienko Gallery and at the Bloomsbury Festival. They have also performed at the Classical:Next conference in Hanover and during Kaunas 2022 European Capital of Culture. In 2024, they toured Scotland as laureates of the Tunnel Trust Award.
Piano Phase Project creates original piano arrangements, composes new music and collaborates with filmmakers, visual artists, jazz musicians and electronic music producers. Among their notable projects are Sound Meditation, an artistic movie filmed in the forests of Western Canada, which fuses classical and electronic music with visual arts, and also their new arrangement of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring for piano four-hands, percussion and dance.