Live @ Lighthouse Summer Concert Series Opens June 8 with Classical Pianist Polina Osetinskaya
Lighthouse ArtSpace Chicago (108 W. Germania Pl.) opens the Live @ Lighthouse Summer Concert Series 7 p.m., Thursday, June 8 with classical pianist and human rights advocate Polina Osetinskaya: "Baroque Masterpieces from Epic Films."
In this concert, Osetinskaya brings to life seminal works by Bach, Handel, Purcell and Rameau, used in the soundtracks of epic films by Bergman, Coppola, Kubrick and Tarkovsky.
The June 8 concert will be an opportunity to see Osetinskaya, "one of the most outstanding pianists of the 21st century" (The Baltic Times), in an intimate setting, performing some of the most enduring musical masterpieces. This engagement is part of her current North American Tour and precedes her highly anticipated appearance with Maxim Vengerov and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra this fall.
Osetinskaya began her career at the age of five and was soon acclaimed as a wunderkind in the former Soviet Union. She gave her first concert at the age of six and entered the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory at the age of seven. Her first piano teacher was her father Oleg Osetinsky, a prominent Russian filmmaker Ostnskaya describes in her memoir "Farewell Sadness" as a cruel, brutal taskmaster. Osetinskaya went on to study at the Leningrad Conservatory with Marina Wolf and later at the Moscow Conservatory with Vera Gornostaeva.
Osetinskaya has performed at Carnegie Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, London's Barbican Centre, Rome's Teatro Argentina, as well as in Russia, Germany, Poland, Israel. She has also appeared at festivals in Europe, Russia and the United States and has appeared with acclaimed orchestras including the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, The State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia "Evgeny Svetlanov" and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. Onstage partners have included Israeli violist Maxim Vengerov, clarinetist Sir Julian Milkis, Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis, French classical composer and conductor Laurent Petitgirard, Soviet and Russian conductor and violinist Vladimir Spivakov, Polish-Russian conductor Andrey Boreyko, former principal conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Gerd Albrecht and German conductor Thomas Sanderling. Osetinskaya has released recordings with the Quartz, Naxos, Sony Music, Bel-Aire, and Melodiya labels.
Osetinskaya has been a life-long human rights advocate, supporting political prisoners, performing charity recitals for patients in hospice care and working as a trustee for the Oxygen Foundation to support children with cystic fibrosis.
Tickets for "Baroque Masterpieces from Epic Films" start at $65 and are on sale at lighthouseartspace.com/chicago.
In addition to the musical performance, each ticket includes a free welcome drink and the "Mozart Immersive" experience. VIP tickets include a souvenir poster signed by the featured artist, and a meet and greet with the performer following the show.