Trivium
Trivium is a program featuring three distinguished musicians, taking its name from the opening work by Arvo Pärt, one of the most performed living composers today. The Latin title “Trivium” represents three paths that lead to the same destination –
the Truth.
The work comprises three short sections sharing the same melody but employing different applications of Pärt’s signature tintinnabuli technique.
This unique ensemble of musicians, through carefully curated works, seeks to share their experience of profound emotions and inner depths. The distinctive program spans composers from the Baroque era to the present day, featuring such luminaries as Bach, Handel, Pärt, Rodrigo, Karmanov, and others.
For the performers, this is a quest to explore different states of being through music – where contemplation meets chaotic noise, love confronts fear, helpless regret transforms into inspiring hope. It is a desire to feel and compare the sensations of human existence through immersion in the music of composers who wrote across vastly different eras.
A journey through three paths, three voices, and the timeless search for truth through sound.
VLADISLAV LAVRIK TRUMPET
Vladislav Lavrik is internationally recognized as a virtuoso trumpeter and as a music director and conductor.
Born in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine to a family of musicians, Vladislav studied piano and trumpet, receiving a master’s degree in trumpet performance from the Moscow State Conservatory.
Excelling in both classical and jazz idioms, he has appeared as a soloist in all the leading Russian concert halls and was just 22 years old when he made his US debut as a trumpet soloist, performing an arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Russian National Orchestra at Seattle’s Paramount Theater. Around the world as a soloist he has played at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Philharmonie, Köln Philharmonie, Elb Philharmonie, Casino Bern, Salle Pleyel (Paris), Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), Lincoln Theater (Napa Valley), Theatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro), and numerous other venues in France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, USA, Canada, Israel, Brazil, Uruguay, UAE, Japan, China, South Korea and North Korea.
His festival appearances have taken him to Europalia (Belgium), Cap Ferret (France), Festival del Sole (USA), Beethoven Festival (USA), WCU Trumpet Festival (USA) and the Bermuda Festival. Lavrik toured in the USA and Russia with the Brubeck Brothers Quartet, and in 2020 he conducted the Dave Brubeck Centennial concerts in Russia.
More about Vladislav is here.
DIMITRI ILLARIONOV GUITAR
Dimitri Illarionov is a brilliant classical guitarist. He is a multi-award winner of more than 20 international competitions in the U.S., Spain, Italy, Poland and other countries. He is winner of two of the most prestigious guitar competitions in the world: Guitar Foundation of America Competition (2002, Miami, USA) and Francisco Tárrega Guitar Competition (2008, Spain).
As well as performing numerous solo recitals, he is a frequent guest-soloist with symphony and chamber or-chestras all over the world. Dimitri is one of the rare guitarists who appears so frequently with orchestra and has played with such orchestras as I Solisti Veneti, San Antonio Symphony, Orchestra Camerata Ducale, Istan-bul State Symphony Orchestra, Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de València, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, JugendZupfOrchester NRW etc.
His partners on stage are famous and recognized artists – conductors Claudio Scimone, Leo Brouwer, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Ali Rahbari, Noam Aviel, Gum Nanse, Henrie Adams, Yaron Traub, flautist Patrick Gallois, Artis-Quartet, guitarists Roland Dyens, Artyom Dervoed, Dušan Bogdanović, Yamandu Costa, cellist Boris Andrianov, violinists Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Gilles Apap, Leonard Schreiber, Sergey Dogadin, pianist Polina Osetinskaya, lute player Edin Karamazov.
HIROKO INOUE ORGAN
Hiroko Inoue was born in Osaka, Japan. She studied at Kyoto University of the Arts, then at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky and as an assistant-trainee at the Moscow State Conservatory (piano class of Professor Naum Starkman, organ class of Professor Alexei Parshin). She studied historical performance under Professor Theo Jellema at the Prince Claus Conservatoire in Groningen (Netherlands). She is a scholarship recipient of the Japanese Ministry of Culture.
Winner of the piano competition in Sakai (Japan) and the 3rd Maria Yudina International Competition in St. Petersburg. Laureate and diploma winner of the Marcello Galanti organ competition in Italy, the Valery Kikta competition in Moscow, and the Mikael Tariverdiev competition in Kaliningrad. Winner of the Peter the Great Festival in Groningen (2006).
Since 2006, she has been a soloist with the Kaliningrad Regional Philharmonic. At the same time, she actively performs all over the world.
The performer’s solo programs include monographic concerts of works by J. S. Bach, Mikael Tariverdiev, French organ music, and others. She performs with the Kaliningrad Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia, and in an ensemble with Vladislav Lavrik (trumpet), Veronika Kozhukharova (saxophone), and Jean-Pierre Staivers (organ).
She collaborates with vocalists (concert programs Ave Maria, Invitation to the Opera, etc.) and masters of the spoken word (Where Does the Sweet Path of Love Lead Us? with Chulpan Khamatova, The Seagull Named Jonathan Livingston with Sergei Karyakin, etc.). For many years, she has participated in educational concerts by musicologist and lecturer Svetlana Vinogradova.
In 2020, she received a special prize “For Building Cultural Bridges” as part of the first All-Russian “Organist of the Year” award.