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Around Frank Martin's grave

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Thursday 21 november 2024 11:30 AM

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Cimetière des Rois (Cimetière de Plainpalais)

Rue des Rois, 1204 Genève

On November 21, the 50th anniversary of Frank Martin’s passing, we will gather around his grave to honor his memory with music. In the presence of several of his descendants and Thierry Fischer, artistic director of the Odyssée, we will celebrate Frank Martin’s musical legacy and his lasting influence on the world of contemporary music. This event is open to all who wish to pay tribute to this great Geneva-born composer.

BRASS SEXTET OF THE FRANK MARTIN ORCHESTRA

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FRANK MARTIN - Petite fanfare

The Brass Sextet of the Frank Martin Orchestra will perform Frank Martin’s Petite Fanfare. Composed in 1945, this short piece was used as an opening for a large sale organized in Lausanne to benefit French musicians who had suffered during the war. In 1960, Victor Desarzens asked Frank Martin to expand this piece for a concert organized by Radio-Lausanne to celebrate the composer’s 70th birthday. The additional twenty measures were named Sonnerie de cuivre for Radio-Lausanne and flow directly into the music composed in 1945.

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SATURDAY 27 APRIL 2024 8PM

FAMILY REUNION: THREE GENERATIONS OF MARTIN MUSICIANS

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INFORMATIONS & ACCESSIBILITÉ

For any information, especially regarding individuals with reduced mobility and their companions, please contact us at:

 accueil@odysseefrankmartin.ch or by telephone at 00 41 78 754 24 77

Georgijs Osokins

piano

Latvian pianist Georgijs Osokins has gained international attention through his participation at age of 19 in the XVIIth International Chopin Piano Competition where he quickly became an absolute Audience Favorite. Shortly after the Chopin Competition, Osokins made important debuts at the Konzerthaus Berlin, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Laeiszhalle and Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, International Piano Series in Bern, Lockenhaus Festival, Gstaad Music Festival, Narodowe Forum Muzyki in Katowice, the Vancouver Playhouse, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Hall, Tongyeong Hall in South Korea. In 2021 Georgijs Osokins performed at the 101st Salzburger Festspiele.

Georgijs is actively collaborating with Gidon Kremer, touring in the UK, Ireland, Russia, Poland, Germany, Asia and US. Alongside Lucas Debargue, Georgijs Osokins was announced the first permanent Guest Artist of Kremerata Baltica in its 25-year history. In 2024 Georgijs makes his solo debut at Pierre-Boulez Saal in Berlin and returns to Milan’s Serate Musicali Festival and London’s Wigmore Hall.

UK’s label “Piano Classics” released Osokins’ two CD albums focused on Chopin’s Late Works and works of Rachmaninoff. These recordings received brilliant reviews from important British, Canadian, German, Danish and French music magazines. German label Accentus has released the first chamber music album of Georgijs Osokins alongside Gidon Kremer containing trios of Chopin and Beethoven – this CD was nominated for both International Classical Music Awards 2020 and Opus Klassik 2021. He received the Cross of Merit awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland and the Latvian Grand Music Award – highest honour in music in Latvia – and remains youngest recipient in the Awards’ history.