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Iván Rutkauskas was born in July, 1989, of Lithuanian grandparents.
He studied violin as of the age of 2 with his father, and started piano with the teacher Cristina Pería when he turned three. At the age of 8, having chosen the piano, he continued to study with the Maestro Antonio de Raco with the aid of an Antorchas Grant. In 1997 he received a scholarship from the Fundación Banco Mayo on winning the first prize in the child pianist category.
In 2001, he obtained a grant from the National Arts Fund and won the El Sonido y el Tiempo competition, which allowed him to participate in a competition and give a concert in Italy.
In 2002, he received the Estímulo award from the Association of Music Critics, and was given a master class by the pianist Daniel Baremboim in the Colón Theatre, and he participated in the Music Week of the Llao Llao and in the Martha Argerich festival, besides performing at the Homage to the Maestro De Raco Concert in the Isaac Fernández Blanco Museum of Spanish-American Art.
He now has a grant from the Argentinean Mozarteum, and he recently participated in a concert in the National Museum of Fine Arts, in the Midday Concert in the Gran Rex Theatre in the Belgrano auditorium, and has been on successful tours at home and abroad.
For this concert, Rutkauskas chose a programme featuring a paradigmatic work of the piano repertoire, the Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 «Appasionata» by Ludwig van Beethoven, together with other representative works of the German romanticism, the Two Rapsodies Op. 79 by Johannes Brahms, and one of the most original and difficult pieces by Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit. |
