The Art of Light Touches Gleb Dontsov & Marianna Terteryan

• Sergey Akhunov (b. 1967): The Art of Light Touches:
• 1 Akhunov: The Art of Light Touches: I. Preludio 02:40
• 2 Akhunov: The Art of Light Touches: II. Giga 04:11
• 3 Akhunov: The Art of Light Touches: III. Siciliana 03:15
• 4 Akhunov: The Art of Light Touches: IV. Fantasia 04:34
• 5 Akhunov: The Art of Light Touches: V. Macabre 01:56
• 6 Akhunov: The Art of Light Touches: VI. Barcarola 04:10
• 7 Akhunov: The Art of Light Touches: VII. Echo 03:06
• Total Runtime 23:52

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“At the beginning of 2024, I was commissioned by two exceptional violinists based in China, Gleb Dontsov and Marianna Terteryan, to compose a piece for two solo violins. At that time, I didn’t feel ready to write music for such a duet—it seemed too ascetic. Moreover, it is well-known that the simpler the composition, the more challenging it is to create. I pondered this task for quite some time, until the title “The Art of Light Touches” emerged. I borrowed it from the works of Victor Pelevin—naturally, with the author's kind permission. ( Sergey Akhunov)

Thus, the audience is presented with a 7-part suite, “The Art of Light Touches”.

It is worth mentioning that my excitement about both the title and the new musical themes of the suite led me to write a ballet under the same name. This time, I composed it for a large symphony orchestra, but that project is part of a completely different release”.

Gleb Dontsov, violin
Marianna Terteryan, violin

Marianna Terteryan
was born in Moscow,in 1978 in family musicians. She studied violin at the Moscow Gnessin School under teacher Tatiana Berkul.She graduated Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory(2002) and Post-Graduate Course(2004) under famouse russian violinist professor Eduard Grach.

While studying in Gnessin School and Moscow State Conservatory,she became the laureat of many intenational competitions.Intenational Competitions in Moscow "Classical Heritage",in Sant-Petersburg "Virtuoses 2000",in Novosibirsk by Zakhar Bron,in Warsaw "Tadeusz Wronsky Competition for violin solo",in Zagreb "Vaclav Huml").

Marianna Terteryan was a member of lots of musical festivals:"Keshet Eilon Violin Mastercourse" in Israel,"Stars of the Planet"in Yalta(Ukraine),"The music weeks in Toure"(Toure,France),"Russian culture days" in Vietnam and many others...She joined the masterclasses with world famouse musicians as Ida Handel,Shlomo Mintz,Vadim Gluzman.

She became a soloist of Moscow State Philarmony in 1997.Marianna played as a soloist with many famouse orchestras.She recorded several CD's and other music on Radio and TV. Marianna Terteryan has perfomance in Russia,Ukraine,Poland,Croatia,Macedonia,Serbia&Montenegro, Greese,Israel,Cyprus,German,France,Usa,China,Japan,Vietnam.

From november 2002 Marianna began to work in China (Shenzhen).She recorded two CD's.First CD- classical violin music,second-chinese violin music.From january 2005 two CD's was available for sale in the music stores of China.

Sergey Akhunov
was born in Kiev in 1967. A graduate of the Kiev State Conservatory, Sergey started as an oboe player before moving on to other genres, including electronic music and Rock 'n roll. He made a decisive break from this style of music in 2005 to exclusively concentrate on orchestral and chamber music. "It has taken me almost 40 years to understand what kind of music I really want to write," Sergei says.

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