Upcoming Events of the SeventyFifth Season of The William

Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot

Belin Concerts

Eya

Florence: The Cultural Crucible

Presented in honor of 

Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color

in Renaissance Florence

February 11,12:00 and 2:00

West Building, West Garden Court

Blue Heron

Music of Du Fay for Florence and the Medici

Presented in honor of

Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color

in Renaissance Florence

February 12,12:00 and 2:00

West Building, West Garden Court

Atlantic Reed Consort

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays"

American Roots: Branches from Beginning

February 15,12:10

West Building Lecture Hall

A Far Cry with Roomful of Teeth

Music in Common Time

Music by Ted Hearne, Prokofiev,

and Caroline Shaw

February 19, 3:30

West Building, West Garden Court

Works by Jeffrey Mumford

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays”

“in soft echoes... a world awaits":

music for strings and piano

February 22,12:10

West Building, West Garden Court

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Board of Trustees, National Gallery of

Art, Washington

Cover J. Cartwright after George Beck,

Georgetown and the Federal City of Washington

(detail), 1801, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Otis T. Bradley

75TH SEASON

OF CONCERTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2017 • NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
FEBRUARY 8

12:10 • West Building, East Garden Court

Edvinas Minkstimas, piano

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays"

Sponsored by the Billy Rose Foundation

Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875-1911)

Three Preludes on One Theme, op. 20

Scott Joplin (1868-1917)

Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943)

Selected ragtimes by Scott Joplin, interspersed with

Robert Nathaniel Dett's suite for piano, In the Bottoms

The Strenuous Life

Prelude (Night)

The Entertainer

His Song

Elite Syncopations

Honey (Humoresgue)

The Easy Winners

Barcarolle (Morning)

Cleopha

Dance (Juba)

Peacherine Rag

Maple Leaf Rag

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Three Preludes

Allegro ben ritmato e deciso 

Andante con moto e poco rubato

Allegro ben ritmato e deciso

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli

The Musician

Edvinas Minkstimas is regarded as one of Europe's top emerging young pianists, whose 

extensive repertory, solid technique, and musical expression have led him to perform throughout Europe and the Americas. A native of Kaunas, Lithuania, Minkstimas claims his early 

artistic influences from Nordic poetry, Baltic mythology, and other romantic images. He conveys the lyricism and poetry within a musical work through his display of virtuoso technique

and is strongly influenced by such great pianists as Sviatoslav Richter and Arturo Benedetti 

Michelangeli, and the composers Brahms, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Ligeti, and Penderecki.

Minkstimas gave his professional debut at age fourteen with the Lithuanian National

Philharmonic Orchestra. After studying at the Lithuanian Academy of Music with Veronika 

Vitaite, he received the artist diploma from the Paris Conservatory under the tutelage of 

Michel Beroff. He was awarded his doctorate degree from the Juilliard School, where he was

granted the C. V. Starr Foundation Doctoral Fellowship and studied with Jerome Lowenthal.

Minkstimas won the 2010 Belz-Parker Young Artist Award and first prize at Lithuania's

Fifth International Ciurlionis Piano Competition, and earned top honors at the First Tchaikovsky

International Competition for Young Musicians (Moscow), the International Knezkova-Hussey

International Piano Competition (Canada), and European Piano Days (France). He has

received numerous grants and scholarships, including those from the Meyer Foundation 

(France), the Music Academy of the West (California), and the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture.

He has performed in solo appearances with numerous orchestras, including the National

Symphony, Arlington Philharmonic, Fairfax Symphony, Mahler Philharmoniker, Lithuanian

National Philharmonic, and Amadeus, and at the National Gallery of Art and Weill Recital

Hall, and on concert tours in Europe and South America.

In 2011, Minkstimas became Artist-in-Residence of the Embassy Series Festival in

Washington, DC, and collaborated with Jerome Barry on Songs of Vilna Ghetto, a program 

that has toured Europe and the United States and featured Minkstimas's arrangements. He

has served as a jury and board member of the Salzburg Vocal Festival and on the board of 

Vienna's Mahler Philharmoniker. He has been a guest faculty member of the Washington

International Piano Festival and is a co-founder of Global Lithuanian Leaders.

Minkstimas is a Steinway Artist and has released two recordings, featuring solo and

orchestral performances of works by Brahms, Beethoven, and Liszt.