(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Joelyn Baluyut |
The Peninsula
Concerts at the Qatar National Library are back again as the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra's (QPO) recently held its first musical performance and visual arts combination entitled“Unravel,” blending music and arts into one.
Created and executed by Mariya Medvedeva, the jam-packed concert brought the two art forms together into a musical masterpiece. Medvedeva is a violin player at QPO and also the visual artist who created the nine paintings which are all oil on canvas.
Merging music and visual arts into a concert brought new perspective in the musical scene in Qatar, Medvedeva told The Peninsula. She noted that holding the performance accompanied by her artworks is unique as she represented herself for the first time as an artist.
“I started to make art a few years ago after some dramatic event in my life. I focused on it, later on, it became a therapy. Since then, it has attracted me and thus i have made it a profession. I spent many hours painting, at first I did the portraits and created a series of paintings, afterwards, it became a project called“Unravel” which was supported by the QPO,” she narrated.
The visual artist and musician revealed that the paintings displayed were three years in the making.
“My colleagues and conductors gave me an idea on creating paintings for music,” she said.
The concert was conducted in two parts – part one is unraveling Medvedeva's vision of the present moment and second part – unraveling the creator's vision.
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On the part one of the concert, Medvedeva created a series of portraits of QPO's musicians on stage including Aura Lorena Manescu and herself on violin, Andrea Mereuta on viola, and Hassan Motaz on cello. The string quartet performed the music of Massenet's“Meditation” (from the opera“Thaïs”); Debussy's“Moonlight” (“Clair de Lune”); Faure's“After a Dream” (“Après un Rêve”); and Saint-Saens's“The Swan” (from the“Carnival of the Animals”).
Medvedeva described the portraits she made for her colleagues based on“how they feel and live in the moment, and how they relate to instruments.”
QPO also performed the“Mother Goose Suite” by Maurice Ravel as the second part of the concert alongside the visuals by Medvedeva.
“Each painting has its own story, has its own fairytale story,” she said.
The performers include: Aura Lorena Manescu and Medvedeva on violin; Andrea Mereuta (viola), Hassan Moatz (cello), Matteo Gaspari (double bass), Aleksandr Haskin (flute), Mohamed Ibrahim Saleh (oboe), Rony Moser (clarinet), Daniel Hrinda (bassoon), Gideon Seidenberg (horn), Alexander Kamenarov (percussion), and Julie Sgarro (harp).
Medvedeva who has been with the QPO since 2008 and leaving Qatar in a month to move to Switzerland said the concert is special.
“This is what I live and what I love... This project is very important for me, a big part of my life I have spent and lived in Qatar – 14 years, this concert will stay in my memory – a good memory, and for the future, I am happy to make something similar,” she said.
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