Saxophonist Vitaly Vartulya and pianist Maria Nemtsova will be performing on Sunday, May 6 at Quintinha da Música, near Tavira, at 5pm. The duo will be playing music by Claude Debussy, Jean-Denis Michat and Nikolai Medtner.
Vitaly Vatulya is Russia’s most outstanding young saxophonist. Born in Moscow in 1987, Vitaly started his music education at the age of seven, and at the age of 13 he won a national contest called ‘Young Virtuoso’ in Simferopol, Ukraine.
Vitaly was trained at the European University of Saxophone in Gap (France) before winning the Grand Prix at the International Competition in Kiev. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Music and took a postgraduate diploma from the prestigious Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. Since 2015 he has been based in Amsterdam and graduated from Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2017.
Vitaly gives concerts in Russia and abroad as soloist and an ensemble player, and he is also a member of the Ebonit Saxophone Quartet and performs with the leading Russian and European orchestras.
In 2015, he formed the prize-winning VitaDuo duet with pianist Maria Nemtsova.
Maria Nemtsova was born in Moscow and began playing the violin at the age of five, and shortly afterwards took up the piano. By the age of six, Maria won her first piano competition and was accepted into the competitive Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory where she graduated in 2007 with honours.
In 2007, Maria was the only pianist accepted as William Smith scholar to the Royal College of Music in London, graduating with distinction in 2009. During her studies, Maria gave a number of solo and chamber recitals, both throughout the UK and in Germany, Italy, Tunisia, Mongolia and USA.
In 2008, Maria was accepted at the prestigious Accademia Pianistica (Imola, Italy) and in 2012 successfully completed her Artist Diploma in Italy and MMus programme at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. In January 2012, she won the Gold Medal, the most prestigious prize at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. Maria has been a prizewinner of numerous international piano competitions in Russia, Italy, Austria and USA.
Tickets cost €25 and can be booked by emailing lynne.algarvehistory@gmail.com
Photo: VitaDuo’s Maria Nemtsova and Vitaly Vatulya
