MOTO CELESTE is premiering tonight at Carnegie Hall! This fifth installment in Navona Records’ MOTO series features the internationally-acclaimed Trio Casals taking on eight new works by eight preeminent composers, including a new piece by the trio’s cellist, Ovidiu Marinescu.
Today, Ovidiu and Trio Casals pianist Anna Kislitsyna are our featured artists in “The Inside Story,” a blog series exploring the inner workings and personalities of our composers and performers. Read on to discover how Ovidiu embraced creativity in a prohibitive Communist atmosphere…
Who was your favorite artist growing up?
When did you realize that you wanted to be an artist?
What was your most unusual performance?
If you could make a living at any job in the world, what would that job be?
If you could spend creative time anywhere in the world, where would it be?
What was your favorite musical moment on the album?
MOTO CELESTE featuring Ovidiu’s piece Sunt Numai Urechi (I’m All Ears) is now available to stream or purchase through Navona Records. Click here to explore this new album.
Pianist and harpsichordist Anna Kislitsyna made her solo debut at age 10 with the Omsk Symphony Orchestra. She remains in high demand as a soloist, collaborative pianist, and educator. Recent season highlights include five new album productions with PARMA Recordings and two release concerts in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, performing Haydn and Shostakovich Piano Concertos with Helena Symphony and Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, and returning to the Omsk Philharmonic as a soloist to give the inaugural performance on the new harpsichord.
Since making a highly-praised debut at the 1996 edition of the Pablo Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Trio Casals has delighted audiences with spectacular virtuosity, engaging enthusiasm, and exquisite musical elegance. Consisting of pianist Anna Kislitsyna, violinist Alexandr Kislitsyn, cellist Ovidiu Marinescu, Trio Casals has released several commercial albums with PARMA Recordings and Navona Records to critical acclaim, from the beloved MOTO series to A GRAND JOURNEY and more.
Ovidiu Marinescu, a native of Romania, is active as a cellist, conductor, composer, and educator. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Rachmaninov Hall, Holywell Room in Oxford, Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, and many other venues around the world. He has appeared as a soloist with the New York Chamber Symphony, the National Radio Orchestra of Romania, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Helena and Newark Symphonies, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Philharmonic, Limeira Symphony in Brazil, Orquesta de Extremadura in Spain, and most orchestras in Romania.