Accordionist/pianist Ivan Filiipchyk will perform on November 17, 2018 at 1:PM at the Morton Memorial Library Auditorium on 82 Kelly Street, Rhinecliff, NY 12574. Admission is free. Enjoy a day of new music performance at the inaugural Hudson Valley New Music Festival. Ivan’s program will include will perform A. Kysyakov’s great musical distillation of life, “Images of Passing Time”, several of Ivan’s original piano suites and A. Part’s “Fur Alina”
Ivan Filipchyk (born 1991), is a New York-based artist and musician. He graduated from Russian Gnesin Academy of music in Moscow with a Master’s degree in music. He acquired his music foundation in Belarus and Russia, countries with rich musical history, traditions and well-established education in music and arts. As a musician (accordion, piano) he takes part in various competitions and gives recitals performing (as a soloist and participant of an ensemble) on stages of some European countries, Russia, Japan, USA and Canada.
The accordion Ivan plays is a b-system button accordion (also known as bayan). Ivan comments on his compositional style: “I don’t think I can say much about my pieces… I might be delusional about it but I’d like to think that I write music (I want to, but I can’t judge if I’m in any way successful) that doesn’t need a story following it. I want it to be clear and simple but expressive. That’s why none of my pieces so far have any program titles (except for very general titles, indicating the genre or form, like “prelude and fugue”)… It might change in the future if I keep composing, but that’s how I feel now.
The “musical language” I have is quite traditional (tonal). And I’m well aware that, given the limitations of tonality, my music might remind of the music already existing, written before, and would be probably considered by many unoriginal or outdated. But, as one my good friend often says: “a creative person should live “from the inside out”. I guess that’s what I have in me now, so I feel like going with it… But it might change.
Writing all this also reminded me of something T. S. Eliot wrote in his Four Quarters:”And what is there to conquer by strength and submission, has already been discovered once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope to emulate…but there’s no competition…for us, there’s only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
For further information:
Ivan Filipchyk
Mobile: 917.443.2190
Email: ivanfilipchyk91@gmail.com
