V.A.M. Trio
Program:
1. Ludvig van Betoven – Trio br.4 op.11
– Allegro con brio
– Adagio
– Tema con variaazioni – Allegretto
2. Sergej Rahmaninov – “Elegi~no trio” br.1 vo g-moll (op.posth)
3. Anton Arenski – Trio vo d-moll op.32
– Allegro moderato
– Scherzo – Allegro molto
– Elegia – Adagio
– Finale – Allegro non troppo
About V.A.M Trio:
Macedonian violinist Vladimir Kostov studied and earned his Master’s degree at the Faculty of Music in Skopje in the class of prof. Mihajlo Kufojanakis. He has attended masterclasses and lessons with Sihana Badivuku, Blagoja Dimchevski, Cornelia Bronzetti, Irina Bochkova, Natalia Prischepenko and others.
Vladimir Kostov is the only musician from Macedonia who has been selected several times to be a member of the JMI World Orchestra, taking part in the orchestra’s tours in Europe, USA, Canada and Asia, playing in some of the world’s most renowned concert halls. He was also a member of the East-West Orchestra in Altenburg (Germany), and in the period 2000-2004 he was one of the violin tutors of the CEI orchestra. Chamber music is his great passion and he has been the leader of various chamber orchestras and ensembles among which the contemporary music ensemble “Alea”, the baroque chamber studio “Bachus”, “Brevis” quartet, the chamber orchestra of the Macedonian Philharmonic and the Chamber orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales Macedonia and is the founder of the piano trio “VAM”. He has attended chamber music master classes led by the world famous Medicci quartet (Sweden), Artemis quartet (Germany), Miro quartet (USA). As a soloist he has appeared with the Macedonian philharmonic and the Chamber orchestra of the Macedonian philharmonic performing in Macedonia, Ukraine, Germany, Great Britain, Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland etc.. Vladimir Kostov is a concert master of the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra.
Born in the city of Negotino, Marija Gjoshevska finishes her primary music education in her home town, going on to study with professor Snezhana Anastasova-Chadikovska at the Music high school in Skopje. She completed her graduate, master studies at the School of music in Skopje in the class of renowned professor Boris Romanov.
She has taken part in many concerts in Macedonia and abroad, performing in venues in Croatia, Turkey, Bulgaria, UK and the former Yugoslavia. She has won numerous prizes at national and international piano competitions, including third prize at the “Nicolai Rubinstein” piano competition in Paris. She has performed with various orchestras such as the Macedonian Philharmonic, Chamber orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales Macedonia, Dubrovnik Symphony orchestra and the Festival orchestra of Ohrid Summer Festival, under the batons of Anton Nanut, Yuri Aliev, Leonid Nikolaev, Patrik Strub, Borjan Canev, Sasha Nikolovski-Gjumar, Arilt Remereit etc. In her active concert career she has performed solo and is a renowned collaborator in various chamber formations. She is currently employed at the keyboard department of the Faculty of Music in Skopje.
Aleksandar Kotevski has completed his graduate studies in the class of professor Duska Tasevska and has received a MA in cello performance in the class of professor Zivko Firfov at the Faculty of Music in Skopje. He has attended master classes with exceptional professors such as Kiril Kravtchenko and Kiril Rodin, and chamber music masterclasses under the leadership of the Medicci quartet and Jeniffer W. Clark of the Royal academy of music in London.
He has won various prizes at chamber music competitions, and has performed as soloists with the Chamber orchestra of the Faculty of music, Dubrovnik Symphony orchestra, Mostar Symphony orchestra etc.. He has worked at the Macedonian philharmonic and played at the European tour of the Dubrovnik Symphony. He is currently the principal cellist of the orchestra of the Macedonian opera and ballet.
“V.A.M” Trio was established in 2009 at the initiative of its current members resulting from their previous collaborations in various chamber and orchestral formations. The existence of the trio fills the void in Macedonian cultural living created by the lack of permanent small chamber ensembles. The trio is a synthesis of the individual musical and professional experience of its members Marija Gjoshevska, Vladimir Kostov and Aleksandar Kotevski, and it is a continuation of their long standing musical careers. “V.A.M” Trio is the only classical piano trio in Macedonia, which with its programming brings to the stage important works composed for this kind of ensemble. To this date the “V.A.M” trio has performed in Skopje, Bitola, and at the Ohrid Summer Festival. They are awaiting the release of their first CD which is due to be published later this year.
