Martyna Jatkauskaite: Reviews

 

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama Gold Medal Competition

 5th May 2010

It soon became clear that Martyna Jatkauskaite, a seasoned recitalist, was bound to win. Her dazzling, fluent and self-assured virtuosity servicing Prokofiev's predominantly extrovert Third Piano Concerto did give rise to the thought that placing it last in the programme ( which made musical sense) might have given her the edge in the event of any judicial dispute. Her aristocratic brilliance, full of punchy, rhythmic verve, suited this show-off work to the hilt, but for all her regal dispatch of the concerto's extreme demands, Jatkauskaite wasn't too posh for some purely visceral heroism, especially in those tension building semiquaver tornados in the first movement. In her head-down. I'm-the-soloist way, she was stunning, and it was no surprise thatt she swept the board in a very un-hung way.

Martyna's Mozart Concerto No 24 with the London Festival Orchestra.

.. Jatkauskaite's first piano entry displayed both poise and clarity. This continued throughout the piece. She displayed easy grace, never attempting to be showy, but also never trying to make the piano part more 'Sturm und Drand' than it really is.....  There were many felicitious aspects of Jatkauskaite's performance. but what I find I come back to is the grace and clarity of her playing. aptly matched by her platform manner...... This concert was notable for Martyna Jatkauskaite's poised concerto performance.

Wigmore Hall Debut Concert

If the over-riding impression she created across the works of all five composers she played was one of strength of tone, physical power and integrity of conception, then it says much for her well defined technique and ability to stamp authority on practically every statement she makes at the keyboard.

Petworth Festival 2005

“I thought Martyna’s performance was truly stunning and feel sure that she will go on to make a big career. Besides her brilliant technique it is that tangible concentration and focus that is so impressive, and she has a real ‘presence’ on the platform.”

Gower Festival 2006

This was a technically demanding programme performed with bravura and yet despite the virtuosity and pyrotechnics, my abiding memory will be of the delicacy and restraint she brought to the Scarlatti “

Guildford URC Concert 2006

"The 22 year old astounded the packed audience with her breathtaking technique and musical maturity of one far beyond her age, From the beginning of the Beethoven Sonata Op 31 No 2, it was apparent that here was a pianist with large pallette of colours and the ability to use them to great effect…” P Burge

Hungerford and District Arts Festival 2006

“…that turned out to be just the warm-up however; for what followed was a deluge of music played with a combination of astonishing skill and ferocity…. ending up with Prokofiev’s Sonata No 7 op. 83, an opus completed as Russia plunged into the patriotic war and to which she gave the right degree of frantic turmoil of those terrible years” P Cogswell