Guitar Recital: Pavel Kukhta Pavel Kukhta

• 1 The Castle of Mir (arr. P. Kukhta for guitar) 04:46
• 2 Preludio 01:52
• 3 Fuga 03:10
• 4 I. Güijes y Gnomos 05:24
• 5 II. Treno por Oyá 05:46
• 6 III. Burlesca del Aire 03:49
• 7 IV. La Risa de los Griots 05:03
• 8 Toccata 08:11
• 9 Fantasia 04:28
• 10 El Jardin de Lindaraja 06:16
• 11 Fantasia Carioca 10:49
• 12 Blue Montuno 03:54
• Total Runtime 01:03:28

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This recital by the Belarusian guitarist Pavel Kukhta, winner of the 2015 Heinsberg International Guitar Competition, offers a diversity of composers from Belarus, Cuba, Spain, Catalonia, Brazil and France. The widely-ranging programme opens with the Baroque style of Galina Gorelova's Castle of Mir, Leo Brouwer's Afro-Cuban fusion of influences and the virtuosity of Rodrigo's Toccata. Then we hear the unconventional timbres of Roberto Gerhard's Fantasia and Eduardo Morales-Caso's boundary-pushing fantasy on a garden at the Alhambra Palace. The programme ends with Sergio Assad's meditation on Rio de Janeiro and Roland Dyens' plaintive evocation of Cuban moods.

Pavel Kukhta, classical guitar

Pavel Kukhta
The guitarist Pavel Kukhta was born in 1984 in Grodno, where he first studied with V. Zakharau. Having graduated from the Academy of Music in Minsk he entered the Master Course under E. Gridushko, supported by grants from the Belarusian Ministry of Culture and from the Special President Fund. Pavel Kukhta is a laureate of a number of international guitar competitions. His awards include first prize and special prize for the best interpretation of a John Duarte work at the IX John Duarte International Guitar Competition (Rust, Austria, 2007), second prize and audience choice award at the Tenth Leo Brouwer International Competition (Antony, France, 2009), third prize at the XLV Michele Pittaluga International Guitar Competition (Alessandria, Italy, 2012), second prize and audience choice award at the XLVIII Francisco Tárrega International Competition (Benicàssim, Spain, 2014) and second prize at the XXX Andrés Segovia International Competition (Almunecar, Spain, 2014). In May 2015 Pavel Kukhta won first prize in the Sixth International Guitar Competition in Heinsberg (Germany), for which he was given the opportunity to record for Naxos, the first Belarusian to record for this company. At present Pavel Kukhta is a soloist of the Belarusian State Philharmonic and he enjoys an active concert life in Belarus and abroad.

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