Grinko at SonsDeNit: when music becomes a landscape of light, wind, fog, and memory

PalmThere are songs that seem to have been composed to capture what cannot be spoken: the stillness of a winter morning, the murmur of a rainy day, the nostalgia of an old memory. This was the feeling that filled the auditorium of the Higher Conservatory of Music of the Balearic Islands last night, in a concert marking Evgeny Grinko's debut in Mallorca at the SonsDeNit festival.

Accompanied by his ensemble regular —Iana Chekina on cello and Pavel Mackevitch on viola and violin—, Grinko displayed a generous and intense repertoire, with 22 pieces that combined emotion, precision and a strong narrative component. While the best-known compositions (Field, Jane Maryam and Foggy Today, among others) drew enthusiastic applause, the structure of the concert alternating these with less popular pieces, but of extraordinary expressive power.

The protagonism, in reality, was not of a single instrument, but of an orchestra of subtle and powerful strings: those of Grinko's piano, but also those of the cello and the violin, which fused and contrasted, all enriched by the subtle use of the synthesizer, synthesizer, sound.

The evening had a crescendo planned: the balance between atmospheres and intensities culminated in a final section with pieces such as Once Upon a Time, Carousel, Hunter and the much celebrated Waltz, among others, which the audience received with warmth and gratitude. It wasn't just a concert, but a shared emotional journey, in which each song served as a sonic window into an inner landscape.