138 W 15th St
New York
NY 10011
Virtuoso and Cultural Ambassador
Miha Pogacnik
April 26th Concert (Live at Anthroposophy NYC 7pm)
and April 27th Presentation (Live and Zoomed 2pm):
Bach Violin Suites and the Foundation Stone Meditation
Hosted at Anthroposophy NYC
(138 W15th St between Sixth and Seventh Avenues)
Violin virtuoso Miha Pogačnik (Po-gah-chnik) is the Republic of Slovenia’s Ambassador of Culture. As a “cultural entrepreneur” and “social artivist,” he is perhaps best known for using his violin in organic and disruptive ways. Why? His core vision is to awaken the artistic principle in every human being while addressing structural and systemic problems in society. For this he aims to reposition the impact of the Arts in society and to connect disciplines, cultures and generations.
Miha began his classical violin career after completing musical studies in Germany and in the US as a Fulbright Scholar. After playing extensive concert tours, he put his artistic gifts at the service of something bigger than entertainment: he invented a new type of cultural festival known as the IDRIART movement. As a bold and true visionary, Miha travelled with his audiences in « caravans » and « flotillas » to European crisis areas, shaking taboos, healing the wounds of war and culturally interacting with local communities.
At Anthroposophy NYC on Saturday April 26 (7:00pm) Miha will perform a live concert (program to follow in subsequent notices). Then on Sunday afternoon (April 27 at 2:00pm), he will take the audience (live and Zoomed) on “a creative detour,” demonstrating how Rudolf Steiner’s momentous Foundation Stone Meditation is embodied in Bach’s Suites for Violin. Marke Levene, a speech artist and eurythmist who has organized worldwide tours of Steiner’s Mystery Dramas and of eurythmy performance, will speak the Foundation Stone Meditation.
From Miha Pogacnik: “The great composers, when they create a true masterpiece, actually work with the sublime forces that make up our body. By showing how the human being is actually created out of this cosmic music, I feel I can open up the audience’s etheric perception. I play and show how we can enter these pieces in an objective way, recognizing themes as seeds that evolve and transform. What we hear in the music is our own biography–as we struggle to make a masterpiece of it. There is something very much personal for each of us. But experiencing this together, we are suddenly a group. We are not a performer standing on the stage and the audience looking at him from their seats, but actually a community. Then we can open up for conversation and create an event completely different from what you would otherwise expect.”
