Recital Spotlight Series 2024/25: Braths
- Date 19 January 2025 - 6.00 p.m. - 19 January 2025 - 7.00 p.m.
- Location St John's College Auditorium
St John's welcomes Braths, also known as Thomas Horeczko, for the second performance in the 2024/2025 Recital Spotlight Series. Braths will be performing the first version of his upcoming classical album, scheduled for release next June.
The album, titled Ephemeral Memory, is a crossover between classical music and Neo-classic, featuring songs with cinematic rhythms. It addresses the subject of migration, drawing inspiration from Braths' personal family experiences and aims to capture the emotions of someone forced to leave everything behind in the hope of a better future. Such was the reality for Braths' grandfather, mother, and millions of others, both in the past and today.
The event will showcase performances on piano and violin.
Programme:
- Nuit d’été (Piano)
- Mbongé (Violin)
- Loango (Violin)
- Spawn (Violin)
- Resurgence (Violin)
- Puerto Plata (Violin)
- Jour de pluie (Violin)
- Amaël (Violin)
- Rose Bloom (Violin)
- Omniscient (Violin)
- Monochrome (Violin)
- El Camino (Violin)
- The Ascendence (Violin)
- Stamina (Piano)
About Braths:
Braths, also known as Thomas Horeczko, is a Hip-Hop producer, classically trained violinist, multi-instrumentalist, and classical composer.
His unique story unfolds from his birth in Paris in 1998 to a Sudanese mother – a cellist – and Ukrainian father – a pianist and composer. Surrounded by music from an early age, Braths draws strength and passion from his family's musical heritage, overcoming life's challenges through their love for music. His cosmopolitan upbringing, marked by diverse cultural influences with Jewish and Muslim roots in his family, is reflected in his multilingual identity as a European citizen of the world. As a musician, he embraced his mixed heritage to carve his very own path through diverse musical spaces.
Initiating his musical journey at the age of 4, Braths masters seven instruments, including the violin, guitar, saxophone, bassoon, and piano. Throughout his life, he has often been a singular standout in various settings. One notable occurrence that had a lasting influence on him was being the only black violin student at the Paris Conservatory. Reflecting on this experience, he is committed to breaking barriers in classical music, aiming to make it accessible to the black community. After leaving school in Paris, Braths moved to Berlin to study sound engineering and Jazz composition. Soon after arriving in Germany, he ventured into the German Hip-Hop scene, earning himself a reputation as a talented songwriter and producer. He collaborated with some of the most prominent hip-hop artists from the local scene, such as Nimo und Olexesh, Symba, Kana und Mavie, or Kornkreis Mafia Symba. He is now an established creative force running a popular production company with recording studios in both Berlin and Paris.
In his own music, Braths combines all his multifaceted influences into unique, atmospheric instrumental compositions.