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19:00 | From Baroque to Jazz-Rock |
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 State Chamber Orchestra of Russia (Moscow Chamber Orchestra), Conductor & soloist – Alexey Utkin (oboe, guitar). Alexey Gagarin (percussion), Anil Dikshit (tabla), Pavel Novikov (bansuri), Mikhail Shevnin (bass guitar), Ekaterina Nazarova (violin), Ilya Movchan (violin), Nikita Budnetski (violin). In program: J.S. Bach and Albinoni. The name of the oboist and conductor Alexey Utkin is now well known both in Russia and abroad. His great natural talent was developed by the brilliant musical education he has received in the Moscow Conservatory. Later he has got a wonderful experience as a member of the chamber orchestra The Moscow Virtuosi headed Vladimir Spivakov. All this made him very soon a notable figure in the modern Russian musical life. It was Utkin's historical breakthrough which introduced oboe as a solo instrument on the world stage. In critics' opinion he «transformed oboe, an instrument of the background, into the hero of wonderful events». Having courageously started to perform all solo compositions created for oboe, he began expanding the range of the instrument and its' potentialities at the expense of the special arrangements for oboe. The performance of compositions by Antonio Pasculli became the bright example of Utkin’s musical virtuosity. Today the compositions by Bach, Haydn, Vivaldi, Mozart, Richard Strauss, Shostakovitch and Britten are all in the musician’s repertoire. Alexey Utkin successfully combines concert activities with the professorship in P.I.Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory. In 2010 Utkin was invited to take the position of the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the State Academic Chamber orchestra of Russia.
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