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19:00 | Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra (Serbia) |
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 The cultural event beyond the possible. Really unprecedented, unique, historical concert. The world scene didn't see such a concert yet. The only evening of a meeting of the brightest representatives of a musical Olympus of the Balkan Peninsula! There will be all! Emir Kusturica - the chief Serbian director of the present time, one of the most considerable figures of the European cinema. His movies "Time of the Gypsies", "Dreams of Arizona" and "Underground" explained to the world a mysterious Gipsy soul and broadcasted a pulse of the Balkan civilization. On February 19, 2015 he will appear as a musician together with his group The No Smoking Orchestra on the main scene of Russia. The full of energy show will take place in the State Kremlin Palace. The group as a part of which the author of the most known and incendiary Balkan movies acts, exists since 1980. Friends from The No Smoking Orchestra wrote down a soundtrack to the movie of Emir Kusturica "Black cat, white tomcat". The soundtrack won a prize on the international biennial of film music, and the group continued work in the cinema when Emir Kusturica undertook the following project - "Life as a miracle". The No Smoking Orchestra is an impetuous mix of the tavern-Gipsy motives and an uncompromising punk rock. Each concert of Emir Kusturica and his friends is special, but is always the real marathon of the Balkan sound. Especially for the Russian admirers of the maestro Kusturica prepared surprises which will blow their mind. Acquaintance of the Russian public to the whole galaxy of the Balkan stars of national music will become a part of this surprise. Musicians don't open all secrets yet, but the evening will definitely not do without star guests. More info
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 Lisa Henry is the essence of swingin' cool, with a voice that does it all. In the company of Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, this International Jazz Ambassador makes musical magic when she greets the microphone. With her sincere, warm vocal delivery, classic vocal interpretations and unique improvisations, Lisa takes the listener to musical Nirvana. Raised on music, Lisa began her early singing career in the Baptist Church at the age of 6. By age 12, she had been exposed to the music of Billie Holiday and Miles Davis. Having heard the improvisational magic of Billie and Miles, Lisa turned to jazz, and has been a narrator of the art form ever since. Her professional jazz career began in the nightclubs of Kansas City at age 17. She was mentored by the great Hammond B-3 player, Everette Devan, and cut her big band "teeth", performing with the Vince Bilardo Big Band and Steve Miller Orchestra. Lisa Henry is an artist of vast accomplishments, both in and outside the realm of performance. These accomplishments include the recently televised PBS Special: In Performance at the White House, First runner-up in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, International Jazz Ambassador to Africa, CD recordings, BET documentaries, and recognition as an international clinician and adjudicator. As a jazz educator, Lisa takes the legacy and brilliance of jazz into classrooms and college campuses across the world. Lisa Henry thrills audiences at home and abroad. International tours include Mumbai and Calcutta, India with Kenny Garrett; South America "Expo Cumbre" tour with Herbie Hancock; Southern and Eastern Africa tour with T.S. Monk, and a month-long performance and educational tour in Madagascar. An engaging performer, Lisa's charm and charisma, combined with her vocal abilities, make her a performing artist of the highest caliber.
Durov Art Cafe |
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19:00 | National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia |
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Performers: National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Konstantin Shamray (piano). Conducted by Vladimir Spivakov. In program: Shostakovich. Concerto # 1 for piano and orchestra, op. 35; Prokofiev. Concerto # 4 for piano (left hand), op. 53; Shvarts. Yellow Stars, concerto for orchestra. Konstantin Shamray was the first simultaneous winner of 1st Prize and the People’s Choice award in the Sydney International Piano Competition in 2008, immediately followed by a 27-concert tour of all six states of Australia. His performance career has brought him to concert halls in Russia, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland, Serbia, Austria and China. He has performed with the Prague, Belgrade and Moscow Philharmonic Orchestras, Russian National Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Festival highlights include the Bochum Festival and Kissingen Sommer in Germany and the Stars of the White Nights festivals in St. Petersburg, for which he won critical acclaim. He was a semifinalist in the Honens International Piano Competition in 2012. His recordings are available through Naxos and ABC Classic.
Moscow Conservatory Great Hall |
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19:00 | Nils Landgren and FunkUnit Quartet (Sweden) |
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Born in 1956, Nils Landgren began playing drums at the age of six, before at last discovering the trombone at 13. Between 1972 and 1978 Nils studied classical trombone at the music college in Karlstad with David Maytan and at the university in Arvika with Ingemar Roos. Meeting the legendary Swedish Folk-Jazz pioneer Bengt-Arne Wallin as well as the fantastic trombonist Eje Thelin persuaded Nils to move from strict classical studies to improvisation and to begin the development of his own approach. After his graduation Nils moved to Stockholm to work as a professional trombone player. He was soon touring with the most successful Swedish pop star of that time, Bjorn Skifs' "Blue Swede" who got to number 1 in the US pop charts with "Hooked on a feeling". In 1981 Thad Jones invited the Swede into his new big band project "Ball of Fire", to take the lead-trombone chair. Ever since that time Nils Landren has been involved in most styles equally: jazz and rock, soul and hip hop, big band sessions, and by his own reckoning, at least 500 albums including such internationals stars as ABBA, The Crusaders, Eddie Harris, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Wyclef Jean and Herbie Hancock. In 1983 Nils' debut album Planet Rock was released, followed by Streetfighter in 1984, You are my # 1 in 1985, Miles from Duke with Bengt-Arne Wallin in 1987, Chapter Two 1 in 1987, Chapter Two 2 and Follow your heart in 1989. Between 1985 and 1987 Nils also performed as actor, singer, trombonist, and dancer in over 360 performances of the Swedish "play of the year," as well as appearing in several TV-films as an actor. 1992 saw the first performances and recording of the Nils Landgren "Unit". The final breakthrough beyond Scandinavia came first in 1994: it was at the Jazz Baltica Festival at Salzau in Germany that the "Unit" became the "Funk Unit". The album Live in Stockholm was released that year and was the foundation for the collaboration with Siegfried Loch and his then young ACT label. The next Funk Unit release, Paint It Blue, was one of 1997's most successful albums and received Germany's Jazz Award. In 2004, after a self-imposed sabbatical of almost two years, Landgren went full steam ahead with his Funk Unit and produced the acclaimed platinum Funky Abba album; his own personal hommage to one of the greatest pop bands in history. 2005 marks the new album Creole Love Call together with the legendary keyboarder Joe Sample of The Crusaders, in which Nils Landgren can be heard again primarily as a vocalist. Nils Landgren's quartet is the "grooving band, which encouraged the younger members of the audience into a dance frenzy, but which was also taken seriously by the greying jazz snobs" and "the best funk band in Europe today". Music knows no borders, music is freedom - this is Nils Landgren's credo.
MMDM Svetlanov Hall |
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19:00 | Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography |
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Russian State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography and Yurlov Russian State Academic Choir conducted by Sergey Skripka perform compositions and songs from Russian movies. The concert is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Gennadiy Gladkov, the Soviet composer known mainly as a composer for films, TV series and animated films. The Orchestra of Cinematography has put a grain of its work into the best pictures of 30-40s by the distinguished such as: S. Aisenshtein, V. Pudovkin, G. Alexandrov, M. Pyriev; music to which has been composed by S. Prokofiev, D. Shostakovich, A. Khachaturian, I. Dunaevsky and others. All significant landmark on the Russian cinema path has became also the artistic episodes of the Orchestra history. Here some of them: the music recording for the movies "War and Peace", "Dersu Uzala", "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears", "Burnt by the Sun" having been awarded with prestige "Oscar". The Orchestra concert performances play a great role in its life. Its repertoire includes numerous works both of the Russian and foreign and classics as well as the modern composers works.
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall |
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 Combining shoegaze guitars, minimal synth melodies, hypnotic drum machine rhythms and reverb drenched vocals, The KVB was first formed in 2010 as the solo project of Klaus Von Barrel. He was later joined by his girlfriend Kat Day, who added synthesizers and abstract visual elements. The KVB's sound can be described as dark, layered, complex and moody - an icy atmosphere juxtaposed by the warmth of distorted guitars. Their debut release came in the form of a limited edition cassette tape ("The Black Sun") on cult underground label FLA Records in May 2010. This was followed in 2011 by a series of acclaimed releases; including a 10" vinyl EP on Downwards Records ("Into The Night") and another limited edition cassette, this time on Clan Destine Records ("Subjection/Subordination"). After frequent collaborations through the year, Kat joined The KVB permanently on synths and visuals in late 2011 and this was shortly followed by the first ever live show in London at the Shacklewell Arms. 2012 saw their schedule get even busier, with the release of their first full length LP, Always Then (again on Clan Destine Records) and multiple European headline tours in support of the record, with shows in Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Spain, etc. as well as a West Coast USA tour in June and July 2012, including a set at the Part Time Punks Shoegaze Festival, in Los Angeles. Two more albums, Immaterial Visions and Minus One, arrived the following year. Immaterial Visions (2013) was the Londoners' first release for Cititrax Minimal Wave sublabel including remixes by Regis, Silent Servant, In Aeternam Vale, and Shifted. Minus One being a proper release of material that had surfaced before in the form of digital downloads and extremely limited cassettes. In 2014, the duo ventured to Brian Jonestown Massacre mastermind Anton Newcombe's Berlin studio to track what would become their Out of Body EP, released later that year on Newcombe's own A Records label. This session would mark The KVB's first recordings made outside of their own home studio as well as the first time they'd work with drummer Joe Dilworth, best known for his work with Stereolab. More info
Sixteen Tons |
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