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Arts Calendar / December 20 / Concerts
19:00 MAMMusic Contemporary: Douwe Eisenga (Netherlands)
The Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble performs Eisenga. MCME: Ivan Bushuev (flute), Mikhail Dubov (piano), Gleb Khokhlov (violin) and Ilya Rubinshtein (cello). Douwe Eisenga writes sparkling music for sparkling minds, a mesmerizing mix of minimal, rock and baroque. All of these elements come together in music with maximum effect: Maximal Music. After a short career in pop music, Douwe Eisenga studied composition at the Conservatory in Groningen (Netherlands). Firmly shaken by all sorts of contemporary composing techniques, it took a while until Eisenga found his own sound after his study. Around 2001 this own musical language developed rapidly, which resulted in the chamberopera Kabaal, the large-scale Requiem and the premiere of his Piano Concerto in Yokohama, Japan. Since 2010 his music attained more and more attention worldwide. Pianists as Jeroen van Veen (NL), Lisa Kaplan (US), Nicolas Horvath (FR) & Francesco di Fiore (IT), and harpist Assia Cunego (Germ) play Eisenga’s music in America, Canada, China and Europe. Recent projects are Momentum as part of the National Celebration of Liberation in 2015, the premiere of Bliss by Cello8tet Amsterdam and Echoes for the Belgian ensemble Origami. At the moment Eisenga is writing music for the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble. Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME) was founded in 1990 by Yuri Kasparov, under the patronage of the famous Russian composer Edison Denisov. The ensemble focuses on promoting 20th and 21st century music. It is Russia’s foremost contemporary chamber ensemble and consists of some of the best Russian musicians specializing in modern music. MCME has strong educational goals and works closely with both Russian and international cultural foundations to bring contemporary music to a wide range of audiences. As part of this goal, MCME has organized the International Young Composers Academy (Tchaikovsky City, Ural) to bring together both young composers and internationally recognized composers in workshops.
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19:00 Music festival "In Memory of a Great Artist. Dedication to Oleg Kagan"
Novaya Rossiya Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Yury Bashmet together with Elisabeth Leonskaya (piano, Austria) will perform Beethoven, Concerto No. 5 for Piano and Orchestra and Brahms – Schoenberg, Piano Quartet No.1 (arranged for orchestra). Indisputably the world’s greatest living violist, Yury Bashmet has one simple ambition to continue producing world class performances on the concert platform and on record. His commitment to music and musicians is phenomenal, not only as a soloist either in concerto or in recital, but also as a chamber player, or conductor of one of his two orchestras, or as a teacher, either at home in Moscow, or at Siena, every summer. Oleg Kagan was one of the foremost Russian violinists from the latter half of the twentieth century. While he developed a reputation on his own, many know him for his collaborations with pianist Sviatoslav Richter, as well as for his chamber music activity with a clutch of Soviet artists that included his first wife pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja, second wife cellist Natalia Gutman, pianist Elisso Virssaladze, and violist Yuri Bashmet. Virtuoso violinist David Oistrakh was an ardent admirer of his pupil Kagan, arranging for him to record all of Mozart's concertos while serving as his conductor in the enterprise. Though Kagan played much Russian music, including works by Shostakovich and Schnittke, he focused heavily, at least in the recording studio, on the Germanic sphere: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms. Many of his numerous recordings were reissued on the German label Live Classics, EMI, and Olympia.
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