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19:00 | Igor Butman presents Nikolai Kapustin's masterpieces |
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 A concert, dedicated to composer's birthday. Igor Butman and Moscow Jazz Orchestra together with A Bu (piano, China) and Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra will perform Nikolai Kapustin's masterpieces. Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin is a Russian composer and pianist. Kapustin studied piano with Avrelian Rubakh (pupil of Felix Blumenfeld who also taught Simon Barere and Vladimir Horowitz) and subsequently with Alexander Goldenweiser at the Moscow Conservatory. During the 1950s he acquired a reputation as a jazz pianist, arranger and composer. He is steeped, therefore, in both the traditions of classical virtuoso pianism and improvisational jazz. Kapustin regards himself as a composer rather than a jazz musician. He has said, "I was never a jazz musician. I never tried to be a real jazz pianist, but I had to do it because of the composing. I'm not interested in improvisation – and what is a jazz musician without improvisation? All my improvisation is written, of course, and they became much better; it improved them." Igor Butman, saxophone virtuoso, bandleader, club owner and television host, is Russia's number one jazz personality. Born in 1961 in Leningrad (now St.Petersburg), Igor Butman started playing the clarinet at the age of 11. In 1976 he entered the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music, where during his second year he dropped the classical clarinet for the jazz saxophone. Besides being taught by the remarkable musician and brilliant teacher Gennady Goldstein, he took unofficial lessons from nightly broadcasts of jazz from 11: 15 p.m. to midnight on Voice of America.
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19:00 | Music Festival "In Memory of a Great Artist. Dedication to Oleg Kagan" |
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 Novaya Rossiya Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Yury Bashmet and Alexander Buzlov (cello), prizewinner of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition will perform Beethoven, Concerto for Piano, Violin' Violoncello and Orchestra; Schubert, Symphony No. 9. Alexander Buzlov is one of the brightest and most talented cellists of the young generation of Russian musicians. As New York Times wrote in one of their reviews: "Buzlov is a cellist of true Russian tradition, possessing a great gift to make an instrument sing, bewitching the audience with his sound". Buzlov's latest achievement is the Grand Prix and Audience Prize at the Emanuel Feuermann Cello Competition in Berlin (November 2010). Winning a silver medal and a special prize for the best performance of Tchaikovsky music and also a special prize from the Rostropovich and Vishnevskaya Foundation at the Tchaikovsky XIII International Competition in Moscow in 2007, he became a favorite of not only members of the jury's at different prestigious international competitions, but also music critics and the general public in Russia, America, Europe and Asia. His name was entered in the Golden Book of young talents "XX - XXI centuries." Currently, he has his own class at the Moscow Conservatory and is an assistant of professor N. Gutman. Gives master classes in Russia, USA and Europe. 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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