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19:00 | "Russian Winter" Arts Festival. New Year's Metamorphosis |
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 Moscow State Academic Chamber Choir, Conductors Vladimir Minin and Timofey Golberg will perform Ramírez "Creole Mass" for choir, tenor and instrumental ensemble; Villa Lobos, Brazilian Bachiana No. 9 for choir a cappella; Sting, Fragile; Spirituals. The artistic director and the main conductor of the Moscow State Chamber Choir — National Artist of the USSR, the winner of the State premium, Professor Vladimir Minin is one of the brightest musicians of our country. He is invited by both Russian and foreign collectives for preparation of the programs and realisation of “the foreman of classes.” In 1972 under Vladimir Minin’s initiative, working in that time as the rector of State musical-pedagogical Gnesin's institute, from the students and high school teachers was created a chamber choir, transformed in 1973 into a professional collective—the Moscow State Chamber Choir. This is when his rare artistic gift with the special brightness and completeness was revealed. For rather short period of time, the Moscow Chamber Choir became one of conducting art collectives of the country. The power of the genuine art under a person is boundless. Really funny makes you to laugh, authentic grief—to cry, resolution—to act, the truth—to believe. The genuine art ennobles a man, and it is impossible to oppose to such strength. Everybody who used to visit concerts of E.Mravinskiy, S.Rikchter is familiar with a sensation (feeling) when incomprehensible becomes clear, the mysterious appears, and you begin to feel yourself as a sounding and significant part (fraction) of the lofty and wise world harmony, when spirit of goodness is set in the hall and there arises the most important that the art may give—the brotherhood effect.
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall  |
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19:00 | Clara Jumi Kang (Germany) & Vladimir Spivakov |
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 National Philharmonic of Russia, Conductor Vladimir Spivakov together with Clara Jumi Kang (violin, Germany) and Daniil Kharitonov (piano, Russia) will perform Grieg, Suite ?1 from Peer Gynt and Piano concerto; Wieniawski. Violin concerto #2; Saint-Saëns, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for violin and orchestra and Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen for violin and orchestra. Born in Germany under a musical family, Clara-Jumi Kang started violin at the age of three. Only one year later, she enrolled at Mannheim Musikhochschule as the youngest student ever accepted to study there under Valery Gradov. A year later, she went on to study with Zakhar Bron at Lübeck Musikhochschule. At the age of six, she was on the cover of german magazine ‘Die Zeit’ writing a main article featuring her. By then, she had already given her debut with Hamburg Symphony at the age of 5. Clara went on to study Bachelor and Master degree at age sixteen with Nam-Yun Kim at the Korean National University of Arts. During that period, she won top prizes at Major International Violin Competition such as Tibor Varga Violin Competition in 2007, 1st Prize at Seoul Violin Competition in 2009, 2nd Prize at Hannover Violin Competition in 2009, 1st prize at Sendai Violin Competition in 2010, and was awarded 1st prize at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 2010 with additional five special prizes. Clara completed her last Studies at Munich Musikhochschule from 2011-2013 with Christoph Poppen. This upcoming 16/17 season, she will appear with orchestras such as Mariinsky Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, National Philharmonic of Russia, China NCPA Orchestra. Some of the collaborating Conductors will be Andrey Boreyko, Valery Gergiev, Lü Jia, Gidon Kremer, Christoph Poppen and Vladimir Spivakov.
MMDM Svetlanov Hall |
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 Alexander Rudin (cello), Nazar Kozhukhar (violin), Oleg Khudyakov (piano), Nicolas Baldeyrou (clarinette) will perform Honegger. Sonatina for Violin and Cello; Messiaen. Quartet for the End of Time; Concertos and suites for two violas da gamba by Sainte-Colombe and Marais. Alexander Rudin is known as one of the most prominent musicians of the new generation. He is equally world famous as conductor, working with both symphony and chamber orchestras, music instructor – professor of the Moscow Conservatoire, researcher of the early music scores, and author of his own orchestra arrangements of chamber music, as well as unique thematic cycles. He belongs to the new era of Russian performers whose talent can be applied universally. Rudin stands out in a group of his truly professional colleagues for his extraordinary personality: he is talented in various aspects of musical performance, with all his talents creating a perfect balance. He strictly follows the direction he has chosen for himself, the path of creative ideas and experiments in a purely academic musical tradition. “Music cannot be brought down to simply something you create for entertainment. It does not exist solely for the audiences’ appreciation and applause,” believes Rudin. A musician who received a very traditional education, Alexander Rudin was initially interested in authentic performances of ancient music, and gradually reached a perfect balance of different styles. In his present day performances, he combines modern instruments and viola da gamba, performs both in a traditional way, as well as uses his own, yet “historically-correct" interpretations of the classical pieces. This tradition of keeping the “authentic line” when working with the orchestra, resulted in cooperation with many world-known experts in this field.
MMDM Chamber Hall |
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