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20:00 | Blue Foundation (Denmark) |
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 Blue Foundation was founded in 2000 by producer/singer Tobias Wilner. Their most recent lineup consisted of Wilner (producer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist) and Bo Rande (multi-instrumentalist). Best known for their songs "Eyes on Fire" (certified double platinum in the US) from the "Twilight Saga" and "Sweep" from Michael Mann's "Miami Vice", the band released their first 7" via Moshi Moshi Records and their first, self-titled debut album was released shortly thereafter. Blue Foundation is the brainchild of Tobias Wilner. Tobias Wilner grew up in a broken home in Copenhagen Denmark. When he was 17 he was forced to move from his home. In the next 8 years he moved restless from one place to another. Staying at friends places in London, small artist places in Copenhagen. He made his living out of DJ'ing and composing music for contemporary dance pieces and art films. Next to creating music he did skateboarding. He got his first skateboard when he was 10 years and to this day he still see skateboarding as a part of his life and a big influence on his music. Blue Foundation started out in 2000 based on Tobias Wilner, aka Bichi's cooperation with various artists and musicians. The music can be described as a mix of Dream pop, electronica and shoegaze. Blue Foundation released their first 7" via Moshi Moshi Records and their first, self-titled album was released shortly thereafter. During the past several years, Blue Foundation have expanded their audience, embracing both the underground and the alternative mainstream. Blue Foundation's music has been featured in major films such as Twilight, Miami Vice and the TV series The O.C., So You Think You Can Dance. Blue Foundation released their third album Life of a Ghost on Astralwerks. In 2003 Bo Rande join Tobias Wilner and together they record Blue Foundation's second album Sweep of Days. In March 2004 Tobias Wilner recorded the song Decks-Athron with DJ Krush and former member of Blue Foundation Tatuki Oshima. Tobias Wilner contribute with abstract soundscape and bass lines. The song is released on the DJ Krush album Jaku on Sony BMG Music Entertainment September 7, 2004. October 2005 Tobias Wilner release an album with his side project Bichi. The title of the album is Notwithstanding and is released by Thomas Knak on his label Hobby Industries. The style is Modern Classical, IDM and Downtempo. Some of the Bichi work will later turn in to Blue Foundation songs. The Blue Foundation song This is Goodbye from the movie Manslaughter was original the instrumental song Revolve In The Sun/My Footfalls Are Superfluous from the album Notwithstanding. Also the Bichi song It Begins, featured in the movie Waking Madison by Katherine Brooks, is re-recorded and later released in a Blue Foundation version. February 1, 2009 Tobias Wilner establish DPC Records, mainly to release his own material as Blue Foundation, Bichi and his band Ghost Society. Later that year Blue Foundation received double platinum in USA for the Twilight Soundtrack. The album was certified double platinum on April 16, 2009. Tobias Wilner also record the Blue Foundation song Watch you Sleeping with singer songwriter Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters, Sun Kil Moon) and former member Kirstine Stubbe Teglbjærg. Watch you Sleeping is released as a single on DPC. May 16, 2011 Tobias Wilner contribute with two songs as Blue Foundation for the soundtrack of the award winning documentary film Tankograd by director Boris Bertram. One of the songs signals a change in female vocalist. The lead vocal is done by Sara Savery (Ghost Society and People Press Play). Tobias Wilner also compose the soundtrack for the short film Go All Day featuring professional skateboarder Chaz Ortiz directed by Steve Berra and Colin Kennedy. The score is later released as the Blue Foundation single Red Hook in a cooperation between The Berrics and DPC Records. Blue Foundation is joining Apparatjik as a part of a live performance at The Festival of New Art, Graz Austria on October 15, 2011. Blue Foundation's new album In My Mind I Am Free released in 2012. Blue Foundation is known for blending various styles such as electronic, shoegaze, and dream pop, and this album showcases the best elements of all three. Each song has something different to offer. More info
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19:00 | Emma Shapplin (France) |
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 Emma Shapplin began her music career in the classical tradition, studying opera with various teachers before moving to rock. She discovered that although rock gave her a certain artistic freedom and brought her to an exploration of the lower range of her voice, she was still not entirely satisfied. Consequently, Emma decided to create her own style with the help of great musicians from a wide array of genres of the industry. She first studied harmony and piano in Paris and then met with vocal-coach Yael Benzaquen - a unique and experienced "master of song" whom Emma subsequently always consulted, especially when exploring new vocal possibilities and directions. This self-made style evolved into a combination of diverse influences including opera, lyric poetry, modern trance, rock and synth-pop. Her first album Carmine Meo (1998) represents her debut step as a professional artist. Carmine Meo sold over two million copies around the world and became multi-platinum many times, which gave her start and introduced her work to more than 25 countries. For her second album Etterna, Emma, a great lover of poetry and literature, wrote all the lyrics directly in medieval Italian, playing with time and styles using, as she says, many "carefully chosen archaic words and expressions" in order to evoke the great ancient poets, playwrights and their works, even including, for example, fragments of Sappho's poetry. Her second album Etterna led Emma to experience very remarkable and bewitching stage performances, which she produced and staged herself. Emma has performed many times and in some of the most amazing places around the world. Emma released her new album Macadam Flower in 2010. It's pop, synth, electro album composed and written by Emma Shapplin in three languages (English, French and poetic ancient Italian). Her The Macadam Flower (2009) is a journey through her diverse vocal and musical approaches that embrace these diverse forms including opera, pop- rock synthpop and neo-classical. In Moscow House of Music Emma Shapplin will perform her best songs accompanied by the orchestra. Read more
MMDM Svetlanov Hall |
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19:00 | Maxim Vengerov (violin) and Itamar Golan (piano) |
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 Violinist Maxim Vengerov and pianist Itamar Golan's concert will be a great cultural event in Moscow - two outstanding contemporary musicians will perform together on one stage. Widely regarded as one of the world's most dynamic artists, Maxim Vengerov has performed sold out concerts with the world's most eminent orchestras in every major city in the world. Steeped in the celebrated Russian tradition of music making, Maestro enjoys international acclaim as a musician of the highest order, tireless in his search for new means of creative expression. Beginning his career as a solo violinist at the age of 5, Vengerov has won prestigious international competitions, collaborated with the world's finest conductors and recorded the entire violin repertoire for a number of high-profile labels, including Teldec Classics. In May 2000 Maxim Vengerov signed an exclusive contract with EMI Classics, receiving many prestigious awards and nominations including Grammy Award and Gramophone Artist of the Year. Maestro Vengerov was an Edison Award winner and Grammy Award winner in 2004 for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra) for the Britten: Violin Concerto/Walton: Viola Concerto Album released on EMI Classics. Having reached the pinnacle of the musical world as an instrumentalist, Vengerov followed in the footsteps of his mentor, the late Mstislav Rostropovich and turned his attention to conducting, bringing his sensitivity and keen musicianship to the podium. Maestro took his first conducting classes from Professor Vag Papian, who himself studied with the legendary Ilya Musin in St. Petersburg. At the invitation of Valery Gergiev, Maestro Vengerov has conducted the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, earning accolades both from the critics and the public. Hungry for experience that lies outside a standard track record of a musical prodigy, Maestro has let himself be inspired by many different styles of music, including baroque, jazz and rock. For almost two decades, Itamar Golan has been partnering the most outstanding instrumentalists of our time. His work has brought him great critical acclaim, and he is one of the most sought after pianists of his generation, playing on the most prestigious stages around the world. Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, his family emigrated to Israel when he was a year old. There he started his musical studies and at the age of 7, gave his first concerts in Tel-Aviv. He was repeatedly awarded scholarships from the American-Israel Cultural Foundation which enabled him to study with Emmanuel Krasovsky and his chamber music mentor, Chaim Taub. Later under a full scholarship from the New England Conservatory of Boston, he was chosen to study with Leonard Shure. Since his earliest years, Itamar Golan’s passion has been chamber music, but he has also appeared as soloist with some of the major orchestras.
Moscow Conservatory Great Hall |
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19:00 | The International Competition of Opera Singers |
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The concert of laureats of the 5th International competition of opera singers by Galina Vishnevskaya. Performer - Symphony orchestra of Vishnevskaya Opera Center. Soloists: Anastasia Kikot' (soprano), Yulia Mazurova (mezzo-soprano), Stanislav Mostovoy (tenor), Boris Pinkhasovich (baritone), Azizov Eltchin (baritone), Ruslan Rozyev (bass). Robert Trevino (USA), who has burst into the international spotlight with unprecedented success at the Bolshoi Theater in December 2013, when he led a new production of Verdi's Don Carlo substituting for Vasily Sinaisky, conducts. The first Competition was held in Moscow in 2006. Initiated by the great singer Galina Vishnevskay, it has immediately gained a reputation of a major Russian and international music culture event. The concept behind the Competition is to give young aspiring singers, - the participants, a chance to show themselves as singers of opera and no other theatre; that is why the program includes operatic repertoire only. The second Competition was dedicated to Mstislav Rostrapovich (he was on the jury of the first competition). The Competition is established by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Moscow City Department for Culture and by the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre. The Founders and the Organizing Committee of the Competition have stated that the Young Singers Competition is to take place in Moscow every second year.
Tchaikovsky Concert Hall |
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19:00 | The Swingle Singers (USA) |
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 The Swingle Singers is one of the most unique modern vocal groups, known for innovative, jazz-inflected performances of everything from Bach keyboard works to songs of the Beatles. The group formed from members of the Blue Stars, a jazz ensemble under the direction of Blossom Dearie. In 1962, Jeanette Baucomont (soprano), Anne Germain (contralto), Claudine Meunier (contralto), Claude Germain (tenor), Jean-Claude Briodin (bass-baritone), and Jean Cussac (bass-baritone) gathered in Paris under the direction of Ward Lemar Swingle (tenor) and Christiane Legrand (soprano); their goal was to improve their overall musicianship and sight-reading skills by performing intricate instrumental works vocally. While making their way through Bach's Well Tempered Clavier the idea came to "swing" the piece; the resulting fusion gave birth to The Swingle Singers. They began performing Classical and Baroque works with a jazz rhythm section, employing a distinctive scat style in the vocal parts. Their debut album, Bach's Greatest Hits, avoided the potential pitfalls of kitsch and instead proved a testament to the durability and flexibility of Bach's music, as well as to the group's vocal prowess. It also became a commercial success, appealing to a broad audience that might not otherwise have shown interest in classical music. Numerous television and radio appearances followed, as did back-to-back world tours; their music was on U.S. and U.K. Top 20 lists, and they won several Grammy awards, including Best Choral Performance and Best New Artist in 1963. After their debut album, The Swingle Singers applied the same formula to the music of Mozart, Handel, and Vivaldi well into the 1970s. Then, in 1973, Ward Swingle traveled to England to form a smaller group called Swingle II, to perform a broader base of repertory. Swingle worked with the group until he left for the United States in 1985, where he then spent a decade lecturing and guest conducting. During that time he continued to direct The Swingle Singers as they explored the music of Dvorak, Lennon, Mancini, Bizet, Rodgers/Hart, Debussy, George Butterworth, and Gerald Finzi on albums such as Pretty Ringtime, Notability, Ticket to Ride, and Screen Tested. As of 1999, Ward Swingle lives in semi-retirement near Paris. More info
Folk Theater |
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