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19:00 | Carmen. Spanish Motives |
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 Russian National Orchestra, Conductor Arif Dadashev together with Polina Shamaeva (mezzo-soprano), Aleksey Neklyudov (tenor) and Ilya Gaisin (violin) will perform famous songs from G.Bizet opera "Carmen"; chosen works of List, Ravel and Brams. Polina Shamaeva graduated from the Rostropovich Voronezh College of Music (the Choral Conducting Department) in 2006 and the Popov Academy of Choral Art with degrees in choral conducting (2011) and solo singing (2016). She attended master classes of Lyubov Kazarnovskaya, Darren Zimmer (2015), Michael Paul (2016), and Sara Allegretta (2016). In 2016, Polina Shamaeva joined the Novaya Opera Theatre. Aleksey Neklyudov graduated from the Gnessins College of Music (Prof. Nesterenko’s class) in 2009 and entered the Popov Choral Academy (Prof. Nesterenko’s class). In April 2010, he sang the tenor part in Saint-Saëns’ Requiem jointly with Vladimir Spivakov’s National Philharmonic of Russia in the Grand Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow.
Moscow Conservatory Great Hall  |
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 Sharon Clark (vocal), Ivan Pharmakovsky (piano), Sergey Vasiliev (double bass) and Pavel Timofeev (drums). “You can’t underestimate the transformation of what seems like an ordinary song when an interpreter like Sharón Clark tears it apart and peers inside" (Stephen Holden, New York Times). Encouraged to make jazz a career by her father and high school music teacher, Sharon Clark began her professional career with the Bottle Caps doing promotional work for the Coca Cola Company. The other "Bottle Cap" was her twin sister, Sharee. Leaving Coke to fend for itself, she got her first significant jazz gig at King's Dominion just outside of Richmond, VA. Since then, she has performed at such jazz and non-jazz venues as Blues Alley, the National Press Club and Twins Lounge in Washington, D.C. and Sweet Basel in New York City. Equally adept with jazz, blues, and gospel, Clark has a husky but mellow voice with good phrasing and diction. She is also a fine interpreter of lyrics. For her first album Finally, released by the Union Records in 1997, she chose a play list which gives her the opportunity to bring out her vocal dexterity and comfort level with up tempo songs and ballads. Listing Sarah Vaughan, Johnny Hartman, Ella Fitzgerald and Doris Day as musical influences, Clark continues to work in the Washington, D.C. area with a steady gig at Laportas Jazz Lounge in Alexandria, VA. Clark has headlined the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival, the Cape May Jazz Festival and the Savannah Music Festival. Both the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and The Ludacris Foundation chose Ms. Clark to perform for their separate tributes to Quincy Jones.
MMDM Chamber Hall |
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19:00 | The Maid of Orleans |
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 Symphony Orchestra of Bolshoi Theatre, Choir of State Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, Conductor Tugan Sokhiev together with Anna Smirnova (mezzo-soprano), Oleg Dolgov (tenor), Anna Nechaeva (soprano), Andrey Gonyukov (bass), Igor Golovatenko (baritone), Stanislav Trofimov (bass), Bogdan Volkov (tenor), Pyotr Migunov (bass), Nikolai Kazansky (bass), Andrey Kimach (baritone) and Marta Danusevich (soprano) will perform P. I. Tchaikovsky 's Opera "The Maid of Orleans" in concert performance. The Maid of Orleans is Tchaikovsky's sixth completed opera, based on the historical legend of Joan of Arc. The opera is scored for solo voices, mixed chorus, and an orchestra. The opera's libretto was compiled by Tchaikovsky, after Friedrich Schiller's tragedy Die Jungfrau von Orleans (1801) in a Russian translation by Vasily Zhukovsky, with additional material from Auguste Mermet's opera Jeanne d'Arc and Jules Barbier's drama of the same name. Tugan Sokhiev is Music Director of Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (ONCT), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO Berlin) and Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. Tugan Sokhiev became Music Director of Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse at the start of the 2008/2009 season, following three years as its Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Adviser. He also enjoys a close association with the Mariinsky Theatre. During his collaboration with the Orchestre National du Capitole, he has conducted many critically acclaimed concerts in France, Germany, Vienna, Ljubljana, Zagreb, San Sebastian and Valencia. His first two recordings for Naïve Classique – which include Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony, Mussorgsky Pictures and Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf – received remarkablere views.
Rachmaninov Concert Hall (Philharmonia-2) |
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