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19:00 | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra |
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 Concert dedicated to the Finland 100 Years Jubilee. The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (FRSO) is the orchestra of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle). Its mission is to produce and promote Finnish musical culture. Its Chief Conductor as of autumn 2013 is Hannu Lintu. The Radio Orchestra of ten players founded in 1927 grew to symphony orchestra strength in the 1960s. Its previous Chief Conductors have been Toivo Haapanen, Nils-Eric Fougstedt, Paavo Berglund, Okko Kamu, Leif Segerstam, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Sakari Oramo. The FRSO has two Honorary Conductors: Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Sakari Oramo. The latest contemporary music is a major item in the repertoire of the FRSO, which each year premieres a number of Yle commissions. Another of the orchestra’s tasks is to record all Finnish orchestral music for the Yle archive. During the 2016/2017 season it will premiere five works commissioned by Yle.
Moscow Conservatory Great Hall  |
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 National Philharmonic of Russia, Conductor Konstantin Khvatynets together with Anna Aglatova (soprano) and Vasily Ladyuk (baritone) will perform duets, arias and ouvertures from operettas by Franz Lehár and Imre Kálmán. Anna Aglatova – soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre. Anna completed her studies at the department of academic singing at the Gnesin Music College (Ruzanna Lisitsian’s class) and then at the Gnesin Russian Music Academy’s faculty of singing. In 2001, she received a grant from the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation. She made her Bolshoi Theatre debut in 2005 as Nannetta (Falstaff G.Verdi). Anna is a prize wined of international competitions, such as the Bella voce International Competition for Singers (1st prize; Moscow, 2003), the All-Russian Festival-Competition for Young Singers (1st prize; Lipetsk, 2008), the Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition (Germany, 2005). In 2007, she was nominated for the Golden Mask National Theatre prize and in 2009, she received youth grant Triumph Prize. Vasily Ladyuk graduated from the Sveshnikov Moscow Choral College in 1997 and from the Academy of Choral Art in Moscow as a choral conductor and as a singer in 2001. He started his career at the Novaya Opera Theatre in Moscow in 2004, his present day repertoire including over 20 operatic roles from bel canto to verismo. In 2007 he joined the Bolshoi Theatre company as a permanent guest soloist. In 2005 Ladyuk is the winner of three world’s major vocal contest: the Francisco Viñas Competition, Placido Domingo’s “Operalia” and the Shizuoka Interantional Opera Competition, all in 2005.
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