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19:00 | Eternal Masterpieces |
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 Moscow City Symphony "Russian Philharmonic", conductor Dmitry Jurowski together with Ilya Gringolts (violin, Russia-Switzerland), Meehae Ryo (cello, South Korea) and Philipp Kopachevsky (piano) will perform Mozart, Piano concerto #21, Violin concerto #3; Beethoven, Triple concerto for piano, violin and cello with orchestra. Ilya Gringolts studied violin and composition in St. Petersburg with Tatiana Liberova and Jeanna Metallidi, and then attended the Juilliard School of Music where he studied with Itzhak Perlman. In 1998 he won the International Violin Competition Premio Paganini, as the youngest first prize winner in the history of the competition. Ilya Gringolts is always looking for new musical challenges; he devotes himself to the great orchestral repertoire but also to contemporary and seldom-played works. Last season he played the original version of Jean Sibelius’ violin concerto, with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra at the Lahti Sibelius Festival, as well as on tour in China. He has premiered compositions by Peter Maxwell Davies, Augusta Read Thomas, Christophe Bertrand and Michael Jarrell. Deutsche Gramophone Recording Artist Meehae Ryo’s breathtaking technical virtuosity and captivating melody puts her as the most recognized cellist in the Republic of Korea. She endeavors to play music which makes both herself and her audiences happy. Meehae’s passion for music is enough to make her as one of the most preferred cellist by numerous orchestras.
MMDM Svetlanov Hall  |
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 Intrada vocal ensemble, artist director Ekaterina Antonenko will perform D. Shostakovich, Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets and F. Martin, Mass for unaccompanied double choir. The subject "Revolution and its reflection in art" will be revealed this time in the choral music genre. Intrada is a Russian vocal ensemble "of a new generation". Founded in 2006 by Ekaterina Antonenko, the group has performed throughout Russia’s most prestigious concert venues, such as the Moscow and St. -Petersburg Philharmonic, the Mariinski Concert Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Moscow International House of Music and the Moscow Kremlin. Intrada enjoys performing early music in collaboration with leading European artists – "The Tallis Scholars" and Peter Phillips, "Il Giardino Armonico" and Giovanni Antonini, "Le Poème Harmonique" and Vincent Dumestre, Frieder Bernius, Peter Neumann. "...This independent group has showed such purity of style, clarity of colours and freshness of sound that can be created just by a choir, simultaneously adopting contemporary European performing practices and preserving native features of our choral culture. In the worthy collection of Moscow choirs Intrada is becoming one of the leaders and it is no wonder that the best European conductors choose this group for their performances in Russia" (Petr Pospelow, "Vedomosti").
MMDM Chamber Hall |
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19:00 | Scorpions (Germany) |
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 Known best for their 1984 anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and the 1990 ballad "Wind of Change," German rockers Scorpions have sold over 22 million records, making them one of the most successful rock bands to ever come out of Continental Europe. Formed in 1969 by Rudolf Schenker, the original lineup consisted of rhythm guitarist/vocalist Schenker, lead guitarist Karl-Heinz Follmer, bassist Lothar Heimberg, and drummer Wolfgang Dziony. In 1971, Schenker's younger brother Michael joined the band to play lead guitar and good friend Klaus Meine became the vocalist. The group recorded Lonesome Crow in 1972, which was used as the soundtrack to the German movie Das Kalte Paradies. With a lineup of Klaus Meine on vocals, Rudolf Schenker on rhythm guitar, Matthias Jabs on lead, Francis Buchholz on bass, and Herman Rarebell on drums, the band released Animal Magnetism in 1980 and embarked on another world tour. Surprisingly, Animal Magnetism went gold in the United States, and the Scorpions immediately went back into the studio to record their next release. Problems arose, however, and the project was postponed because Meine lost his voice and would have to have surgery on his vocal cords. Many thought Meine had been fired from the band, and rumors spread that metal singer Don Dokken had already replaced him. Scorpions proved these rumors untrue when Meine returned for the 1982 release Blackout, which contained the cult hit "No One Like You." A major success worldwide, Blackout sold over a million copies in the U.S. alone. But as popular as Blackout was, it was Scorpions' powerful follow-up, Love at First Sting, which succeeded in making them superstars. In early 2015, Scorpions delivered their 18th studio album Return to Forever, a collection of 12 songs written between 2011 and 2014, and put to tape in Sweden with producers Mikael Nord Andersson and Martin Hansen.
Olimpiisky Sports Complex |
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 Ekaterina Bezdolnaya (soprano), Sergey Zhuravlev (flute), Igor Feforov (clarinet), Leonid Zhelezny (violin), Ekaterina Mechetina (piano), Vazgen Vartanyan (piano), Natalia Sokolovskaya (piano), Ida Caplan (piano), Irina Zhuravel (piano), Olga Gribovskaya (piano) will perform selected works of Tolib Shakhidi. Tolib-khon Shakhidi is a Tajik, Russian, and Soviet composer who was born in the city of Dushanbe, Tajik SSR. He is a son of the founder of Professional Tajik Academic Music – Ziyodullo Shakhidi. "Taste, intellect, professionalism are the three main values of contemporary music" - this aphorism, expressed by the composer fully complies with his own creative work. Tolib Shahidi represents a very rare type of Universal master-composer, who possesses the whole arsenal of contemporary musical language, yet uses the richest resources of traditional Eastern music of his region. This twin pillar is not an obstacle, but the most important source of his artistic power and originality. Natalia Sokolovskaya was born in a musical family and began playing the piano and composition at the age of 3. In December 2005 Natalia made her debut in The Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory as a soloist with The symphonic orchestra of Moscow Conservatory under the baton of A.Levin. She have since performed with, among others, CBCO, Sinfónica del Vallès , St-Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra "Classica", Philharmonic Orchestra of Kharkov, Yaroslavl, Astrakhan and etc. In 2013 she graduated The Moscow State Conservatory as a pianist and composer and the Royal College of Music (London) in 2015.
Moscow Conservatoire Maly Zal |
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