In May 2012 the St Petersburg Cello Ensemble is organizing a new International Competition for Composers, which will be dedicated to the illustrious memory of the outstanding composer, cellist, teacher and conductor, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor of the St Petersburg Conservatoire Yuri Falik.
The concert in this programme offers a look at a little-known musical reality: beside the consolidated figures of Tarnopolski himself, who has been a guest at the Music Biennale several times, and Faraj Karaev, the others are under the age of thirty and new to most, Olga Bochihina, Alexej Siouma, Nikolaj Khrust and Vladimir...
Evgeny Mravinsky was born into an aristocratic and musical family in St Petersburg. His forebears were unusually strong-willed: one aunt, the soprano Evgeniya Mravina, a soloist at the Maryinsky Theatre and much admired by Tchaikovsky for her interpretation of Tatyana in his opera Eugene Onegin, had rejected the advances of the Tsar; and another...
| Alexander Dmitriev was born in Leningrad to the family of a Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra musician. He graduated from Glinka Choir College and the Leningrad State Conservatory, where he studied choir conducting (prof. E. Kudryavtseva) and musical theory (prof.Y. Tyulin). After that Dmitriev enrolled in a graduate course of symphonic conducting, taught by Nikolai...
Alexander Titov was born in Leningrad in 1954. He graduated from Leningrad (currently St. Petersburg) Conservatory in three majors: Choral Conducting (with Professor A. V. Mikhailov, 1976), Piano (with Associate Professor V. V. Gensler, 1976), and Opera and Symphony Conducting (with Professor I. A. Musin, 1981.) In 1988, Alexander Titov became a prize winner...
On 21 November 2010 International New Music Festival “Sound Ways” will be held in St. Petersburg State Philharmonic Hall (named after Glinka) where will be represented this year the CHEKHOV project (in commemoration of the writer’s 150-year anniversary). The Chekhov project will feature a world premieres performance of a works written by composers: Ostromogilsky,...
We meet again at Sound Ways International New Music Festival. Among the participants this year are the St.Petersburg Chamber Philharmony Orchestra and the conductor Jeffrey Meyer, the Sound Ways ensemble (St-Petersburg) directed by Brad Cawyer, the Meitar Ensemble (Israel), Krista Martynes (clarinet, Canada), Petri Kumela (guitar, Finland), James Clapperton (piano, Scotland), the singers...
Brad Everett Cawyer (born December 28, 1980 in Dallas, United States) is an American conductor.
B. Everett Cawyer has recently emerged onto the international classical music scene following student years in Europe. His thorough absorption of that continent's classical style of conducting displays his deep-founded musicianship via clear and enlightening technique. Everett's affable approach to...
Феномен неомифологизма является одной из важнейших тенденций в развитии художественного творчества XX века. Обладая внутренней композиционной системой ценностей…
Начало 1960-х годов открывает особенные и яркие страницы истории финской музыки. Это период неистовых экспериментов и интенсивных поисков новых выразительных средств…
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