The programme includes:
Franz Schubert.
Overture In the Italian Style in D Major
Franz Schubert. Rondo for Violin and Orchestra
in A Major
Soloist: Dmitry Smirnov (violin)
Franz Schubert. Symphony in B Minor,
The Unfinished Symphony
Edvard Grieg. Piano Concerto in A Minor
Soloist: Miroslav Kultyshev (piano)
Artistic Director and Conductor: Arkady Steinlucht
The Middle Specialised School of Music of the
St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, or the “Ten-Year School
of Music” as it continues to be known, will be marking the seventy-fifth
anniversary since it was established next year.
The history of the school
officially began with the Decree of the All-Union Committee for the Arts of the
Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR dated 25 August 1936, although it
should be noted that two years before that the pianist Samary Savshinsky, a keen
enthusiast for new methods in early learning in music, had set up a group for
especially talented children aged between six and fifteen at the Leningrad
Conservatoire. The Ten-Year School stood out from the very first days of its
existence thanks to its intensive concert activities, with the school’s pupils
performing at philharmonic halls in St Petersburg and across Europe.
Graduates of the school form the mainstay of orchestras in
St Petersburg and occupy top positions in European music ensembles.
Performances by the school’s symphony orchestra to be conducted by Arkady
Steinlucht, a former graduate, invariably prove to be unforgettable events for
young audiences in St Petersburg.
Arkady Steinlucht has worked as a
conductor with the Glinka Capella and the Perm Theatre of Opera and Ballet. He
directed the St Petersburg Mozarteum chamber orchestra from 1989. He is
currently a conductor with the Zazerkalye Children’s Music Theatre
(St Petersburg) and director of the Middle Specialised School of Music of
the St Petersburg Conservatoire. He has performed at theatres in cities
including Minsk, Kharkov, Kazan, Novosibirsk and Baku and concert halls in
Odessa, Yekaterinburg, Tbilisi, Riga, Stockholm, Berlin, Hamburg, Basel, Tokyo
and Seoul