The International Piano Festival27 November 2012 - 02 December 2012 SCHEDULE 27 November 2012 - 02 December 2012
The Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre is running its International Piano Festival, a platform for outstanding unique
musicians from various generations and different schools, each with
a “voice” of his or her own, unlike that of any other pianist. According to Maestro Valery Gergiev, the tasks of the festival
are to invite musicians to St Petersburg who have established international
careers but are as yet less known in Russia, to discover and develop new and
young talent and to popularise piano music.
International Piano
Festival 27 November – 2 December 2012
Ten pianists and six concerts:
Valery Afanassiev,
Nicholas Angelich, Mira Jevtic,
Polina Osetinskaya, Mikhail
Yanovitsky, pupils and graduates of the class of Marina Wolf,
teacher at the Special School of Music
of the St Petersburg Conservatoire in recitals and together
with the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton
of Valery Gergiev.
The The Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will
be hosting the fourth International Piano Festival. According
to Maestro Valery Gergiev,
the festival’s aim is to invite musicians to St Petersburg
who are internationally acclaimed but as yet less well known in Russia,
to showcase new talents and clear the path for young musicians as
well as to make piano music more popular. This international piano
forum, which for the third year in a row has been held twice
a season at the Concert Hall, presents dazzling musicians
from various generations and schools in addition to its tradition
of focussing on one particular piano school with concerts
featuring students of prominent teachers. The first festival brought
together the students of the famed Tatiana Zelikman. At
the second festival, Sergei Babayan appeared with Daniil Trifonov, one
of his pupils at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The third
festival saw performances by students from the class of Professor
Alexander Sandler of the St Petersburg Conservatoire.
The current festival focuses on graduates and students
from the class of Marina Veniaminovna Wolf, a senior teacher
at the Special School of Music of the St Petersburg
Conservatoire. As well as a class concert, there will also be individual
concerts by students of Marina Wolf who have already established themselves
on the international scene – Polina Osetinskaya and Mikhail
Yanovitsky. The festival will focus on Ludwig van Beethoven
in its programmes. All of the composer’s piano concerti are
to be performed at the opening and the close
of the festival by Nicholas Angelich and
Valery Afanassiev together
with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev.
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27 November 19:00 OPENING
OF THE INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL Concert
Hall Beethoven Soloist:
Nicholas Angelich (piano) Conductor: Valery
Gergiev
The festival opens
with American pianist Nicholas Angelich, who has already appeared
on numerous occasions at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky
Theatre and established a loyal following. This time the pianist will
be performing the Second, Third and Fifth Piano Concerti by Ludwig van
Beethoven, for whose music he reserves a particular admiration:
“The music of this brilliant composer is always greater than
the possibilities of any instrument or performer. Beethoven’s music
demands the most exacting performing skills. Beethoven has
everything – classicism, romanticism and even modernism. He avoided
stereotypes, he was always original.” The pianist’s repertoire also
includes all of the composer’s sonatas. The Mariinsky
Orchestra will be conducted by maestro
Valery Gergiev.
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29 November
19:00 Concert
Hall Strauss.
Gershwin Soloist: Mikhail Yanovitsky
(piano)
Mikhail Yanovitsky, a graduate of the class
of Marina Wolf at the Special School of Music
of the St Petersburg Conservatoire who later graduated
from the class of Mikhail Voskresensky at the Moscow
Conservatoire and then continued his studies at the Juilliard School
in the USA becoming a regular recitalist in America, will be
performing the solo in Richard Strauss’ Burleske
for piano and orchestra and George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto;
conductor – Gavriel Heine.
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30 November
19:00 Concert Hall
Franck. Beethoven. Handel. Foster Soloists: Mira Yevtich (piano), Andrew Goodwin
(tenor)
Recital by Serbian pianist Mira Jevtic, a regular
participant of the festival. Her concert programme features works by
Ludwig van Beethoven and Cйsar Franck as well as a work by Grant Foster, an
Australian composer living in Wales who frequently works with Mira
Jevtiж. The Ballad of Reading Gaol after the poem by
Oscar Wilde for voice and piano by Grant Foster is dedicated to Mira
Jevtiж and Andrew Goodwin, an Australian tenor also featuring
in the concert.
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1 December 12:00 Concert Hall Concert featuring pupils of Marina Wolf
Performers: Alexandra Masalyova, Rustam Muradov,
Eduard Kiprsky, Nadezhda Rubanenko, Alexander Pirozhenko
Concert by
students from the class of Marina Veniaminovna Wolf – those
still studying as well as graduates continuing their studies at conservatoires
and established pianists such as Alexandra Masalyova, Rustam Muradov, Eduard
Kiprsky, Nadezhda Rubanenko and Alexandre Pirojenko.
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1 December 19:00 Concert Hall Polina Osetinskaya recital
(piano)
Polina
Osetinskaya ’s recital, also
a graduate from the class of Marina Wolf, includes works by
George Frederick Handel and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s
The Seasons.
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2 December
19:00 CLOSING OF THE
INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL Concert
Hall Beethoven. Valery Afanasiev (piano), Conductor -
Valery Gergiev
Valery Afanassiev, one
of the most intellectual contemporary pianists, will be performing two
piano concerti by Ludwig van Beethoven – the First and
the Fourth. The Mariinsky Orchestra that evening will be conducted by
Valery Gergiev.
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SCHEDULE 27 November 2012 - 02 December 2012
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