The International Piano Festival (14 – 21 April 2013)14 April 2013 - 21 April 2013 SCHEDULE 14 April 2013 - 21 April 2013
The Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre is presenting
a new series of the Contemporary Piano Faces international
festival – there will be concerts together with the Mariinsky
Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev as well as recital programmes
by unique musicians from various generations and different schools who all
have their own “voice”, unlike that of any other performer: Denis Matsuev, Christian Blackshaw, Goran Filipec, Ohad Ben-Ari, Vladimir Milosevic, Eric Ferrand-N’Kaoua,
Nikita Abrosimov, Ignasi Cambra, Sangwon Kim, Edisher Savitski and
Vakhtang Kodanashvili.
Denis Matsuev: “It
was a wonderful initiative on behalf of Valery Gergiev and
the Mariinsky Theatre to establish a festival with such
a wonderful and subtle name as Contemporary Piano Faces in order
to come together and present audiences with utterly different piano schools from
all over the world. “Of course, it is important to understand
that the Soviet (Russian) piano school is, in my opinion,
the best; first and foremost, it brought to life the art
of singing on the piano, it existed
in the “closed” USSR in a kind of detached manner.
Today young pianists have the opportunity to take master classes and change
their teachers. And so the various piano schools, including
the Russian one, have mixed together. And I believe there’s something
positive about that. “At the Contemporary Piano Faces festival you will
be able to see different generations and different schools. That
is just great, because piano music is tremendously popular throughout
the world.”
Valery Gergiev has stated that
the festival’s task is to invite musicians to St Petersburg who have
already won international acclaim but who are, as yet, less well known
in Russia and to introduce new names and clear the path
for young talents as well as to popularise piano music.
International Piano
Festival 14 April – 21 April 2013
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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International Piano
Festival 2013: Mariinsky Concert
Hall | Mariinsky Concert Hall hall
plan | Mariinsky Slide Show | Mariinsky 3D View | About Valery
Gergiev ARCHIVE: 2012-2 | 2012-1 | 2011
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SCHEDULE 14 April 2013 - 21 April 2013
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