The International Piano Festival15 April 2014 - 20 April 2014 SCHEDULE 15 April 2014 - 20 April 2014
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 15–20 April 2014
The The Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will be hosting
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 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 4th 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.
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Tuesday Concert
Hall
Keyboard concerts by Johann Sebastian
Bach
Soloists: Yevgeny Korolyov, Anna Vinnitskaya, Ljupka
Hadzi-Georgieva and Stepan Simonian Conductor: Lorenz
Nasturica-Herschowici OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONAL PIANO
FESTIVAL |
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Wednesday Concert
Hall
Performed by Mira Yevtich (piano) and Andrew Goodwin (tenor)
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Thursday Concert
Hall
Performed by Yulianna
Avdeeva |
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Friday Concert
Hall
Performed by Andrea Lucchesini |
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19 April 15:00 Saturday Concert
Hall
Soloists: Denis Matsuev, Varvara Nepomnyashchaya,
Adam Laloum Conductor: Valery Gergiev
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20 April
15:00
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20 April
19:00
Saturday Concert
Hall
Soloist: Alexei Volodin Conductor: Daniel Raiskin
CLOSING OF THE INTERNATIONAL PIANO
FESTIVAL |
International Piano
Festival 2013: Mariinsky Concert
Hall | Mariinsky Concert Hall hall
plan | Mariinsky Slide Show | Mariinsky 3D View | About Valery
Gergiev ARCHIVE: 2013-2 | 2013-1| 2012-2 | 2012-1 | 2011
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SCHEDULE 15 April 2014 - 20 April 2014
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