ST. PETERSBURG MUSIC HOUSE, PLAYBILL (february, 2019)

Friday, February 8, at 7.00 p.m., St. Petersburg Music House invites to the recital of the winner of Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 2007), International Monte-Carlo Competition (Monaco, 2012), a German Griffon Order Awardee (2005) Miroslav Kultyshev (piano) in the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall. Listeners will enjoy the masterly performance of Scriabin's poems and preludes, as well as Chopin's ballads.
Audience 6+, ticket price 600-2500 RUB
 
February 9, Saturday, at 7.00 p.m., a concert of the “The Musical Team of Russia” series will take place in the White Hall of the Polytechnical University (Polytechnicheskaya str., 29). Ilia Papoian (piano), the soloist of Music House, will perform with the “Classica” orchestra. The laureate of the 3rd All-Russian Music Competition (Moscow, 2018) will play solo in the Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no 2. Conductor: Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Kantorov.
Audience 6+, ticket price 400-490 RUB
 
Wednesday, 13 November, at 7 p.m., the “Music of Stars” will sound in the St. Petersburg Academic Capella (Moika River Emb. 20). Laureate of the Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow, 2015) Aleksander Ramm (cello), as well as the winner of the Chopin Competition (Narva, 2018) and the International Piano Competition in Lyon (France, 2018) Elizaveta Kliuchereva (piano) will perform with the Capella Symphony Orchestra conducted by Honoured artist of Russia Alexei Vasiliev. This special evening will feature masterpieces by Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.
Audience 6+, ticket price 300-700 RUB
 
Saturday, February 16, at 3.00, 5.00, 7.00 p.m., there will be the St. Petersburg Music House piano marathon consisting of three hourlong concerts that will be given in the concert hall of the Sheremetev Palace (34 Fontanka Embankment), there also will be a presentation of the new Steinway grand piano, donated to the city’s Theatre and Music Museum.
Six Music House’s young soloists from Moscow and St. Petersburg, all aged between 17 and 28, will perform: laureates of the 3rd All-Russian Music Competition (Moscow, 2018) Timofey Dolya and Ilia Papoian, winner and the International PianoTalents Competition Special Prize Awardee (Milan, 2017) Evgenii Evgrafov, winner of the International Piano Competition (France, 2017) Alina Fedoseeva, winner of the James Mottram International Piano Competition in Manchester (England, 2018) Elizaveta Ukrainskaya, Grand Prix winner of the Jazeps Vitols International Piano Competition (Riga, 2013) Andrei Telkov.
Audience 6+, Ticket price - 250 RUB
 
Wednesday, February 20, at 7.00 p.m., “Evenings in the English Hall” on 122 Moika Emb. will welcome the winner of the 3rd All-Russian Music Competition (Moscow, 2018) Vasiliy Stepanov (cello) and the winner of Manhattan International Competition (USA, 2018) Alexey Melnikov (piano). The audience is welcome to enjoy pieces by Brahms, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Shchedrin, Wieniawski and Rachmaninoff.
Audience 12+, ticket price RUB 400-700
Wednesday, February 27, at 7 p.m., the Music House’s soloists will give a concert of “Young Interpreters of Russia” series at the Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace (41 Nevsky Prospect). There will be a performance with orchestra of laureate of the 3rd All-Russian Music Competition Timofey Dolya (piano) and laureate of the International Aram Khachaturian Competition (Armenia, 2018), the “The Best Concerto Performance with a Chamber Orchestra in the Second Round” Awardee of the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow 2015) Fedor Amosov (cello). Program: Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no. 2 and Dvořák’s Concerto for cello and orchestra.
Audience 6+, ticket price 350-400 RUB

On February 26, 27 and 28, from noon to 4 p.m., public master classes of “Higher Music Performance Courses” will take place at the Evenings in the English Hall (122, Moika River Bank). Professor of the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki) Martti Rousi (cello) is about to share secrets of mastery with young cellists. Tutors and students of music schools are welcome.
Applications for active participation are accepted until noon, February 18, 2019.
Audience 12+. Ticket price for audience - 100 RUR

February 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, 21 (Tue, Thu) at 4 p.m., will be organized Regular Tours over the state rooms of Alexeevsky Palace (Music House) – the Residence of the Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich Romanov, younger brother of Emperor Alexander III and beloved uncle the last Tsar Nicholas II.
Audience 12+, Ticket Price – 350 RUB. 
 
February 21 (Tue) at 6 p.m. will be organized an Evening Tour for those who cannot attend the Music House in the daytime.
Audience 12+, Ticket Price –500 RUB.
High-heeled Shoes, Photo and Video Recording are Prohibited!

Yekaterinburg – Ufa – Moscow – Kislovodsk – Sochi
 
Wednesday, February 6, at 7 p.m., St. Petersburg Music House invites to the concert of  ”Generation Next” series which will take place in Sverdlovsk Philharmonic. Music of France, Germany and Italy will be performed by the winner of Gnesinykh International Competition (Moscow, 2018) Lev Zhuravskiy (clarinet) and the winner of the International Piano Competition in Paris (2017) Anna Pismak.
K.Liebknecht 38A, Yekaterinburg Ticket price 150-500 RUB
 
Thursday, February 7, at 7 p.m. "Musical Team of Russia" will return to Ufa. A laureate of All-Russian Music Competition (2016) Alexander Vasiliev (clarinet) will perform with the National Symphony Orchestra of Bashkortostan. This evening, Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto will be played in "Bashkortostan" State Concert Hall. Conductor – Honored Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan Raushan Yakupov.
The Bashkortostan State Concert Hall, Lenina 50, Ufa.
 
Saturday, February 9, at 7 p.m., in Moscow the winner of Concours international Long-Thibaud-Crespin (France, 2018) Dmitry Smirnov (violin) will be giving another performance of Stars of the 21st Century cycle. The soloist will perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 with State Academic Chamber Orchestra of Russia on the stage of Philharmonia-2 Concert Hall. Conductor – Philipp Chizhevsky.
Michurinsky Prospect, Olympic Village, 1.

February 16, Saturday, 4 p.m. St.Petersburg Music House invites to Kislovodsk, where the virtuoso pianist Miroslav Kultyshev will perform in the North Caucasian Philharmonic within the "Music of Stars" cycle. With the Philharmonic Orchestra the winner of the International Monte Carlo Competition (2012) will perform Mozart last Piano Concerto – No. 27. Behind the conductor's stand – Dimitrios Botinis.
Kislovodsk, Karl Marx st., 3а. Ticket price – 500 rubles.
 
Sunday, February 17, soloists of Music House will perform at the XII Winter international arts festival under the direction of Yuri Bashmetin within the unique “Beethoven Marathon” in Sochi. The winners of the III All-Russian Music Competition (2018) Ilia Papoian (piano), Vasiliy Stepanov (cello), Ravil Islyamov (violin), laureates of international competitions Alexey Melnikov, Elizaveta Ukrainskaya and Alexander Kashpurin (piano), Alexey Shpakov (piano), Dennis Gasanov and Leonid Baranov (violin), Alexander Kushnarev (french horn) will perform great classical sonata at the Organ and Chamber Music Hall. Performances will begin at noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Sochi, Kurortny Prospect, 32. Ticket price 200-500 RUB for each performance.

Linz
 
February 19, at 7.30 p.m., "Contrasts" will be played in Brucknerhaus. That is the name that was prefixed to a performance that will be given by Music House soloists at the "Russian Tuesday". This time, Jāzeps Vītols International Piano Competition Grand Prix Awardee (Riga, 2013) Andrei Telkov (piano), soloist of St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Nikita Lyutikov (clarinet) and violinist Dmitry Smirnov, the winner of Concours international Long-Thibaud-Crespin (France) of 2018 will perform in Linz.
Untere Donaulände 7, Linz Ticket Price is EUR 7-18.