"Russian Tuesdays" (project)

Focus Areas

• Annual cycle of chamber concerts including solo performances of the Music House participants.
• Involvement of the soloists in the annual Bruckner Festival with the invited orchestras (September – October)
• Performing with the Bruckner Orchestra

History

In 2014, one of the participants of the "Russian Tuesdays", Sergei Redkin debuted on the stage of one of the most famous concert halls in the world - Musikverein in Vienna The young pianist from Saint-Petersburg played the 3rd Piano Concerto by Sergei Rachmaninoff together with the Bruckner Orchestra.

Since 2013, the soloists of the Music House have regularly taken part in the annual Bruckner Festival. In September, 2013, Galina Chistyakova (piano) and Nikita Borisoglebskiy (violin) presented a chamber program to the Austrian public within the Festival.

On January 25, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian President greeted the participants and guests of the first "Russian Tuesdays" Season and expressed his strong belief that this project would make "a significant contribution to development of the Russian-Austrian humanitarian relations."

First soloists of the Saint-Petersburg Music House appeared on the Brucknerhaus stage in Russia Day on June 12, 2012. The success of our musicians, Sergei Redkin, piano and Nikita Lyutikov, clarinet was noted with great enthusiasm and warmth by the Austrian journalists and resulted in the "Russian Tuesdays” joint project. Before the concert, a representative of the Russian Cultural Center in Vienna read in public a greeting of Sergey Nechayev, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in Austria.