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December 2014
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01 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
St Petersburg in the Mirror of World Musical Culture
IV International Competition

02 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
To the 100th anniversary of A. Mikhailov

St. Petersburg Concert Choir
Artistic director and conductor - Vladimir Begletsov
Conductor - Nikolay Alexeev
Elena Ushakova - soprano
Galina Sidorenko - mezzo-soprano
Alexander Timchenko - tenor
Oleg Losev - tenor
Yuri Monchak - bass
Schubert: Mass No 6 in E flat major; Honegger: Symphony No 3 "Liturgique"

02 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
To the 150th anniversary of A. Siloti

Yulia Stadler - piano

03 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
The Rimsky-Korsakov Central Navy Band of Russia

The Rimsky-Korsakov Central Navy Band of Russia
Conductor - Alexei Karabanov
Elena Semenova - soprano
Maxim Perebeynos - baritone
Gennadiy Bezzubenkov - bass
Rimsky-Korsakov: Three Miracles from The Tale of Tsar Saltan; Dukas: L'Apprenti sorcier; Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmila, opera excerpts; Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, opera excerpts; Stravinsky: Firebird, ballet excerpts

03 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
St.Petersburg Conservatory Chamber Orchestra
Deducated to Avenir Mikhailov

St.Petersburg Conservatory Chamber Orchestra
Conductor - Arkady Steinlucht
Grigory Volobuev - oboe
Mozart

04 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Giulio Mercati
Organ Recital

Giulio Mercati - organ (Italy)
Scarlatti; Buxtehude; J.-S. Bach; Franck; Ibert; Reger

04 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
To the 175th anniversary of Mussorgsky

Petr Migunov - bass
Peter Laul - piano

05 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"Pelléas and Mélisande" by Fauré, Sibelius and Schoenberg

Conductor - Alexander Dmitriev
Faure: Pelléas et Mélisande; Sibelius: Pelléas et Mélisande; Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande

05 December, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Alexander Pirozhenko
Recital

Chopin; Ravel; Kapustin

06 December, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Polina Osetinskaya
Recital

Rachmaninoff: Piano transcription; Tchaikovsky: The Seasons; Shostakovich: Dances of the Dolls; Prokofiev: Sonata No 7

06 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Love songs
Concert is cancelled

Leonid Zakhozhaev - tenor

07 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Haydn

Petersburg Chamber Choir
Nikolai Kornev - artistic director and conducor
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (chamber orchestra)
Conductor - Leo Kraemer (Germany)
Zhanna Dombrovskaya - soprano
Galina Sidorenko - mezzo-soprano
Boris Stepanov - tenor
Petr Migunov - bass
Haydn: Symphony No 100 "Military", "Nelson Mass"

07 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Different Dances

Soloists Ensemble of the Andreyev State Russian Orchestra
Sergey Fedoseenko
"Devchata" Choreographic Ensemble
Svetlana Yurasova - artistic director
Anastasia Yablokova
PetRo Duet
Anastasia Rogalyova - piano
Dmitry Petrov - piano
Natalia Steyt - piano
Elena Popova - presenter

07 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Hot South Winds
Musical flowers

Hortus Musicus
Andres Mustonen - artistic director and soloist (violin)
Traditional East Music; Music of Italian Baroque from Monteverdi to Corelli

08 December, Monday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
International Cultural Forum

St.Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

Conductor - Sergey Stadler
Paata Burchuladze - bass
Yekaterina Shimanovich - soprano
Elizaveta Sveshnikova - soprano
Yulia Suleymanova - soprano

08 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
To the 75th anniversary of B. Tishchenko

Olesya Petrova - mezzo-soprano
Petr Migunov - bass
Anna Korzun - piano part
Tishchenko: "Road", "Dreaft", "Simple Truth", "White Stork", "Sea Background"

09 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti

Conductor - Kai Bumann (Germany)
Oxana Shilova - soprano
Dmitry Voropaev - tenor
Overtures and arias from operas

09 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Alfred Schnittke
To the 80th anniversary

Irina Schnittke - piano
Vladislav Pesin - violin
Alexei Vasiliev - cello
Viktoriia Velkova - violin
Alexei Koptev - viola

10 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Ilya Kozlov
Virtuosos of bow

Chamber Orchestra
Dmitrii Koriavko - violin
Elena Dyakova - piano
Tchaikovsky; Stravinsky; Zimbalist; Shostakovich

11 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
The Fifth Charity council in honor of St Nicholas the Wonderworker

Choir of St. Petersburg metropolitanate
Yuri Gerasimov - artistic director
Russian Spiritual Music

11 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Gershwin


Denis Kirillov - keyboards, flute
Alexey Utkin - double bass
Andrey Ivanov
Mikhail Lukonin
Julia Mikhaylovskaya
Svetlana Trifonova
Yekaterina Stadler
Ilya Gindin
Alexei Dmitriev
Pavel Lineykin
Artur Gorbenko
Alexander Mikhailovsky
Timur Fyodorov
Natalia Ryabikova

12 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Joshua Bell
Recital

Joshua Bell - violin (USA)
Alessio Bax - piano
Grieg: Violin Sonata in F major; Schubert: Violin Sonata in A major; Prokofiev: Violin Sonata in F minor

12 December, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Austria

The Pocket Symphony Soloists Ensemble
Artistic director and conductor (violin and viola da gamba) - Nazar Kozhukhar
Vladislav Pesin - violin
Nikolai Mazhara - piano, harpsichord
Evgeny Sviridov - baroque violin
Chinghiz Osmanov - violin
Evgeny Rumyantsev - cello
Sergey Poltavsky - viola
Vladimir Volkov - double-bass
Haydn; Biber; Schoenberg; Webern; Schubert; Mozart

14 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Festival Opening
XV International Winter Festival "ARTS SQUARE"

Conductor - Yuri Temirkanov
Olga Peretyatko - soprano (festival debut)
Elgar: "Cockaigne" , Concert Overture; Britten: 'Les Illuminations'' for high voice and strings; Elgar: "Enigma", variations on an Original Theme

14 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg

Chamber Orchestra
Sergey Inkov
Soloists from the Academy of Young Singers
Alexander Galitsky - presenter

15 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
Jonas Kaufmann
Recital
XV International Winter Festival "ARTS SQUARE"

Jonas Kaufmann - tenor (Germany)
Helmut Deutsch - piano (Austria)
Schumann: Kerner Lieder (excerpts), "Dichterliebe", song cycle; Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder; Liszt: 3 Sonetti del Petrarca

15 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
English Poetry
XV International Winter Festival "ARTS SQUARE"

Veniamin Smekhov
William Blake; George Gordon Byron; Robert Burns; Edward Lear; Alan Alexander Milne; Jonathan Swift; Edgar Poe; Walt Whitman; John Gray

16 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Excerpts of Musicals
XV International Winter Festival "ARTS SQUARE"

Children's choir of TV and radio of St.Petersburg
Stanislav Gribkov - artistic director
Petersburg Chamber Choir
Nikolai Kornev - artistic director and conducor
Conductor - Fabio Mastrangelo
Ivan Ozhogin - tenor
Olesya Petrova - mezzo-soprano
Dmitry Voropaev - tenor
Maria Yelizarova - soprano
Excerpts of musicals
Lloyd Webber: Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Evita, The Woman in White, The Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Song and Dance, The Beautiful Game, Aspects of Love, Starlight Express, Whistle Down the Wind, Love Never Dies

16 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Rhithms of soul
Part 1

Ksenia Cuellar - flute
Maksim Pankov - piano
Artem Chirkov - double-bass
Konstantin Ilgin - guitar
Mikhail Lestov - percussion
Albéniz; Piazzolla; Pujol

17 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Laureates of of the Maestro Temirkanov International Foundation for Cultural Initiatives

Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory Secondary Special Music School
Arkady Steinlucht
Stepan Armasar
Elizaveta Ukrainskaya

18 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"Opus Posth" Ensemble
XV International Winter Festival "ARTS SQUARE"

"Opus Posth" Ensemble
Tatiana Grindenko - artistic director
Yulia Makaryantz - mezzo-soprano
Anastasia Melnik - soprano
Mikhail Dubov - harpsichord
Purcell: Music for theatre; Manotskov: La Follia; Nyman: Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings

19 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
The Philharmonics Ensemble (Austria)
XV International Winter Festival "ARTS SQUARE"

The Philharmonics (Austria)
Strauss: Csárdás from Die Fledermaus; Godár: Lullaby; Bottesini: «Nel cor più non mi sento»; Jobim: Quiet Nights; Sting: Englishman in New York; Verdi-Bossi: Rigoletto-Fantasy; Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen; Kovach: Barmitzvah-Suit; Weill: Mack The Knife; Gardel: «Por una cabeza»; Bazzini: La Ronde des Lutins

19 December, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Georgy Sviridov
To the 100th anniversary

St. Petersburg Concert Choir
Artistic director and conductor - Vladimir Begletsov

20 December, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Holst "The Planets"
XV International Winter Festival "ARTS SQUARE"

Concert Choir of the St. Petersburg State University of Culture
Rimsky-Korsakov State Musical College Female choir
Sergey Ekimov - artistic director
Conductor - Nikolay Alexeev
Alexander Rudin - cello
Elgar: Cello Concerto; Holst: The Planets, orchestral suite

20 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Royal Giraffe visual theatre and 4'33'' ensemble presents
Carnival of powers: theatre and music
Avantgarde music and whiteface clownery
XV International Winter Festival "ARTS SQUARE"



Alexei Aigui - composer and soloist (violin)
Stanislav Warkki - Artistic director of Royal Giraffe theatre (Estonia)

21 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
The Snowman
XV International Winter Festival "ARTS SQUARE"

Conductor - Simon Chalk (UK)
Alexei Yemelyanov - presenter
Egor Maksimov - descant
Christmas music (Tchaikovsky, Rebikov, Korngold); Howard Blake: The Snowman, music from cartoon (with a demonstration of animated film on the screen)

21 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Schubert. «Winterreise»
XV International Winter Festival "ARTS SQUARE"

Ian Bostridge - tenor (UK)
Julius Drake - piano (UK)

21 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Gioachino Rossini

Yulia Simonova - soprano
Pelageya Kurennaya - soprano
Anna Smirnova - mezzo-soprano
Nadezda Khadzheva - mezzo-soprano
Alexander Mikhaylov - tenor
Yagdar Yuldashev - baritone
Egor Prokopiev - piano
Alexei Tikhomirov - piano part

21 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Tango

Riorita Ensemble
Victor Dukaltetenko - artistic director and soloist
Vladimir Genttcelt - violin
Nataliia Stetckaia
Nina Shakhnova
Fedor Shalaev
Kirill Grigoriev - double bass
Dmitry Kizhaev

22 December, Monday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Concert is cancelled! Love's Duel
Freiburger Barockorchester

22 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Andrey Baranov
Recital

Andrey Baranov
Inga Dzektser
Beethoven; Schumann; Mozart; Prokofiev

23 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Christian Blackshaw
Piano Recital
XV International Winter Festival "ARTS SQUARE"

Mozart: Fantasia in Ñ major; Schubert: Sonata in A major; Liszt: Sonata h-moll

24 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Galina Sidorenko
Recital

Galina Sidorenko - mezzo-soprano
Stanislav Soloviev - piano
Dinara Muratova - viola
Rimsky-Korsakov; Rachmaninoff; Schoenberg; R. Strauss; Brahms

25 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Festival Closing
XV International Winter Festival "ARTS SQUARE"

Conductor - Yuri Temirkanov
Christian Blackshaw - piano (UK)
Julia Novikova - soprano (festival debut)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24; Mahler: Symphony No. 4

25 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Christmas Concert

Horn Orchestra of Russia
Sergey Polyanichko - artistic director
Conductor - Jesus Naveira
J.-S. Bach; Tchaikovsky; Caccini; Rossini; Beethoven; Ravel; Shilkloper; J. Strauss II; Piazzolla; Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni

26 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky

Conductor - Ivan Kozhuharov (Bulgaria)
Glinka: Overture to A Life for the Tsar, Kamarinskaya; Rimsky-Korsakov: The Snow Maiden, suite from opera; Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave, Suite from the Sleeping Beauty

26 December, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Paulavičius Youth Symphony Orchestra

Paulavičius Youth Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Alexei Vasiliev
Artem Vargaftik - presenter
Strauss

27 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Dvořák, Godard, Webern

Natalia Morozova - violin
Dmitry Stopichev - violin
Anastasia Agapova - viola
Vadim Messerman - cello
Inna Moiseeva - piano

28 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Daniel Zaretsky
Organ Evening
To the 50th anniversary of musician

Russian Early Music Ensemble
Vladimir Shulyakovsky - artistic director
Daniel Zaretsky - organ
Valeria Stenkina - soprano
Gennady Nikonov - trumpet
Evgeny Zaretsky - piano
J.-S. Bach; Handel; Purcell; Scarlatti; Caccini; Widor; Soler; Karg-Elert; Gigout

28 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
The Snow Queen

"Sinyaya Ptitsa" Theatre
Anastasia Udalova - director

28 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Alexander Knyazev
Virtuosos of bow

Alexander Knyazev - cello
Andrei Korobeinikov - piano
Brahms

29 December, Monday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Grieg. Piano Concerto
Mendelssohn. "Scottish" Symphony

Conductor - Pavel Bubelnikov
Nikolai Demidenko - piano
Weber: Overture to Oberone; Grieg: Piano Concerto; Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 "Scottish"

30 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
New Year's Eve Concert

Conductor - Vladimir Altschuler
Svetlana Monchak - soprano
R. Strauss; Kálmán; Lehár

31 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
New Year's Eve Concert

Conductor - Vladimir Altschuler
Svetlana Monchak - soprano
Alexander Gergalov - baritone
R. Strauss; Kálmán; Lehár

31 December, Wednesday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year Concert
"Melody" Quartet

"Melody" Quartet
Ksenia Bulychyova
Tatiana Sukhenko
Elena Petukhova
Svetlana Kotova
Mozart; Vivaldi; Dvořák; Delibes; Bizet; Puccini; Tchaikovsky; Kreisler; J. Strauss II; Khachaturian ; Sviridov; Joplin; Piazzolla; Saint-Sa¸ns

31 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year in tango time

Youth Chamber Orchestra of the St. Petersburg State University
Artistic director and conductor - Andrey Alexeev
Piazzolla; Gardel; Legrand