Repertoire

May 2025
www.philharmonia.spb.ru

01 May, Thursday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Acid Hasid and Duduk
From Armenia to the Balkans

Acid Hasid
Arsen Kostanyan - duduk
The program may be changed
Macedonian Gypsy dances: "Gagarin chochek", "Gypsy rumba"; Komitas: "Tsirani Tsar" ("Apricot Tree"); Avetisyan: "Makhmur", "Qaravan", "Iliknerov Couples" ("Dance of the Spindles"); "Batuta", Moldovan melody; Greek folk drinking melody; "Morsu damour", Macedonian melody; Moldovan melodies: "Hora moldovenaske", "Lark"; "Hora din Caval", Romanian melody; Tarras: Joyces Dances; Nersisyan: "Ciro anurgner" ("Dreams of Love"); Mansurov: "Bayatylar"; Kosma: Espionissima, variations on a theme by Gheorghe Zamfira; "Op op Shina nai", a dance by Serbian gypsies

01 May, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"From classics to rock hits"

Petro Art Quintet String Ensemble
Evgeniya Sheremetyeva
Ksenia Grauberger
Gleb Kuznetsov
Galina Chmerina
Kirill Murzin
Sviridov: Waltz from the musical illustrations to A.S. Pushkin's "Snowstorm"; Rachmaninoff: String Quartet No. 1; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Prokofiev: Montagues and Capulets from ballet "Romeo and Juliet", Waltz from the War and Peace, Humorous Scherzo; Shostakovich: Waltz from Jazz Suite No 2, Music from the Ovod; Stravinsky: Russian Song from "Mavra"; Schnittke: Polka; Sviridov: "Time, Forward!"; I. Dunaevsky: Overture to the film "Children of Captain Grant"; Dashkevich: Music to the film "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson"; Ptichkin: Overture to the film "Two Captains"; I. Dunaevsky: "Moonlight Waltz"; Babajanyan: Nocturne; Tsoi: "Cuckoo"; Kinchev: "Lost Paradise"; Butusov: "I Want to Be with You"; Kinchev: "Unconquered"

02 May, Friday 2:00 pm
Grand Hall
Exhibition "Return... to the 80th anniversary of Victory"

02 May, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Gershwin. Rhapsody in Blue

Conductor - Alexey Nyaga
Peter Laul - piano
Gershwin: An American in Paris, symphonic poem, Rhapsody in blue; Tsfasman: Jazz Suite, for piano and orchestra; Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: a symphonic picture for orchestra arranged by Robert Russell Bennett

02 May, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Les quatro staggioni"

Chamber Olympic Orchestra
Alexei Stepanov - artistic director
Conductor - Alexander Golikov
Mikhail Krutik - violin
Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni; Dvořák: Serenade for Strings

03 May, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Musical and literary evening "Meeting"
With video projections of paintings by Sandro Botticelli

Maxim Matveev - reciter
Irada Berg - reciter
Alexandra Fedorova - piano
Sheet music: "Consolation No. 3" in D flat major; Desyatnikov: "Credits" from the music for the movie "Moscow Nights" (fragment); Bang: Prelude No. 1 in C major; Haydn: Piano Sonata in F major Op. 13 No. 3 (Part I); Strauss: "Morgen!" Op. 27 No. 4 (piano arrangement); Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 Op. 13, part II (fragment); Chopin: Etude Op. 10 No. 12 (fragment); Sati: Gnossienne No. 3 for piano; Schnittke: "Tango in a madhouse"; Schumann: "About distant countries and people" from the cycle "Children's Scenes" Op. 15 ¹ 1; Ravel: "Pavane on the death of the Infanta" (fragment)

03 May, Saturday 2:00 pm
Small Hall
"Tchaikovsky"
On the 185th anniversary of the composer's birth

St. Petersburg State Governor's Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Maxim Alexeev
Tchaikovsky: Suite No 1 for Orchestra, The Seasons

03 May, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Viennese classics in chamber music

"Ultimum Trio" (Piano Trio of the St.Petersburg Philharmonic Society)
Stanislav Soloviev - piano
Vladimir Shuliakovsky - violin
Nikita Zubarev - cello
Haydn: Piano Trio in C major; Beethoven: Piano Trio in Ñ minor; Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major

04 May, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Four generations of Leningrad composers
Opening of The Leningrad-Petersburg Composers Music Festival "Leningrad Musical Spring – 2025"

Conductor - Anatoly Rybalko
Nikolai Mazhara - piano
Yury Semenov - organ
Vorobyov: "Only the Light remains...", symphonic poem for organ and orchestra; Mazhara: Piano Concerto No. 4; Klyuzner: Piano Concerto; Slonimsky: Symphony No. 29

04 May, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Rock hits
Film music and Queen

Ekaterina Nagornaya - violin
Tatiana Komissarova - viola
Margarita Vaganova - piano
Yoel Gonzalez - percussion (Cuba)
Shore: Compositions from the films "The Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit"; Zimmer: Compositions from the cartoon "The Lion King", Suite from the music to the film "Interstellar"; Horner: Compositions from the film "Avatar"; Badelt: "Pirates of the Caribbean" from the film "Pirates of the Caribbean"; Compositions from the repertoire of the group "Queen": "It's a kind of magic", "Another one bites the dust", "Bicycle race", "I want to break free", "Killer Queen", "Somebody to love", "We will rock you", "We are the champions", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "The show must go on"

04 May, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Rock hits
Film music and Queen

Ekaterina Nagornaya - violin
Tatiana Komissarova - viola
Margarita Vaganova - piano
Yoel Gonzalez - percussion (Cuba)
Shore: Compositions from the films "The Lord of the Rings", "The Hobbit"; Zimmer: Compositions from the cartoon "The Lion King", Suite from the music to the film "Interstellar"; Horner: Compositions from the film "Avatar"; Badelt: "Pirates of the Caribbean" from the film "Pirates of the Caribbean"; Compositions from the repertoire of the group "Queen": "It's a kind of magic", "Another one bites the dust", "Bicycle race", "I want to break free", "Killer Queen", "Somebody to love", "We will rock you", "We are the champions", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "The show must go on"

05 May, Monday 10:00 am
Grand Hall
Exhibition "Return... to the 80th anniversary of Victory"

05 May, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Vivaldi Live"

Impulse Percussion
Alexander Smirnov - marimba
Timur Fyodorov - percussion
Ivan Chernobaev - bells
Anton Regonen - xylophone
Valentin Galkin - percussion
Vera Vasileva - violin
Irina Chizhik - presenter
Arrangements by Timur Fedorov
Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni; Bizet: Overture to "Carmen"; Bach - Gounod: "Ave Maria"; Mozart: Rondo alla turca; Grieg: "In the Hall of the Mountain King"; Rimsky-Korsakov: Song of the Indian guest from the opera "Sadko"; Ravel: Boléro; Monti: Csardas; Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 5; Khachaturian: Sabre Dance from ballet "Gayane"

06 May, Tuesday 10:00 am
Grand Hall
Exhibition "Return... to the 80th anniversary of Victory"

06 May, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Debussy. "Children's Corner"
Prokofiev. 10 Pieces for Piano
Shostakovich. Dances of the Dolls

Arina Lazgiyan - piano

07 May, Wednesday 10:00 am
Grand Hall
Exhibition "Return... to the 80th anniversary of Victory"

07 May, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Dmitry Liss
Soloist – Ivan Bessonov
Opening of the festival
185th anniversary of the birth of P.Tchaikovsky
18th International Festival "Musical Collection"

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1, Manfred Symphony

07 May, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Songs of War and Peace"
On the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War
About the unforgettable. Songs of the 1940s as a symbol of our history

F.M. Kozlov Veteran's Choir
Petr Gaydukov - artistic director
Irina Sharapova - piano part and comments
Mikhail Gavrilov - baritone
Alexander Pakhmutov - baritone
Mikhail Kuznetsov - baritone
Kristina Beznosova - soprano
Anastasia Sinkevich - soprano
Nikita Kozulin - tenor
Katerina Kovanji - mezzo-soprano
Artur Tserr - piano
Alyona Muzaleva - piano
Alexander Larionov - piano
Yaroslava Serdobolskaya - piano
Daniel Khazan - piano
Alexander Maslovsky - piano
Alexandrov; Dunaevsky; Blanter; Solovyov-Sedoy; Bogoslovsky; Fradkin; Novikov; The Pokrass brothers; Mokrousov

07 May, Wednesday 6:00 pm

"Art was our idol"
Music by P.Tchaikovsky in the hall of the St. Petersburg Noble Assembly

Nadim Aidarov - lecturer

08 May, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"I love you, life!"
On the 80th anniversary of the Victory
18th International Festival "Musical Collection"

The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia
Conductor - Vladimir Spivakov
Hibla Gerzmava - soprano
Alexandrov: "The Holy War"; Okudzhava: "Goodbye, boys", "We will not stand for the price"; Novikov: "Oh, the roads"; Shostakovich: Waltz from the movie "The First Echelon"; Schnittke: Waltz from the movie "The Crew"; Basner: "At an unnamed height"; Eshpai: "An earring from Malaya Bronnaya"; Frenkel: "Cranes"; Tchaikovsky: "Evening Prayer" from the cycle "Children's Album"; Khozak: "From the heroes of olden times..."; Minkov: "If there were no war"; Sviridov: A romance from musical illustrations to the Pushkin's "Snowstorm"; Ptichkin: "Echo of Love"; Pakhmutova: "Tenderness", "Silence on Mamayev Kurgan"; Gliere: "Hymn to the Great City"; Solovyov-Sedoy: "Evening on the Raid"; Khachaturian: Waltz from the music to the drama by Lermontov "Masquerade"; Kolmanovsky: "I love you, life!"; Tukhmanov: "Victory Day"

08 May, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Voices of the Academy

Soloists of Elena Obraztsova Musical Academia
Ildar Abdrazakov - artistic director

08 May, Thursday 6:00 pm

"Over the Bright Neva": Music of the Leningrad Spring of 1945

Nadezhda Vedenyapina - lecturer

09 May, Friday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
Festive charity concert dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War

"Klassika" St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra
St. Petersburg Concert Choir
Boys choir of the Glinka choral college
Conductor - Vladimir Begletsov
Vitaly Gordienko - reciter
Nadezhda Miheeva - soloist
Adrian Zykov - soloist
Dmitry Shishkin - soloist
Daniil Kazakov - soloist
Prokofiev: "Alexander Nevsky" Cantata; Vysotsky:<br>: "Song about the Earth"<br>; Prokofiev:<br>: "We don't need war" from the oratorio "On guard of peace"<br>; Soloviev-Sedoy:<br>: "Our city"<br>, "Leningrad evenings"<br>, "Evening on the raid"<br>; Blanter:<br>: "Katyusha"<br>; Frenkel:<br>: "Cranes"<br>; Gavrilin:<br>: "Two brothers"<br>; Kraubner – Schoenberg:<br>: "Song about Ladoga"<br>; Tukhmanov:<br>: "Victory Day"; Mayorov: "Creativity", "It was spring then"; Kulchitsky: "A dreamer, a visionary, a lazy envious man!"; Kogan: "Thunderstorm", "Brigantine"; Slutsky: "In memory of a comrade"; Drunina: "I left my childhood..."; Eremeyev: "The Ballad of the scout"; Samoilov: "To the front line"; Grossman: "Boys"; Tvardovsky: "Farewell salute"

09 May, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Festive concert
For the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War

State Russian concert orchestra
Concert Choir of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture and Arts
Larissa Yarutskaya - artistic director
Conductor - Alexander Chernobaev
Dinar Baitemirov - baritone
Blanter; Solovyov-Sedoy; Frenkel; Basner; Pakhmutova; Tukhmanov

10 May, Saturday 2:30 pm
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall and introduction to the organ

10 May, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad”
To the 80th anniversary of the Victory
18th International Festival "Musical Collection"

Conductor - Dimitris Botinis
With the participation of musicians of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra

10 May, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Elena Alekseevna Dernova
Anniversary evening

With the participation of graduates and students of E.A. Dernova

11 May, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Concert in the Foyer | Eights Concert of the Season


Vera Vasileva - violin
Pavel Sokolov - oboe
Iosif Nurdaev - viola
Dmitrii Petrov - comments on the program
J.-S. Bach: Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor; Bruch: Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra

11 May, Sunday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
On the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War

Orchestra of a Staff of Northwest regional
Conductor - Evgeny Chubarev
Sofia Chubareva - soloist
Denis Yakovlev - soloist
Dinara Makhmudova - soloist
Natalia Udalova - soloist
Arsen Oganesyan - soloist
Chernetsky: "Glory to the Motherland", march; Diev: "Russian expanses"; Khozak: "From the heroes of bygone times"; Lyamkin: "Autumn Dream", Fantasy on the themes of songs about the Great Patriotic War; Levashov: "Pre-war tango"; Gavrilin: "Two Brothers", "Holiday" from the ballet "House by the Road"; "Ogonyok", a military song; Martynov: "The Ballad of the Mother"; Dubravin: "Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad"; Nikitin: "The Song of the Little Trumpeter"; Lisikhin: "Military musicians"; Tukhmanov: "Victory Day"

11 May, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Dedication to Rachmaninoff

Fedor Belugin - viola
Anastasia Belugina - violin
Alexandr Osminin - piano
Vitali: Chaccona; Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata, Trio Élègiaque No. 1; Schumann: Three Fantasy Pieces

12 May, Monday 2:00 pm
Grand Hall
Exhibition "Return... to the 80th anniversary of Victory"

12 May, Monday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Beethoven and Bruckner
18th International Festival "Musical Collection"

Conductor - Dmitri Jurowski
Denis Matsuev - piano
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5; Bruckner: Symphony No. 2

13 May, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
With love to great music: on the 185th anniversary of the birth of Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Andreev State Academic Russian Orchestra
Conductor - Dmitry Khokhlov
Oxana Shilova - soprano
Denis Zakirov - tenor
Tchaikovsky; Andreev; Glinka; Rimsky-Korsakov; Rachmaninoff; Russian folk songs

14 May, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Denis Matsuev
Piano evening
18th International Festival "Musical Collection"

J.-S. Bach - Busoni: Chaconne in D minor; Beethoven: Sonata No 23 "Appassionata"; Grieg: Poetic Tone-Pictures, 6 pieces for piano; Prokofiev: Sonata No 8

14 May, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Kirill Kondrashin

Nadezhda Markaryan - lecturer

15 May, Thursday 10:00 am
Grand Hall
The exhibition "Return. On the 80th anniversary of the Victory."
A visit to the historical backstage

15 May, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Orchestra of the Theater of Musical Comedy

Orchestra of the Theater of Musical Comedy
Artistic director, conductor - Andrey Alexeev
Natalia Savchenko - soprano
Elizaveta Belousova - soprano
Fedor Osipov - tenor
Roman Vokuev - tenor
Offenbach; Khromushin; Ptichkin; Tsirer

16 May, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No. 2
18th International Festival "Musical Collection"

Conductor - Dimitris Botinis
Alexei Melnikov - piano, soloist of the Saint-Petersburg Music House
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No 2; Prokofiev: Symphony No 4

16 May, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Peer Gynt" Grieg +

Saxophone Quartet "Untitled" of the St. Petersburg Conservatory
Valeria Flegontova - saxophone
Arseny Alexeev - saxophone
Leonid Kilbakhtin - saxophone
Semyon Takmakov - saxophone
Natalia Lisanova - piano
Tchaikovsky - Pletnev: Concert Suite from the Ballet "The Sleeping Beauty"; Tchaikovsky - Rachmaninoff: "Lullaby"; Bizet - Horowitz: Variations on a theme from the opera Carmen; Grieg: Peer Gynt, fragments

17 May, Saturday 6:00 pm
Grand Hall
Artnight
"Dmitry Shostakovich as a hero of our time"
On the 50th anniversary of the awarding of the Philharmonic named after the composer
18:00
"Shostakovich and the Philharmonic"

Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory
Symphony Orchestra of the Secondary Special Music School of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory
Arkady Steinlucht conductor

Shostakovich. Symphony No. 9
Beethoven. Symphony No. 8


19:30
"Shostakovich and jazz"

Tavrichesky Symphony Orchestra
Mikhail Golikov conductor
Ilya Papoyan soloist

Shostakovich.Suite for jazz orchestra
"Tahiti trot", orchestration of the work by V. Youmans "Tea for Two" 
Waltz from the music for the variety and circus performance "Conditionally killed"
Tango from the ballet "Bolt" 
Tsfasman. Jazz Suite for Piano and orchestra


21:00
"Shostakovich and sport" 
On the 100th anniversary of the founding of Zenit Football Club

The Symphony Orchestra of the Mussorgsky Music College
Yuri Serov conductor

Shostakovich. "The Golden Age", fragments of ballet music
March and "Football" from the music for the theatrical program "Russian River"
Dunaevsky. "Running" from the movie "Kuban Cossacks"
by Solovyov-Sedoy. "The Merry Train" from the movie "The First Glove"
by Blanter. Football March


22:30
"Shostakovich and cinema"

St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra "Classics"
Alexander Kantorov conductor

Shostakovich. "The Fall of Berlin", fragments of film music
Gadfly, fragments of the music for the movie
Dunaevsky. Overture from the music to the movie "Captain Grant's Children"
March from the music to the movie "Spring"
Waltz from the music to the movie "Light Path"
March from the music to the movie "Circus"


00:00
"Shostakovich and memory"

Divertissement Chamber Orchestra
Ilya Ioff artistic Director, violin

Shostakovich. Chamber Symphony (In Memory of the victims of Fascism and the War)
Akhunov. Adagio in memory of Shostakovich
Kancheli. "Little Daneliad", for violin, piano, percussion and string orchestra


1:30
"Shostakovich and the Song"
A concert with performance elements

Choral College of St. Petersburg
Nikolai Romanov Artistic Director, conductor

Shostakovich. "Motherland hears, Motherland knows", Soviet mass song
"The Song of the Counter" from the movie "Counter"
"Dare, friends, let's go forward!" from "Ten poems based on the words of revolutionary poets of the late XIX and early XX centuries"
Two Russian folk songs
Solovyov-Sedoy, Dunaevsky, Mokrousov. Author's and folk songs arranged by A. Mikhailov and M. Serkov


03:00
"Shostakovich and Chopin"

Nikolai Mazhara piano

Shostakovich. 24 preludes (fragments of the cycle)
by Chopin. 24 preludes (cycle fragments)


4:30
"Shostakovich and Bach (Dsch – Bach)"

Maria Koronova organ 

Shostakovich. The Passacaglia from the opera "Katerina Izmailova"
by Liszt. Prelude and fugue on the theme of BACH
Kushnarev. Passacaglia in F-sharp minor
The franc. The Heroic Play
Hakim. "Bahorama", fantasy on themes by J.S. Bach
Bang. Toccata and fugue in D minor


The duration of the concerts is 45 minutes

17 May, Saturday 6:00 pm
Small Hall
Artnight
18.00
Heroes in the opera. Vocal evening

Performers: students of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov

Glinka. Ivan Susanin's aria from the opera "Ivan Susanin"
Prokofiev. Kutuzov's aria and Natasha's aria from the opera "War and Peace"
Rimsky-Korsakov. Marfa's aria from the opera "The Tsar's Bride"
Guidon's aria from the opera "The Tale of Tsar Saltan"
Tchaikovsky. Maria's lullaby from the opera "Mazepa"
Donizetti. Nemorino's aria from the opera "L'elisir d'amore"

19.00
Romantic hero. Piano evening

Pavel Raikerus

Liszt

20.00
Dedication to the hero. Chamber Music Evening

Dmitry Petrov violin
Dmitry Khrychev cello
Daria Shaposhnikova piano

Tchaikovsky. Pathetic Trio "In Memory of the Great Artist" for violin, cello and piano

21.00
Heroes of Myths

Chamber Orchestra Ñhamberries
Anna Basharina – artistic director

Atterberg. "Vision" from the Suite No. 3 for violin, viola and string orchestra
Sibelius. Suite "Mignon" for two flutes with chamber orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov. Variations on the theme of M.I. Glinka's romance "What, young beauty" for oboe (arranged by G. Fedorov for oboe and chamber orchestra)
Eveisen. "Dance" from the Trio for flute, French horn and piano (arranged by D. Shchukin for flute and French horn with chamber orchestra)
Piazzolla. Tango "Oblivion" (arranged for chamber orchestra)
De Falla. "Ritual Fire Dance" from the ballet "Love the Sorceress" (arranged for chamber orchestra)

22.00
Heroes of the Time and the Time of Heroes
Rabovsky & 2Simple Project

Vladimir Kirasirov guitar
Zoltan Renaldi bass guitar
Daniil Rabovsky piano
Maria Lelkhova percussion

Daniil Rabovsky
Suite Antique ("Knight's history")
Prelude
Aria-Sarabande
Ciacciliana
Ballade
Gigue
«The Life of a Hero»
The Birth of a Hero (Martango)
The Love of a Hero (Valsique)
The Death of a Hero (SOS)
Lullaby to a Hero (Lullaby)
Longing for a Hero (I Will Never Forget You)
The Return of a Hero (Romanticos)


The duration of the concerts is 45 minutes

18 May, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Ildar Abdrazakov
Vocal evening
18th International Festival "Musical Collection"

Ildar Abdrazakov - bass
Mzia Bachturidze - piano
Tchaikovsky: "I bless you, forests", "No, only the one who knew", "The tear is trembling", "Amid a noisy ball", "Lullaby", Don Juan's Serenade; Mussorgsky: "I have many chambers and gardens", The Night, "The goat", "Classic", Mephistopheles's Song in Auerbach's Cellar; Rachmaninoff: "She Is As Beautiful As Noon", "Christ is risen", "He has taken everything from me", "In the silence of a secret night", "Don't sing, beauty, in front of me", "Did you have a hiccup, Natasha?", Letter to K.S. Stanislavsky, "Spring Waters"

18 May, Sunday 2:00 pm
Small Hall
"Viennese classics.
Mozart. Beethoven"

St. Petersburg State Governor's Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Maxim Alexeev
Anna Savkina - violin
Mozart: Overture from Die entführung aus dem serail, Violin Concerto No 5; Beethoven: Symphony No 6 "Pastoral"

19 May, Monday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Opening the VIII International Art Festival "Elena"

Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad State Regional Philharmonic
Graduates and soloists of the International Academy of Music Elena Obraztsova
Elnara Mammadova
Togriy Bazhakin
Gamid Abdulov
Medea Chikashvili
Conductor - Mikhail Golikov
Dinara Alieva - soprano
Olesya Petrova - mezzo-soprano
Evgeny Akimov - tenor
Vladimir Samsonov - baritone
Alexey Tikhomirov - bass
Arias and duets from operas by Russian and foreign composers

19 May, Monday 4:00 pm
Small Hall
18th International Festival “Step Forward”
Opening

Conductor - Yaroslav Zaboyarkin
Vera Chekanova - soprano
Alexey Anikin - cello
Ivan Chudakov - trumpet
Yulia Piven - vocals
Ivan Babinov - vocals
Dinara Makhmudova - vocals
Anastasia Kovaleva - vocals
Elizabeth Fatina - vocals
Olga Melnikova - vocals
Timofey Shitoev - vocals
Ilya Bushuev - vocals
Sagit Talkhin - piano
Victoria Rau - piano
Anna Verepchan - piano
Mikhail Mamedov - piano
Ludub Ochirov - piano
Ivan Stjazhkkin - piano
Rimsky-Korsakov; J.-S. Bach; Vivaldi; Mozart; Haydn; Verdi; Schubert; Handel; Puccini; Banevich; Ochirov; Goltermann; Molchanov

20 May, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Grieg. Piano Concerto with orchestra

Fyodor Beznosikov - conudctor
Anna Tsybuleva - piano
Semyon Salomatnikov - trumpet
Alejandro del Angel - tenor
Petrov: “Vivat, Olympus!” Celebration Overture; Grieg: Piano Concerto; Tamberg: Trumpet Concerto; Verdi: Corrado's aria from the opera Le Corsaire (Tutto parea sorridere, ah sì ben dite); Mascagni: Turiddu's aria from "Cavalleria Rusticana" (Mamma, quel vino è Generoso); Massenet: The romance of Werther from the opera Werther (Pourquoi me réveiller)

20 May, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Neue Liebeslieder"
Johannes Brahms
The evening of music for the piano

Oleg Vainstein - piano
Nadezhda Rezheninova - piano
Brahms: Sonata No. 3, Waltzes, Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes, "Souvenir de la Russie", Three Hungarian Dances

21 May, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
XVIII International Creative Festival "Step forward!"

Conductor - Alexey Nyaga
Lin Thi Hanh Nguyen - piano (Vietnam)
Oleg Akkuratov - piano
Ilya Bagautdinov - saxophone
Ekaterina Lipina - soprano
Dinara Makhmudova - soprano
Yulia Piven - soprano
Ivan Babinov - tenor
Vsevolod Kulikov - bandoneon
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 3, Lensky Aria from "Eugene Onegin"; Génin: "Carnaval de Venise"; Mozart: The duet of Susanna and the Countess from the opera "The Marriage of Figaro"; Rimsky-Korsakov: Lullaby of the Volkhova from "Sadko"; Verdi: "The Chimney Sweep"; Piazzolla: "Acancagua", concerto for bandoneon and orchestra (II and III parts)

21 May, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Robert Schumann

Dmitrii Petrov - violin
Daria Shaposhnikova - piano
Dmitrii Khrychev - cello
Schumann: Five Pieces in Folk Style, The Three Romances for Oboe and Piano, Op. 94, Piano Trio No. 1, Piano Sonata

22 May, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Silvio Celeghin
Organ concert
With video projections of famous European cathedrals
18th International Festival "Musical Collection"

Vivaldi: Concerto in C Minor; Galuppi: Sonata in G Major; J.S. Bach: Toccata and fugue in D minor, Chorale prelude "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"; Bossi: "A Song to the Virgin Mary", Scherzo in G minor; Bellini: Sonata in G major; Mendelssohn: Sonata for organ No. 4; Verdi: Overture to the opera "The King for an Hour"; Vidor: Toccata from Symphony No. 5 for organ

22 May, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Flute in jazz

Marianna Murzina - flute
Olesia Tertychnaia - flute
Dmitry Terentyev - flute
Ksenia Cuellar - flute
Nikita Liutikov - clarinet
Dmitry Eremin - cello
Petr Gogitidze - contrabass
Vladimir Shubin - contrabass
Mikhail Lestov - percussion
Tikhon Lukyanenko - percussion
Nikolai Mazhara - piano
Natalia Frolova - piano
Georgii Belokonev - piano
Sergey Oskolkov - piano
Arnold: Trio for flute, clarinet and piano; Ghidoni; Tchaikovsky – Nesterova: "The Seasons" for flute, piano, percussion and double bass; Shoker: "Regression and Resolution"; Piazzolla: "The Four Seasons" for flute, cello and piano (arranged by H. Bragato); Bolling: "Jazz Suite" for flute and ensemble

23 May, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Sibelius. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Beethoven. Concerto No. 5 for piano and orchestra

Conductor - Nikolai Tsinman
Ruifeng Lin - violin (China)
Rémi Geniet - piano

23 May, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Echoes of the Theater" and "The History of Tango"

Ensemble "Quattro in Unico"
Daria Markina - accordeon
Anna Firsova
Mikhail Shchetenko
Yulia Oborina - piano
Danila Zhadaev - accordion
Desyatnikov: "Echoes of the theater", fragments from the suite; Rachmaninov-Wild: "O Cease The Singing..."; Nesterova: "Sabbath" from the suite based on Bazhov's tale "Sinyushkin's Well"; Petrov: "Blues" from the music for the play "O. Henry"; Stravinsky: The Tango from "L'Histoire du soldat"; Myronchuk: Jazz-Rock Partita (II part); Schnittke: "Pantomime" from the "Suite in the old Style"; Wojciechko: "Sull'argine"; Shostakovich: Tango from the ballet "The Golden Age"; Piazzolla: "Winter" from the cycle "Seasons in Buenos Aires", "Banjo", tango, "Yo soy Maria"; Hermosa: "Anantango"; Zubitsky: "Dedication to A. Piazzolla"

24 May, Saturday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
Dvo??k. Slavic dances

St.Petersburg Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Pavel Petrenko

24 May, Saturday 2:00 pm
Small Hall
Double anniversary
Natalia Shkrebko and the "Style of Five" ensemble

Style of Five Ensemble
Evgeny Stetsyuk - keyboard
Natalia Shkrebko - domra
Stanislav Soloviev - piano
Irina Ershova - gusli
Svetlana Konnova - piano
Artemy Izmailov - harp
Nikita Ponomarev - percussion
Anna Ignatova - domra
Ekaterina Belyaeva - vocals
Kristina Ivanova - vocals
Glinka - Balakirev: "The Lark"; Sarasate: Zapateado; Scarlatti: Sonata in F minor, Piano Sonata in D major; Debussy: "Beau Soir", Toccata from the piano Suite; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol; Stetsyuk: "Monologue", "Improvisation", "Major Kovalev", fragments of music for the play "The NOSE", "Waltz" fragments of music for the play "The School of Slander", "Finale" fragments of music for the play "The Face"; Glazunov: “Bacchanalia” from the ballet “The Seasons”; Savio: "The Clock"; Brahms: Rondo all Zingarese from Piano Quartet No. 1; Rossini: Duet-buff of two cats

24 May, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Blessed by music"
Gala concert of the winners of the 10th International Youth Classical Solo Performance Competition "Nota bene!"

Festival Concert Orchestra "Nota bene!"
Conductor - Mikhail Chernigovsky
Alexander Ivashkov - saxophone
Nicole Tronitskaya - vocals
Ksenia Ovchinnikova - violin
Dmitry Dubrovsky - guitar
Vasilisa Ershova - vocals
Vasilisa Evseeva - violin
Polina Korda - saxophone
Agnia Vorontsova - piano
Anna Martirosyan - piano
Valeria Litovskikh - cello
Daria Yakubchik - vocals
Anastasia Abramova - saxophone
Milana Maslenkina - vocals
Euphrosyne Tretyakova - violin
Anastasia Svetlichnaya - clarinet
Fedor Znakhurenko - trombone
Anastasia Mazankina - presenter
J.S. Bach: Concerto in A minor (Part I); Glinka: "I remember a wonderful moment..."; Akkolai: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Part I); Albeniz: Asturias; Shakhgaldyan: "Swallow" (instrumentation by A. Ryzhenkov); Venyavsky: Violin Concerto No. 2 (Part I); Dolukhanyan: Scherzo; Tsfasman: "Snowflakes"; J.S. Bach: Piano Concerto in F minor (Part I); Haydn: Cello Concerto (Part I); Bellini: Juliet's Aria from the opera "I Capulets and Montecchi"; Zhenin: "The Carnival of Venice"; Varlamov: "Why should I live and grieve"; Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 (Part I); Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 (Part I); Larsson: Concertino for Trombone and Orchestra (Part III)

25 May, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Alexander Solovyov
Soloist – Lev Klychkov
18th International Festival "Musical Collection"

J.-S. Bach: Aria from Suite No 3; Britten: Violin Concerto; Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

26 May, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Both duet and solo"

Nika Melnikova - piano
Olesya Morozova - piano
Bach - Babin: Organ Sonata No. 1 for two pianos; Franc: Prelude, fugue and variation in B minor; Ravel: "Miroirs"; Lyadov: Three Pieces for two pianos; Stravinsky - Babin: Three fragments from the ballet "Petrushka" for two pianos

27 May, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Russian-Chinese Symphony Orchestra
Russian-Chinese Choir
To the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory and to the City Day

Russian-Chinese Symphony Orchestra
Russian-Chinese Choir

Conductor - Victoria Dobrovolskaya
conductor - Tungzho Zheng
Marina Vorotova - soprano
Katerina Kovanji - mezzo-soprano
Vitaly Novikov - baritone
Wang Enze - tenor
Xiao Yao - baritone
Wu Jiadong - baritone
Fang Xianglei - soprano
Zhang Yanli - soprano
Li Xiaolong - tenor
Peng YinLai - soprano
Svyatoslav Grabovsky - baritone
Mikhail Gavrilov - baritone
Guan Chengyuan - tenor
Glière: "Hymn to the Great City" from "The Bronze Horseman"; Aleksandrov: "The Holy War"; Petersburgsky: "The Blue Handkerchief"; Novikov: "Smuglyanka"; Kolmanovsky: "Alyosha"; The Pokrass Brothers: "Cossacks in Berlin"; Schwartz: "The Leningrad Boys"; Frenkel: "Cranes"; He Lutin: Partisan Song; Arutyunov: "Victory!"; Solovyov-Sedoy: "Our City"; Li Jun: "Yuhang Landscape"; Molchanov: "Wait for Me", romance from the Opera "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"; Knipper: "Steppe Cavalry"; Yang Jinpeng: "Peace Ship Nanhai I"; Solovyov-Sedoy: "Evening at Roadstead"; Luchenok: "May Waltz"; Pakhmutova: "Let's Bow to Those Great Years"; Blanter: "Katyusha"; Tukhmanov: "Victory Day"

27 May, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Violin music evening

Olga Artyugina - violin
Oxana Ralkina - piano
Paganini: Caprice No. 14; Beethoven: Sonata No. 7 for Violin and Piano; Wieniawski: Variations on an original theme; Ysaÿe: Violin Sonata No 3 "Ballade"; Poulenc: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Brahms: Scherzo

28 May, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Saxophone Orchestra of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov

Saxophone Orchestra of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov
Artistic director and conductor - Sergey Kolesov
J.-S. Bach: Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor; Glazunov: "Autumn", a painting from the ballet "The Four Seasons"; Bizet - Shchedrin: Carmen suite; Mashima: Concert "Birds" for saxophone and saxophone orchestra; Poulenc: "Roads of Love", vocal waltz to the music of the play "Leokadia"; Khachaturian: Waltz from Masquerade; Piazzolla: Fuga y Misterio

29 May, Thursday 10:00 am
Grand Hall
Exhibition "Return. On the 80th anniversary of the Victory."
A visit to the historical backstage

29 May, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"Evergreen melodies"

Kuvaytsev Jazz Band
Handy: "Saint Louis Blues"; Shay - Fisher: "When You’re Smiling"; Carmichael: "New Orleans"; Kaempfert - Gabler: L-O-V-E; C. Williams - S. Williams: "Royal Garden Blues"; Battle: Topsy; Donaldson: "Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby"; Gershwin: "I Got Rhythm"; Barbarin: "Bourbon Street Parade"; Chaplin: "Smile"; Tabachnikov: "Leningrad bridges"; Tepper - Bennett: "Red Roses for a Blue Lady"; Tizol - Ellington: "Caravan"; Palmer - S. Williams: "I Found a New Baby"; Sidorov: "Friendship"; "When the saints go marching", spirituals; Potpourri on the themes of Soviet composers

29 May, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Victory Trumpets"
To the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War

Orchestra of the Marine Corps of Peter the Great
Conductor - Sergei Volsky
Anastasia Lipaeva - soprano
Sergey Zykov - baritone
George Solovyov - clarinet
I. Dunaevsky: "Overture" from the film "Jolly Fellows"; Baines: Waltz "Fate"; Molchanov: "Zhenka's Romance" from the opera "The Dawns Here Are Quiet"; Blanter: "Correspondent's Drinking Song" ("War Correspondents' Song"); Tsfasman: Intermezzo for Clarinet and Orchestra; I. Dunaevsky: "Aria of Anyuta" from the film "Jolly Fellows"; Glière: Sailor's Dance "Yablochko" from the ballet "Red Poppy"; Utesov: "Bombers"; "Hey, Let's Go!", Russian folk song arranged by G. Miller; Volovac: "Odessite Mishka"; Bogoslovsky: "Barges Full of Mullet"; I. Dunaevsky: "Song about the Captain"; Mizraki: "All is well, beautiful Marquise"; Volsky: "Gramophone Suite"

30 May, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Brahms. Violin Concerto
Soloist – Krist?f Bar?ti (Hungary)
18th International Festival "Musical Collection"

Maxim Alexeev - cnductor
Kristóf Baráti - violin (Hungary)
Brahms: Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from "Swan Lake", Excerpts from the "Sleeping Beauty", Fragments from The Nutcracker

30 May, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Piano music evening

Alexander Pirozhenko - piano
Veronika Pirozhenko - piano
Mikhail Pirozhenko - piano
Chopin; Liszt; Scriabin; Dvořák; Borodin; Medtner; Milhaud

31 May, Saturday 10:30 am
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall and introduction to the organ

31 May, Saturday 5:00 pm
Grand Hall
Bach
Piano Marathon

PetRo Duet
Anastasia Rogalyova - piano
Dmitry Petrov - piano
Piano duet
Nika Melnikova - piano
Olesya Morozova - piano
Mikhail Benediktov - piano
Oleg Vainstein - piano
Evgeny Izotov - piano
Denis Karabalin - piano
Peter Laul - piano
Natalia Lisanova - piano
Nikolai Mazhara - piano
Igor Petrov - piano
Alexander Pirozhenko - piano
Yuri Polosmakov - piano
Anton Samsonov - piano
Daniil Svidler - piano
Stanislav Soloviev - piano
Elizaveta Ukrainskaya - piano
Ilya Chirskov - piano
Anna Shakina - piano

31 May, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Romantic chamber music concert "Songs of Love"

Daria Kulikova - soprano
Yaroslav Railtyanin - mezzo-soprano
Petr Gaydukov - tenor
Vladislav Mikhailov - bass
Maria Kulyasova - piano
Alena Chugunova - piano
George Solovyov - clarinet
Ilya Izmailov - cello
Elena Rubin - vocal teacher
Soloists and graduates of the Elena Obraztsova International Academy of Music are taking part in the concert
Bruk: 4 songs from the collection "Russian Rain"; Shostakovich: "Spanish Songs" for mezzo-soprano and piano; Schwartz: Overture from the movie "Carousel", Music from the movie "Melody of the White Night", Music from the movie "One Hundred Days after Childhood", Cancan from the movie "Egor Bulychov and others"; Brahms: Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, "Songs of Love", vocal quartets