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April 2025
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27 April, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Bach. Johannes-Passion

St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (chamber orchestra)
Choir of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory
Conductor - Anatoly Rybalko
Olga Vasileva - soprano
Ekaterina Kurbanova - mezzo-soprano
Egor Semenkov - tenor
Ivan Vasiliev - bass
Nikolai Mazaev - bass
Natalia Entelis - presenter

27 April, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"The Seasons"
Classical and Jazz

Chizhik-Jazz-Quartet
Alexei Chizhik - vibraphone
Konstantin Polyakov - piano
Viktor Savich - bas-guitar
Alexey Shikhov - drums
Irina Chizhik - presenter
All works are performed in original arrangements by Alexey Chizhik
Vivaldi: Fragments from "Le quattro stagioni"; Tchaikovsky: "April - Snowdrop" from "The Seasons", "February" from "The Seasons", "October - Autumn Song" from "The Seasons", "August. The Harvest" from the cycle "The Seasons"; Piazzolla: "Winter" from "Four Seasons in Buenos Aires"; Jobim: "Águas de Março"; Gershwin: Summertime from the opera "Porgy and Bess"; Kosma: "Autumn Leaves"; Chizhik: "The Seasons", cycle of four compositions for a jazz quartet

27 April, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
“The Tale of How Musical Instruments Solved Political Issues”
History of the Orchestra

Vasilevsky Island Youth Chamber Orchestra
Artistic director and conductor - Sergey Yefaev
Svetlana Moskalenko - soprano
Margarita Messerman - soprano
Aglaya Potapova - piccolo flute
Dmitrii Krasnik - bassoon
Konstantin Basok - violin
Alexei Koptev - viola
Irina Smuckul - presenter
Vivaldi; Telemann; Handel; Haydn; Mozart; Brahms; Fučík; Rossini; J. Strauss II; Shostakovich; Balleron

27 April, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
St. Petersburg Anatoly Nikitin Cellist Ensemble

St. Petersburg Cello Ensemble of Anatoly Nikitin
Dmitry Eremin - cello
Yana Ayvazyan - soprano
Inga Dzektser - paino
Borodin; Verdi; Villa-Lobos; Pärt; Khachaturian; Ostromogilsky; Webber; Sokolov

28 April, Monday 11:00 am
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall and introduction to the organ

29 April, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
The musical world of Andrei Petrov
On the 95th anniversary of Alexander Petrov's birth

Children's choir of TV and radio of St.Petersburg
Conductor - Alexei Rubin
Anna Laukhina - violin
Alexander Malich - presenter
Petrov: First Suite from "Creation of the World" Ballet, Violin Concerto, Music for the films "The Taming of Fire", "The Blue Bird", "Amphibian Man", "Poor, poor Pavel", "Garage", "I'm walking through Moscow", "Beware of the car", "Old, old fairy tale"

29 April, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Chamber music evening

Ensemble of artists of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Denis Sukhov - clarinet
Igor Zolotarev - violin
Irina Sukhova - violin
Aleksei Bogorad - viola
Nikita Zubarev - cello
Evgeny Izotov - piano
Mozart: Trio for Piano, Ñlarinet and Viola in Es-dur `Kegelstatt`; Weber: Quintet for clarinet and strings; Bruch: 8 Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano

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

30 April, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
The final of the 3rd International G.A.Kovaleva Opera Singers Competition and the Award ceremony
As part of the 10th International Music Festival "Classics without Borders"

Festival Concert Orchestra "Nota bene!"
Conductor - Mikhail Chernigovsky
Anastasia Mazankina - presenter, piano
The program includes opera arias by Russian and foreign composers.

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