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January 2025
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01 January, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Soloist – Ivan Bessonov
Schumann, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff

Leningrad Oblast Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Mikhail Golikov
Ivan Bessonov - piano
Schumann: Kreisleriana; Stravinsky: "Petrushka", three excerpts from the ballet; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3

02 January, Thursday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
Sergey Zhilin and the Phonograph Jazz Band

Fonograf jazz band

02 January, Thursday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"Unusual instruments"


Alexei Chizhik - vibraphone
Pavel Chizhik - percussion
Alexander Smirnov - marimba
Timur Fyodorov - percussion
Nikolai Ryzhov
Ivan Chernobaev - bells
Anton Regonen - xylophone
Petr Gogitidze - bas-guitar
Irina Chizhik - presenter
Bizet: Overture to "Carmen"; Menke: "Music for tables"; Bach: "Aria" for crystallophone; Rimsky-Korsakov: “Aria of the Indian Guest” from the opera “Sadko” for tabla; Joplin: "Ragtime" for washboard; Vivaldi: "Le quattro stagioni" for scythe, tape recorder, wind machine and thunder; Semenov: "Concertino for Big drum"; J. Strauss: Polka "Blacksmith", Polka "Champagne", Polka"In the Pavlovsky forest", Polka "Hunting", Polka"Anna", Polka "Railway"; Anderson: "Piece for Typewriter", Polka "Plasterer"

02 January, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Remolino Ensemble

"Remolino" Ensemble
Emil Iakovlev - violin
Oleg Gulevsky - button accordion
Kirill Grigoriev - double bass
Mikhail Blekher - harpsichord
Piazzolla: L'evasion, Nightclub 1960, "Mumuki", Tangata del Alba, “Allegro tangabile”; Galliano: “Allegro furioso”, New York Tango; Vivaldi: "Winter" from "The Seasons"; Tsfasman: "Snowflakes"; Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances; Brahms: Two Hungarian Dances; Dinicu: Hora Martisorului; Galliano: "Melancholic"

03 January, Friday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Baroque music concert by candlelight

Pushkin chamber orchestra
Soloists
Ekaterina Nagornaya - violin
Tatiana Komissarova - viola
Lyudmila Gutsevich - cello
Andrey Tsarev
Georgy Kvarazchelia

03 January, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Acid Hasid

Acid Hasid

04 January, Saturday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year concert

Vasilevsky Island Youth Chamber Orchestra
Artistic director and conductor - Sergey Yefaev
Natalia Entelis - presenter
Glinka; Mozart; Tchaikovsky; Bottesini; Strauss; Gounod

04 January, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra "Constellation"

St. Petersburg Chamber Orchestra "Constellation"
Igor Tomashevsky
Howard Shore: Soundtrack to the film trilogy based on the novel by J.R. Tolkien “The Lord of the Rings”, Fellowship of the Ring, Two fortresses, Return of the King, An unexpected journey, The Desolation of Smaug, Battle of the Five Armies

05 January, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"Above Ararat"
Evening of music for duduk

Argishty - duduk (Armenia)
Artur Bochkivsky - guitar
Olga Pakhomova - cello
Cornelia Tikhonova - percussion
Armenian folk melodies; Argishti: "Maria"; Caccini – Vavilov: "Ave Maria"; Harito: "The Chrysanthemums Have Faded"

05 January, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Flamenco music
Traditional falsettos in the style of bulerias and tangos

Vladimir Slobodin Quintet
Vladimir Slobodin - guitar
Konstantin Ushakov - guitar
Asya Kell - flute, saxophone, vocals
Viktor Savich - bas-guitar
Sergey Konyaev - cajon, percussion
Paco de Lucia; Amigo; Cortez; Jacob; Corea; Slobodin

06 January, Monday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Chamber orchestra "Triumph"

Chamber orchestra "Triumph"
Boris Barinov
J. Strauss II: "Tales From The Vienna Woods" Waltz, "Voices of Spring" Waltz, Kaiser-Waltzer, Champagne Polka, Polka "On the Hunt", "Tric-trac" Polka, Polka "Unter Donner und Blitz"; Lehar: "Mary", waltz, "Gold and Silver", waltz

06 January, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Flute in opera and ballet

Taffanel: Variations on themes from Weber's opera "Der Freischütz", Fantasia on themes from opera "Mignon" by Thomas; Lehár: Waltz from the operetta "The Merry Widow" ("Die lustige Witwe"); Manafova: “Seguidilla”, paraphrase on themes from Bizet’s opera “Carmen” for piccolo flute; Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, the prelude to the Mallarmé`s eclogue; Tchaikovsky: Lensky Aria from "Eugene Onegin"; Bizet: Fantasy on the themes of “Carmen”; Verdi - Doppler: Fantasia on themes from the opera La Traviata, Duet from the opera "Rigoletto"; Hugh: "Masquerade Ball"

07 January, Tuesday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
"Christmas tale"

Conductor - Alexey Nyaga
Nikolay Burov - presenter
Tchaikovsky: Fragments from The Nutcracker; Blake : "The Snowman"

07 January, Tuesday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year concert


Alexander Golikov - trumpet
Alexander Galitsky - presenter
J.-S. Bach; Vivaldi; Mozart; Tchaikovsky; Strauss

07 January, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Frederic Chopin

Oleg Vainstein - piano
Chopin: Sonata No 3, Twelve Etudes, Three Polonaises

09 January, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
From Russian Baroque to Russian Rock

Ekaterina Nagornaya - violin
Rustem Suleymanov - violin
Tatiana Komissarova - viola
Lyudmila Gutsevich - cello
Mark Lesnykh - viola
Margarita Fedoseeva - cello

10 January, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Chamber music evening

Maxim Fedotov - violin
Galina Petrova - piano
Brahms: Violin Sonata No 2; Beethoven: "Kreutzer" Sonata for Violin and Piano; Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Song of the Indian guest from the opera "Sadko"; Borodin: Polovtsian Dances

12 January, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Tchaikovsky. Francesca da Rimini

Conductor - Nikolay Vinokurov
Natalia Entelis - presenter
Gluck: Overture, Melody and The Dance of the Furies from the opera Orpheus and Eurydice; Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini; Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela, Legend for Orchestra, Lemminkäinen's Return from Lemminkäinen Suite; Wagner: Funeral march from the opera "Die Goetterdaemmerung", "Walkürenritt" from the music drama "Die Walküre"

12 January, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Elizaveta Ukrainskaya
Piano evening

Mozart: 10 Variations on "Unser dummer Pöbel meint"; Debussy: Images, Book 1, Images, Book 2; Chopin: Four Ballades

13 January, Monday 6:00 pm

"I want the color of my canvases to sing"
Music and dance in Matisse’s paintings

Anastasia Burkavskaya - lecturer

14 January, Tuesday 6:00 pm

Piano works played in Leningrad in the time of siege

Nadim Aidarov - lecturer

15 January, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Chamber music evening

Ekaterina Semion - harp
Georgii Dolgov - flute
Ilya Semion - viola
Evgenii Krivoshein - clarinet
Viktoriia Velkova - violin
Irina Anastasina - violin
Elena Gurkina - cello
Olga Iarkina - harp

15 January, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Yevgeny Mravinsky

Nadezhda Markaryan - lecturer

16 January, Thursday 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

16 January, Thursday 6:00 pm

"He loved poetry, and painting, and music, and architecture, and mechanics..."
Musical tastes of N.Lvov and his circle

Natalia Sidorova - lecturer

19 January, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Dedication concert

Conductor - Nikolay Alexeev
Nikolai Mazhara - piano
Debussy: Reflets dans l'eau; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 1; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

19 January, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Paganini. 14 caprices arranged for three oboes

"Shepherd trio"

20 January, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Leonid Zhelezny (violin) and Yuri Panov (piano)

Schumann: Three Romances for Violin and Piano; Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani, "The Torments Of Love", Recitative and scherzo for violin solo; Ravel: "Gypsy", Rhapsody for Violin and Piano; Prokofiev: Sonata No 1 for Violin and Piano

21 January, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Eshpai. Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra
Soloist – Theodore Kerkezos

Conductor - Mikhail Leontiev
Theodore Kerkezos - saxophone (Greece)
Alexander Malich - presenter
Dunaevsky: Overture to "The Children of Captain Grant"; Eshpai: Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra; Piazzolla: Tango Suite; Theodorakis: "Zorba's Dance" (sirtaki) from the film "Zorba the Greek"

22 January, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Skhiarñhimandrite Seraphim (Bit-Kharibi)

22 January, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Nicholas I and the musicians of his time

Mikhail Aleinikov - lecturer

23 January, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Skhiarñhimandrite Seraphim (Bit-Kharibi)

23 January, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Quiet music"

Divertissement Chamber Orchestra
Ilya Ioff - artistic director, violin
Stanislav Soloviev - piano
Webern: Langsamer Satz; Pelecis: Nevertheless, for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra; Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht

23 January, Thursday 6:00 pm

Music in the Monrepos estate

Yulia Moshnik - lecturer

24 January, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Chopin, Scriabin, Stravinsky

Ilya Chirskov - piano
Chopin: Fantasie-Impromptu, Polonaise in a flat Major, Nocturne No 1, op. 9 No 1, Nocturne Des-dur, op. 27 ¹ 1, Waltz in C sharp Minor, Mazurka in A minor, Mazurka in F minor, Ballade No. 1; Scriabin: Fantasia in B minor, Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand; Stravinsky: "Petrushka", three excerpts from the ballet

25 January, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
“Ring and sing the strings”
Harp and violin

Maria Krushevskaya - harp
Konstantin Koznacheev - violin
Mozart: Sonata in G major, Sonata in E major; Williams: "The Lark Ascending"; Saint-Sa¸ns: Fantaisie for Violin and Harp; Debussy: "Beau Soir", Valse; Ravel: "Vocalise-Etude en forme de Habanera" for voice and piano, "Gypsy", Rhapsody for Violin and Piano

26 January, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Pavel Bubelnikov
Soloist – Haik Kazazyan

Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1 "Winter Daydreams"

26 January, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
“Music of the air”
Wind instruments


Olympic Brass Ensemble
Alexei Stepanov - artistic director
Irina Smuckul - presenter

27 January, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Chamber music evening

Alexandra Andreeva - violin
Alexei Popov - viola
Vladimir Virok-Stoletov - cello
Aleksei Ivanov - double bass
Mikhail Blekher - piano
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 1; Brahms: Violin Sonata No 1 in G major; Schubert: "Trout" Piano Quintet ("Forellenquintett")

27 January, Monday 6:00 pm

"To draw, you have to close your eyes and sing"
The theme of music in the works of Pablo Picasso and some of his predecessors

Yulia Lukianova - lecturer

28 January, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Jazz-Caprice" Ensemble

"Jazz-Caprice" Ensemble
Gasan Bagirov - guitar, vocal
Marina Rybakova - piano
Filipp Meshcheryakov - double bass
Alexey Shikhov - drums
Jazz arrangements and original compositions
J.-S. Bach; Tchaikovsky; Chopin; Grieg; Ellington; Jobim; Gershwin; Lewis

28 January, Tuesday 6:00 pm

Leningrad playbills in the times of World War II

Nadezhda Vedenyapina - lecturer

29 January, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Instinct of Mastery"
Teachers and students

Irina Sharapova - presenter
Masterpieces of vocal classics performed by leading Russian singers and their students

30 January, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Parade of soloists

New Chamber St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor - Yaroslav Zaboyarkin

31 January, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Prokofiev. Symphony No. 5
To the 80th anniversary of the Victory

Conductor - Felix Korobov
Ilia Kozlov - violin
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Prokofiev: Symphony No 5