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December 2024
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01 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Concert in the Foyer | Third Concert of the Season

Viktor Lisniak - violin
Victoria Zimina - piano
Dmitrii Petrov - presenter
Schubert; Schumann; Wieniawski; Tchaikovsky; Sarasate; Massenet; Elgar

01 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"History of the Waltz"
Piano evening

Peter Laul - piano
Weber: "Invitation to the Dance"; Schubert: 12 German Dances, D. 790; Grünfeld: Paraphrase on the waltz by J. Strauss "Voices of Spring" for piano; Tchaikovsky: Two Waltzes, Op. 40, Sentimental waltz, Waltz in five beats; Scriabin: Valse, op. 38; Liszt: Valse oubliée No. 1, Mephisto Waltze No 1; Brahms: 16 Waltzes, Op. 39; Chopin: 3 Waltzes, Op. 34; Debussy: "La plus que lente" valse; Ravel: La valse

01 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
“An evening in the rhythms of samba and more”

Ensemble of soloists of the Jazz philharmonic hall
Konstantin Maminov - saxophone
Gasan Bagirov - guitar, vocal
Vladimir Kozlov - double bass
Konstantin Kuvaytsev - percussion
Alexander Galitsky - presenter
Jobim; Mendez; De Abreu; Bonfa; Bagirov

02 December, Monday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Taneyev "John of Damascus"
Stravinsky, Schubert, Kodaly
On the 110th anniversary of A.V. Mikhailov's birth

Choir of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory
Petersburg Chamber Choir
St. Petersburg Concert Choir
Conductor - Nikolay Alexeev
conductor - Arkady Steinlucht
Vera Chekanova - soprano
Darya Rositskaya - mezzo-soprano
Boris Stepanov - tenor
Petr Migunov - bass
Taneyev: "John of Damascus" Cantata for Chorus and Orchestra; Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Texts; Schubert: Mass No.2; Kodály: Budavári Te Deum

02 December, Monday 6:00 pm

"The thunder of victory, ring out!"
Prince G.Potemkin-Tavrichesky and music

Natalia Bakhareva - lecturer

03 December, Tuesday 2:00 pm
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall, visit to the "royal rooms" and introduction to the organ

03 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Rachmaninoff. Piano Concerto No. 2
Poulenc. La voix humaine

Conductor - Artem Abashev
Nadezhda Pavlova - soprano
Alexander Kashpurin - piano
The performance of "La voix humaine" is held in collaboration with the "Opera Apriori" festival

03 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Tchaikovsky. "Souvenir de Florence"

Evgenii Ryzhkov - double bass
Lev Klychkov - violin
Dmitrii Khrychev - cello
Vera Vasileva - violin
Argine Stepanian - violin
Aleksei Bogorad - viola
Aleksandr Chizhov - viola
Taras Trepel - cello
Mikhail Glazachev - double bass
Bottesini: Introduction et Variations sur le Carnaval de Venise, Concert duet for cello and double bass with orchestra on themes from Bellini’s opera “The Puritans”, Gran Duo Concertante for violin, double bass and orchestra; Tchaikovsky: "Souvenir de Florence"

03 December, Tuesday 6:00 pm

The sounds and the silence of the siege

Vladimir Pyankevich - lecturer

04 December, Wednesday 10:00 am
Grand Hall
Exhibition "Mercy Square"

04 December, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Masterpieces of film music
For the 100th anniversary of the team

Russian State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography
Conductor - Sergey Skripka
Alexander Malich - presenter
Ramirez; Rodriguez; Anderson; Conrad; Rota; Mancini; Norman; Kizhaev; Kolmanovsky; Artemyev; Lebedev; Dashkevich; Pakhmutova; Lebedev; Gladkov; Ptichkin; Banevich; Dunaevsky; Petrov

04 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Ultimum Trio
To the 10th anniversary of the ensemble
A Vernissage of Chamber Ensembles

"Ultimum Trio" (Piano Trio of the St.Petersburg Philharmonic Society)
Stanislav Soloviev - piano
Vladimir Shuliakovsky - violin
Nikita Zubarev - cello
Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor; Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio "In Memory Of The Great Artist"

04 December, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Musical tastes of the "Russian Hamlet"
Paul I and his time

Aisulu Shukurova - lecturer

05 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
"15 years at the intersection of genres"
Anniversary concert of the Tavrichesky Symphony Orchestra

Tauric Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Mikhail Golikov
Ravel: Boléro; Marquez: Danzon No.2; Shostakovich: "The Bolt", excerpts from ballet music; Gavrilin: Music for performances; "Scheherazade", a literary and musical composition based on the symphonic suite by Rimsky-Korsakov (with readings of the tales of "1001 Nights", fragment)

05 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
From Piazzolla to Carmen

St. Petersburg State Governor's Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Yaroslav Zaboyarkin
Ivan Talanin - bandoneon
Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires; Bizet - Shchedrin: Carmen suite

06 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Sviridov. "Snowstorm"

Conductor - Anatoly Rybalko
Alexander Galibin - reciter
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé, suite; Sviridov: Musical illustrations to Alexander Pushkin‘s “Snowstorm”

06 December, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble

Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music
Rezetdinov: Russian songs and tunes for ensemble; Yurel: “Pour Luiggi” for ensemble; Radvilovich: Concertante. Chamber concert for five musicians; Safronov: “Papageno...the last temptation” for ensemble; Schnittke: Homage to Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich (version for five instruments by Oleg Tantsov); Murail: “13 colors of the setting sun” for ensemble

07 December, Saturday 2:00 pm
Grand Hall
Exhibition "Mercy Square"

07 December, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Tchaikovsky. The Sleeping Beauty suite

Conductor - Maxim Alexeev
Denis Sukhov - saxophone
Prokofiev: Symphony No 7; Glazunov: Concert Waltz No 1, Saxophone Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Suite from the Sleeping Beauty

07 December, Saturday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"The Golden Repertoire of Maestro Gorkovenko"

St. Petersburg State Governor's Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Yaroslav Zaboyarkin
Glinka: Overture from Ruslan and Ludmila, Jota Aragonesa; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol; Ibert: Suite Symphonique "Paris"; Milhaud: Music from the ballet "Le boeuf sur le toit"

07 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Henryk Wieniawski, Henri Vieuxtemps, Fritz Kreisler

Ravil Islyamov - violin
Svetlana Ponomareva - piano
Wieniawski: "Legende", Polonaise de concert in D major, Op. 4; Vieuxtemps: Rondino; Kreisler: Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani, "Tempo di marcia"; Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3; Khachaturian: Song Poem "In Honor of the Ashugs"; Gershwin - Frolov: "Porgy and Bess" Fantasia; Tartini: The Devil's Trill Sonata

08 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Prokofiev. Symphony No. 7

Conductor - Maxim Alexeev
Mikhail Pirozhenko - piano
Sofia Krasnozhon - piano
Natalia Entelis - presenter
Mozart: Overture to the opera "La finta semplice"; Saint-Sa¸ns: Le carnaval des animaux; Prokofiev: Symphony No 7

08 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Galina Vishnevskaya Festival
Grand opening
Gala concert

Orchestra of Vishnevskaya Opera Center
Conductor - Artem Abashev
Elizaveta Kulagina - soprano
Valentina Pravdina - soprano
Yulia Gertseva - mezzo-soprano
Alexei Tatarintsev - tenor
Elchin Azizov - baritone
Konstantin Brzhinsky - baritone
Tchaikovsky: Introduction from "Queen of Spades", Ballad of Tomsky from the opera "Pique Dame" ("Queen of Spades"), The Countess Scene from the opera “Queen of Spades”; Mussorgsky: Aria of Shaklovity from the opera "Khovanshchina"; Donizetti: Edgardo's aria from the opera "Lucia di Lammermoor"; Puccini: Monologue of Cio-Cio-san from the opera "Madama Butterfly"; Bizet: Duet of Nadir and Zurga from the opera "Les pêcheurs de perles"; Kálmán: Aria "Heia, heia in den Bergen" from "Die Csárdásfürstin"; Puccini: Intermezzo from "Manon Lescaut"; Verdi: Leonora's aria from the opera "Il Trovatore"; Puccini: Aria of Rodolfo from the opera "La Boheme"; Saint-Sa¸ns: Delilah's Aria opera "Samson and Delilah"; Massenet: Herod's Aria from the opera "Herodias"; Offenbach: Barcarolle from "The Tales of Hoffman"; Verdi: Aria from "Rigoletto"; Puccini: Magda's solo from the opera "La rondine"; Verdi: Duet of count di Luna and Leonora from "Il Trovatore"

08 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Schubert, Schumann
Chopin, Liszt

Peter Laul - piano
Alexei Koptev - viola
Ivan Vasiliev - baritone
Elena Spist - piano
Alisa Bratslavskaya - piano
Alexander Galitsky - presenter
Schubert; Schumann; Chopin; Liszt

09 December, Monday 11:00 am
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall, visit to the "royal rooms" and introduction to the organ

09 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Evening of early music

Russian Early Music Ensemble
Vladimir Shulyakovsky - artistic director
Victoria Evtodieva
Maria Shulyakovskaya
Vladimir Shuliakovsky - violin
Fedor Shulyakovsky
Praskovia Shulyakovskaya
Music of the Bach family

10 December, Tuesday 2:30 pm
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall and a visit to the "royal rooms"

10 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Pavel Bubelnikov
Soloist – Elisso Virsaladze

Weber: Der Freischütz Overture; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21; Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

10 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Alexey Sokolov
Piano evening

J.-S. Bach - Brahms: Ciaccona from Partita for Solo Violin No. 2; Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Corelli; Haydn: Keyboard Sonata in G minor; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 2

11 December, Wednesday 10:00 am
Grand Hall
Exhibition "Mercy Square"

11 December, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"165 years of Russian Musical Society. Time code"

St. Petersburg State Governor's Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Artem Abashev
Boris Andrianov - cello
Ilia Papoian - piano
Veronika Dzhioeva - soprano
Andrey Valentiy - bass
Arseniya Sibileva - violin
Ilze Liepa - presenter
Yulian Makarov - presenter
Glinka: Overture from Ruslan and Ludmila; Rimsky-Korsakov: Song of the Varangian Guest from Sadko; Cui: Tarantella for symphony orchestra; Rubinstein: Tamara's romance from the opera The Demon, 2nd Demon's romance from the opera The Demon; Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme; Saint-Sa¸ns: Africa, fantasia for piano and orchestra; Rachmaninoff: Vocalise; Garkavtsev: Christmas Overture; Rachmaninoff: Zemfira's aria from the opera Aleko, Aleko's cavatina from the opera Aleko; Tchaikovsky: "The Year 1812", festival overture

11 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Star Everyday"

Yuri Laptev - baritone
Evgeny Nikitin - bass-baritone
Nadezhda Serdyuk - mezzo-soprano
Yekaterina Goncharova - soprano
Pelageya Kurennaya - soprano
Vladimir Baykov - bass-baritone
Irina Sharapova - presenter, piano
Alexander Rubinov - piano
Alexander Larionov - piano
Tikhon Selivanov - piano
Saint-Sa¸ns: Delilah's Aria opera "Samson and Delilah"; Donizetti: Scene and Aria of Anne Boleyn from the opera "Anne Boleyn"; Gounod: Serenade of Mephistopheles from the opera "Faust"; Rimsky-Korsakov; Rossini: Isabella's aria from the opera "L'italiana in Algeri"; Rachmaninoff: Aleko's Cavatina; Mussorgsky: Aria of Shaklovity from the opera "Khovanshchina"; Wagner: , The Dutchman's aria from the opera "The Flying Dutchman"; Tchaikovsky: Tomsky's song from the opera "The Queen of Spades"; Borisov: "Stars In The Sky"; Dunaevsky: "Silence"; Rossini: Duet-buff of two cats; Sviridov: "Sloboda lyrics" based on poems by A.Prokofiev; "Bells of bells..." from the movie "Shadows disappear at noon"

12 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Andreyev State Russian Orchestra

Andreyev State Russian Orchestra
Conductor - Dmitry Khokhlov
Semyon Sytnik - reciter
Gavrilin: "House on the road", ballet music, , “Provincial Benefit”, music from the film

12 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Concert in memory of maestro
Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov

New Chamber St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor - Yaroslav Zaboyarkin
Lev Klychkov - violin
Anna Makarova - harp
Pavel Popov - violin
Ilia Kozlov - violin
Iurii Ushchapovskii - violin
Aleksei Bogorad - viola
Dmitrii Khrychev - cello
Taras Trepel - cello
Evgenii Ryzhkov - contrabass
Dmitry Terentyev - flute
Olesia Tertychnaia - flute
Marianna Murzina - flute
Ksenia Cuellar - flute
Artem Isaev - oboe
Denis Sukhov - clarinet
Andreii Laukhin - clarinet
Igor Karzov - french horn
Anton Gutsevich - bassoon
Maksim Pankov - piano
Vivaldi: Concerto for four flutes and orchestra in B minor; Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Orchestra, Divertimento in E-flat major; Akhunov; Bottesini: Concert duet for cello and double bass with orchestra on themes from Bellini’s opera “The Puritans”; Kreisler: "The Torments Of Love", "La Gitana", Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani; Bruch: Romanze for viola and orchestra; Ponce - Heifetz: Estrellita; Taneyev: Canzone for clarinet and chamber orchestra; Gershwin - Heifetz: An American in Paris for violin and piano

12 December, Thursday 6:00 pm

Gostilitsy Estate
Golitsyn Musicians' Shelter

Natalia Sidorova - lecturer

13 December, Friday 10:00 am
Grand Hall
Exhibition "Mercy Square"

13 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra "Classica"

"Klassika" St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Alexander Kantorov
Glinka: Waltz Fantasy; Glazunov: Concert Waltz No 2; Tchaikovsky: Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty; Dunaevsky: Concert Waltz; Sviridov: Waltz from the musical illustrations to A.S. Pushkin's "Snowstorm"; Petrov - O.Petrova: Waltz From The Television Series "Petersburg Secrets"; Shostakovich: Waltz from Jazz Suite No 2; Khachaturian: Waltz from Masquerade; Waldteufel: "L'Estudiantina" Waltz, "Les Sirènes" Waltz; J. Strauss II: Kaiser-Waltzer, "Wine, women, and song" Waltz, "Train of Pleasures", fast polka, "Voices of Spring" Waltz, Polka "Unter Donner und Blitz", "Tales From The Vienna Woods" Waltz

13 December, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Vivaldi Orchestra"

The Russian State Chamber "Vivaldi Orchestra"
Svetlana Bezrodnaya
Dmitry Chebotarev - soloist
Denis Volodin - presenter
Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin, Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty; Alex: "Charming Girl"; Miller: Slow Foxtrot "Moon in Love" (based on the theme of the Fifth Symphony by P.Tchaikovsky), Slow Foxtrot "History of the Starry Night" (based on the theme of the Sixth Symphony by P.Tchaikovsky), "In the Mood"; J. Strauss: Polka "Trick-Track", Polka "Pizzicato", Fast Polka, Polka "Thunder and Lightning"; Tchaikovsky - Ellington: Foxtrot, jazz paraphrase on the theme of the overture to the ballet "The Nutcracker" by P.I. Tchaikovsky; Brown: Original Dance "Czardas-Tango" (arranged by F. Pourcel); Biagi: Milonga "Far Away in the Field"; Shefter: Foxtrot "Chopin's Ghost" (based on the Waltz No. 7 by F. Chopin); Winkler: Gallop-Sinfonietta "At the Feast of the Romanian Gypsies"; Verdi - Miller: Gallop "Gypsy Chorus" (a jazz paraphrase on the theme of "Gypsy Chorus" from the opera "Il Trovatore" by G. Verdi); Pandzuti: "Angelina"; Milyutin: "The lilac-bird cherry blossomed in the garden"; Tsfasman: "My love"; De Abreu: "Tico-tico"; Titov: "Bear" (arranged by V. Nechaev); Fink: "Song about husbands"; Mokrousov: "Sormovskaya lyrical"; Dunaevsky: "Assignment"; Kokk: "Jazznocrazy"; Lucessi: "Champagne Splashes"; From the repertoire of the dance orchestra R. Gaden: "The Crafty"; Santeukhini: "Rio Rita"

14 December, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Opening of the festival
For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

Conductor - Nikolay Alexeev
Denis Matsuev - piano
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini; Voronov: Symphony (World premiere); Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No 2

14 December, Saturday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Voices of the Academy

Soloists of Elena Obraztsova Musical Academia
Ildar Abdrazakov - artistic director

14 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Russian soul"

State Russian concert orchestra
Artistic director, conductor - Vladimir Popov
Alexander Pakhmutov - baritone
Shishkin; Bulakhov; Feldman; Morozov; Dmitriev; Kabalevsky; Khrennikov; Russian folk songs

14 December, Saturday 12:00 pm

Images of northern folklore in "Ruslan and Lyudmila" by A.Pushkin and its reflection by M.Glinka

Yulia Moshnik - lecturer

15 December, Sunday 12:00 pm
Grand Hall
Tchaikovsky. Children's Album
Prokofiev. "Peter and the Wolf"
For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

Conductor - Alexey Nyaga
Nikolay Burov - presenter
Eva Sosnina - sand and watercolor illustrations
The performance will be accompanied by a display of "live illustrations" in sand and watercolor

15 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Vladimir Spivakov
Soloist – Hibla Gerzmava
For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia
Bellini: Norma, Overture; Verdi: Leonora's aria and cabaletta "Tacea la notte placida" from "Il Trovatore", Introduction to the opera "Attila", Elvira's aria ("Surta è la notte... Ernani, involami") from the opera "Ernani"; Puccini: Intermezzo from "Manon Lescaut", Tosca Aria, "Tosca"; Verdi: Ouverture from "La forza del destino" ("The Force of Destiny"), Aria “Pace, pace mio Dio” from "La Forza del Destino" (Leonora), Overure from "I vespri siciliani", The Prayer of Desdemona from "Othello"; Mascagni: Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana"; Cilèa: Aria of Adrienne Lecouvreur from opera "Adriana Lecouvreur"

15 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Two Scarlattis
Alessandro – opera maestro and Domenico – clavier maestro

Alexander Pirozhenko - piano
Elizaveta Bokova - soprano
Anastasia Sinkevich - soprano
Tatiana Neviardovskaya - mezzo-soprano
Artem Arutynov - tenor
Lada Potemkina - flute
Anastasia Shapovalova - flute
Arina Mulyukova - flute
Artur Zyskunov - trumpet
Alyona Muzaleva - piano
Maria Kustanovich - piano
Natalya Zyskunova - piano
Natalia Entelis - presenter

15 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Carols of the Christmas service

"Konevets Quartet"
Igor Dmitriev - artistic director
Maxim Mostovoy - tenor
Julian Danshin - tenor
Egor Bogorad - baritone
Adrian Zykov - vocals

16 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall, visit to the "royal rooms" and introduction to the organ

16 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Alexander Knyazev
Evening of cello music
For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

Alexander Knyazev - cello
Ksenia Bashmet - piano
Brahms: Cello Sonatas; R. Strauss: Cello Sonata

16 December, Monday 6:00 pm

Music of the Grand Tour
Travel of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich and Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna to Europe

Natalia Bakhareva - lecturer

17 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall and a visit to the "royal rooms"

17 December, Tuesday 6:00 pm

The Echoes of Leningrad
City’s musical institutions in evacuation

Julia Kantor - lecturer

18 December, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Valery Gergiev
For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
Conductor - Valery Gergiev
Claudia Yang - piano
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3; Mahler: Symphony No 5

18 December, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Fritz Stiedry

Nadezhda Markaryan - lecturer

19 December, Thursday 10:00 am
Grand Hall
Exhibition "Mercy Square"

19 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Mahler. Symphony No. 3
Conductor – Alexander Sladkovsky
Soloist – Olga Borodina
In memoriam Mariss Jansons. For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

St. Petersburg Choral Collegium
Nikolai Romanov - artistic director
Children's choir of TV and radio of St.Petersburg
Igor Gribkov - choirmaster

19 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Beethoven. Violin Romance No. 2
Symphony No. 8

"Northern Sinfonia" Symphony Orchestra
Artistic director, conductor - Fabio Mastrangelo
Sergey Slovachevsky - cello
Sandra Shinder - violin
Mozart: Symphony No 33; Beethoven: Violin Romance No 2, Symphony No 8; Haydn: Cello Concerto ¹ 2 in D Major

20 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Alexander Lazarev
For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia "Evgeny Svetlanov"
Conductor - Alexander Lazarev
Ivan Bessonov - piano
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1; R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfoniå (An Alpine Symphony)

20 December, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Haik Kazazyan
Evening of music for solo violin
On the 100th anniversary of Leonid Kogan's birth. For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

Bach: Partita; Ysaÿe: Two sonatas for solo violin; Paganini: Caprices (No. 2, 5, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17); Milshtein: "Paganiniana"

21 December, Saturday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall and a visit to the "royal rooms"

21 December, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Rachmaninoff. Symphony No. 1
Wagner, Elgar
For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

Conductor - Dimitris Botinis
Maria Zaisteva - cello
Wagner: Prelude and Love Death from Tristan und Isolde; Elgar: Cello Concerto; Rachmaninoff: Symphony No 1

21 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
The Maestro Temirkanov International Foundation for Cultural Initiatives
For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

Symphony Orchestra of the Special Music School of St Petersburg Conservatory
Conductor - Arkady Steinlucht
Mikhail Vasiliev - cello
Mikhail Pirozhenko - piano
Dmitry Fedenko - piano
Emil Ildirekov - violin
Alexei Tishchenko - violin
Arseny Alexeev - saxophone
Euphrosynya Shuplyakova - harp
Anna Komarova - flute
Ivan Sendetsky - cello
Irina Rymina
Olesya Morozova
Natalia Lisanova
Pierné: Impromptu-Caprice; Decruck: Sonata for saxophone and piano; Schubert - Liszt: Waltz-Caprice; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 4; Sarasate: "Caprice Basque"; Espasa: "Argos" for solo flute; de Falla: Spanish dance; Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1; Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1

21 December, Saturday 12:00 pm

Music in the life of A.S.Pushkin and his heroes

Nadim Aidarov - lecturer

22 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"Soloists of Moscow"
Bach. Brandenburg Concertos
For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

"Moscow Soloists" Chamber Orchestra
Kirill Kravtsov - artistic director, cello
Eric Chalabaev
Valery Kalashnikov
Gleb Kuzminsky
Petr Bugrimenko
Maxim Melnikov
Philip Korolkov
Arina Shevlyakova
Oleg Khudyakov
Vladimir Paruntsev
Andrey Usov
Vitaly Astakhov
Leonid Guriev
Mikhail Ashurov
Andrey Poskrobko
Alexandra Koreneva
Artistic director, conductor - Yuri Bashmet

22 December, Sunday 12:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year's adventures of Dunno
Musical and play performance


Maxim Mikhailov - director, music for the play
Theater production based on the works of Nikolai Nosov

22 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year's adventures of Dunno
Musical and play performance


Maxim Mikhailov - director, music for the play
Theater production based on the works of Nikolai Nosov

22 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Boys choir of the Glinka choral college

Boys choir of the Glinka choral college
Artistic director, conductor - Vladimir Begletsov
Tchaikovsky: 16 Children's songs; Rachmaninoff: Six choirs for children's voices with piano; Taneyev: Fragments from 16 choirs for male choir to poems by K.Balmont, Fragments from 12 a cappella choirs for mixed choir to words by Y.Polonsky (first book)

23 December, Monday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Vadim Repin, Nikolay Lugansky
Chamber music evening
For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Grieg: Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano; Franck: Violin Sonata

24 December, Tuesday 2:00 pm
Grand Hall
Exhibition "Mercy Square"

24 December, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Closing of the festival
For the 25th anniversary of the festival
XXIV International Festival "Arts Square"

Conductor - Nikolay Alexeev
Nikolay Lugansky - piano
Rimsky-Korsakov: Excerpts from Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 3; Elgar: "Enigma", variations on an Original Theme

24 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Blizzard & Jazz"

St. Petersburg State Governor's Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Maslov's Jazz Trio
Alexander Maslov - piano
Filipp Meshcheryakov - double bass
Pavel Chizhik - percussion
Conductor - Maxim Alexeev
Sviridov: Musical illustrations to Alexander Pushkin‘s “Snowstorm”; Tchaikovsky - Maslov: Suite from the music of the ballet "The Nutcracker"; Maslov: "New Year's Fantasy"

25 December, Wednesday 2:30 pm
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall and a visit to the "royal rooms"

25 December, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"All life is jazz"
In memoriam of Vladimir Borisovich Feyertag

Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra
Yuri Bogatyrev - tenor-saxophone
David Goloshchekin Jazz Ensemble
Leningrad Dixieland with Oleg Kuvaitsev
Mussorgsky Jazz Orchestra
Conductor - Sergey Bogdanov
Alexey Popov - saxophone

25 December, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Music of Vienna


Ilia Kozlov - violin
Elena Zastavnaya - soprano
Egor Chubakov - baritone
Mavzhida Gimaletdinova - piano
Mozart: Overture from The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni aria from "Don Giovanni", Duettino (Don Giovanni, Zerlina) "Là ci darem la mano" from "Don Giovanni", Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Piano Concerto No. 21, Duet (Duet Papageno and Papagena) from "Die Zauberflöte", Rondo alla turca; Beethoven: Violin Romance No 2; Lehár: Giuditta's aria from Operetta “Giuditta”; J. Strauss II: "Voices of Spring" Waltz, "Tric-trac" Polka, Tik-Tak Polka, Pizzicato Polka, The Persian March, "Viennese Blood", Waltz, On The Beautiful Blue Danube; Lumbye: Champagne Galop

25 December, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Musical culture of Russia during the reign of Alexander I

Mikhail Aleinikov - lecturer

26 December, Thursday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Guided tour of the Grand hall, visit to the "royal rooms" and introduction to the organ

26 December, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya
World opera stage star

Conductor - Alexander Rudin
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya - mezzo-soprano
Bellini: Overture, Cavatina and Cabaletta of Norma from the opera "Norma", Amina's aria from the opera "La Sonnambula"; Donizetti: Final Scene from the Opera "Anna Bolena", Ouverture to the opera "Don Pasquale"; Rossini: Aria of Semiramide from the opera "Semiramide"; Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasia, Italian Capriccio

26 December, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Christmas Melodies

Chamber Orchestra "Infinitum"
Alexander Kashpurin - artistic director
Tchaikovsky: Waltz from Serenade for string orchestra, Concert Suite from "Nutcracker"; Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Rachmaninoff: "Elegy", , Vocalise; J.S. Bach: Concerto in D minor, Concerto in F minor; Scriabin: Scherzo for string orchestra; Rota: Concerto for string orchestra (I and II parts); Panakhov: Concerto for piano and string orchestra (III part)

27 December, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Music of Christmas

Taras Baginets - organ
Bach: Prelude in C major, Christmas Chorale Preludes, Pastoral; Daquin: Noël Étranger, "Quand Jésus naquit à Noël"; Balbastre: "Quand Jésus naquit à Noël"; Mule: Noël; Messiaen: "Eternal Destinations", "The Magi" and "God among us", meditations from the cycle "La Nativité du Seigneur"; Guilmant: Noël; Dupré: Variations Sur Un Vieux Noel

27 December, Friday 12:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year's adventures of Dunno
Musical and play performance


Maxim Mikhailov - director, music for the play
Theater production based on the works of Nikolai Nosov

27 December, Friday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year's adventures of Dunno
Musical and play performance


Maxim Mikhailov - director, music for the play
Theater production based on the works of Nikolai Nosov

27 December, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Virtuosos of Russia
Vivaldi. Le quattro stagioni

Prometheus Chamber Orchestra
Conductor - Fedor Belugin
Daniil Austrich - violin
Anastasia Belugina - violin
Nikita Senko - violin
Andrey Pokhlebaev - violin
Nadezhda Morozova - soprano
Elena Karlova - presenter
Vivaldi: Concerto for four violins and orchestra, Le quattro stagioni, Overture from the opera Farnace, Farnace's aria from the opera Farnace

28 December, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"Hollywood in New Year St.Petersburg"

Singolo Orchestra
Conductor - Anton Gakkel
Dmitry Ganenko - cello
Williams: Music from the "Star Wars", Music from the "Schindler's List", Music from the "Terminal", Music from "Harry Potter", "Alien" Suite; Elfman: Music from the "Mission: Impossible"; Silvestri: Music from "Back to the Future", Music from "The Avengers", Music from "Forrest Gump"; Zimmer: Music from the "Gladiator", Music from "Interstellar"; Morricone: Music from "Once Upon a Time in America", Music from "Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo", Music from "The Mission"; Lloyd Webber: “The Phantom of the Opera”, fragments; Badelt: Music from the "Pirates of the Caribbean"; Djawadi: Music from the TV series "Game of Thrones"; Adele: "Skyfall"; Barry - Norman: Music from James Bond Movies

28 December, Saturday 12:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year's adventures of Dunno
Musical and play performance


Maxim Mikhailov - director, music for the play
Theater production based on the works of Nikolai Nosov

28 December, Saturday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year's adventures of Dunno
Musical and play performance


Maxim Mikhailov - director, music for the play
Theater production based on the works of Nikolai Nosov

28 December, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Evening of Russian fantasies

Tatiana Potyomkina - domra
Eugeny Zhelinsky - balalaika
Oleg Vainstein - piano
Rimsky-Korsakov: Dance of the Buffoons from the Opera "The Snow Maiden"; Stravinsky: "Russian Dance" from "Petrushka"; Rachmaninoff: "Dance of the Gypsies" from the opera "Aleko"; Glinka – Cher: Fantasy on the themes of the opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila"; Tchaikovsky – Pletnev: Andante maestoso from the ballet "The Nutcracker"; Dargomyzhsky: Slavic dance from the opera "Mermaid"; Gavrilin: Suite from the ballet "The Marriage of Balzaminov", Capriccio, "The Little Clock", Tarantella from the ballet "Anyuta", "The Joke"; Schwartz: Music from the film "Melodies of the White Night"; B. Tchaikovsky: Introduction from the film "The Marriage of Balzaminov"; A. Petrov – Vainstein: Fantasy on themes from the film "Beware of the Car"; I. Dunaevsky – Vainstein: Overture to the film "Children of Captain Grant"; Frenkel – Matryashin: "Kalina Krasnaya"; Afanasyev: "I look into the blue lakes" from the film "Shadows disappear at noon"; Temnov - Trostyansky: Quadrille; Blanter - Zhelinsky: "Katyusha"

29 December, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Felix Korobov
Overtures to operettas, waltzes, polkas, marches

Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Overture from Opera; E. Strauss: "Clear Track" Polka; J. Strauss: Jockey Polka; J. Strauss II: "Artist's Life" Waltz, "Im Pavlovskerwalde" Polka, Polka "On the Hunt"; Waldteufel: "The Ice Skaters", Waltz; J. Strauss II: Russian March, Die Fledermaus, Overture, Polka "Neva"; E. Strauss: "Hectograph" Galop; J. Strauss II: "Voices of Spring" Waltz, Bandits' Galop, Polka "Unter Donner und Blitz", On The Beautiful Blue Danube; J. Strauss I: Radetzky March

29 December, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year's tales about the bell boy and others

Irina Chizhik - artistic word
Julia Labutina - sand animation artist
Alexei Chizhik - vibraphone
Filipp Meshcheryakov - double bass
Konstantin Polyakov - piano
Irina Smuckul - presenter
"Town in a snuffbox"; "Carlson's New Year's Adventures"

29 December, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Evening of music by baroque composers for two harpsichords

Mikhail Blekher - harpsichord
Andrey Kolomiytsev - harpsichord
J.-S. Bach; Rameau; Couperin; Marais; Charpentier

30 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Teodor Currentzis

MusicAeterna orchestra
Conductor - Teodor Currentzis
Andrey Baranenko - piano
Rubinstein: Piano Concerto No. 4; Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, the 2nd suite, La valse; Respighi: Pines of Rome

30 December, Monday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Christmas Eve

Daria Gavrilova - soprano (Oksana)
Nikita Chernikov - tenor (Vakula)
Olga Shokel - mezzo-soprano (Solokha)
Vadim Yakimov - bass-baritone (Chub)
Andrey Udalov - bass-baritone (Bryl)
Alexander Kashpurin - piano (Musician)
Grigory Tadtaev - violin (Violinist)
Natalia Lisanova - accompanist
Alexander Kashpurin - musical director of the project, author of arrangements for chamber ensemble
Nadezhda Rogozhina - author of the dramatization and director
Varvara Soboleva - choreographer
Vladimir Ermolaev - lighting designer
Tchaikovsky: Fragments of the opera "Cherevichki"

30 December, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Evening of music for duduk
"Masterpieces of the Classics"

Argishty - duduk (Armenia)
Artur Bochkivsky - guitar
Olga Pakhomova - cello
“Coolness of the Mountains”, Armenian folk melody; Tchaikovsky: "Sweet Dream", "Old French Song", Lensky's aria from the opera "Eugene Onegin"; Bach: Aria from the suite, Counterpoint, “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ”, chorale prelude; Schubert: Serenade, Ave Maria; Pachelbel: Sarabande; Grieg: "Morgenstimmung"; Bach – Gounod: Ave Maria; Albinoni: Adagio; Tariverdiev: "Song about a distant homeland"; Harito: “The chrysanthemums have bloomed in the garden”; Caccini: Ave Maria; Fleischman: Lullaby

31 December, Tuesday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
"Hollywood in New Year St.Petersburg"

Singolo Orchestra
Conductor - Anton Gakkel
Dmitry Ganenko - cello
Williams: Music from the "Star Wars", Music from the "Schindler's List", Music from the "Terminal", Music from "Harry Potter", "Alien" Suite; Elfman: Music from the "Mission: Impossible"; Silvestri: Music from "Back to the Future", Music from "The Avengers", Music from "Forrest Gump"; Zimmer: Music from the "Gladiator", Music from "Interstellar"; Morricone: Music from "Once Upon a Time in America", Music from "Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo", Music from "The Mission"; Lloyd Webber: “The Phantom of the Opera”, fragments; Badelt: Music from the "Pirates of the Caribbean"; Djawadi: Music from the TV series "Game of Thrones"; Adele: "Skyfall"; Barry - Norman: Music from James Bond Movies

31 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
New Year's concert

Conductor - Anatoly Rybalko
Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin; Glinka: Cracovienne from "A Life for the Tsar"; Rimsky-Korsakov: Dance of the Buffoons from the Opera "The Snow Maiden"; Lyadov: "The Music Box"; Glazunov: "Spanish Dance" from the ballet "Raymonda"; Grieg: Arabian dance from "Peer Gynt" Suite; Bizet: Farandole from "Arlezianka"; Boccherini: Minuet; J. Strauss II: "Tric-trac" Polka; Tchaikovsky: Fragments from The Nutcracker

31 December, Tuesday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
New Year Concert
Alexander Lubyantsev and Evgenia Lubyantseva

Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo; Schubert: Serenade; Ernst: The Last Rose of Summer; Schubert: "Erlkönig"; Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte; Sarasate: "Caprice Basque"; Rachmaninoff: 12 preludies

31 December, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
«New Year cocktail»

Orchestra of the Theater of Musical Comedy
Soloists – vocalists
Artistic director and conductor - Andrey Alexeev
Igor Romanyk - violin
Olga Alexeeva - piano
Father Frost congratulates guests
Linke: March "Folies-Bergere", Siamese march; Saparov: Nocturne in memory of Babajanyan; Varney: Galop from the operetta "The Three Musketeers"; Lehár: Waltz from the operetta "The Land of Smiles", Tango from the operetta "The Perfect Wife", Suite on themes from the operetta "Gypsy Love", Hungarian fantasy; Eilenberg: Sledding in St. Petersburg; Alexeev: Walking under umbrellas, Legranissimo; Piazzolla: Rio Sena, "S'il vous plait"; Mishle: Criminal fantasy, A poem in memory of a grasshopper; Anderson: Plink-Plank-Plunk; Tchaikovsky: Quadrille from the movie "The Marriage of Balzaminov"; J. Strauss I: Galop of Sighs