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7th Musical Festival of Young Performers
for St Petersburg The splendid Musical Hermitage winter festival has just finished and now we are invited to concerts of another festival, Young Performers for St Petersburg. The Young Performers for St Petersburg festival has been held since 1999 with the support of the Government of St Petersburg and its Committee on Youth Policy and Interaction with Social Organizations. The main objective of the festival is to develop and educate young people in the area of culture, to acquaint the public with young and talented performers, and to popularize our Classical musical heritage. In the summer of 2001 the foundations were laid for a cooperation between the State Hermitage and the Foundation of the Hermitage Academy of Music in the context of the International Cultural Project, TUBA MIRUM. After this project, the State Hermitage supported an initiative to conduct a series of concerts from the Young Performers for St Petersburg program on the stage of the Hermitage Theatre within the framework of the Hermitage Academy of Music Program. The first of these took place on 25 January 2002. Among the young musicians and conductors who took part in the concerts were T. Sokhiev, M. Sinkievich, V. Petrenko, G. Chichinadze (Georgia), the Chamber Chorus Millennium under the direction of L. Dunaev, and soloists of the Mariinsky Theater's Academy of Young Singers together with their artistic director Larisa Gergieva. The concerts were introduced by well-known journalist and television master of ceremonies Innokenty Ivanov. In 2005 the State Hermitage and the Foundation of the Hermitage Academy of Music are putting on the 7th Festival of Young Performers for St Petersburg, which is called A Dialogue of Genres - Dialogue of Generations. Among those who will appear on the celebrated stage of the Hermitage Theatre are the State Hermitage Orchestra, The St Petersburg Big Band of Sergey Gusyatinsky and the Tangomania dance center with the Institute of Argentine Tango in St Petersburg. Innokenty Ivanov will be master of ceremonies at the concerts. The festival's two concerts will take place in March and April, 2005. In the 5 March concert, the "dialogue" will be between the State Hermitage Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Sinkievich and the St Petersburg Big Band of Sergey Gusyatinsky. The concert program will include popular Classical and jazz music - dance music, music from musicals, and compositions on themes of Jazz classics by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, as well as Soviet jazz from its best times, notably Utesov and Tsfasman. In the 8 April concert called Tango in the Hermitage, participants include soloists of the State Hermitage Orchestra and the masters of Argentine tango Carlos Gavito and Maria Plasaola, as wella as Petersburg performers of Argentine tango Yulia Zueva and Alexei Barbolin. These remarkable dialogues of genres will take place in the hall of the Hermitage Theatre. The creator of this unique theatre was Empress Catherine the Great, who encouraged all genres of the arts and both loved and offered her patronage to modern art, including composers and musicians. We have no doubt she would have enjoyed attending such concerts. |
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