St Petersburg, Concert Hall

Gala concert

Featuring Valery Gergiev

On-line broadcast
The close of the I Festival of St Petersburg Children’s and Youth Orchestras

PROGRAMME:
Dmitry Shostakovich
Waltz from Suite No 2 for Jazz Orchestra

Vladimir Sapozhnikov
Violinist on a Hot-Tin Roof
Soloist: Ivan Bezborodykh (violin)

Carlos Gardel
The tango Por una cabeza
Performed by the Concert Chamber Orchestra of the Mravinsky Children’s School of Arts
Artistic Director and Conductor: Andrei Maznitsin


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No 29 in A Major, KV 201(1st movement)

Fritz Kreisler
Sicilienne and Rigaudon in the style of Francœur (orchestrated by Alexei Gorokhov)
Soloist: Yelizaveta Bogdanova (violin)

Edvard Grieg
The Last Spring, Op. 34 No 2

Fritz Kreisler
Kleiner Wiener Marsch (orchestrated by Dmitry Ralko)
Performed by the Chamber Orchestra of the Rimsky-Korsakov School of Music
Artistic Director and Director: Dmitry Ralko


Karl Jenkins
Concerto Grosso for Strings Palladoio (1st movement)

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise (arrangement for strings by Dmitry Vorobiev)
Soloist: Alexei Popov (trumpet)

Leroy Anderson
Fiddle Faddle
Performed by the Young Symphonists of the St Petersburg String Orchestra of the St Petersburg Children’s Arts School No 4
Artistic Director and Conductor: Dmitry Vorobiev


Aram Khachaturian
Waltz from the Suite for Mikhail Lermontov’s play Masquerade

Dmitry Shostakovich
Highlights from the Suite for the ballet The Bolt, Op. 27:
Dance of the Carter
Tango

Johannes Brahms
Akademische Festouvertüre, Op. 80
Performed by the Symphony Orchestra of the Musorgsky College of Music
Artistic Director and Conductor: Lev Dunaev


Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Andante cantabile from Quartet No 1 in D Major, Op. 11 (arrangement for strings)

Reinhold Glière
Hymn to the Great City from the ballet The Bronze Horseman

Performed by the Assembled String Orchestra of the I St Petersburg Festival of Children’s and Youth Orchestras
Conductor: Valery Gergiev


The Chamber Orchestra of the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music was formed from that school’s string section. Over the years the ensemble has been led by Anatoly Reznikovsky, Vladimir Andreyev and Mikhail Estrin.
Since 2007 it has been directed by Dmitry Ralko. With his appointment the orchestra’s concert activities have become more intense and the repertoire has expanded.
Currently the orchestra regularly appears at the Great Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, the State Academic Cappella of St Petersburg and other venues throughout the city.
The ensemble’s longstanding collaboration with the acclaimed and accessible music project Student Philharmonic has proved very fruitful, taking place at the Concert Hall of the St Petersburg State University of Technology and Design.
Taking the school’s Chamber Orchestra as a base, Dmitry Ralko formed the Mozarteum Theatre studio. This company has staged the operas Dido and Aeneas and King Arthur by Purcell, La servapadrona by Pergolesi and Bastien und Bastienne by Mozart.
In 2012 the orchestra won the international competition Vivat, Talant! in St Petersburg.


Chamber Orchestra of the Mravinsky Children’s Arts School

The Mravinsky Arts School is one of the largest in the city. Its departments of music performance and applied arts offer tuition to over a thousand children aged between four and eighteen. The full course lasts nine years. In the music department, there are sound engineers in addition to pianists, string players, wind instrument musicians, chorus members and folk musicians. For their exam they present their own computer arrangements.
The school has carried the name of the great Leningrad conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky since 1989.
Since 2003 the chamber orchestra has been directed by Andrei Maznitsin, a graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire. Under his direction the ensemble has won numerous music prizes including being winner of the St Petersburg City Competition of Youth Orchestras (2011). The ensemble features more than forty musicians between the ages of ten and sixteen. The orchestra gives regular concerts throughout Russia, Europe and the USA.


Young Symphonists of St Petersburg
Orchestra of Children’s Arts School No 4, Frunzensky District

The Arts School on Bucharest Street is well-known among St Petersburg’s music circles. Many of its graduates continue their professional education at music schools before going on to enter the conservatoire.
From 1996 to 2000 the school’s string orchestra was directed by Harold Ilyich Garlitsky, a musician with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Philharmonic (Honoured Ensemble of Russia) and an outstanding teacher who taught the violin for many years. In memory of Garlitsky, since 2001 the school has run the annual String Orchestras and Ensembles Competition. It features ensembles whose members are not yet eighteen years of age.
The orchestra currently has forty musicians aged between eleven and sixteen. The ensemble has been a prize-winner at the Polyphonics 2012 international sacred music competition and the City Garlitsky Festival of String Orchestras and Ensembles.
Since 2011 the Young Symphonists of St Petersburg has been directed by Dmitry Vorobiev, a graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire who previously worked at the St Petersburg Musical Comedy Theatre. The orchestra has toured with him to Germany and Finland. One of the ensemble’s most memorable concerts was a performance in the Finnish town of Forssa, where together with the combined municipal chorus the orchestra performed Vivaldi’s Gloria.

Age category 6+

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