As part of a tour by the Moscow Easter Festival, on 27 April – the Day of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) – at the region’s main music venue there were two concerts by the Mariinsky Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. This was the Mariinsky Orchestra’s second visit to Yakutsk.
The daytime charity concert featured young violinist Ivan Pochekin, while the evening concert featured pianist Denis Matsuev, a longstanding friend of and participant in the festival. Appearing with musicians of the Mariinsky Orchestra in the concerts were musicians of the State Philharmonic Orchestra of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), while the performance of Scriabin’s Prometheus also featured the United Children’s Chorus of the Republic of Yakutia. After the concert, Acting President of the Republic of Sakha Yakutia) Yegor Borisov presented maestro Gergiev with the Honorary Medal For Developing Peace and Friendship between Peoples.
Easter Festival included the Far East. On 28 April at the Primorsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Vladivostok, the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev gave another two concerts, the first of which was charitable in nature and intended for those serving in the Pacific Ocean Fleet and their families, navy students, cadets and veterans of conflicts. In the audience was Vice Admiral Sergei Avakyants, Commander of the Pacific Ocean Fleet. The second concert in the evening saw the participation of the United Children’s Chorus of the Primorsk Region.
On 29 April the Mariinsky Orchestra gave a further performance in Khabarovsk. At the House of Officers of the remote Prince Volkonsky Garrison there was a daytime charity concert featuring the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble and Brass Band under Valery Gergiev in a programme for those serving in the Eastern Military District and for members of their families, military personnel who had helped in the clear-up following a disastrous flood in the region and for veterans of conflicts. The second concert took place in the evening at the Khabarovsk Region Musical Theatre. Immediately after that concert, Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra flew to Tomsk, where on 30 April the musicians’ tour continued with a morning concert by the Mariinsky Stradivarius Ensemble.
The Mariinsky Orchestra’s Russian tour under maestro Gergiev began on 15 April in Kaliningrad. The musicians subsequently performed in Severomorsk, Murmansk, Belomorsk, Petrozavodsk, St Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Yakutsk, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Tomsk.
After Tomsk, the Mariinsky Orchestra’s tour takes them to Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Perm, Moscow on 2 and 3 May, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd, Orenburg, Penza and Nizhny Novgorod. On 8 May they will be in Moscow once again, while on 9 May the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will give its traditional performance for veterans of World War II and an audience of several thousand on Poklonnaya Hill. The final evening of the XIII Moscow Easter Festival will be a worthy finale of this record-breaking musical marathon – on 9 May at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire there will be a concert performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il trovatore featuring dazzling Mariinsky Theatre soloists Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Semenchuk and Alexei Markov. The tour ends on 10 May in Pskov.
Over the course of the twenty-six-day-long XIII Moscow Easter Festival the musicians will have performed forty-three concerts in twenty-six towns and cities from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, including charity concerts by musicians of the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in seven towns of all four military districts for those serving in the military and their families.
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