On 21 April following a matinee charity concert by the Mariinsky Orchestra in Tomsk as part of the Moscow Easter Festival maestro Gergiev was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of the Tomsk State University.
The performance in Tomsk marked the fourth visit by the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev to this city. This close cultural collaboration has been made possible thanks to an agreement signed in May 2014 between the Tomsk Region and the Mariinsky. In line with tradition, the musicians perform two concerts at most of the stops on the festival tour. The first – a matinee – is for charity and allows free entry to veterans of World War II, students of academic institutions and their teachers. The programme of the charity concert in Tomsk featured masterpieces of world symphony music Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d'un faune and music from Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker as well as Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto with the outstanding Russian pianist Alexei Volodin. At the end of the performance Dean of the Tomsk State University Georgy Mayer awarded maestro Gergiev the Gold Medal and regalia as an Honorary Doctor of the university.
In the evening, at 19:00 at the Tomsk Philharmonic there will be another concert by the Mariinsky Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev. The playbill for the evening performance includes Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto (soloist – Boris Berezovsky), the first movement of Shostakovich’s Seventh (Leningrad) Symphony and highlights from Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird.
The musicians arrived in Tomsk on the Moscow Easter Festival’s chartered train from Omsk, where yesterday there were also two concerts; the next stop on this record tour in terms of its geography is Kemerovo.
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