The Omsk Academic Symphony Orchestra at the Mariinsky for the first time

On 29 November the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will host the second concert of the 50^th subscription Guest Orchestras – the East at which the audience will have the opportunity to meet one of the greatest orchestras of Siberia – the Omsk Symphony Orchestra. In the forty-nine years since it was established the ensemble has won well-deserved acclaim in Russia and abroad, won 1^st prize at the All-Russian Symphony Orchestra Competition and has produced a large number of recordings.

Since 2005 the orchestra has been directed by Dmitry Vasiliev. Under his direction the ensemble has performed premieres of works by Weinberg, Shakhidi, Kozulin, Podgaits, Bronner and Tsygankov.

On this occasion the orchestra from Omsk will be presenting St&nsbp;Petersburg audiences for the first time with Choreographic Symphony by Mieczysław Weinberg – a major 20^th century composer, philosopher and artist who deeply considered destiny and the meaning of art and who furiously protested against the horrors of war. The concert will also feature Scriabin’s Second Symphony, which expresses the essential idea of the composer’s art – man’s resistance to evil.