On 31 December at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev will introduce St Petersburg audiences to members of the acclaimed Ioudenitch family – Stanislav, Edward and Maria.
The history of music knows many examples of artistic dynasties. In the past this kind of succession was all due to tradition: children inherited the professions of their parents and the secrets of the art of music were passed from generation to generation.
The foremost representatives of the Ioudenitch family are the outstanding Uzbek violinists and teachers at the Tashkent Conservatoire Vladimir, whose father was a famous cellist, and Amina Ioudenitch. Their children have continued the “family business”: their daughter Anastasia plays the violin and their middle son Vsevolod plays the cello. the New Year concert at the Mariinsky Theatre will feature Vladimir and Amina’s eldest and youngest sons – the pianist Stanislav Ioudenitch will perform Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, while wunderkind conductor Edward Ioudenitch will perform the overture to the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra. the young Edward, a grant-recipient of the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation, has been compared by critics to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; at the age of just eleven he plays the piano and violin like a virtuoso and conducts without using a score, knowing by heart not just the openings but the parts of each instrument in the orchestra. the concert will also feature an appearance by Vladimir Ioudenitch’s granddaughter, the violinist Maria Ioudenitch, who will perform the solo in Pablo de Sarasate’s Fantaisie on themes from the opera Carmen.
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