From 8 to 11 September the XXI Gergiev Festival will be held in Rotterdam at the De Doelen concert hall. Under the baton of Valery Gergiev there will be performances by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra and the Combined Youth Orchestra of the Codarts University for the Arts and the Royal Konservatorium of The Netherlands.
The programme of the current festival is dedicated to the music of Sergei Prokofiev, the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of whose birth Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre will be celebrating throughout the world this year.
The festival opens on 8 September with a performance of two of the composer's immense vocal and symphonic works – the cantata Alexander Nevsky and the oratorio Ivan the Terrible. The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chorus of The Ntherlands Radio will be accompanied by Mariinsky Opera soloists Yulia Matochkina (mezzo-soprano) and Roman Burdenko (baritone). The same evening, maestro Gergiev will conduct the Combined Youth Orchestra of the Codarts University for the Arts and the Royal Konservatorium of The Netherlands in a programme of highlights from the ballet Romeo and Juliet.
The next day the Mariinsky Orchestra will be performing under the baton of Valery Gergiev. The programme includes the Second and Fifth Symphonies as well as the Violin Concerto. The soloist will be the young Swedish virtuoso Daniel Lozakovich.
On 10 September the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev, as well as pianists Daniil Trifonov, George Li, Alexander Toradze and Alexander Gavrilyuk will perform all of Sergei Prokofiev's piano concerti.
The closing concert of the festival will be aimed at younger listeners. On 11 September at the De Doelen concert hall the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will perform the symphonic tale Peter and the Wolf. The role of the Narrator will be performed by the acclaimed Dutch actor Bram van Oers.
The Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam was founded in 1996.
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