The Russo-German Music Academy Orchestra, a regular participant of the Stars of the White Nights festival, is scheduled to perform under the baton of Valery Gergiev on June 24, at 16:00, at the Concert Hall. The ensemble is set to give its first performance of modern German composer Wolfgang Rihm’s orchestral piece Verwandlung IV. The programme also includes Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major. Frank Peter Zimmermann, an eminent German musician, is invited to perform the violin solo at the concert.
The same programme will be performed at the Konzerthaus, where the Russo-German Music Academy Orchestra and Frank Peter Zimmermann are to perform under the direction of Valery Gergiev on June 27.
The Russo-German Music Academy was founded during the Year of Germany in Russia and the Year of Russia in Germany in 2012/2013 by young Russian and German musicians. The Academy’s orchestra consists of international competitions prize-winners, soloists of the Mariinsky Orchestra, and the trainees of the leading German symphony orchestras. Educational programmes, as well as orchestral and ensemble projects, master classes of eminent Russian and German musicians are regularly organised for the members of the Academy. The Academy’s musicians have successfully performed at such concert venues as the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire and the Grand Hall of Berlin's Konzerthaus, the philharmonics of Munich and Yekaterinburg, the Beethoven Festival in Bonne, and the Diaghilev Festival in Perm. Each concert programme is prepared under the guidance of experienced coaches. The Academy is principally based at the Mariinsky Theatre. The project’s artistic director is Valery Gergiev, while Tatjana Rexroth is the project’s executive director.
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