On 5 February at 21.00 at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre the ensemble will be appearing with vivid young soloists whose names today are on the mouths of all music lovers – the pianist Mao Fujita, the violinists Sergei Dogadin and Marc Bouchkov and the cellist Zlatomir Fang, prize-winnners at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Since appearing at the competition, they have performed to great acclaim at several international venues, most recently delighting German audiences at the Münchner Philharmoniker Festival MPHIL 360 Degrees, which took place in Munich from 31 January to 2 February. The festival, founded five years ago coinciding with the appointment of Valery Gergiev as Music Director of the Münchner Philharmoniker, is run in the Bavarian capital on an annual basis. This time its participants included prize-winners of the Tchaikovsky Competition, the success of their chamber evening performances surpassing all expectations.
Valery Gergiev has awarded the musicians the opportunity to repeat the same programme of ensemble works for the St Petersburg audience which it presented a few days ago in Germany. Moreover, the Mariinsky Theatre audience will hear the virtuoso pianist Mao Fujita, he having already appeared here as a soloist and with orchestra, in his new emplois as a chember musician as well as discovering for itself the cellist Zlatomir Fang, who until now has only been heard at competitions.
On 5 February at the Concert Hall there will be a performance of Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello, Popper's Hungarian Rhapsody, the Introduction and Polonaise Brillante for Cello and Piano by Chopin and one of Franck's most famous works – the Violin Sonata. The violinist and composer Marc Bouchkov will also be performing his own opus to a St Petersburg audience – the Fantasia for Solo Violin, the concert to conclude with Ravel's Piano Trio.
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