St Petersburg, Concert Hall

Concert by students of the Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music


The programme includes works by Rachmaninoff, Semyonov, Handel, Vizzutti, Paganini – Liszt, Markovich, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz

Soloists: Alexander Kolomiytsev (accordion), Tatiana Nizhina (soprano), Nikolai Stranatkovsky (trumpet), Maria Korobova (piano), Fyodor Khandrikov (snare drum), Grigory Zhuravlyov (snare drum) and Daria Gornaya (violin)

The Algirdas Romualdas Paulavičius Youth Symphony Orchestra
Artistic Director and Conductor: Alexei Vasiliev
The Women’s Chorus of the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music
Artistic Director: Sergei Yekimov
Chorus Master: Anatoly Rybalko

The programme includes:
Sergei Rachmaninoff. Six Choruses for Female (Children’s) Voices (orchestration by Gennady Belov)
Vyacheslav Semyonov. Third Tale from Don River Rhapsody
George Frederick Handel. Cleopatra’s aria “Piangero la sorte mia” from the opera Giulio Cesare
Allen Vizzutti. Cascades for solo trumpet
Niccolò Paganini – Franz Liszt. Grande étude No 2 in E Flat Major
Mitch Markovich. Just Two for two snare drums
Antonio Vivaldi. Concerto No 4 in F Minor, Winter from The Four Seasons
Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Waltz from the ballet The Sleeping Beauty
Hector Berlioz. Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14


The St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music – one of Russia’s oldest academic institutions offering secondary-school level professional musical education and almost the only such institution in St Petersburg that has retained the traditions of Russian classical music teaching to the present day. The college can trace its roots back to the “Rapgof Courses” in music and drama that were founded by the Russian pianist and teacher Yevgeny Pavlovich Rapgof 1882. With the passing of time, in the 1920s and 30s the educational establishment was restructured several times, and from 1934 it became part of the Leningrad Conservatoire and for a long period – from 1936 to 1991 – it was called the “Music School of the Leningrad Conservatoire”.
The Alma Mater of several generations of musicians, the college retains its high status of unquestionable authority and is one of the foremost centres of music learning. The college has trained a plethora of outstanding musicians. They include stars of world opera such as Pavel Lisitsian, Olga Borodina and Anna Netrebko, the composers Andrei Petrov and Boris Tishchenko and the conductor Veronika Dudarova.
Popular performers and stage artistes studied here, among them Lyudmila Senchina and the composer Igor Kornelyuk.
Graduates of the college have made a significant contribution to the growth of Russian music studies, and they are to be found among teachers in music schools, soloists in orchestral ensembles and music theatres in St Petersburg and other towns and cities. The wonderful traditions of the Russian school of music that they have assimilated are being passed on to new generations of young performers, both in Russia and abroad.
Various ensembles play a special role in the life of the college: a female and a mixed chorus, string, brass and symphony orchestras, an orchestra of folk musical instruments and various other instrumental ensembles. Established practices include regular performances by the choruses, orchestras and soloists from among the students and teachers at concert venues in St Petersburg and other towns and cities as well as numerous victories at festivals and competitions.

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