The I Festival of St Petersburg Children’s and Youth Orchestras

PROGRAMME:
Risto Laur
The Girl and the Dragon, miniature for strings and piano
Soloist: Liu Yun (piano)

Sergei Pleshak
The Gallery of 1812 (from the suite Promenade around the Hermitage)

Vladimir Sapozhnikov
Hallelujah
Soloist: Daria Prokudina (soprano)

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Andante cantabile
Soloist: Natalia Nazarova (cello)

Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria
Soloist: Danil Nurlygayanov (trumpet)

Vladimir Sapozhnikov
“Journey to Heaven” or “Along Nevsky in a Carriage”
Violinist on a Hot Tin Roof
Soloist: Ivan Bezborodykh (violin)

Carlos Gardel
Por una cabeza
Dmitry Shostakovich
Waltz from Suite No 2 for Jazz Orchestra

Chamber Orchestra of the Mravinsky Children’s Arts School
Artistic Director and Conductor: Andrei Maznitsin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No 29 in A Major, K. 201

Chamber Orchestra of the Rimsky-Korsakov School of Music
Artistic Director: Dmitry Ralko

The Chamber Orchestra of the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music was formed from that school’s string section. Over the years the ensemble has been led by Anatoly Reznikovsky, Vladimir Andreyev and Mikhail Estrin.
Since 2007 it has been directed by Dmitry Ralko. With his appointment the orchestra’s concert activities have become more intense and the repertoire has expanded.
Currently the orchestra regularly appears at the Great Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, the State Academic Cappella of St Petersburg and other venues throughout the city.
The ensemble’s longstanding collaboration with the acclaimed and accessible music project Student Philharmonic has proved very fruitful, taking place at the Concert Hall of the St Petersburg State University of Technology and Design.
Taking the school’s Chamber Orchestra as a base, Dmitry Ralko formed the Mozarteum Theatre studio. This company has staged the operas Dido and Aeneas and King Arthur by Purcell, La servapadrona by Pergolesi and Bastien und Bastienne by Mozart.
In 2012 the orchestra won the international competition Vivat, Talant! in St Petersburg.