The orchestra “Young Symphonists of St Petersburg” of St Petersburg Children’s Arts School No 4
Artistic Director and Conductor: Dmitry Voropaev
Soloists:
Alexandra Menshova (violin)
Polina Kozyritskaya (violin)
Yana Yukhmanova (violin)
Anna Chesnykh (cello)
Alexei Popov (trumpet)
PROGRAMME:
Karl Jenkins
The suite Palladio (1st movement)
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No 3 in D Minor
(from the series L’estro armonico)
Soloists: Alexandra Menshova (violin), Polina Kozyritskaya (violin), Anna Chesnykh (cello)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in D Major, K. 136
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Vocalise, adapted by Dmitry Vorobiev
Soloist: Alexei Popov (trumpet)
Sergei Prokofiev
Dance of the Knights from the ballet Romeo and Juliet
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Mélodie Op. 42 No 3
Soloist – Yana Yukhmanova (violin)
Leroy Anderson
Fiddle-Fuddle
Chamber Orchestra of the Musorgsky College of Music
Conductor: Lev Dunaev
PROGRAMME:
Jean Sibelius
Andante festive, Op. 117a
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in F Major (KV 138) in three movements
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Elegy in memory of Ivan Samarin A Grateful Greeting
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No 13 in G Major, KV 525)
I. Allegro
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48
II. Valse. Moderato. Tempo di Valse
Young Symphonists of St Petersburg
Orchestra of Children’s Arts School No 4, Frunzensky District
The Arts School on Bucharest Street is well-known among St Petersburg’s music circles. Many of its graduates continue their professional education at music schools before going on to enter the conservatoire.
From 1996 to 2000 the school’s string orchestra was directed by Harold Ilyich Garlitsky, a musician with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Philharmonic (Honoured Ensemble of Russia) and an outstanding teacher who taught the violin for many years. In memory of Garlitsky, since 2001 the school has run the annual String Orchestras and Ensembles Competition. It features ensembles whose members are not yet eighteen years of age.
The orchestra currently has forty musicians aged between eleven and sixteen. The ensemble has been a prize-winner at the Polyphonics 2012 international sacred music competition and the City Garlitsky Festival of String Orchestras and Ensembles.
Since 2011 the Young Symphonists of St Petersburg has been directed by Dmitry Vorobiev, a graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire who previously worked at the St Petersburg Musical Comedy Theatre. The orchestra has toured with him to Germany and Finland. One of the ensemble’s most memorable concerts was a performance in the Finnish town of Forssa, where together with the combined municipal chorus the orchestra performed Vivaldi’s Gloria.
The Chamber Orchestra of the Musorgsky College of Music
The history of the Musorgsky College of Music dates back to 1926 when the Central Music Technical College was established. In 1939, to mark one century since the birth of Modest Musorgsky, the technical college was renamed.
There are six ensembles at the college – a chamber orchestra, wind orchestra, folk orchestra, bayan orchestra, symphony orchestra and big band orchestra. All these ensembles have rich performing traditions.
The Chamber Orchestra of the Musorgsky College of Music was established in the 1950s.
The ensemble features students of the first-year course of the string instrument department as well as students from senior years who wish to hone their skills in the field of chamber music. The best students on the college’s courses have the opportunity to appear with the orchestra as soloists.
For many years the ensemble was led by Leonid Grigoriev, while since September 2013 its director has been Lev Dunaev.
The ensemble’s repertoire includes works by early music composers, composers from the Baroque era, the Viennese classics, Russian composers and composers who are just starting out in the profession.
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