The percussion ensemble Renaissance Percussion

PERFORMERS:
The Renaissance Percussion ensemble comprising:
Mikhail Vedunkin
Dmitry Gabbasov
Yevgeny Zhikalov
Grigory Zhuravlev
Vladislav Ivanov
Gleb Logvinov
Vladimir Maslov
Dmitry Fyodorov
Fyodor Khandrikov
Arseny Shuplyakov

Anastasia Kalagina (soprano)
Yevgeny Akhmedov (tenor)

Aglaya Shuplyakova (flute alto, piccolo flute)
Milana Zhuravliova (piccolo flute)
Yefrosinia Shuplyakova (harp)
Pavel Iliushin (electric guitar)
Vladimir Shalnev (bass guitar)

The Seven+ brass ensemble comprising:
Alexei Popov (trumpet)
Nikolai Strannatkovsky (trumpet)
Nikita Istomin (trumpet)
Alexander Ponomaryov (trombone)
Mikhail Vinnitsky (trombone)
Valentin Patsuk (trombone)
Boris Dzhioiev (tuba)
Maria Lelkhova (xylophone)

PROGRAMME:
Georgy Sviridov
Time, forward march!

Gabriel Fauré
Berceaux, Op. 23 No. 1

Mikhail Vedunkin
Echoes of Africa

Deborah Henson-Conant
Nataliana

Franz Liszt
Oh! quand je dors

Floyd Werle
The Golden Age of the Xylophone

Yan Frenkel
The Elusive Avengers, film music

Alexander Tchaikovsky
Tamerlan’s Camp from the opera The Legend of the Ancient Town of Yelets, Virgin Mary and Tamerlane

Eduard Artemiev
Songs and instrumental excerpts from the film music

About the performers

The Renaissance Percussion ensemble was founded in 2005 by Vladislav Ivanov and Arseny Shuplyakov. It comprises percussion musicians of the Mariinsky Orchestra. In 2005 the ensemble gave its first concert performances in Russia and abroad and won 1^st prize at the International Rachmaninoff Ensembles’ Competition in St Petersburg. In 2012, the ensemble again took 1^st prize at that competition. Today the ensemble’s repertoire includes works from various eras and styles. One of the ensemble’s priorities is performing music by Russian and European classical composers in arrangements for melodic percussion instruments written by members of the ensemble Vladislav Ivanov and Arseny Shuplyakov themselves.

Age category 6+