The IV Christmas Music Academy will be held at the Vitebsk Regional Philharmonic Hall
For the fourth time, the Vitebsk Regional Philharmonic will host the concert and educational project "Christmas Music Academy," which will provide an opportunity for young and talented musicians to receive qualified lessons and consultations from renowned musicians and educators, and to become acquainted with the masterpieces of world musical classics and contemporary music performed by guests and participants of the academy.
January 28 at 11:00 AM
Recreation area on the second floor of the Philharmonic
Grand Opening of the Academy
Introduction of teachers and participants, presentation of the exhibition "Symphony of Color" by students of the Vitebsk Children's Art School. This exhibition features works by the school's students, capturing music through pictorial means. The synthesis of these two art forms in an extraordinary way reflects the diversity of the entire surrounding world, and its unity is expressed through the materialization of sounds via the richness and uniqueness of colors. For the young artists, participation in the Academy is an opportunity to showcase their creativity.
January 28 at 11:30 AM
Philharmonic Hall
Piano Master Class
Lecturer at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory,
Laureate of international competitions
Evgeny STARODUBTSEV (Moscow)
A young, talented performer and educator, he graduated from the Central Music School at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (1991-1999, studied under N. N. Makarova and Prof. L. V. Roshchina). He is a graduate of the piano faculty and postgraduate studies at the Moscow State Conservatory (under Professor N.V. Trull). Currently, he works at the Department of Special Piano under Professor V.V. Gornostaeva.
January 28 at 6:30 PM
Philharmonic Hall
Piano Music Concert
Opening of the Christmas Music Academy
Traditionally, concerts by faculty members of the Belarusian State Academy of Music are held as part of the Academy's opening. Throughout its history, the Academy has showcased the creativity of students of Prof. V. Nekhaenko, Yu. Gildyuk, and L. Shelomentseva. This year, the opening concert will feature students from the class of the Head of the Department of Special Piano, Associate Professor, laureate of international competitions Vladimir Andreevich DULOV (Minsk).
Program:
R. Schumann. "Kreisleriana". Performed by: Tatiana Vitkovskaya, Master's student.
J. Brahms. Three Intermezzi, Op. 117. Performed by: Maria Matvievskaya, 1st-year student of the Belarusian State Academy of Music.
A. Scriabin. "Satanic Poem". Performed by: Olga Tarasevich, Master's student.
J. Brahms. "Variations on a Theme by Schumann". Performed by: Olga Tarasevich, Master's student.
R. Schumann. Fantasia in C Major. Performed by: Vladimir Dulov
29.01 at 11:00
Philharmonic Hall
Methodological Seminar for teachers of Children's Music Schools of Vitebsk and the Vitebsk region, conducted by the Head of the Department of Special Piano, Associate Professor, laureate of international competitions Vladimir Andreevich Dulov.
Vladimir Dulov graduated from the Belarusian State Conservatory (class of one of the founders of the Belarusian piano school, Professor G. I. Shershevsky).
Even during his school years, he won a series of victories at national and international competitions: the National Pianists' Competition (1976), the National Composers' Competition (1978), and the International Pianists' Competition in Czechoslovakia (1977). His years of study under Professor G. I. Shershevsky culminated in a victory at the M. K. Čiurlionis International Pianists' Competition in Lithuania.
After graduating from the Belarusian State Conservatory in 1985, he continued his studies in the assistantship-internship program (1985-1987) and postgraduate studies (1987-1988) at the Moscow Conservatory. His creative supervisor was the outstanding Soviet pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, Tatiana Nikolaeva. At the same time, he began his research and journalistic activities. The result of his postgraduate studies in 1988, under the guidance of Prof. V.P. Chinaev, was a major research paper "Scriabin's Piano Works Performed by Outstanding Representatives of the Russian Piano School."
Upon returning to Minsk in 1988, he began his teaching career at the Belarusian State Conservatory (now the Belarusian State Academy of Music), which continues to this day.
Students of V. A. Dulov work not only in Belarus but also in Russia, China, Germany, Switzerland, Israel, the USA, and Taiwan. Among them are laureates of national and international competitions.
V. Dulov continues his research in the field of history and theory of piano art. Among his recent works are: "Scriabin, Pasternak, Sofronitsky: In Search of Romanticism," "Keyboard Bachiana in the Mirror of 20th-Century Pianism," "Piano and Pianism in the 20th Century: In the Attainment of Freedom." An important stage of his work was performance editing: the sheet music collections "Keyboard Music of Belarus of the 18th Century" and "Piano Music of Belarus of the 19th Century" were published.
In addition to his active and focused methodological and curatorial activities in Belarusian music colleges, V. Dulov conducts master classes in Russia, Armenia, Switzerland, Austria, and Taiwan. As a jury member, he is invited to national and international competitions in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, and Moldova.
Since 1985, as a soloist and ensemble player, he has been actively performing in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and other countries.
January 29 at 14:00
Philharmonic Hall
Piano Master Class
Lecturer at the P.I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory,
laureate of international competitions
Evgeny STARODUBTSEV (Russia, Moscow)
January 29 at 18:30
Philharmonic Hall
Piano Music Concert
laureate of international competitions
Evgeny STARODUBTSEV (Russia, Moscow)
Laureate of numerous international competitions: "Compositores de España" (Madrid, Spain, 2004) – 1st prize and special prize for the best performance of Spanish music; "Cidade do Porto" (Portugal, 2005) – 1st prize; "Ciudad de Ferrol" (Ferrol, Spain, 2007) – 1st prize and special prize for the best performance of Spanish music; I International Baltic Piano Competition (Gdańsk, Poland, 2007) – 1st prize and two special prizes for the best performance of works by F. Chopin and K. Szymanowski; "Parnassos 2008" (Monterrey, Mexico, 2008) – 1st prize "Gran Premio Marcatel"; "Jean Francaix" (Paris, France, 2009) – 1st prize
"Delia Steinberg" (Madrid, Spain, 2009) – 1st prize; "A.M.A. Calabria" (Lamezia Terme, Italy, 2009) – 1st prize; "Ricard Viñes" (Lleida, Spain, 2009) – 1st prize; "Honens-2009" (Calgary, Canada, 2009) – 2nd prize. Evgeny Starodubtsev's concert performances in Spain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Croatia, and Canada have been highly successful.
Among the pianist's most notable performances were his participation in the anniversary evening dedicated to R.K. Shchedrin at the P.I. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall with the State Symphony Orchestra "New Russia" (conductor F.I. Glushchenko), and at the D. Shostakovich Memorial Music Festival in Amsterdam (2007). In 2009, the premiere of Evgeny Starodubtsev's Piano Trio took place in Shizuoka, Japan.
In March 2010, the artist recorded four 20th-century piano sonatas in France, and in November of the same year, another CD with 20th-century works in Canada.
The concert will feature:
F. Chopin. Scherzo no.4; K. Szymanowski. Masques; F. Liszt. Spanish Rhapsody; I. Stravinsky. Petrushka
January 31 at 18:30
Philharmonic Hall
ACADEMY CLOSING
Gala Concert of Academy participants
and a student of the Moscow State Conservatory, laureate of the republican competition,
winner of the Delphic Games
Andrey IVANOV, piano
(class of Honored Artist of Russia, Professor N.V. Trull)
The Academy closing concert is the culmination of the joint public work of distinguished teachers and talented children. In the first part of the concert, active participants of the Academy Kirill Atroshchenko, Arseny Traskovsky, Yuri Makartsov, Elena Rotta, Nadezhda Patrenkina will demonstrate their skills to the discerning Vitebsk audience and, undoubtedly, will conquer all present in the hall with their youth, sincerity, and boundless love for Music.
The second part of the concert will feature a student of the Vitebsk Children's Music School No. 4 (class of teachers E.A. Skachkova and O.S. Kudryavtseva) Andrey Ivanov, who is currently a student at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky (class of Professor N.V. Trull). He graduated from the Republican Gymnasium-College at the Belarusian State Academy of Music (class of teacher Z.V. Kacharskaya), is a scholarship holder of the Special Fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus for the Support of Talented Youth, laureate of the republican competition "Minsk-2010", winner of the Delphic Games, CIS participants (Yerevan, 2010). A. Ivanov's performing art is constantly in the public eye of the Vitebsk audience.
Program: works by composers of the 18th–20th centuries.
February 2 at 16:00
P.S. Academies
Philharmonic Hall
D.D. Shostakovich St. Petersburg Philharmonic to Vitebsk
Laureate of the S.I. Savshinsky International Competition
YOUTH TRIO of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society named after D.D. Shostakovich
Laureates of international competitions Olesya MOROZOVA – piano, Yan TOMILOV – violin, Roman KISELEV – cello
The concert features Honored Artist of Russia Daniil MEEROVICH – viola
A beautiful epilogue to the Academy and a well-deserved gift to the talented musicians of Vitebsk will be a concert by the Youth Trio from St. Petersburg. The members of the Youth Trio are artists of the academic symphony orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society named after D.D. Shostakovich. The young performers won the I prize at the V International Competition named after S.I. Savshinsky, an outstanding musician and teacher, professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. The competition took place from November 27 to December 1, 2013, at the Tsarskoye Selo Gymnasium of Arts named after A. Akhmatova in St. Petersburg. Participation in an international competition of this scale, as noted by People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev, is already an achievement, a victory over oneself, an important milestone in the life of a young musician. Performers from Finland, Sweden, Turkey, Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine participated in the competition.
For the first time in Vitebsk, the famous quartet of Gustav Mahler, which has its own interesting creation history, will be performed. To perform this work, Honored Artist of Russia Daniil Meerovich (viola) will join the young musicians. His work is well-known to the Vitebsk public (the I. Stravinsky Quartet, where the violist works, has pleased the audiences of the I.I. Sollertinsky Festivals with its performances several times). The timbral composition of the chamber ensemble, which features the entire string family of the orchestra, allows composers to create high artistic images and convey deep emotions comparable to the drama of symphonies.
The concert will feature a combination of youth and maturity, ardor and composure, boundless skill and virtuosity: