A chamber music concert will be held at the Vitebsk Regional Philharmonic

On February 22 at 16:00, a chamber music concert will be held at the Vitebsk Regional Philharmonic.

Laureate of international competitions, scholarship holder of the Special Fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus for the Support of Talented Youth.

Konstantin Zelenin – cello (Belarus-Austria)

Laureate of international competitions

Irina Nevskaya – piano (Belarus)

Holder of the Medal of Francysk Skaryna, laureate of international competitions

Ksenia Pogorelaya – organ (Belarus)

Konstantin Zelenin (cello) received his musical education at the Minsk Music Gymnasium-College at the Conservatory (class of E. Feshchenko). In 2007, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in cello under the tutelage of People's Artist Prof. N. Shakhovskaya, and in 2008, he completed his master's degree (class of Prof. V. Perlina). He is currently honing his skills at the Vienna Institute of Arts. He is a laureate of international competitions in Kyiv (2002), Chisinau (2003), Minsk (2003, 2007), Latvia (2004), Austria (2010), and a scholarship holder of the Special Fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus for the Support of Talented Youth.

Irina Nevskaya (piano) is a laureate of international competitions and an associate professor at the Department of Chamber Ensemble of the Belarusian State Academy of Music.

Ksenia Pogorelaya is the only female organist in Belarus, a soloist at the Sophia Cathedral Concert Hall in Polotsk, and was named "Woman of the Year of Vitebsk Region" (2003). Last year, she received the Medal of Francysk Skaryna for her significant contribution to the development of the spiritual and intellectual potential and cultural heritage of the Belarusian people. She is a laureate of the International Festival-Competition of Sacred Music "Mahutny Boža" (Belarus, Mogilev).

Graduated from the P.I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory in piano (Professor M.A. Fedorova) and organ (Professor L.I. Roizman) in 1983. Participated in master classes of V. Zerer, J. Gemballski, E. Koiman, I. Trummer, K. van Cutsem. After graduation, she was a lecturer at the Department of Special Piano at the Far Eastern Institute of Arts (Russia, Vladivostok). Since 1987, she has been a soloist at the concert hall "St. Sophia Cathedral".

Ksenia Pogorelaya is the organizer of the only International Organ Music Festival in Belarus

"Bells of Sophia" in Polotsk, held since 1996, as well as one of the organizers and a jury member of the International Youth Organ Competition "Gatchina – Polotsk". The organist takes part in international organ festivals in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia and Belarus, and also tours in Poland, Ukraine, France.

Program: A. Vivaldi. Sonata for Organ and Cello; R. Schumann. Cello Concerto Op. 129