Vitebsk Philharmonic opens a new season

The Vitebsk Philharmonic Society is pleased to open its doors in anticipation of the new season. In September, you can enjoy the domra, piano, and organ, and there are also special projects for children.

On September 8 at 16:00, a chamber music concert will feature laureate of All-Russian and international music competitions Ekaterina MOCHALOVA – domra (Russia).

Ekaterina is a master's student at the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music (class of People's Artist of Russia, Professor Vyacheslav Kruglov), laureate and holder of the Grand Prize from the Special Fund of the President of Belarus for the Support of Talented Youth, and an artist of the N.P. Osipov National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments of Russia. She will perform works by D. Scarlatti, W.A. Mozart, A. Tsygankov, M. Ravel, S. Prokofiev, E. Zimbalist, and others, accompanied on the piano by laureate of All-Russian and international competitions Olga Silvestrova.

On September 20 at 18:30

, a piano music concert dedicated to the 140th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff will take place. On the Vitebsk stage, works by the outstanding Russian composer will be performed by laureate of international competitions and the Special Fund of the President of Belarus for the Support of Gifted Students Arseniy SADIKOV (Germany, Belarus).

A graduate of the Belarusian State Academy of Music, Arseniy continued his studies at the Monteverdi Conservatory in Bolzano (Italy), studied at the renowned Musica Mundi in Brussels (Belgium), and at the Y. Bashmet Music Academy in Minsk. Currently, Arseniy Sadikov is a master's student at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Weimar (Germany). The young pianist has already toured in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Belarus – with solo programs, with symphony orchestras, and as part of chamber ensembles.

A concert of chamber and organ music "Monologues of the Soul" dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Belarusian Union of Composers will be held on August 27 at 6:30 PM. The diverse works to be performed at the concert, ranging from pieces from "Polotsk Notebook," works by S. Manyushko, P. Zelyakhovsky, to compositions by A. Litvin, I. Luchenok, A. Korotkina, and other contemporary Belarusian composers, will showcase the history of the development of Belarusian compositional creativity.

The program will feature Ksenia Pogorelaya (organ), soloist of the concert hall of St. Sophia Cathedral in Polotsk, Anna Korotkina (piano), a member of the Union of Composers of Belarus and a composer, and other performers. In November, in honor of the anniversary of the Belarusian Union of Composers, music by renowned Belarusian authors will be performed in concert halls across the country, revealing a panorama of the current state of compositional creativity in Belarus.

For children, before the start of the new concert season, the philharmonic will present the concert "Fairy Tale Metamorphoses" based on the best children's programs of the philharmonic. This is a kind of musical "preview" of the children's programs that will be performed on the philharmonic stage during the XXV season. The philharmonic artists will perform the best concert numbers and beloved scenes from the musical "The Stories of Cat Philofey," the children's opera "The Royal Sandwich," the theatrical performance "Little Fairy Tales for the Little Ones," the fairy tale fantasy "The Snow Maiden," the musical program "Let's Play Circus," and others. The concert will be held with the direct participation of young spectators: they will travel through fairy tales together with the host, Tatyana Savitskaya.

Tatyana Solovyova