What's on

Celebratory Concert on the Victory Day

Academic Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Russian Army named after A.V.Alexandrov

Solovyov-Sedoy; Blanter; Novikov; Frenkel; Dunaevsky; Agapkin; Alexandrov; Pakhmutova; Tukhmanov

03

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Thur

Moscow
Conductor - Vladimir Begletsov

St Petersburg Concert Choir

Boys choir of the Glinka choral college

Conductor - Vladimir Begletsov
Ekaterina Kurbanova - mezzo-soprano; Anton Andreev - baritone

Kalinnikov: Symphony No.1; Mussorgsky: Sunrise on the Moscow River; Tchaikovsky: Cantata "Moscow" for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra, Festival Coronation March

05

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Sat

Shostakovich. Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad"
Conductor - Yuri Temirkanov

07

May, 2018

6:00 pm, Mon

"Song Festival"

08

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Tue

Roman Perucki (Poland)
Organ Music Evening

J.-S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E flat major; Mendelssohn: Sonata for Organ No.3 in A major (with theme of chorale "Aus der Tiefe rufe Ich"), Sonata for Organ No.6 in D minor (with theme of chorale "Unser Vater"); Gronau: "Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist" ("Come, God Creator, Holy Ghost"); Morandi: Bell-Rondo (Rondo con imitazione de' campanelli); Vivaldi: "Extravagance" Concerto ("La Stravaganza")

09

May, 2018

7:00 pm, Wed

"Victory Spring"

Leningrad Military District Navy Admiralty Band

Conductor - Valentin Lyashchenko
Mila Shkirtil - mezzo-soprano; Anton Petryaev - baritone

Ippolitov-Ivanov; Basner; Tukhmanov; Agapkin; Semen Chernetsky; Shatrov; Joyce; Kyuss; Rodrigues; Rodriguez

11

May, 2018

7:00 pm, Fri

Opening of the 54st St.Petersburg Musical Spring International Festival

Conductor - Vladimir Altschuler
Natalia Evstafieva - mezzo-soprano

Glière: "Hymn to the Great City" from "The Bronze Horseman"; Slonimsky: "Petersburg Visions"; Banshchikov: "Petersburg Nocturne", Cantata for mezzo-soprano and orchestra on the words of A.Blok; Banevich: "Petersburg", a suite from the ballet-fantasy based on the novel by A.Bely; Petrov: "Brilliant Saint Petersburg", music for symphony orchestra

12

May, 2018

7:00 pm, Sat

Bizet. "Carmen" Concert performance

St.Petersburg Youth Orchestra

Soloists of Elena Obraztsova Musical Academia

Conductor - Migran Agadzhanyan
Dara Savinova - mezzo-soprano

Organizers: Elena Obraztsova Musical Academy

13

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Sun

"Klassika" St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra

Evening of Popular Classics

Conductor - Alexander Kantorov
Alina Alexeeva - soprano; Valery Matveev - tenor; Andrey Danilov - baritone

J. Strauss II: "Fledermaus", "Der Zigeunerbaron", Waltzes, Polkas; Waldteufel: "Pomone" Waltz, "The Kiss" Waltz; Lehár: "The Merry Widow" ("Die lustige Witwe"); Offenbach: "Orpheus in the Underworld" ("Orphée aux enfers"); Suppé: Overture to "Leichte Kavallerie" ("Light Cavalry"), Ouvertüre from "Banditenstreiche"; Kálmán: "The Circus Princess", "Countess Maritza" ("Gräfin Mariza"), "The Violet of Montmartre" ("Das Veilchen vom Montmartre")

14

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Mon

Rota. Music for movies

Conductor - Dimitris Botinis
Giuseppe Albanese - piano

Alexander Malich - presenter

Uspensky: Suite from "The Cranes Are Flying"; Rota: Piano Concerto in С major, Music from "Rocco and His Brothers" ("Rocco e i suoi fratelli"); Bernstein: West Side Story, suite from musical

Supported by: Italian Cultural Institut,

16

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Wed

Сonductor - Mariss Jansons
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

XIII International Festival "Musical Collection"

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"; R. Strauss: "Don Juan", Symphony Poem; Ravel: La valse

17

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Thur

"Paganini Double Bass"

Conductor - Pavel Bubelnikov
Dominik Wagner - double bass (Austria); Artem Chirkov - double bass

XIII International Festival "Musical Collection"

Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Excerpts; Bottesini: Passione amoroso for two double-basses and orchestra; Koussevitzky: Double-bass Concerto; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol

Cancelled concert

18

May, 2018

7:00 pm, Fri

Gala Concert of Soloists of Elena Obraztsova Musical Academia

St.Petersburg Youth Orchestra

conductor - Migran Agadzhanyan
Ilze Liepa - presenter; Olga Makarina - soprano; Elena Makarova - mezzo-soprano; Evgeny Akimov - tenor; Roman Burdenko - baritone; Vladimir Vaneev - bass; Askar Abdrazakov - bass; Olesya Petrova - mezzo-soprano; Sergey Semishkur - tenor; Vladimir Samsonov - baritone; Yulia Mazurova - soprano; Gleb Peryazev - bass; Efim Zavalny - baritone; Svetlana Kapicheva - mezzo-soprano; Yulia Gertseva - mezzo-soprano

Organizers: Elena Obraztsova Musical Academy

19

May, 2018

6:00 pm, Sat

"Museums at Night"

6 pm
"Petersburg. Metamorphoses of one City"
St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Evgeny KHOKHLOV
Strauss II. Waltz "Farewell to St.Petersburg"
Prokofiev. Pushkin's Waltzes
Schwartz. "Melodies of the White Night"

7 pm
"Tango. Metamorphoses of one Dance"

"REMOLINO" Ensemble

PIAZZOLLA

8 pm
"Maurice Ravel. Metamorphoses of one Theme"
Dmitry PETROV violin
Dmitrii KHRYCHOV cello
Daria SHAPOSHNIKOVA piano
RAVEL. Sonata for violin ahd piano
Trio for violin, cello and piano

9 pm
"Metamorphosis "Encore"
Bis-Quit Ensemble
Andrey ANTIPOV artistic director and soloist (bass-balalaika)

10 pm
"Seasons. Metamorphoses of one Plot"
DIVERTISSEMENT Chamber Orchestra
Ilya IOFF - artistic director and soloist (violin)
VIVALDI, MARTYNOV, PIAZZOLLA, AKHUNOV

11 pm
"Minimalism. Metamorphosis of one Style?"
Oleg WEINSTAIN piano
BACH, BEETHOVEN, GLASS

12 am
"Metamodern. Metamorphoses of Russian Emptiness"

St. Petersburg MolOt-Ensemble
Festino Chamber Choir
Conductor - Ivan SHINKARIOFF
SUDZILOVSKY, GUDACHEV, KHUSHCHEVA

01 am

"Jazz Metamorphosis of Russian Classics"
Stanislav CHIGADAEV piano

02 am
"Metamorphoses of the Night"
SINGOLO ORCHESTRA
Conductor - Iaroslav ZABOIARKIN
Soloist - Nikita ZUBAREV cello
MOZART, SALLINEN, SCHOENBERG

03 am
"Quintet of Four. Metamorphosis of one Ensemble"
MUSSOGSKY, APHEX TWIN, TCHAIKOVSKY, GALLIANO, NIRVANA

04 am
"Jazz Metamorphosis of Ppopular Songs"
"Plus Five" Vocal Ensamble
COHEN, Beatles, LEGRAN, ARMSTRONG, Queen

05 am
"Organ. Metamorphosis of one Instrument"
Olga ZHUKOVA organ
J.-S.BACH, MENDELSSOHN, VIERNE, GLASS

20

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Sun

"Hymn to the Great City"

Conductor - Evgeny Khokhlov
Nikolai Mazhara - piano

XIII International Festival "Musical Collection"

Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin, ; J. Strauss II: Waltz "Farewell to St.Petersburg", , Polka "Neva"; Prokofiev: Pushkin's Waltzes; Glière: "Hymn to the Great City" from "The Bronze Horseman"; Schwartz: "Melodies of the White Night", suite

21

May, 2018

7:00 pm, Mon

Anniversary concert of the Rimsky-Korsakov Music School

23

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Wed

Andreyev State Russian Orchestra

Conductor - Dmitry Khokhlov
Anna Buslidze - mezzo-soprano; Oleg Losev - tenor; Vladislav Kuprianov - baritone

Andreev; Varlamov; Dargomyzhsky; Mussorgsky; Rimsky-Korsakov; Tchaikovsky; Rachmaninoff; Khachaturian ; Sibelius; Strauss; Curtis; Kálmán

24

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Thur

"Two Centuries of Russian Waltz"

Conductor - Maxim Fedotov

XIII International Festival "Musical Collection"

Tchaikovsky: Waltz from Eugene Onegin, Final Waltz from The Nutcracker; Rubinstein: Waltz-Caprice; Glazunov: Concert Waltz No 1, Waltz from Raymonda; Chopin - Glazunov: Waltz No. 7; Sviridov: Waltz from the musical illustrations to A.S. Pushkin's "Snowstorm"; Prokofiev: Waltz from the War and Peace, Big Waltz and The Clock from "Cinderella"; Ovchinnikov: Waltz from War and Peace film; Tariverdiev: Waltz from The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy your Banya!; Shostakovich: Waltz from Jazz Suite No 2; Khachaturian : Waltz from Masquerade; Glinka: Waltz Fantasy

25

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Fri

Conductor - Jacek Kaspszyk (Poland)
Mozart, Dvořák

Conductor - Jacek Kaspszyk (Poland)
Nikita Liutikov - clarinet

XIII International Festival "Musical Collection"

Mozart: Don Giovanni, Overture, Clarinet Concerto; Dvořák: Symphony No.8

27

May, 2018

4:00 pm, Sun

The 23th International Festival Musical Olympus

Conductor - Valentin Uryupin
Santiago Cañón Valencia - cello (Colombia); Yajie Zhang - mezzo-soprano (China); Alexander Allman - piano (UK)

Petrov: “Vivat, Olympus!” Celebration Overture; Haydn: Concerto in C major for Cello and Orchestra; Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2; Ravel: La valse; Saint-Saёns: Delilah's Aria opera "Samson and Delilah"; Massenet; Rossini: Rosina's Cavatina from "The Barber of Seville"

27

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Sun

Orff. "Carmina Burana"

St. Petersburg Concert Choir

Boys choir of the Glinka choral college

Conductor - Felix Korobov
Anna Denisova - soprano; Stanislav Leontiev - tenor; Vladislav Sulimsky - baritone

XIII International Festival "Musical Collection"

Supported by: Marine Propulsion Systems Ltd.,

28

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Mon

Mozart. Symphony No.40
Tchaikovsky. Suite from "The Sleeping Beauty"

St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra

Conductor - Alexander Titov

XIII International Festival "Musical Collection"

29

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Tue

"Step Forward" Festival

Conductor - Stanislav Kochanovsky
Oleg Akkuratov - piano; Nikita Pletnev - piano; Anton Belousov - piano; Alexei Stepanov - piano; Vladislav Sokolov and Nikita Sokolov - saxophone

Haydn: Piano Concerto in G major; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3; Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 2; Liszt: Totentanz; Singelée: Duo Concertante for two Saxophones and Orchestra

Organizers: “Step Foward!” International Festival

30

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Wed

"The Seasons"
SIGNUM Saxophone-Quartet

Simone Zanchini - accordion (Italy)

XIII International Festival "Musical Collection"

Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni; Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, «Four» Tango, "Michelangelo" Tango

31

May, 2018

8:00 pm, Thur