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What's on

01
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Mon
Concert was rescheduled to
03
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Wed
"In the expanses of Latin America" Jazz Music Evening
Konstantin Maminov - saxophone; Gasan Bagirov - guitar, vocals; Vladimir Kozlov - double bass; Konstantin Kuvaytsev - percussion
Jobim; Piazzolla; Joaquín
04
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Thur
Chamber music evening
Evgenii Ryzhkov - double bass; Dmitrii Khrychev - cello; Vera Vasileva - violin; Vsevolod Lenskikh - violin; Argine Stepanian - violin; Viktoriia Velkova - violin; Aleksei Bogorad - viola; Aleksandr Chizhov - viola; Taras Trepel - cello; Gleb Dyagilev - double bass
Bottesini: Grande Allegro di Concerto (alla Mendelssohn), Concert duet for cello and double bass with orchestra on themes from Bellini’s opera “The Puritans”; Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings
06
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Sat
"Romance Forever" Gala Concert Opening of the II International Festival "The World of Classical Romance"
Daria Terekhova - soprano; Alexey Tikhomirov - bass; Albert Zhalilov - baritone; Agunda Kulaeva - soprano; Joseph Nikitenko - tenor; Yaramir Nizamutdinov - tenor; Ramiz Usmanov - tenor; Georgy Migunov - piano; Maria Chernova - piano; Irina Soboleva - piano
Debussy: Pierrot; R. Strauss: "Cecilia"; Alyabyev: "Nightingale"; Dargomyzhsky: "The Old Corporal"; Rachmaninoff: "Fate"; Mussorgsky: "Serenade" from the cycle "Songs and Dances of Death", "Flea"; Glinka: "Passing song", Romance "In the blood burning fire of desire"; Rubinstein: The Night; Rachmaninoff: "Well here"; Tchaikovsky: "Was I not a blade of grass in the field?", "Does the day reign"; Schubert: "Ave Maria"; Glinka: "I remember the wonderful moment"; Rimsky-Korsakov: "The flying ridge of clouds is thinning"; Tchaikovsky: "I would like to put it in one word"; Rimsky-Korsakov: "Not the wind, blowing from the heights"
Organizers: Oksana Fedorova Charitable Foundation
07
December, 2025
3:00 pm, Sun
Voices of the Academy
Graduates and soloists of the International Academy of Music Elena Obraztsova
Vocal music by Russian and foreign composers
Organizers: ANO "Elena Obraztsova International Academy of Music"
07
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Sun
"Brahms. Personal motives"
Ilya Ioff - violin; Lydia Kovalenko - viola; Stanislav Soloviev - piano; Artem Vargaftik - author of the idea and presenter
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1, String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Selected Songs
08
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Mon
"Northern Sinfonia" Symphony Orchestra
Artistic director and conductor - Fabio Mastrangelo
Olesia Tertychnaia - flute
Dvořák: Serenade for Strings; Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1, Symphony No 36 "Linz"
09
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Tue
Evening of vocal music
Soloists of Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center
Valeria Petrova - piano; Georgy Migunov - piano
Tchaikovsky; Rimsky-Korsakov; Rachmaninoff; Rubinstein; Shostakovich; Sviridov
Organizers: Galina Vishnevskaya Cultural Projects Foundation
10
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Wed
"Russian romance"
Maxim Rubtsov - flute; Peter Laul - piano
Tchaikovsky; Rachmaninoff; Rimsky-Korsakov; Taneyev; Glazunov; Glinka; Lyadov; Arensky; Alyabyev; Grechaninov
11
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Thur
Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music
Alexander Radvilovich - presenter
Boulez: Derive 1 for ensemble and vibraphone (1984); Furrer: Melody for solo flute (2020); Feldman: Duration # 1 for alto flute, violin, cello, and piano (1960); Radvilovich: Two Poems for clarinet and chamber ensemble ("Scardanelli Lines," "Going into the Fog," 2019, 2021); Apergiz: Graffitis for solo percussion (1981); Ekimovsky: Composition No. 2 for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano (1969); Rezetdinov: "Charlie's Smile," a grotesque suite for instrumental ensemble and percussion (2025, first performance)
12
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Fri
Concert for the Maestro's birthday
"Flautissimo" Quartet
Dmitry Terentyev (flute)
Olesia Tertychnaia (flute)
Marianna Murzina (flute)
Ksenia Cuellar (flute)
Taneyev Quartet
Ilia Kozlov (violin)
Dmitrii Koriavko (violin)
Denis Gonchar (viola)
Conductor - Yaroslav Zaboyarkin
Lev Klychkov - violin; Anna Makarova - harp; Pavel Popov - violin; Ilia Kozlov - violin; Iurii Ushchapovskii - violin; Aleksei Bogorad - viola; Dmitrii Khrychev - cello; Taras Trepel - cello; Evgenii Ryzhkov - double bass; Artem Isaev - oboe; Nikita Liutikov - clarinet; Denis Sukhov - clarinet; Oleg Skrotskiy - french horn; Maksim Pankov - piano; Evgeny Izotov - piano
Schubert: Trio No.2 in E flat Major; Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2 in F major ("Kabardinsky"); R. Strauss: Andante for Horn and Piano; Paganini: Cantabile; Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade", fantasy on themes from the suite; Elgar: “Salut d’amour”; Tchaikovsky: Russian Dance from the ballet "Swan Lake"; Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Tsfasman: Intermezzo for clarinet; Legrand: Music from "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg"; Glazunov: Chant du menestrele for Cello and Orchestra; Lovreglio: Fantasy on themes from Bellini's opera "Norma" for oboe, clarinet and chamber orchestra
13
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Sat
Vadim Monastyrsky
Piano evening
Bartók: Piano Suite; R. Strauss: Stimmungsbilder for piano; Liszt: Two Petrarch Sonnets, Sonata h-moll
14
December, 2025
3:00 pm, Sun
"Inspired by romanticism"
Valentina Fedeneva - soprano; Anna Vikulina - soprano; Vladimir Tselebrovsky - baritone; Ilya Chirskov - piano; Elena Spist - piano; Alina Komarkova - piano
Alexander Galitsky - presenter
Liszt; Verdi; Tchaikovsky
14
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Sun
"Both duet and solo" Compositions for piano and piano ensembles
Anna Sheludko - piano; Evgeny Izotov - piano
Shostakovich: Selected Prelude, op. 34; Prokofiev: Six fragments from the suite "Romeo and Juliet"; Shostakovich: Concertino for two pianos; Prokofiev: Suite from the ballet "Cinderella"
Organizers: Philharmonic Society
15
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Mon
"Invitation to dance"
Haik Kazazyan (violin)
Haik Kazazyan - violin; Evgenij Starodubcev - piano
Kreisler: At the Tempo of the Menu (in the style of Pugnani); Mozart: Menuet from the Divertimento in D major, K. 334 (arranged by J. Heifetz); Wieniawski: Mazurka "Obertas"; Dvořák: Slavonic Dance No. 2, Mazurka in E minor, Op. 49; De Falla: Spanish Dance from the opera "La Brief Life" (arranged by F. Kreisler); Sarasate: Andalusian Romance, Spanish Dance "Jota Navarra"; Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances; Tchaikovsky: Russian Dance from the ballet "Swan Lake", Sentimental Waltz; Stravinsky: Russian Dance from the ballet "Petrushka" (arranged by S. Dushkin); Khachaturian: Aisha's Dance and Sabre Dance from the ballet "Gayane" (arranged by J. Heifetz); Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 5, 9, 17; Ravel: Piece in the Form of Habaneras; Bacini: "Dance of the Dwarves"
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16
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Tue
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17
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Wed
Concert was rescheduled to
17
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Wed
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20
December, 2025
2:00 pm, Sat
Maestro Gorkovenko's Golden Repertoire IV St. Petersburg Music Festival named after S.K. Gorkovenko
Conductor - Maxim Alexeev
Elena Istratova - presenter
Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave, Italian Capriccio, Adagio from the ballet "The Nutcracker", Op. 71; Garayev: Waltz from the ballet "Seven Beauties"; Khachaturian: "Spartacus" & "Gayaneh", Excerpts from music ballets
Organizers: ANO "Center for Festival and Exhibition Activities, Cultural and Educational Programs and Publishing Projects "KultProsvet"
20
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Sat
The Maestro Temirkanov International Foundation for Cultural Initiatives
Symphony Orchestra of the Special Music School of St Petersburg Conservatory
Conductor - Arkady Steinlucht
Petr Morozov - clarinet; Fedor Maksimov - cello; Anna Komarova - flute; Ivan Sendetsky - cello; Alexei Tishchenko - violin; Elizaveta Ukrainskaya - piano
Mozart: Violin Concerto No 4; Kraft: Cello Concerto; Rossini: Introduction, theme and variations for clarinet and orchestra; Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillant; Chaminade : Flute Concertino; Elgar: Cello Concerto
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21
December, 2025
3:00 pm, Sun
"Between Love and Rebellion"
(romanticism)
Oleg Vainstein - piano; Alexei Tishchenko - violin; Vera Chekanova - soprano; Mikhail Blekher - piano; Natalia Entelis - presenter
Schubert; Schumann; Chopin; Paganini
21
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Sun
"Old and new"
Rastrelli Cello Quartet
Artistic director, cello - Kirill Kravtsov
Mikhail Degtyarev (cello)
Kirill Timopheev (cello)
Sergey Drabkin (cello)
Vivaldi: La Folia; Grieg: Peer Gynt, fragments; Timopheev: "Theme with variations"; Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances; Gershwin: Clarinet Suite from the opera "Porgy and Bess"; Drabkin - Tariverdiev: "17 moments of swing"; Piazzolla: Oblivion, Fuga y Misterio, Libertango; "Dedication to Belarus" (arranged by S. Drabkin)
The program is subject to change
22
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Mon
Moonlight sonnets of Russian and foreign music
Symphony Choir of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic
Artistic director, conductor - Andrey Petrenko
Marina Prince - presenter
Whitaker: "Lux Aurumque"; Mendelssohn: "Mein Herz erhebet Gott", German Magnificat; Gounod: "La Nuit"; Schumann: "Dreams" from the cycle "Scenes from Childhood" for piano (free arrangement for choir by A. Petrenko); Rheinberger: "Abendlied", motet from the cycle "Three Spiritual Songs"; Dranitsyn: "Ave Maria zart", text and melody by Johann Georg Braun; Elgar: "Serenade"; Esenvalds: "Stars"; Gurilev: "The Bell Rings Monotonously", arrangement by A. Petrenko; Russian Folk Songs: "O, Field", arrangement by A. Novikov, "Dorozhenka", arrangement by A. Sveshnikov, "Troika", arrangement by O. Kolovsky, revised by A. Petrenko, "White Bird Cherry," arranged by M. Serkov; Dranitsyn: "Evening Bells," variations on a Russian folk song; Banevich: "On the Quiet Pipe of Love"; Falik: "Stranger"; Smirnov: "On a Quiet Night..." from the cycle "Three Intermezzo on the Poems of I. Bunin.", "Approaching Izhora..." from the cycle "Five Poems by Russian Poets."; Abaza: "Foggy Morning," arranged for chorus by A. Petrenko; Rosenfeld: "My Happiness"; Tsfasman: "Unsuccessful Date," arranged by A. Petrenko; Gordon: "At the Samovar"; Soloviev-Sedoy: "Moscow Nights," free arrangement by A. Petrenko; Gavrilin: "The City Sleeps," arranged by A. Petrenko
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23
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Tue
Laureates of the Hibla Gerzmava Vocal Competition Vocal evening
Polina Sharovarova - mezzo-soprano; Stanislav Lee - baritone; Mark Vasa - piano
Mozart: Count Almaviva's Aria from "The Marriage of Figaro"; Rossini: Isabella's Cavatina from "The Italian Girl in Algeri", Figaro's Cavatina from "The Barber of Seville", Rosina's Cavatina from "The Barber of Seville", Duet of Figaro and Rosina from "The Barber of Seville"; Tchaikovsky: "Dumka," a Russian village picture, Robert's Aria from "Iolanta", Don Giovanni's Serenade, "Amid the Noisy Ball"; Rimsky-Korsakov: Lel's song "The Cloud and the Thunder Conspired..." from the opera "The Snow Maiden"; Glière: "Night is Coming"; Rachmaninoff: Etude-tableau, Op. 39 No. 4, "In the Silence of the Secret Night", "Yesterday We Met..."; Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in G major, Op. 87 No. 3; Offenbach: Aria of the Countess of Gerolstein from the operetta "The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein"; Kalman: Aria of Mister X from the operetta "The Circus Princess"; Albeniz: Cordoba from the cycle "Spanish Airs"; Montsalvatge: "Five Negro Songs" (Nos. 1, 4, and 5)
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24
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Wed
Rachmaninoff. Piano sonata No. 2
Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky
Alexei Melnikov - piano
Brahms: 6 Pieces Op.118; Chopin: Nocturne Des-dur, op. 27 ¹ 1, Ballade No. 4; Tchaikovsky: Five pieces from the cycle "Eighteen Pieces for Piano"; Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2
25
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Thur
"Blizzard & Jazz"
Alexander Maslov Jazz Trio
Filipp Meshcheryakov (double bass)
Pavel Chizhik (percussion, vibraphone)
Conductor - Maxim Alexeev
Sviridov: Musical illustrations to Alexander Pushkin‘s “Snowstorm”; Maslov: Two dances based on Mikhail Glinka's themes from the opera "A Life for the Tsar" (Polonaise, Cracovienne), "Jazz Pictures" based on Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" ("The Gnome," "The Old Castle," "The Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks," "The Hut on Chicken Legs"), "New Year's Fantasy"; Tchaikovsky – Maslov: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Russian Dance from the ballet "The Nutcracker"
Organizers: "Tchaikovsky" Musical Culture Center
26
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Fri
"The Star of Captivating Happiness" Dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the film of the same name and the 200th anniversary of the events of December 14 (26), 1825 on Senate SquareAs part of a joint project with Lenfilm film concern
Conductor - Pavel Petrenko
Vladimir Tselebrovsky - baritone; Elizaveta Maidanova - soprano; Alexander Galibin - reciter; Irina Savitskova - reciter; Julia Kantor - presenter
Glinka: Waltz Fantasy; Schubert: Grand Funeral March (on the death of Alexander I), The Great heroic march to the coronation of Nicholas I; Khachaturian: Waltz from Masquerade; Sviridov: Military march from musical illustrations for A.S.Pushkin's novel "The Snowstorm"; Schwartz: Excerpts from the music for the film "The Captivating Star of Happiness", "Swing", a romance for voice and piano, "The song of the Cavalry Guard"; Pushkin; Lermontov; Odoevsky; Kuchelbecker; Nekrasov; Tyutchev; Agnivtsev
27
December, 2025
3:00 pm, Sat
"The Magic of Strauss"
State Russian concert orchestra
Conductor - Vladimir Andropov
Elena Zastavnaya - soprano; Alexander Gontsa - baritone
Organizers: State Russian Concert Orchestra
27
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Sat
"Towards the virtuosos"
Maria Shalgina - violin; Dmitrii Petrov - violin, viola; Daria Shaposhnikova - piano
Ravel: "Gypsy", Rhapsody for Violin and Piano; Sarasate: "Navarra"; Glier: Duets for two violins; Bizet – Waxman: Fantasy on themes from the opera "Carmen" for violin and piano; Bacewicz: Suite for two violins; Shostakovich: Five pieces for two violins and piano; Rakov: Five pieces for two violins and piano; Halvorsen: Concert Caprice on Norwegian melodies for two violins; Handel – Halvorsen: Passacaglia for violin and viola; Frolov: Jazz pieces for two violins and piano
28
December, 2025
3:00 pm, Sun
A New Year's Tale
Chizhik Jazz Trio
Irina Chizhik - reader; Julia Labutina - sand animation
Irina Smuckul - presenter
"The Nutcracker", composition to music for Tchaikovsky's ballet; "Cinderella", composition to music for Prokofiev's ballet
28
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Sun
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Johann Sebastian Bach On the 500th anniversary of the birth of G. Palestrina and the 340th anniversary of J.S. Bach's birth
Festino Vocal Ensemble
Artistic director, conductor - Alexandra Makarova
Palestrina: Motet "Sicut cervus", Missa Papae Marcelli; Bach: Three motets (No. 1, 3 and 5)
29
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Mon
"Four Seasons" Concert
Chamber Orchestra
Ksenia Cuellar - flute; Tikhon Lukyanenko - violin, percussion; Nikolai Mazhara - piano; Petr Gogitidze - contrabass
Vivaldi: "Le quattro stagioni"; Tchaikovsky: "The Seasons", pieces from the cycle in jazz arrangement by Svetlana Nesterova
Organizers: IP Ogorodnikov A.V.
30
December, 2025
3:00 pm, Tue
"Masterpieces of the Classics"
Music for duduk
Festive concert
Argishty - duduk (Armenia); Artur Bochkivsky - guitar; Olga Pakhomova - cello
“Coolness of the Mountains”, Armenian folk melody; Tchaikovsky: "Sweet Dream", "Old French Song", Lensky's aria from the opera "Eugene Onegin"; Bach: Aria from the suite, Counterpoint, “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ”, chorale prelude; Schubert: Serenade, Ave Maria; Pachelbel: Sarabande; Purcell: Dido's Aria; Bach – Gounod: Ave Maria; Albinoni: Adagio; Harito: “The chrysanthemums have bloomed in the garden”; Caccini: Ave Maria; Fleischman: Lullaby
Organizers: Argishty
30
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Tue
Piazzolla
"Remolino" Ensemble
Polina Redko - flute
Piazzolla: "Summer" and "Winter" from "Four Seasons in Buenos Aires", "Michelangelo 70", Nightclub 1960, "Contrabajissimo", Maria de Buenos Aires, excerpts from tango operita, Concerto for Quartet; Brahms: Hungarian Dance No 1; Dinicu: Hora Martisorului; Rota: Fantasy on themes from film music; Kancheli: "A Little Daneliad"; Galliano: Bandoneon Concerto
Organizers: "Enterpriserusart"
31
December, 2025
3:00 pm, Wed
New Year's concert
A. Lubyantsev (piano) and E. Lubyantseva (violin)
Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo; Beethoven: Sonata No. 14; Schubert - Liszt: "Forest King" ("Erlkönig"); Liszt: Mephisto Waltz, 6 Concert Etudes after Paganini Caprices; Bach - Gounod: "Ave Maria"; Schubert - Liszt: Serenade
Organizers: Alexander Lubyantsev
31
December, 2025
7:00 pm, Wed
"New Year cocktail"
Chamber Olympic Orchestra
Conductor - Alexander Golikov
Alexander Kashpurin - piano
Vivaldi; Tchaikovsky; Strauss; Gershwin; Tsfasman
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