Фестиваль камерной музыки

THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CHAMBER ARTISTS AND ENSEMBLES

SILVER

LYRE

Saint Petersburg
October 26 - November 2, 2023

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About the Festival

As usual, the fourteenth international festival of Chamber Artists and Ensembles«Silver Lyre» showcases eight concerts that will be held in the Grand and Small Halls of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. As always, the opening and closing of the festival will be held in the Grand Hall, and the other six events will be held in the Small Hall named after. M.I. Glinka.
The festival will be opened by the chamber «Singolo Orchestra» conducted by Yaroslav Zaboyarkin. The program includes Mozart's Der Schauspieldirektor, Ouverture and thePiano concerto No. 22 (soloist - Miroslav Kultyshev) and Haydn's «Farewell» Symphony.
Despite the well-known political turbulence, the festival has retained its international component. Along with Russian performers, St. Petersburg lovers of chamber music will meet musicians from Turkey and China.
Among the concerts of foreign performers is a vocal evening of the Chinese tenor Wu Junshengin the Small Philharmonic Hall. Together with pianist Dmitry Pavliy, he will perform works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Rossini, Verdi and other Russian and Italian composers.
The performance of the Turkish piano Bosphorus Trio in the same hall promises to be interesting. The ensemble's program features music by Rachmaninoff, Tuzun, Say, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
The other festival concerts to be held in the Small Hall include one solo piano evening and two duets - vocal and instrumental.
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Pianist Evgeny Izotov will perform piano fantasies by Mozart, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt.
The duet of Nikita Zubarev (Cello) and Stanislav Solovyov (Piano) will present works by Schumann, Beethoven and Rachmaninov to the audience. And the duet of Maria Litke (soprano) and Anna Sheludko (piano) will perform vocal compositions by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff andMedtner.
The traditional, so-called «crossover concert» dedicated to the most popular lyrical songs of the Soviet era will probably attract special attention. The St. Petersburg singer Yulia Mikhailovskaya and her instrumental ensemble will deliver a unique concert entirely consisting of the songs with jazz arrangement specially created by the musicians of the group.
The festival will culminate in the GrandPhilharmonic Hall with a chamber orchestra and choir of the newly created Russian-Chinese Symphony Orchestra under the direction of two female conductors: Victoria Dobrovolskaya (Russia) and Zheng Tongruo(China). The program includes works by Vivaldi, Handel, Mozart, Prokofiev, as well as arrangements of Chinese folk songs. Zhang Lei (soprano), Olesya Tertychnaya (flute), Ilya Kozlov and Mikhail Gantvarg (violin) will take part as soloists in the concert.
Boris Berezovsky
Artistic director of the Festival
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Participants of previous festivals