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From March 27 to April 3, 2019, Moscow will host an anniversary X International Festival Mstislav Rostropovich, established by the Government of Moscow and the Fund for Cultural and Humanitarian Programs of M. L. Rostropovich in 2010.

The Mstislav Rostropovich Festival is being held for the tenth time and traditionally brings together in its program the names of the best soloists and ensembles at the main concert venues in Moscow. The program of the Festival 2019 confirms the high artistic level, which was determined by its leader, the Honored Art Worker Russian Federation Olga Rostropovich is still at the first Festival. According to her, when compiling a program, she always thinks about whether Mstislav Rostropovich would approve of the choice of certain participants and works - this is the main criterion: “I am glad that we have the opportunity to make Moscow a place where the biggest musicians from all over the world come together for a week.” Concerts of the anniversary Festival will be held in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and the Zaryadye Concert Hall.

For nine years, 35 orchestras, 100 soloists, 14 choirs, 38 conductors have performed at the International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival. London Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra de Paris, Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, conductors Zubin Mehta, Maris Jansons, Christoph Eschenbach, Myung-Vun Chung, Antonio Pappano, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Yurovsky, soloists Ramon Vargas, Matthias Guerne, Gidon Kremer, Nikolay Znaider, Maxim Vengerov, Denis Matsuev, Rudolf Buchbinder, Luca Debargue, Yuja Wong, Enrico Dindo, Truls Mork, Alisa Weilerstein - these are a few names that have graced the festival poster in different years. Concerts of the Festival were attended by more than 90 thousand listeners!

The date of the grand opening of the Festival is unchanged – March 27, birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich: Honored Collective of Russia Academic Symphony OrchestraSt. Petersburg Philharmonic named after D. D. Shostakovich governed by Yuri Temirkanov. During the life of Mstislav Rostropovich, the musicians were connected not only by long-term professional relations, but also by sincere friendship, which is invariably emphasized by maestro Temirkanov, who, together with his orchestra, takes part in the Festival not for the first time. The program of the evening includes the Overture to the opera Euryanta by K. M. von Weber, Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" by A. Dvorak and Concerto for cello and orchestra by R. Schumann, soloist - winner International Competition Mstislav Rostropovich in Paris in 1997 virtuoso cellist Enrico Dindo(Italy).

March 29“Alborada, or the Jester’s Morning Serenade” by M. Ravel, the suite from the ballet “The Firebird” by I. Stravinsky, as well as the orchestral suite “Love the Enchantress” by Manuel de Falla will be performed Symphony Orchestra TeatroReal- one of the largest opera symphony orchestras. Will stand behind the conductor's stand Gustavo Gimeno, one of the most sought-after conductors of the younger generation. In Concerto No. 1 for violin and orchestra by K. Shimanovsky, the Russian public will hear a young violinist Leticia Moreno(Spain), which has repeatedly performed with the leading orchestras of Europe. Leticia Moreno plays an instrument by Nicolo Galliano, made in 1762.

March 30 and 31 concerts will become eventful - the orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia conducted by Antonio Pappano on the first evening, he will perform the music of Ludwig van Beethoven: the Egmont Symphony Overture and Symphony No. 5. In the Piano Concerto No. 3, the soloist will be a young Swiss pianist, winner of many awards at international competitions Francesco Piemontesi. March 31 Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 will be performed.

April 1 on the stage of the new Zaryadye Concert Hall, the Yokohama Sinfonietta Orchestra, which has already performed with great success at the Festival, conducted by Kazuki Yamada will perform Symphony No. 39 by W. A. ​​Mozart and the “Classical” Symphony by S. Prokofiev. In L. van Beethoven's Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra, he will perform as a soloist Nobuyuki Tsujii- blind from birth Japanese pianist and composer who received the Gold Medal at the XIII Van Cliburn Piano Competition in Texas.

April 3 in the final concert of the Festival, the Moscow audience will hear the second program of the Yokohama Sinfonietta orchestra: Symphony No. 3 "Scottish" by F. Mendelssohn and a concerto for violin and orchestra by L. van Beethoven.

Soloist - Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang one of the leading singers of her generation. Critics and the public note expression, virtuosity and musicality in her performance. He plays the Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin, provided by the Anna-Sophie Mutter Foundation.

As part of the Festival, an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Mstislav Rostropovich will be held in the lobby of the Great Hall of the Conservatory.

Creator and artistic director Festival Olga Rostropovich This is how the concept of the Festival is defined: “At his concerts, works of the highest level and in the best performance should sound.” The success of this simple and effective formula is confirmed only by the highest marks of critics and the musical community. The festival, worthy of the personality of Mstislav Rostropovich, certainly ranks among the main musical events in the world.

Orchestra "Yokohama Sinfonietta" created from students and graduates of the Tokyo University of Fine Arts with the participation of conductor Kazuki Yamada. The debut of the team took place in 1999 in concert hall Kawaguchi Lilia Hall. Other venues followed, as well as the Treasure Box Series at the Kanagawa Prefectural Concert Hall in 2001.

The band was originally called the Tomato Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2005, he was reorganized into the Yokohama Sinfonietta professional band. For its first official concert in 2008, the orchestra invited the violinist Emiri Miyamoto as a soloist. At the same time, conductor Ken-ichiro Kobayashi became the band's musical consultant.

In 2013, the orchestra became the first band from Japan to take part in the Crazy Days festival in Nantes (France), where they performed seven concerts with great success. In 2015 he performed at the international music festival in the Korean city of Tongyeong. The Yokohama Sinfonietta Orchestra performed several charity concerts at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, honored by a visit from Her Majesty the Empress of Japan. The team was awarded the Yokohama City Prize in the field of culture and art.

In 2013, the orchestra created its own recording studio Tomatone. Together with maestro Kazuki Yamada, he recorded several discs for Exton and Tomatone labels. Among them: an album with violin concertos by Brahms and Mendelssohn, a CD with symphonies by Bizet and Mozart, a CD with Symphony No. 8 by Schubert.

Kazuki Yamada

Kazuki Yamada was born in Kanagawa (Japan) in 1979. He studied at the conducting course at the Tokyo University of the Arts, after which (2001) he was awarded the Ataka-Prize. He also studied with Gerhard Markson at the Salzburg Mozarteum (2002).In September 2009, Kazuki Yamada won the Grand Prix at the International Competition for Young Conductors in Besancon (France), also receiving the public prize.

The 2010-2011 season saw the debuts of Kazuki Yamada in Paris with the Orchester de Paris, Berlin with the Berlin Radio Symphony and London with the BBC Symphony; he also performed at the Crazy Days festival in Nantes, the Kissingen Summer festival in Germany with the Orchestra of Paris and with the English Chamber Orchestra on tour of the group in France.

Last season, the conductor made his first appearances with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra, the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, the St.

Since the 2012-2013 season, Kazuki Yamada has been Principal Guest Conductor of the French Switzerland Orchestra. The young conductor's appointment follows his triumphant debut with the band in June 2010.

In Japan, Kazuki Yamada is the permanent conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra. He also regularly performs with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Kanagawa, Nagoya and Sendai Philharmonic Orchestras, and the Kanazawa Orchestral Ensemble. In August 2010, on the recommendation of Seiji Ozawa, he performed with the orchestra of Japan's famous Saito-Kinen Festival. Kazuki Yamada is also the musical director of the Yokohama Sinfonietta Orchestra, which he founded while studying at the Tokyo University of the Arts.

The conductor's repertoire includes all the symphonies of Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Borodin. Among the soloists with whom Kazuki Yamada has worked are: Liza Batiashvili, Boris Berezovsky, Nobuko Imai, Daniel Müller-Schott, Vadim Repin, Fazil Sai, Baiba Skride, Jean Yves Thibaudet, Leon Fleischer, Janine Jansen. Kazuki Yamada is extremely passionate about performing choral music and is the permanent conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic Choir. Together with this team, he released 4 CDs on the Fontec label.

In 2011 Kazuki Yamada was awarded the Idemitsu Music Prize for Young Artists of Japan by the major Japanese oil company Idemitsu Kosan.

Vilde Frang

Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang was born in 1986 in Oslo. She studied at the Marie-Louise Baratt Douai Music Institute in Oslo, then at high school music and theater in Hamburg with Kolya Blacher and the Kronberg Academy with Anna Chumachenko.

She was a fellow of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust and the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.

At the age of 12, at the invitation of Maris Jansons, the violinist made her debut with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then, she has performed with the world's leading orchestras: the Concertgebouw, the Bavarian and North German Radio Orchestras, the Munich Philharmonic, the German Chamber Philharmonic Bremen, the Paris and French Radio Orchestras, the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and others.

Collaborates with such conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Giovanni Antonini, Herbert Bloomstedt, Valery Gergiev, Sakari Oramo, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin, Yuri Temirkanov, Ivan Fischer, Bernard Haitink, David Zinman, Christoph Eschenbach, Vladimir Yurovsky , Maris Jansons, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi.

Vilde Frang is a participant of festivals in Salzburg, Verbier, Lucerne, Rheingau, Lokenhaus, Bucharest.

Recitals of the violinist are held at Carnegie Hall (New York), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Musikverein (Vienna), Berlin Philharmonic, Wigmore Hall (London), Tonhalle (Zurich), Center for Fine Arts in Brussels.

In the 2018/19 season, Vilde Frang is on two long European tours with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin and the Philharmonic Orchestra Luxembourg. He also performs with the San Francisco Symphony, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony and the Seoul Philharmonic.

Vilde Frang records exclusively at Warner Classics. Her discs have received honorary awards: the Edison Klassiek Award, the Classic BRIT Award, the Golden Tuning Fork of the Diapason magazine, the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis and the ECHO Klassik Award. She also received a Gramophone Award for her recordings of the violin concertos by E. Korngold and B. Britten.

Vilde Frang plays a violin by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1864).

From March 27 to April 3, 2018, the IX International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival will be held.

During the five festival days in Moscow, the largest musical groups of Europe and Russia, rising stars and masters of classical performance will perform in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, there will be evenings of music by Viennese and Russian classics, mono-programs of works by J. S. Bach and Prokofiev, and the festival will end with the Russian premiere of a multimedia performance on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace. In St. Petersburg, as part of the Festival, Tchaikovsky's opera "Eugene Onegin" will be staged by the Opera Singing Center of Galina Vishnevskaya.

The Mstislav Rostropovich International Festival was established by the Mikhail Rostropovich Foundation for Cultural and Humanitarian Programs in 2010 in memory of the legendary cellist, conductor and citizen, whose creative and social activities knew no bounds. The artistic level, worthy of the personality of the Maestro, put the Festival among the main musical events in the world. “At his concerts, works of the highest level and in the best performance should be heard,” - this is how Olga Rostropovich, the creator and artistic director of the Festival, defines the concept. The success of this simple and effective formula is confirmed exclusively by the highest marks of critics and the musical community in Russia, as well as throughout the world.

For eight years, the Mstislav Rostropovich International Festival has brought together 32 orchestras, 93 soloists, 12 choirs, 33 conductors and more than 80,000 listeners. London Philharmonic Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra de Paris and Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra and Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, conductors Zubin Mehta, Maris Jansons, Christoph Eschenbach, Myung-Vun Chung, Antonio Pappano, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Yurovsky, soloists Ramon Vargas, Matthias Gerne, Gidon Kremer, Nikolai Znaider, Maxim Vengerov, Denis Matsuev, Rudolf Buchbinder, Luca Debargue, Yuja Wong, Enrico Dindo, Truls Mork, Alice Weilerstein - these are just a few of the names that graced the festival poster in previous years. The tradition of the Festival has become the Russian debuts of rising stars of the world scene, which this year will continue on the first day of the concert by introducing the Moscow audience to a young cellist from Spain.

Traditionally, the festival will open March 27- on the birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich. The program will feature works by S. S. Prokofiev, including the Symphony Concerto for cello and orchestra, dedicated to the great performer and close friend of the composer. Symphony No. 7 and the Love for Three Oranges suite will be performed by one of the leading European orchestras with almost a century of history, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Danish conductor Thomas Sondergaard, who actively collaborates with the best musicians and record companies in Europe and America. The cello solo part in the e-moll Symphony-Concert will be performed by the laureate of numerous awards and competitions Pablo Ferrandez (Spain), who by the age of 26 has already performed at the main concert venues of the world and collaborated with such masters as Zubin Meta, Adam Fischer, Yuri Temirkanov. Pablo Ferrandez will play on a unique instrument - Antonio Stradivari's "Lord Aylesford" cello of 1696.

March 29 Symphonies No. 10 and No. 29, as well as the Serenade in G-dur by W. A. ​​Mozart, will be performed by the Vienna-Berlin Chamber Orchestra, which includes only soloists of the two leading symphony orchestras in the world - Vienna and Berlin. Rainer Honeck, an outstanding Austrian interpreter, who has performed with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra Mariinsky Theater and many others.

In J. Haydn's Concerto No. 1 in C-dur, the Russian audience will hear one of the leading cellists of our time, Gauthier Capuçon (France), winner of numerous international competitions, winner of prestigious awards, including Victoires de la Musique, Echo Klassik and the Borletti-Buitoni Foundation Prize. The musician collaborates with such conductors as Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Duthoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Andris Nelsons and many others. In recent seasons he has played with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the London, Sydney, Boston and San Francisco symphony orchestras, as well as many other renowned European and American ensembles. Gauthier Capuçon plays a cello by Matteo Goffriller (1701) and is the exclusive artist of Erato (Warner Classics).

April 1 in a concert of Russian music one of the best teams our country Russian national orchestra, which has won critical acclaim and the love of the public all over the world over a quarter of a century of existence, will perform Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy and N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade Symphonic Suite. The creator and artistic director of the RNO, Mikhail Pletnev, will give way to the eminent Italian maestro Pier Carlo Orizio at the conductor's podium this evening and will perform the piano part in the fis-moll Concerto by A. N. Scriabin.

April 2 the Moscow audience will hear one of the most grandiose and profound works of J. S. Bach, The Matthew Passion, interpreted by German musicians. Under the direction of Enoch zu Guttenberg, three outstanding ensembles will unite: the KlangVerwaltung Orchestra, the KlangVerwaltung Choir and the Munich Boys' Choir. A brilliant galaxy of vocalists from Germany and Switzerland has been invited to solo parts: Sybil Rubens, Olivia Vermeulen, Mauro Peter, Thomas Laske, Samuel Hasselhorn and Daniel Johansson.

April 3 the final concert of the IX International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace for the first time in Russia will show a multimedia performance created by the Palace of Arts of Queen Sofia in Valencia and the Rimsky opera house at the Baths of Caracalla. The inspiration for director Carlos Padrissa (Spain) and video director Emmanuel Carlier (France) was the music of O. Respighi's "Roman Trilogy", written a century ago, which will be performed this evening by the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor Antonio Mendez from Spain.

The IX International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival is not only fully worthy of the memory of the great musician, but is also a direct continuation of the lofty mission to which Maestro Rostropovich devoted his whole life: The festival expands the musical boundaries of our country, creating a unique cultural space and uniting tens of thousands of people from all over peace.

From March 27 to March 31, 2020 XIInternational festival of Mstislav Rostropovich. The main concert venue of the Festival will be the Great Hall of the Conservatory. During five festival days, the largest musical groups of Russia and Europe, rising stars and world famous performers. The Festival will end with a concert by the Lzha Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which is visiting Russia for the first time.

The Mstislav Rostropovich International Festival was established by the M. L. Rostropovich Foundation for Cultural and Humanitarian Programs in 2010 in memory of the greatest musician, without whom it is impossible to imagine modern Art. The founder and artistic director of the Festival is Olga Rostropovich, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation. Many mass media call this international music forum the main event of Moscow's concert life, "the quintessence of Olga Rostropovich's work, talent and love for her great parents", "a parade of the best musicians, conductors and European orchestras led by them." The 2020 festival continues this tradition.

For ten years, 36 orchestras, 103 soloists, 14 choirs, 39 conductors have performed at the International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival. London Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Orchester de Paris, Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Honored Ensemble of Russia Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, conductors Zubin Meta, Maris Jansons, Christoph Eschenbach, Mung- Wun Chung, Antonio Pappano, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Yurovsky, soloists Ramon Vargas, Mattias Gerne, Gidon Kremer, Nikolai Znaider, Maxim Vengerov, Denis Matsuev, Rudolf Buchbinder, Lucas Debargue, Yuja Wong, Enrico Dindo, Truls Mork, Alisa Weilerstein - here only a few names that have graced the festival poster in different years. Concerts of the Festival were attended by about 100 thousand listeners!

The date of the grand opening of the Festival is unchanged - March 27 - Birthday of Mstislav Rostropovich : will perform in the Great Hall of the Conservatory Honored Collective of Russia Academic Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg Philharmonic named after D. D. Shostakovich under the direction of Yuri Temirkanov. The musicians have been collaborating for many years, sincerely friends - this is invariably emphasized by maestro Temirkanov, who traditionally opens the Mstislav Rostropovich Festival together with his orchestra. “To say that they were friends is not enough, they had complete mutual understanding,” notes Olga Rostropovich. The program of the evening includes works by S. Prokofiev and D. Shostakovich - two geniuses with whom Mstislav Rostropovich had a deeply personal relationship, before whom he bowed, without whose music he could not imagine his work. Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 and Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 will be performed. Soloist – laureate of the 1st Prize at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition Sergey Dogadin.

March 28 there will be a concert Camerata Salzburg one of the most popular chamber orchestras in the world. Viennese classics dominate his repertoire, with special attention paid to Mozart's music. This year, the 250th anniversary of the birth of L. van Beethoven is widely celebrated - his immortal works. The Corialan Overture, Symphony No. 1 and Piano Concerto No. 5 will be performed. Soloist - French pianist Remy Genier- the youngest laureate of the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Bonn, silver medalist of the International Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium.

March 29 One of Finland's oldest orchestras will perform - Symphony Orchestra of the City of Lahti. It was founded in 1910. The team from a small town, thanks to tireless work, has gained international fame. The orchestra actively promotes Finnish music at its concerts and tours abroad. This evening will feature the works of Jean Sibelius, who had the honor of becoming a symbol of his country, Symphony No. 5 and the symphonic poem Saga op. 9 is one of the composer's most popular works. In the second part, the cello concerto by E. Elgar will be performed by the winner of the Grammy award Truls Mork. The Norwegian cellist has twice brilliantly performed at the Rostropovich Festival. In 2015, he assured the Moscow audience that he was saying goodbye to her for a short time and would definitely return: after all, according to T. Mork, it was Rostropovich who had a decisive influence on his musical development. At the conductor's stand - the chief conductor of two orchestras (in Finnish Lahti and Spanish Galicia) and the head of the Sibelius Festival Dmitry Slobodenyuk.

March 30 performance Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana is a Swiss Symphony Orchestra based in Lugano. There will be an overture to W. A. ​​Mozart’s opera “All Women Do This,” F. Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony No. 4, as well as a concerto for cello and orchestra in C-dur by J. Haydn, the notes of which were discovered by M. L. Rostropovich in Library of the University of Prague and open to the whole world. Will solo Daniel Müller-Schott– German cellist, in 1992 awarded 1 prize at the I International Tchaikovsky Competition for Youth in Moscow and for more than two decades has been delighting the public with his vivid interpretations. The famous Swiss conductor and composer will stand at the conductor's stand Michelle Tabachnik.

March 31 in the final concert of the XI International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival will perform for the first time in Russia Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra(Belgium). Also, the famous Brazilian conductor and composer will come to Moscow for the first time John Neshling Great-nephew of Arnold Schoenberg. Neschling is currently Artistic Director of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra. This evening will be performed the symphonic poem "The Damned Hunter" by S. Frank, "The Brazilian Bahiana" No. 9 by Villa-Lobos, the symphonic poem "Don Juan" by Richard Strauss. In the Piano Concerto No. 2 by I. Brahms, the famous Argentine pianist, who performs in the best halls of the world, will be the soloist. Nelson Gerner.

The International Mstislav Rostropovich Festival will be held in Moscow for the eleventh time, and the newly announced program confirms the high artistic level that was determined by its leader Olga Rostropovich at the first Festival. According to her, when compiling a program, she always thinks about whether Mstislav Rostropovich would approve of the choice of certain participants and works - this is the main criterion: “I am glad that we have the opportunity to make Moscow a place for a week where the largest musicians from all over peace."