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Vladimir Spivakov and the NPR Will Visit Five Russian Towns

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From February 21 to March 1, 2023, Vladimir Spivakov and the NPR will tour Russia, giving seven concerts in five towns. The first two days the Moscow musicians will be hosted by the Bashkortostan State Concert Hall in Ufa. Then the maestro and his orchestra will go for a concert to Salavat (the Neftekhimic House of Culture). Ufa is one of the few Russian cities where the “Vladimir Spivakov Invites...” Festival takes place on a regular basis with the NPR as an active participant, while to Salavat the NPR will come now after a six-year interval.

The concerts on February 25-26 will be given in the Great Concert Hall of the Orenburg Philharmonic Society. The tour will go on with a performance at the Concert Hall of the Samara Philharmonic Society on February 28 and will end on March 1 in Ulyanovsk at the Great Hall of the Lenin Memorial.

The tour program features works by Georges Bizet - Rodion Shchedrin, Gabriel Fauré, Jacques Ibert, Maurice Ravel, Dmitri Shostakovich, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Aram Khachaturian and Sergei Rachmaninoff (see Events). The concerts will be shared by the NPR with the 12-year-old pianist and composer Roman Sher, student of the Gnessins Moscow Music School, already winner of the Nutcracker Television Competition and the Sergei Rachmaninoff Competition, holder of seven special awards of the Vladimir Krainev Moscow Piano Competition, and Ekaterina Mechetina, a Merited Artist of Russia, winner of many international competitions, assistant professor in the Moscow Conservatory and concerting pianist.

The tour will be held within the framework of the All-Russian Philharmonic Seasons Project of the Moscow Philharmonic Society and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The 5th Edition of the All-Russia Music Festival “Vladimir Spivakov Invites” in Ufa

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On November 27-29, 2021, Ufa will host the 5th edition of the All-Russia Music Festival “Vladimir Spivakov Invites”, the three nights of which will take place in the Bashkortostan State Concert Hall. The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, along with the maestro, will be traditionally the main performer in the programs and play symphonic masterpieces by Beethoven, Grieg, Brahms, Lyadov, Mussorgsky and Shostakovich under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov (see Events). They will be joined by bright young soloists who have gained fame both in Russia and abroad.

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Orenburg and Ufa Editions of the “Vladimir Spivakov Invites…” Festival

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September is traditionally the month of the regional editions of the “Vladimir Spivakov invites ...” Festival. In September 2019, the Maestro and his orchestra will be hosted in Orenburg and Ufa. The concerts will feature young stars of the music art including the winners of international competitions María Dueñas (violin, Spain), Ivan Bessonov (piano), Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano), a member of the ROH Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at Covent Garden, and Yaroslav Abaimov (tenor), soloist of the E. Kolobov “Novaya Opera” Theatre in Moscow. Maestro Vladimir Spivakov himself will be on the conductor podium all five evenings (see Events). The NPR’s Russian tour is part of the All-Russian Philharmonic Seasons Project of the Moscow Philharmonic Society and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The NPR concert on September 14 will open the 76th concert season of the Orenburg Regional Philharmonic Society. Under Vladimir Spivakov's baton there will be performed works by Mozart and Mendelssohn (soloist - María Dueñas). The program of the second concert on September 15 is fully devoted to Beethoven's music (soloist - Ivan Bessonov). These two programs will be also presented in Ufa.

The Ufa fourth edition of the “Vladimir Spivakov invites ...” Festival (September 17-19) will be held at the Bashkortostan State Concert Hall, with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia once again being the star of the concerts. Vladimir Spivakov will also present appealing young soloists to the Bashkir public, some of whom are already known to Ufa music lovers: María Dueñas, Spanish violinist well remembered there for her brilliant victory at the Vladimir Spivakov Competition in 2018, and Aigul Akhmetshina, a native of Bashkortostan, glorifying her country with her successes in the Russian capital and in Europe, becoming a member of the ROH Jette Parker Young Artists Programme. The Ufa Festival edition will open with an opera gala, featuring popular fragments from Italian and French operas.