Summer Orchestra Academy 2014

In 2014, following the recommendations of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Program of Events during the Year of Culture in the Sverdlovsk Region, which was approved by the Decree No. 1284-RP of the Sverdlovsk Regional Government on 28.08.2013, the Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic offered its grounds for the International Youth Cultural Center. The main objectives of the Center are promotion of international cultural relations, pooling of experience in organizing and holding festivals and competitions, building international reputation of the Sverdlovsk Region as one of the centers of music art.

The first project of the Center – the Summer Orchestra Academy, which was organized to improve the level of professional skills and performance of young musicians of Russian and foreign orchestras.

This year, the internship in the Academy was offered to the musicians who excelled in the Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra and to young performers from European countries. The prominent Italian conductor Oleg Caetani agreed to work as an artistic director of the Academy. He will hold orchestra rehearsals at the Academy, while consulting sessions and master classes will be given by renowned European professors, such as Hans Joahim Greiner (viola), a professor of Berlin University of the Arts, Klaus Thunemann (bassoon), a professor of the Reina SofĂ­a School of Music in Madrid, ChristianFriedrich Dallmann (horn), a professor of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, Dmitry Vassiliyev (violin), Artist Emeritus of Russia.

The joint monumental efforts will be rewarded by the birth of the Tchaikovsky International Youth Orchestra. Its talented young musicians representing different countries will give a number of concerts dedicated to compositions of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Pavel KREKOV Minister of Culture of the Sverdlovsk Region

President Vladimir Putin has proclaimed 2014 to be a Year of Culture 2014 and it has already provided us with many fruitful new endeavors.

Among them is the creation of the International Youth Cultural Center, with its goal of helping people from all over the world gain a better understanding of and feel closer to the Urals, the Sverdlovsk region, and Ekaterinburg.

The center’s inaugural project, the Summer Orchestra Academy in Ekaterinburg, is an important initiative that strives to reach several immediate objectives. These include supporting young performers, improving their mastery of their skills, and, of course, preserving and promoting our cultural heritage.

We are very happy to welcome all these wonderful musicians to our corner of the world, and hope that the work of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, the most recognizable and beloved Russian composer on earth, will become a strong foundation for sharing experiences and encouraging the professional development of young performers.

See you at the concert venues!

Alexander KOLOTURSKY Director of Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic, member of the Presidential Council for Culture and the Arts

In recent years, the philharmonic has often created big landmark projects for the city. And now is the time to focus on our talented youth. The International Youth Cultural Center was designed to promote a culture of performance for a new generation of musicians. Our pride and joy and an audience favorite – the Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra – is ready to rise to a new, more serious level. Assistance will come from talented colleagues from many countries, revered teachers, and hard work under the supervision of the celebrated Italian maestro Caetani.

The Summer Orchestra Academy is an effective way to forge a deep awareness of the foundations of the profession. However, the academy was not only created for the young musicians, who will someday join the Tchaikovsky Orchestra, but also for those who will attend the workshops and concerts and come to meet the artists, and for all lovers of music.

I very much hope that this first endeavor will continue, and that these summer orchestral gatherings will become a tradition.

I feel sure that by working with the Ministry of Culture and the government of the Sverdlovsk region we will help Ekaterinburg become a center for musical culture.

«I was born in the Urals,» so begins the autobiography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, recalling «the provincial town in the Vyatka province of the Urals,» where he spent his childhood.

Votkinsk was the tiny native land of this genius of Russian music – one of the many towns founded around industry and which in the 19th century were part of the system of Urals mountain districts managed from Ekaterinburg.

Tchaikovsky’s life path became even more closely intertwined with the Urals when in 1849 his family arrived in the town of Alapayevsk, where the composer’s father – Ilya Petrovich – had been invited by the general manager of the private factories in Alapayevsk.

That brief period in Alapayevsk was very important in Tchaikovsky’s life. From his letters it is clear that he remembered it as a special world of Childhood, Family, and Love.

Those fifteen months were a time of serenity, during which Tchaikovsky was surrounded by family and his twin brothers were born. One of them, Modest, become his closest friend and first biographer, the founder of the Tchaikovsky Museum in Klin and author of the libretto for the opera The Queen of Spades.

Alapayevsk was a special period in the formation of the composer’s identity, when a still vague notion of his future destiny was only beginning to take shape. It was here that Pyotr Tchaikovsky first tried his hand at musical improvisation, and hence Alapayevsk can with confidence be called the birthplace of Tchaikovsky as a composer. What is even more important is that here we can attempt to immerse ourselves in the atmosphere in which he lived and began to create, because the house in which the Tchaikovsky family lived has not only survived – it is now a museum dedicated to that great composer.

And although Pyotr Ilyich left the Urals in 1850 to enroll in the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in St. Petersburg, he retained the memories of the happiness he experienced in Alapayevsk. Because, as he later wrote, «the enthusiasm one feels for the arts when young leaves a lasting impression on one’s life.»

Oleg CAETANI Artistic director / chief conductor, Summer Orhestra Academy

An opera and symphony conductor. Nadia Boulanger was his most estimable teacher who had a profound influence not only on his learning music and conducting, but also on his mindset and outlook on life.

At the Conservatory in Rome, Oleg Caetani studied conducting with Franco Ferrara and composition with Irma Ravinale. He went to the Moscow Conservatory to study conducting with Kirill Kondrashin and then with Ilya Musin at the St Petersburg Conservatory. He is the first-prize winner at RAI Turin and an awardee of at the Karajan Competitions in Berlin.

At the age of 17, Oleg Caetani made his debut with a production of Claudio Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. The professional artistic career of conductor Oleg Caetani started in the Unter den Linden Opera Theatre in Berlin, where he worked as assistant to Otmar Suitner. The cooperation with the famous opera theater having all the compositions of Wagner and Strauss in its repertoire shaped the artistic preferences of Oleg Caetani. Today, the conductor has almost 30-year experience in opera conducting; his repertoire includes compositions of Verdi, Wagner, Mussorgsky and symphonic compositions of composers of the 20th century.

The conductor places great emphasis on Russian music. The libretto from Shostakovich’s opera The Nose was translated into German especially for its production in Frankfurt. Also at Caetani’s initiative, the Italian premiere of the opera Moscow, Cheryomushki was held in 2007. He has often conducted Shostakovich’s symphonies in the world’s most prestigious concert halls; all of Shostakovich’s symphonies performed by the Orchestra of Milan have been recorded, winning many awards, among them – a 10/10 rating from the American magazine Classics Today and ffff from the French magazine Telerama, as well as others.

The music by Tchaikovsky has a special place in his work. At the age of 24, Oleg Caetani conducted Eugene Onegin. He directed the production of The Maid of Orleans in Strasbourg and The Queen of Spades in Stuttgart. Oleg Caetani also directed the production of Nutcracker in Zurich. In 2008, he had all symphonies of Tchaikovsky recorded, including Manfred; after its release the Financial Times wrote: «Do we need another set of Tchaikovsky symphonies? Having listened and re-listened to these live recordings, the answer is an emphatic yes. Caetani is not an indulgent Tchaikovskyan… he lets Tchaikovsky speak for himself: the contrapuntal rigour, the emotional tenderness, the occasional hint of hysteria within a classical structure… a treasure at any price».

Oleg Caetani has successful collaboration with opera theaters of Florence and Milan, the English National Opera and Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, orchestra of Munich Philharmonic, orchestra of Moscow Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and other world-renowned orchestras.

Prof. Dmitry VASILIEV, Summer Orhestra Academy

He began studying music at the age of five and within a year had already performed as a soloist at the Leningrad Philharmonic Hall. He studied at the Special Music School at the Leningrad Conservatory, later continuing his training at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1989-1990 he held the position of concertmaster with international orchestras led by Valery Gergiev and Leonard Slatkin. In 1990, for the first time in the history of the Moscow Conservatory, a student, Dmitry Vasiliev, was appointed director of the Soloists of the Moscow Conservatory ensemble. He performed with this group in London and Moscow and made a number of audio recordings.

From 1992-1997 he was the first concertmaster of the Moscow Soloists chamber ensemble led by Yuri Bashmet. In 1994, at the invitation of Mstislav Rostropovich, he performed at the music festival in Evian (France) as a soloist and ensemble member. From 1997-2007 he played with the Brahms Trio and was a soloist for the Moscow Philharmonic. In 2010 he led the festival chamber orchestra at the All Countries of the World international forum in Poland. In 2012, along with soloists from the Berlin and Tel Aviv philharmonics, he became a master trainer with the Youth Philharmonic of Poland, performing with that orchestra in the country’s largest concert halls.

Vasiliev performs in the world’s most prestigious concert halls – the Tivoli (Copenhagen), Barbican Centre (London), Prince Regent Theatre (Munich), World Trade Center (New York), Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Cemal Reºit Rey (Istanbul), Brucknerhaus (Linz), and Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, and has many times been the recipient of grants from the president of Russia.

As a soloist, he has worked with conductors such as C. Davis, D. Liss, A. Paulavichus, Yu. Bashmet, A. Klocek, Enkhe, R. Martynov, L. Nikolaev, A. Rudin, D. Vasiliev, and S. Carlini. In chamber music the violinist has partnered with – V. Tretyakov, Yu. Bashmet, V. Balshin, V. Feigin, D. Feigin, M. Munteanu, A. Rudin, O. Polyansky, A. Zagursky, M. Lubotsky, M. Bereznitsky, A. Melnikov, and others.

Dmitry Vasiliev performs in Russia, Europe, Asia, and the United States and has taken part in major festivals in Istanbul, Brussels, Sydney, St. Petersburg, and Kreuth. He leads workshops in Russia, France, Poland, Hong Kong and Taiwan and is the architect behind many international projects, including the international festival dedicated to the 1,700th anniversary of the Christianization of Armenia and the Stradivarius Series.

Prof. Christian-Friedrich DALLMANN, Summer Orhestra Academy

Studied at the Berlin School of Music and then at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, where later on he worked as teacher.

Before 2000, he was a soloist of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, a participant of the instrumental ensemble Bach Collegium – in Stuttgart and the Academy for Ancient Music in Berlin. From 1999 to 2003 Christian-Friedrich Dallmann worked as professor for horn at the Hochschule fur Musik in Detmold. Since 2004 he has been working as professor at the University of Arts in Berlin.

Gave numerous solo concerts in Germany Prof. Klaus THUNEMANN, and other countries, read lectures, gave Summer Orhestra Academy master classes, was a member of the panel of judges at musical contests and competitions. He collaborates as a tutor with the German Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, the Youth Orchestra of the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, the Jewish-Arabic orchestra «West-Eastern Divan» in Weimar and Chicago.

Klaus Thunemann started learning music with the piano, but at the age of 18 he focused on the bassoon.

In 1961, he graduated from the Hochschule fur Musik in West Berlin. From 1962 to 1978 he served as principal bassoonist of the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg and very soon he gained a reputation of one of the best bassoonists and a first-rate teacher.

Klaus Thunemann taught at the Hochschule fur Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover; in 1997 he worked as professor at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. In addition to his teaching, he took part in numerous concerts, performing as a soloist and with orchestras or ensembles; he made an extensive discography and gave master-classes.

Klaus Thunemann collaborated with the world’s leading orchestras and soloists.

In 2006, Klaus Thunemann was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Klaus Thunemann is the author of the fundamental research on physiological aspects of performance on the bassoon; the research was published in Medizinische Probleme bei Instrumentalisten: Ursachen und Pravention in 1995.

At present, Klaus Thunemann is a professor of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.

Prof. Hans Joachim GREINER, Summer Orhestra Academy

In 1964 and 1966, Hans Joachim Greiner took first prize at the Young Musicians competition. He studied with Michel Schwalbe and Stefano Passaggio at the Higher School of Music in Berlin.

During his student years, he performed as part of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan, Carlo Maria Giulini, Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, and Gunter Wand.

In 1970 he founded Kreuzberg String Quartet, which was awarded first place in an international competition of string quartets in Geneva in 1974. This was followed by collaboration with the Juilliard String Quartet, the Amadeus Quartet.

He has played concerts in Europe, the US, and South America, working with such internationally renowned artists as Eduard Brunner, Wolfgang Boettcher, Pepe Romero, Ingrid Haebler, Aribert Reimann, and Sandor Vegh. The record label TelDec has released albums of his music with string quartets playing works

by Hindemith, Janacek, Schumann, and Mendelssohn. In 1995 he performed at the Berlin Philharmonic for the German premiere of Vytautas Barkauskas’ Viola Concerto.

Hans Joachim Greiner is a professor of viola at the Berlin University of the Arts. His students perform as part of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the German Symphony Orchestra in Berlin, the musical theater Komische Oper Berlin, the Oslo Philharmonic, and the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra in St. Petersburg.

FIRST VIOLINS Fedotyeva Olga Kalupin Mikhail Korotoeva Kseniia Kotenko Anastasiia Krayukhina Tatiana Krutenkova Liubov Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Mengoli Giuseppe Italy / Conservatory Bruno Maderna in Cesena

Mladenov Olga Serbia / Folkwang University of the Arts

INTERNATIONAL YOUTH

TCHAIKOVSKYORCHESTRA

Orlov Leonid Shepeleva Evgeniia Yarullina Yulia Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

CELLOS Borissova Anna VIOLAS Arkhireeva Nadezhda SECOND VIOLINS Badmaceryanova Evgeniia Batyreva Marina Bespomestnych Denis Chebotareva Irina Govorukhina Ekaterina Makarova Khristina Platonova Alina Popova Ekaterina Radchenko Veronika Slipakov Evgenii Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Borowski Frances

Russia / Petrozavodsk Glazunov State Conservatory

USA / Folkwang University of the Arts

Kerzhentcev Egor Kobiletskii Petro Malyshev Evgeny Moiseev Roman Shvaleva Sofia

Kalashnikova Olga Kataeva Evgeniya

Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Spain / Folkwang University of the Arts

Steckel Valentin

Ochir Od

Germany / Folkwang University of the Arts

Mongolia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Woo Ezra

Olkhovaia Ekaterina

South Korea / Berlin University of the Arts

Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Lee Cheon Moises

Ozsan Botan Turkey / Folkwang University of the Arts

BASSOONS Baziki Aziz DOUBLE BASSES Gorlov Ignat Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Gurevitz Matan Israel / Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin

Rodyukov Nikon Smolin Vitaly Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

FLUTES Emanet Ayla Turkey / Orchesterzentrum NRW

Grachkovskii Alexander Panikovskaya Alexandra Stolyarova Evgenia Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

OBOES Korepanov Alexander Russia / Tchaikovsky Music College (Ekaterinburg, Russia)

Ostanin Konstantin Zelenina Natalia Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

CLARINETS Chashchikhin Egor Smirniagin Mikhail Styazhkin Roman Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Turkey / Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin

TRUMPETS Morozov Vitaly

Boldbaatar Zandan-Orgil

Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Mongolia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Kraiukhin Ilia Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Ni Ruslan Kazakhstan / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Shestoperov Mikhail Shigarev Evgeny

HORNS Baiazitov Timur Karev Dmitry

Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

TROMBONES Goryaev Andrei Valek Nikita Zhukov Gleb

Lis Paula Poland / Academy of Music in KrakĂŽw

Murase Ayumi Japan / Rostock University of Music and Theatre

Schindler Elsa Germany / Berlin University of the Arts

Smirnov Aleksei Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

HARP Shenshina Sofia Russia / Novosibirsk Glinka State Conservatory

PERCUSSION Alekseev Andrei Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Betancourt Cristian Colombia / Berlin University of the Arts

Lopatin Pavel Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Rivero Antonio

TUBA Gagarin Mikhail

Shirokov Valeriy

Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

Venezuela / Berlin University of the Arts Russia / Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatory

July 1-9

July 10 19h00

July 11 18h30

July 12 12h00

July 13

Ekaterinburg Sverdlovsk State Children Philharmonic

Ekaterinburg Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic Society, Great Hall

Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk region Social and cultural center

The village of Nizhnyaya Sinyakhicha, Alapaevsk district of the Sverdlovsk region The Samoilov Nature Reserve and Museum of Wooden Architecture and Folk Arts

Ekaterinburg Sverdlovsk State Children Philharmonic

ORCHESTRAL AND GROUP REHEARSALS WORKSHOPS INDIVIDUAL GUIDANCE

CONCERT AS PART OF THE TCHAIKOVSKY FESTIVAL

CONCERT AS PART OF THE KAMENSK-URALSKY – RUSSIA’S BELL CAPITAL FESTIVAL

SUMMER ORCHESTRA ACADEMY July 1-13

2014

PROGRAM

International Youth Tchaikovsky Orchestra Artistic director / chief conductor Oleg Caetani, Italy Grand Prix winner of the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition Daniil Trifonov (piano) The Showcase Orchestra of the Central Military District Artistic director and conductor – Gennady Kolosov Tchaikovsky. Concerto No.1 for piano and orchestra.

Symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini. Symphony No. 2.

1812 Festival Overture

International Youth Tchaikovsky Orchestra Artistic director / chief conductor Oleg Caetani, Italy The Showcase Orchestra of the Central Military District Artistic director and conductor – Gennady Kolosov Tchaikovsky.

Symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini. Symphony No. 2.

1812 Festival Overture

PETROV DAY IN NIZHNYAYA SINYAKHICHA – A FUN DAY OUTDOORS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY International Youth Tchaikovsky Orchestra Artistic director / chief conductor Oleg Caetani, Italy Showcase Orchestra of the Central Military District Artistic director and conductor – Gennady Kolosov Ural Symphonic Choir Head choirmaster – Roman Aranbitsky Folk choirs and family vocal ensembles from the Sverdlovsk region Tchaikovsky. Symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini.

Suite from the ballet Swan Lake.

1812 Festival Overture

AN EVENING OF CHAMBER ENSEMBLES THE WRAP-UP FOR THE SUMMER ORCHESTRA ACADEMY

Every participant in the Summer Orchestra Academy can expect also a cultural program plus sightseeing around Ekaterinburg and the Sverdlovsk region. Special prominence will be given to a visit to the Tchaikovsky housemuseum in Alapayevsk.