04 February 2018 (Sun), 19:00 World famous Mariinsky Ballet and Opera Theatre - Opera and Concert Hall - Stars of the Stars Concert The State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan. Conductor: Alexander Sladkovsky
Schedule for The State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan. Conductor: Alexander Sladkovsky 2022
Conductor: Alexander Sladkovsky Piano: Philipp Kopachevsky Orchestra: The State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan
Composer: Sergey Rachmaninov Orchestra: The State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan
Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Alexander Sladkovsky
The idea of founding a symphony orchestra in Tatarstan came from Nazib Zhiganov,
Chairman of the Union of Composers of Tatarstan and rector of the Kazan State
Conservatoire. On his initiative, the conductor Natan Rakhlin was invited to
Kazan to form an orchestra. On 10 April 1967 at the Tatar Opera and Ballet
Theatre the Symphony Orchestra of the State Tukai Philharmonic of the Tatar
Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic gave its first performance under the baton
of Natan Rakhlin. The first thirteen years proved to be some of the most
exciting in the orchestra’s history: the ensemble undertook successful tours to
Moscow as well as other major towns and cities in the USSR, while in Tatarstan
its popularity knew no limits. Starting in 1979, after Natan Rakhlin’s death
Renat Salavatov, Sergei Kalagin, Ravil Martynov and Imant Kotsinsh all worked
with the orchestra. In 1985 Fuat Mansurov was invited to take the post of the
orchestra’s Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, and went on to work with
the orchestra for twenty-five years. In 2010, following Fuat Mansurov’s death,
Alexander Sladkovsky became the orchestra’s new Artistic Director and Principal
Conductor. With his appointment the ensemble embarked on a new stage of its
history. International music festivals organised by the State Symphony
Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan – Rakhlin Seasons, White Lilac, Kazan
Autumn, Concordia, Denis Matsuev and Friends and Creative Discovery – are all
vivid events in the nation’s cultural life. The orchestra runs the project The
Property of the Republic for talented pupils at music schools and students of
the conservatoire, the educational project Music Lessons with an Orchestra for
Kazan school pupils and the project Healing through Music for severely ill
children. The ensemble has been a winner of the competition Philanthropist of
the Year (2011 and 2013), founded by the President of Tatarstan. The State
Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan is one of the finest ensembles
in Russia. The ensemble has appeared in concerts to great acclaim in Moscow,
Perm, Orenburg, Irkutsk, Sochi and Tyumen and at the Crescendo, Stars on
Baikal, Denis Matsuev’s Orenburg Seasons, The Cherry Orchard and Hibla Gerzmava
Invites festivals among others. In April 2014 the orchestra took part in a
concert at UNESCO headquarters in Paris at a ceremony where Denis Matsuev was
made a Goodwill Ambassador. In 2015 the orchestra performed at the Concert Hall
of the Mariinsky Theatre. In 2012 the orchestra recorded an anthology of
music by Tatar composers and the album Brightening up on the Sony Music and RCA
Red Seal labels. Since 2013 the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of
Tatarstan has been an artist of Sony Music Entertainment Russia. The orchestra’s
concerts have been recorded and broadcast by the TV companies Mezzo and
Medici.tv. Over the years the orchestra has collaborated with countless
internationally acclaimed performers, among them Galina Vishnevskaya, Irina
Arkhipova, Olga Borodina, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya, Hibla Gerzmava, Sumi Jo, Simone
Kermes, Albina Shagimuratova, Tatiana Serjan, Anna Bonitatibus, Dinara Alieva,
Plácido Domingo, Roberto Alagna, Zurab Sotkilava, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Vasily
Gerello, Ildar Abdrazakov, Vladimir Spivakov, Viktor Tretyakov, Igor Oistrakh,
Vadim Repin, Sergei Krylov, Gidon Kremer, Alena Baeva, Yuri Bashmet, Mstislav
Rostropovich, Daniil Shafran, David Geringas, Sergei Roldugin, Mikhail Pletnev,
Nikolai Petrov, Vladimir Krainev, Vladimir Viardo, Lazar Berman, Denis Matsuev,
Boris Berezovsky Barry Douglas, Nikolai Lugansky, Alexander Toradze, Ekaterina
Mechetina, Ramzi Yassa, Ksenia Bashmet, Igor Butman, Sergei Nakariakov and
Alexei Ogrintchouk. The ensemble has also collaborated with the Yurlov
Russian State Academic Choir, the State Russian Sveshnikov Chorus, the Masters
of Choral Singing chorus directed by Lev Kontorovich, the Chorus of the St
Petersburg State Capella and the Vladimir Minin Moscow Chamber Chorus.
Schedule for The State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan. Conductor: Alexander Sladkovsky 2022
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