Programme:
Alexey Shor
Violin Concerto No 5 in C-minor
Piotr Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5 in E minor
Alexey Shor
Violin Concerto No 5 in C-minor
Piotr Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 5 in E minor
Vahan Mardirossian
Vahan Mardirossian was born in Armenia and graduated with distinction from the Paris Conservatory in 1996. He enjoys a flourishing career as both conductor and piano soloist. For many years he was the Principal Conductor of the Caen Symphony Orchestra in France and Music Director of the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia (NCOA). Starting from the 2019/2020 season he is the chief conductor of the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. Simultaneously starting from 2020 he is the Musical Director of Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie.
Vahan Mardirossian is invited regularly as a guest conductor in Europe and Asia. His past engagements include concerts with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of the Pays de la Loire, the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the Czech Chamber Soloists, the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, the “Amalgam” Orchestra (comprising select musicians from the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra and the SWR Baden-Baden Freiburg Symphony Orchestra), the Toulon Opera Orchestra, the orchestras of Douai and Cannes in France and the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. After a hugely successful debut with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2014, he was invited to conduct the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2014/2015 season. During the same season he conducted the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Real Orquestra Sinfonica de Sevilla, Philharmonie Südwestfalen and the Bulgarian National Orchestra. In 2017 he performed a piano recital at New York’s Carnegie Hall, led the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine on a tour of Japan performing Dvorak’s Symphony No.9 and returned to conduct the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at the Suntory Hall. From 2016 to 2018 he gave his conducting debuts with the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Colonne, the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra and the Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra. In 2018 he conducted City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong at the Le French May Arts Festival and toured with the orchestra giving several concerts at the China Shanghai International Arts Festival. In 2019 he conducted the Philharmonie Südwestfalen and the Verdi Concert Choir Japan in Verdi’s Requiem at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and recorded a CD with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.
His guest engagements for the coming 2021/2022 season include concerts with the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra, Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Orchestre Colonne, Bulgarian National Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica de la Universidad de Guanajuato and Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice.
Vahan Mardirossian has had the privilege of collaborating with many internationally renowned soloists including Mstislav Rostropovich, Ivry Gitlis, Augustin Dumay, Akiko Suwanai, Alexander Markov, Lars Vogt, Richard Galliano, Sergei Babayan, Andrius Zlabys, Andreas Frölich, Giovanni Sollima, Renaud Capuçon, Gauthier Capuçon, Alexander Hülshoff, Daishin Kashimoto, Teiko Maehashi, Boris Brovtzyn, Boris Andrianov, Pavel Vernikov, Vladimir Sverdlov-Ashkenazy, Diemut Poppen, Svetlin Roussev, Brigitte Engerer, Xavier Phillips, Kun Woo Paik, Viktoria Postnikova, Sergei Nakaryakov, Gary Hoffman, Alexander Chaushian, Alexandra Soumm, Alexander Ghindin, Igor Tchetuev, Jacques Rouvier, Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabedian, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Marc Coppey, Nicolas Dautricourt, Stéphane Bechy, Guy Touvron, Roland Daugareil and André Cazalet.
His CDs include recordings with Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Caen Symphony Orchestra and National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia.
Known internationally as a piano soloist, Vahan Mardirossian is often featured playing the concertos of Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Grieg or Shostakovich while simultaneously conducting the orchestra from the keyboard. As piano soloist he has performed under the direction of Maestros including Kurt Masur, Paavo Järvi, Yutaka Sado, John Axelrod and Yuri Ahronovitch.
Boris Brovtsyn
Violin
"His name often appears on international concert programmes when there is an aura of the exquisite, top-class" (Berliner Morgenpost): The Russian violin virtuoso has established himself as one of the most profound and versatile musicians of his generation. His repertoire includes over fifty violin concertos and hundreds of chamber works, some of which he premiered. He is a frequent guest at the Grands Interprètes music series in Geneva and Spectrum Concerts Berlin, bringing him to the Berlin Philharmonie in every season since 2008.
Boris Brovtsyn has performed with, among others, Sir Neville Marriner, Vladimir Jurowski, Neemi Jarvi, Marek Janowski, Vassili Sinaisky, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Mikhail Jurowski, Gerd Albrecht, Alexander Vedernikov, Michael Sanderling, Arvo Volmer and Antony Wit. Mr Brovtsyn has appeared with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, London Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, the Royal Danish Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony, São Paulo Symphony, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields and the BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic and BBC Scottish Symphony orchestras.
An avid chamber musician, Boris has collaborated with Janine Jansen, Gidon Kremer, Misha Maisky, Kyung-wha Chung, Itamar Golan, Julian Rachlin, Gary Hoffman, Clemens Hagen, Maxim Rysanov, Daishin Kashimoto, Martin Fröst, Nelson Goerner and Denis Matsuev at festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, Verbier Festival and Edinburgh Festival, at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest, the festivals of Stavanger, Campos do Jordão, Annecy, Utrecht, Jerusalem, and Moscow's December Nights.
Boris Brovtsyn appears on numerous CD’s with Decca, BIS, Onyx and Naxos labels. His recording of Schubert and Schoenberg chamber works with Janine Jansen has won the ECHO Klassik award and the Brahms clarinet quintet with Martin Fröst was nominated for the Gramophone award. He has recorded an all-Schulhoff disc in January 2016, and his CD of Ysaye's solo violin sonatas was released in 2018 to great critical acclaim.
A fourth-generation musician, Boris started to play violin under the guidance of his grandfather, a student of Lev Tzeitlin and Abram Yampolsky. After graduating from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied with Maya Glezarova, Boris made his UK debut with the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba and soon relocated to London. He completed his studies with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and has taught there himself from 2010 until 2016.
Based in Vienna, Boris Brovtsyn holds a professorship at the MUK Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität in Vienna. He also chaired a class at the Trinity College of Music in Greenwich and has given masterclasses all around the world, including Korea, Thailand and Brazil.
AYSO Simfony Orchestra
AYSO Orchestra is a youth orchestra permanently directed by Maestro Teresa Satalino. The musicians of AYSO come from all over Italy and attend OrchestrAcademy, an orchestral training academy that offers professional paths to support the careers of young musicians. OrchestrAcademy constitutes a valuable trait d'union between the system of High Artistic and Musical Education and the world of work in professional orchestras, as musicians are offered the precious opportunity to work with conductors and first-part musicians of major national and international orchestras. Founded with the aim of enhancing young Apulian talents, AYSO has become in just a few years a reference point in the field of youth orchestras, attracting musicians from all over Italy and now also musicians from abroad, becoming a national excellence.
AYSO guests included Luca Ranieri, Vincenzo Venneri, Andrea Corsi and Francesco Pomarico from the Orchestra Nazionale della RAI, Silvia Careddu and Patrick Messina from the Orchestre National de France, Sandro Laffranchini, Danilo Rossi and Emanuele Urso from the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Carlo Parazzoli and Francesco Bossone from the Orchestra Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, violinist Davide Alogna, violinist Marco Rizzi, international violist Anna Serova, Omar Tomasoni and Calogero Palermo from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Luca Vignali from the Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Sergey Galaktionov, Vincent Lepape and Amedeo Cicchese from the Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Domenico Zicari from the Orchestra del Teatro della Fenice, Antonio Bossone and Ermanno Calzolari from the Orchestra del Teatro San Carlo, Alex Elia, Roman Spitzer and Emanuele Silvestri from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Cecilia Radic from the Royal Academy of Manchester, Hakan Sensoy, principal conductor of the Izmir State Symphony Orchestra and Istanbul Chamber Orchestra, Nir Kabaretti from the Santa Barbara Symphony.
AYSO Orchestra recently triumphed for the second consecutive year at the prestigious Summa cum Laude International Competition in Vienna, winning over the international jury and winning first prize in the Youth Symphony Orchestra category. Outperforming competing orchestras from Taiwan, the United States and Spain, AYSO played in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein, distinguishing itself for the quality of the performance, the attention to detail, and the great professionalism of the musicians and soloists. The Orchestra also performed in several theatres considered temples of classical music, such as the Smetana Hall in Prague, the Haydn Saal in the Esterhazy Palace and the Konzerthaus in Vienna, where the young musicians were honoured in the presence of orchestras from all over the world.
AYSO also proudly represented Italy by collaborating with the Italian Cultural Institutes and the Italian Embassies in Prague and Vienna and by performing in the concert hall of the Prague Conservatory, one of the oldest in Europe, and in Metternich Palace, seat of the Italian Embassy in Vienna.
AYSO inaugurated 2023 with an important concert conducted by Maestro Teresa Satalino at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari for the Concerti del Mattino season organised by the Petruzzelli Foundation, gaining great success with the public and critics.
In 2022 OrchestrAcademy received the prestigious recognition of the Ministry of Culture by being included, with the AYSO Young Soloists project, in the instrumental ensemble section of the FUS (Fondo Unico per lo Spettacolo).
OrchestrAcademy has started a fruitful collaboration with the Department of Tourism, Economy of Culture and Territorial Development of the Region of Puglia with a series of activities at the Kursaal Santalucia Theatre in Bari, which has become a precious sound casket, hosting masterclasses with big names from the international classical music scene, concerts and training activities for young audiences. AYSO Orchestra turned out to be the only youth orchestra eligible for the Expression of Interest called by the Region of Apulia
with Executive Determination no. 45 of 17/03/2023 - Regional Law no. 32 of 29 December 2022, art. 64 entitled "Contribution to Apulian Youth Symphony Orchestras".
The Orchestra played for the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague and Vienna and at the Metternich Palace for a concert in cooperation with the Italian Embassy in Vienna. AYSO played at the Teatro Sociale in Como; for the International Festival organised by the Walton Foundation in Ischia; it was a guest of the Napoli Teatro Festival playing at the Palazzo Reale. The orchestra inaugurated the Italian Brass Week at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino performing with the brass soloists of the Maggio in a world premiere under the
patronage of the Italian Space Agency and also collaborated with the CMC Orchestra of New York.
The OrchestrAcademy Association was the winner of the Puglia Sounds Producers 2021 and 2022 calls for proposals with the projects OrchestrAzione and Vita da leggio (directed by Alessandro Piva). The Orchestra has collaborated on several occasions with the Fondazione Nuovo Teatro Verdi in Brindisi and the Direzione Generale Musei della Puglia, with concerts held at the Castello Svevo in Bari. For two consecutive years, with the projects OrchestrAcademy Lab and OrchestrAcademy Lab_Pro Ukraine, it was one of the winners of the 'Orizzonti solidali' (Solidarity Horizons) call for proposals of the Megamark Foundation. The Classica4Youth project 2021 was sponsored by the Presidency of the Regional Council with the support of the Guarantor of the Rights of the Child of the Region of Puglia.