STICHTING VROUW EN MUZIEK PRESENTS

Female composers in the project Around St. Petersburg

Project description:

This time the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME) makes an accent on the female music and brings it to the North region of Russia. “Around St. Petersburg” is the part of the whole project by the ensemble: the first part took place in September this year in Amsterdam in the Gaudeamus Music Week, and then in St. Petersburg during the Days of Dutch Culture. New works by Dutch and Russian composers, especially written for the MCME and devoted to the 300-years anniversary of St. Petersburg, make the program so special. The program in each city of the Around St. Petersburg Project varies: local composers as well as Russians classic are programmed. Most of the concerts are part of the significant international music festivals: Moscow Autumn in Moscow, Sound Ways in St. Petersburg and Rachmaninov International Festival in Veliky Novgorod. Two more concerts will take place in the cities of the Karelia Region, it’s capital Petrozavodsk and in Kondopoga. The Dutch composer Astrid Kruisselbrink, who wrote a work especially for the MCME, will accompany the ensemble in that trip, give presentions at the concerts and meet local composers and musicologists.

Participants:

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble

Yuri Kasparov - artistic director

Alexey Vinogradov - conductor

Astrid Kruisselbrink, composer

Period: 13 - 27 November 2003

Route: Moscow (13.11) - Veliky Novgorod (16.11) - St. Petersburg (17.11) - Petrozavodsk (18.11) - Kondopoga (19.11) - Moscow (27.11)

Organisations/support:

Stichting Vrouw en Muziek, Gaudeamus Foundation, Muziekgroep Nederland, Wilhelmina E. Jansen Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Mama Cash, het Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst, Tanglewood Music Centre (USA), Royal Netherlands Embassy in Moscow,

International Association of Composers Organizations (Russia), Moscow Autumn Festival (Moskou), Sound Ways Festival (St. Petersburg), Rachmaninov International Festival (Veliky Novgorod).

Contact persons:

- Oleg Galakhov, director Moscow Autumn Festival

- Marina Shmotova, president Berinsky Music Club (Moscow)

- Ljubov Deriglazova, director Rachmaninov Music Culture Centre (Veliky Novgorod)

- Alexander Radvilovitch, artistic director Sound Ways Festival (St. Petersburg)

- Roman Zelinsky, Director Karelia Composers Union (Petrozavodsk)

- Vladimir Solovjev, rector Petrozavodsk Conservatory

- Olga Soldatova, artistic director Arts Palace (Kondopoga)

- Vladislav Kazenin, director Russian Composers Union (Moscow)

- Vladimir Dashkevitch, director International Association of Composers Organizations (Russia)

- Victoria Korshunova, manager the MCME

- Valeria Gorokhovskaya, idea and production

Thursday 13 November 2003, Moscow

International contemporary music festival “Moscow Autumn”

Concert-exhibition hall “Gagarinsky 4”

Address: Gagarinsky 4, 19:00 hrs

News from Holland

Astrid Kruisselbrink Lees for bassoon, piano and string trio (2003) *

Calliope Tsoupaki Trio for flute, bass-clarinet and piano (2002)

Vanessa Lann Objects of Ritual for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano (2001)

Florian Magnus Maier Eclipse Septet for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and piano (2003) *

Theo Loevendie Victoria Regina for flute, clarinet, violin and cello (2003) *

Roderik de Man Rush for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and piano (2003)*

Sunday, 16 November 2003, Veliky Novgorod

The 5^th Rachmaninov Internationale Festival

Rachmaninov Music Centre

Address: Bolshaya Moskovskaya 7; 19.00 hrs.

Veliky Novgorod goes Dutch

Alexander Ljadov Preludium for bassoon and piano

Vanessa Lann Objects of Ritual for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano

Sergey Prokofjev Five melodies for violin and piano

Sofia Gubaidulina Quasi Hoketus for bassoon, viola and piano

Jamilia Jazylbekova Le Refus de L’Enfermement III

Alexander Skriabin Five preludies op 16 (arrangement by Y. Kasparov)

Astrid Kruisselbrink Lees for bassoon, piano and string trio (2003) *

Monday, 17 November 2003. St. Petersburg

International contemporary music festival “Sound Ways”

Big Hall of House of Composers

Address: Bolshaya Morskaya str. 45; 19:00 hrs.

Dutch in St. Petersburg

Vanessa Lann Objects of Ritual for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano

Jamilia Jazylbekova Le Refus de L’Enfermement III for flute, clarinet, bassoon, viola and cello

Alexander Radvilovich Trio for violin, viola and cello

Calliope Tsoupaki Trio for flute, bass-clarinet and piano

Sofia Gubaidulina Quasi Hoketus for bassoon, viola and piano

Astrid Kruisselbrink Lees for bassoon, piano and string trio *

Yuri Kasparov Landscape fading into Infinity for clarinet, violin, cello, piano

18-19 November 2003, St. Petersburg

Rimsky - Korsakov State Conservatory

Address: Teatralnaya Square 3, 19:00 hrs.

Meeting with Astrid Kruisselbrink

Tuesday 18 November 2003, Petrozavodsk (Republic Karelia, the capital)

Petrozavodsk State Conservatory

Address: Leningradskaya str. 16; 19.00 hrs.

From Skriabin to Kruisselbrink

Sergei Prokofjev Five melodies for violin and piano

Vanessa Lann Objects of Ritual for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano

Sofia Gubaidulina Quasi Hoketus for bassoon, viola and piano

Calliope Tsoupaki Trio for flute, bass-clarinet and piano

Alexander Skriabin Five preludies op 16 (arrangement by Y. Kasparov)

Jamilia Jazylbekova Le Refus de L’Enfermement III for flute, clarinet, bassoon, viola and cello

Astrid Kruisselbrink Lees for bassoon, piano and string trio *

Wednesday 19 November 2003, Kondopoga (Republic Karelia )

Arts Palace

19.00 hrs.

see the program on 18 November

Thursday 27 November 2003, Moscow

International contemporary music festival “Moscow Autumn”

Big Hall, Moscow House of Composers

Bruysov per, 8/10; 19:00 hrs

Moscow Updates

Marina Shmotova Psichea for chamber ensemble (2003)

Maria Boulgakova Die Zeichen for chamber ensemble(2003) *

Elena Langer In the Dark for ensemble (2003) *

Works by Zaur Fahradov, Roman Ledenev, Anton Rovner, Dmitry Kapyrin.

* - written for the MCME