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15, 16, 17 JULY
Yuri Bashmet
is “without doubt, one of the world's greatest living
musicians”. (The Times)
Graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, he subsequently
became the youngest person ever to be appointed to a
professorship at the Conservatory. In 1976 he won first
prize at the International Viola Competition in Munich
which launched his international career. In a number of
major concert halls, including La Scala in Milan and the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Bashmet has been the first
violist ever to give a solo recital. He has appeared
with all the world's leading orchestras including the
Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, symphony
orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Montreal, Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestras, London's Philharmonia and
London Philharmonic Orchestras. He has preformed with
Sv. Richter, N. Gutman, the Borodin Quartet, G. Kremer,
Ms. Rostropovich, M. Vengerov.
Yuri Bashmet has inspired many composers to write for
him. He enjoyed an especially close and productive
relationship with Alfred Schnittke whose Viola Concerto
was premiered at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Other
works written for Bashmet include Georgian composer Giya
Kancheli's Viola Concerto (premiered at the Berlin
Festival), The Myrrh Bearer by John Tavener, a concerto
by Paul Ruders.
Bashmet also gave the world première of Britten’s
recently-edited Double Concerto for violin and viola
with Gidon Kremer and the Hallé Orchestra under Kent
Nagano in Manchester (1998). A year later he performed
in the world première of Kanceli’s Styx, playing the
solo viola part written especially for him. Mark-Anthony
Turnage wrote a concerto for him, the world premiere of
which took place in Cleveland in November 2002.
Yuri Bashmet records exclusively for leading worlds
companies as Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classical.
Many prestigious national and international awards have
been the recognition of the high performing mastery of
Yuri Bashmet, among them are Award 1993 for The Best
Instrumentalist of the Year, London (equal to film
Oscars); Sonnings Musicfond, Copenhagen 1995, which was
awarded to musicians such as Stravinski, Britten,
Menuhin, Shostakovich...
Moscow Soloists Ensemble
"They did well, demonstrating impressive unanimity and
among a vast dynamic and tonal armoury a wondrously
controlled pianissimo... " The Times
Moscow Soloists, one of the most acclaimed chamber
ensembles in the world, made his debut in May 1992 in
the Big Hall of Moscow Conservatoire and after two days
– in Pleyel, Paris. Then Yuri Bashmet gathered the best
graduates of the Moscow State Conservatoire together.
Since then the ensemble has performed in such well-known
concerts halls as Carnegie-Hall in New York, Albert-Hall
and Barbican in London, Champs-Elysees Theatre in Paris,
Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and
Santory-hall in Tokyo.
The ensemble has toured all over the world and has taken
part in numerous significant musical festivals such as
BBC Proms, the festivals in Evian, Montreux, Sydney,
December Nights in Moscow, etc.
As soloists of the ensemble have performed S. Richter,
G. Kremer, M, Rostropovich, V. Tretyaikov, M. Vengerov,
B. Hendrix, J. Galoway, L. Harrel, M. Brunello.
In 1994 the ensemble recorded on CD for EMI the Triple
Concerto by Schnittke with G. Kremer and M Rostropovich.
In 1998 their CD featuring works by Schostakovich and
Brahms, recorded for Sony Classical, was nominated for
the Grammy prize. The group has participated in
different TV programs in Russia and abroad. Their
concerts were broadcast several times or recorded by the
leading world radio stations such as BBC, Bavarian
Radio, Radio France, NHK in Japan, etc.
The ensemble’s artistic biography includes over 800
concerts, (about 1600 hours of music). Their
performances have been met by ovations in 40 countries
on 5 continents. Over 185 chef-d'oeuvres of the world
classics and rarely performed works and many diverse and
interesting premieres mark the orchestra’s repertoire.
For the years of his artistic activity under the
direction of Yuri Bashmet the young musicians have
perfected their performing mastery and have achieved an
excellent unanimity combined with the unique personality
and talent of each musician.
Igor Raykhelson (b. St. Petersburg)
graduated at the Conservatory in his native town both in
Classical and Jazz Piano. In 1979 he moved to New York
City and began his piano studies with the famous Prof.
A. Edelman. Igor went on to tour with such jazz greats
as Eddie Gomez, Joe Lock and Igor Butman. Later he met
and performed with legendary violist Yuri Bashmet, and
inspired by his brilliant artistry composed several
pieces of music for him and subsequently they continue
their successful musical collaborations to this day.
In 2003 Igor debuted his composition Adagio for Viola
and String Orchestra performed by Bashmet and The Moscow
Soloist in Carnegie Hall. Raykhelson continued to
combine his love of jazz and classical music through his
expressive composition entitled Jazz Suite (2005),
performed at Lincoln Center February 2006 by Bashmet,
the Moscow Soloist, Igor Butman leading his Big Band
Jazz Orchestra. Jazz Suite is well loved by musicians
internationally and continues to be performed in major
concert halls and festivals. Continuing his successful
career in composition, Igor's Small Symphony for Strings
debuted at the Bahamas Music Festival in January 2006.
Igor Raykhelson is hailed by peers as one of the leading
international composers of the contemporary Neo Romantic
Movement.
Igor Butman (b. St.Petersburg),
saxophone virtuoso, band leader, club owner and TV host,
is Russia's number one jazz personality. He studied jazz
saxophone at the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music. After
Igor Butman immigrated to America in 1987, he continued
his studies at Berklee College of Music. He already had
a "fan club" made up of some of America's most respected
jazz artists such as Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, Pat
Metheny, Gary Burton, Louis Bellson and Grover
Washington Jr., who invited him to play together. He
played at Boston's leading jazz club, The Regattabar,
and has been featured soloist with the Billy Taylor
Quartet, the Walter Davis Jr. Quartet and the Monty
Alexander Quintet. Moving to New York in 1989, Butman
worked with The Lionel Hampton Orchestra. In 1993, saw
the release of his solo album Falling Out mostly with
Igor's own composition. In 90`s he performed at almost
every major jazz festivals, such as JVC in New York,
Boston Globe, Lionel Hampton in Idaho, Montreal in
Canada. In 1992 Butman played for the first time in
Russia after his emigration and during the following
years he became "a jazz bridge between Moscow and New
York”. The solo albums Nostalgie and Prophecy were
released. He was a guest soloist with the Lincoln Center
Jazz Orchestra and a special guest with Ray Charles,
George Benson and Al Jarreau bands. Butman`s appearance
at the Moscow Kremlin drew praise from Bill Clinton and
Vladimir Putin at the Moscow Kremlin. Igor Butman has
performed and recorded with Yuri Bashmet and Moscow
Soloists Together they created a video Vocalise on
Rachmaninov's music.
In 1999 the saxophone virtuoso founded the
Igor Butman Big Band consisting of
best Russian jazz musicians. The orchestration has been
made by the phenomenal musician Vitaly Dolgov, whose
name is connected with the whole epoch in history of
native jazz orchestras.
Guest soloists of the band were musicians such as Joe
Lovano, Randy Brecker, Billy Cobham, Dee Dee
Bridgewater, Kevin Mahogany and Toots Thielemans at the
tremendous gala concert The Triumph of Jazz , held at
Moscow's 3,000-seat Rossia Concert Hall in 2002.
The first album of the Band The Eternal Triangle was
recorded in 2003. Jazz at Lincoln Center opened its
2003-04 season with a special collaboration between the
renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Igor
Butman Big Band.The New York Times called the
performance of the Igor Butman Big Band. Just after
arrival to Moscow the Igor Butman Big Band performed at
Parliament Jazz Festival on September 22, 2003. In
November 2003 the Band took part at the gala at Carnegie
Hall in New York.
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