Soloists:
Kazazyan
Ramm
Kopachevsky
Programme
Haik Kazazyan
Violin
Haik Kazazyan was born in Yerevan, in 1982. In 1989 has entered the Sayat-Nova Music school.
In 1994-1995 won several republic competitions, also won ‘Grand-Prix’ at ‘Amadeus-95’ competition and after that has been invited to Belgium and France for recitals.
In 1996 has moved to Moscow and has entered a class of professor E. Gratch in music school named after Gnessin.
In 1997 has taken part in the international competition of violinists in Germany(in the castle ‘Kloster Shontal’) and has received II prize and special prize for masterly performance.
In 1999 at the 2-nd international competition named after A.Yampolsky has won II prize.
In 2000 at the All-Russia competition ‘New names’ with a piano trio has received ‘Grand Prix’.
In the same year entered the Moscow Conservatory, class of professor E. D. Gratch.
In 2001 at the XII international H.Wieniawski competition in Poland has received III premium and special prize for the best performance of polonaise by Wieniawski.
In 2002 he became the laureate of XII international P.I.Tchaikovsky competition, IV prize and 3 special prizes. A prizes – from TV channel ‘Culture’, from the Moscow State Conservatory, from foundation ‘New Names’.
In 2004 at the International violin competition in Sion-Valais(Switzerland) Haik received first prize and prize of ‘Children jury’ and also public prize.
Haik often plays in many festivals like ‘Festival de musique’ of Sh. Mintz,(Switzerland) ‘Arts square’ of Yu. Temirkanov (S.-Petersburg), ‘Moscow Kremlin’ ,Primavera Classica’(Moscow) and many others.
Has performed in ‘Carnegie hall’(Stern Auditorium) in New-York, in Great, Main and Rakhmaninov halls of Moscow conservatory, in Tchaikovsky hall(Moscow), ‘Victoria hall’ in Geneve, ‘Barbican hall’ in London, ‘Usher hall’ in Edinburgh, etc.
Haik often plays concerts in Usa,England,Scottland,Ireland,Germany,Poland,France,Switzerland, Israel and many other places.
He has performed with Scottish Royal Orchestra with A.Lazarev, Russian Chamber Orchestra and Russian National Orchestra with C. Orbelian, Chamber orchestra ‘Moscovia’ with his professor E. Gratch, Dublin National Orchestra and others.
He often has masterclasses with Sh. Mintz, I. Haendel and others.
Since 2002 he is a soloist of Moscow Philharmonic Society.
Philipp Kopachevsky
Piano
A soloist of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic and a prize-winner at international competitions, the young pianist Philipp Kopachevsky had won tremendous audience admiration and acclaim by the age of twenty-five He regularly appears in recital in Great Britain, Germany, the USA, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Greece, Poland and Spain as well as throughout Russia. Kopachevsky has won particular popularity in Japan, where especially for NHK TV he recorded a disc of piano music by Chopin.
“The young pianist’s playing has a perceptibly personal message. The natural blend of mastery and spiritual maturity with raw emotion, the freedom with which the pianist expresses himself and his Romantic sincerity and nobleness win one over from the very first notes...” “From the first notes he plays, you sense the pianist’s powerful and lyrical individuality. His piano sings – this is a very rare quality nowadays, typical of a Romantic worldview; he retains clarity in his pianism and his phrasing is beautiful and pliant...” These are the kind of reviews Philipp Kopachevsky receives from music critics.
Philipp Kopachevsky was born in Moscow in 1990. He graduated from the Central School of Music of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. He is currently a student at the Moscow Conservatoire (class of Professor Sergei Dorensky).
Philipp Kopachevsky has been a prize-winner at eight prestigious international competitions, among them the Х International Franz Schubert Piano Competition (Germany) and international Piano competition in Enschede (Netherlands)
The musician has performed with the world’s great orchestras, among them the English Chamber Orchestra, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic, the Symphony Orchestra of the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre in Moscow, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra under Pavel Kogan, the Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra, the Yevgeny Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra of Russia and the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St Petersburg Philharmonic. He has collaborated with such illustrious conductors as Mstislav Rostropovich, Valery Gergiev, Yury Bashmet, Vladimir Spivakov, Mikhail Pletnev, Yevgeny Kolobov, Yuri Simonov, Alexander Dmitriev, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Daniel Smith, Andrew Gourlay, William Noll, Bjarte Engeset, Charles Olivieri-Munroe,Young Chil Lee, Yevgeny Bushkov, Maxim Vengerov, Jan Latham Koenig, and Paul Watkins etc.
Philipp Kopachevsky has appeared at numerous international festivals, such as the Andrei Sakharov Festival (Nizhny Novgorod), the Vera Lotar-Shevchenko Memorial Competition (Novosibirsk), the Steinway Festival, the Miami Piano Festival, the Arts Naples World Festival (USA), the Colmar International Festival (France), the Mstislav Rostropovich Memorial Festival (Baku), the Baltic Seasons festival (Kaliningrad), Vladimir Spivakov Invites, Stars on Baikal, Crescendo and Denis Matsuev Invites among numerous others.
He performed at the world premiere of choreographer Benjamin Millepied’s ballet Without at the Mariinsky Theatre. Philipp Kopachevsky is involved in the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic’s project Stars of the 21st Century.
Alexander Ramm
Cello
Alisher Navoi State Academic Grand Theatre
The State Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Alisher Navoi is deservedly considered the leading theatre of Uzbekistan, its national pride, the attractive center of musical and theatrical culture. It has a glorious history, rich in wonderful traditions. This history is a powerful foundation of that high culture and skill, thanks to which the opera and ballet theatre has gained worldwide fame.