Join us as we broaden our sights and sample music from around the globe.

Fall Season Opening Concert

A Basque Note:
Beyond Nationalism

November 26, 2003
7 pm, Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace
Oskar Espina Ruiz, Clarinet
Jeffery Meyer, Conductor


 

 

 

Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace

PROGRAM

Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Overture: Los esclavos felices
Julián Menéndez/Espina Ruiz, Concerto No. 2 for Clarinet and Orchestra
(World Premiere Performance)

Intermission

Maurice Ravel, Pavane pour une infante défunte
Luis De Pablo, Rostro per orchestra da camera (1995/6)
Jesús Guridi, In a Phoenician Vessel

Concert Program (527Kb)
Program Notes (189Kb)
Espina Ruiz
A Concert for Finnish Independence Day

December 4, 2004
4 PM, Shuvalovsky Palace
Sasha Mäkilä, Conductor
Hanna-Leena Haapamäki, Soprano
Hanna-Leena Haapamäki  

Sasha Mäkilä

PROGRAM
Sibelius, Andante Festivo
Mozart, Exsultate, Jubilate (for soprano and chamber orch.) KV 165
Sibelius, Impromptu (op.5&6)
Merikanto, Finnish songs (for soprano and strings) arr. Erkki Palola
Rautavaara, Pelimannit/"Fiddlers" op.1 (for string orchestra)

A "Classic" from St. Petersburg, a view of Scotland from Germany, and a prayer from the New World…
December 18, 2004
7 pm, Shuvalovsky Palace
Lance Inouye, Conductor
Vsevolod Dolganov, Cello Soloist

PROGRAM

Alan Hovhaness, Prayer of St. Gregory
Shostakovich, Cello Concerto Op. 107
Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"

Concert Program (430 Kb)


Vsevolod Dolganov

 
American and Russian Composers from the 20th Century to the Present Day

March 20, 2005
7 PM, Shuvalovsky Palace
Anastasia Khitruk, Violin
Jeffery Meyer, Conductor
PROGRAM

Alexander Tcherepnin, Chamber Concerto

Lawrence Dillon, Amadeus ex machina

Timofey Buzina, Shaman Suite

Intermission

Sergei Slonimsky, Symphony No. 8

Samuel Barber, Violin Concerto

Concert Program (272kb)
Program Notes (148 kb)
Japanese Spring
Part of the 5th Annual Festival
"Japanese Spring in St. Petersburg"

May 21, 2005
7 pm, Shuvalovsky Palace
Conductor, Satoshi Kawasaki

PROGRAM

Yoshimatsu: Threnody to Toki
Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951)
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Beethoven: Symphony no.7


Satoshi Kawasaki

Shuvalovsky Palace (St. Petersburg Centre of International Cooperation)
Address: 191011 St. Petersburg, nab. reki Fontanki (Fontanka River emb.) 21.
Last Updated: 19 January, 2007