Chamber Music at the Political History Museum Kshesinskaya Mansion
100th Anniversary Concert
Friday, October 12, 2007, 3 PM
PROGRAM
PART I
Glinka: Patriotic Song
Schnittke: Pantomime and Fuge from the Suite in Old Stile
Ustvolskaya: Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
Gubaidulina: Chaconne
Nikishova: Vocal cycle (soprano, clarinet, cello) based on poems by G. Lorca
Prokofiev: March (piano, violin, cello)
PART II
Stravinsky: Concertino for String Quartet
Buzina: String Quartet (1st movement)
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 10
Glinka: Patriotic Song
Join the musicians of the St. PCP on this significant day the Museum's history as we explore chamber music that relates to the Museum's fascinating exhibit halls .
Jeffery Meyer and the St. PCP Chamber
Glinka Hall of the Philharmonic
Alexander Radvilovich
Sergei Slonimsky
Timothy Dunne
James Giles
American
and Russian Composers' Concert as part of the
19th International Contemporary Music Festival "Sound Ways" Alexander Radvilovich, Director
St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic
Jeffery Meyer, artistic director and conductor
James Giles, piano
November 25, 2007, 7 pm
Glinka Hall of the Philharmonic
PROGRAM
Feldman: Viola in my Life (1980)
Schnittke: Canon of Alban Berg
Schnittke: Five Fragments on Paintings by Hieronymus Bosch (1994)
Dunne: Piano Concerto (2007) (World Premiere, commissioned by the St. PCP)
James Giles, piano
Slonimsky (arr. Dunne): Margarita's Aria from The Master and Margarita (2007) (World Premiere)
Slonimsky: Symphony No 8 for strings, trumpet and percussion
Join
us for our third appearance in the "Sound Ways Festival":
an exciting concert featuring two world premieres, and renown pianist James Giles.
Members of the St. PCP in performance
iCanada and Classics
Vernon Regehr, guest conductor
Michelle Cheramy, flute
Saturday, January 19,
2008, 7 pm
Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace
PROGRAM
Michael Torke: Lucent Variations
Heather Schmidt: Flute Concerto (World Premiere)
Intermission
Brian Cherney: "In the Stillness of September 1942"
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Heather Schmidt, composer
Vernon Regehr
New works and new artists from Canada will expand the season’s musical horizon. Included in the program is American composer Michael Torke’s brilliant post-minimalist work Lucent Variations as well as a nod to the past with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8.
The St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic
International Masterclass in Orchestral Conducting 2008
Leif Segerstam
Alexander Polishchuk
This international workshop for talented young conductors will take place from February 2 to 7, 2008. Six of the most talented participants in the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic’s Conductor’s Masterclass will be chosen to conduct on the final concert of the six-day intensive program.
The concert will be held at the beautiful Maltese Capella (Sadovaya str. #26) on February 7 at 7 PM. Repertoire will be chosen from the following works:
Mozart: Symphony No. 35, K. 385 (Haffner)
Tchaikovsky: Serenade, op. 48, C major
Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1
Alisa Weilerstein
The Russian and American Cello
Jeffery Meyer, conductor
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Joseph Hallman, guest composer Monday, March 17, 2008, 7 PM
Glinka Hall of the Philharmonic
PROGRAM
Lutoslawski: Musique Funèbre (1958)
Hallman: Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra World Premiere, written for Alisa Weilerstein and the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic
Intermission
Debussy: Danses Sacrée Et Profane
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2, op. 126, G major
American phenomonon Alisa Weilerstein, who has appeared with premiere ensembles such as the orchestras of Baltimore, Cleveland, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco, as well as the New York Philharmonic and National Symphony Orchestra, also has a degree in Russian history from Columbia University in NYC. She will make her debut with the St. PCP performing Shostakovich's Concerto No. 2 and Hallman’s new concerto written for her and the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic.
Copland: Appalachian Spring: Suite (1970 revision)
Intermission
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, op. 24
Stravinsky: Danses concertantes (1941-42)
Jeffery Meyer
The St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic's season finale: a program focusing on song and dance with American soprano, Diane Reich, and Russian mezzo, Ludmila Polulyaschenko.
