May
2012
The "Tchaikovsky" St. Petersburg State Orchestra was founded in the post-WWII Soviet era and has become an ensemble with unlimited musical possibilities. The Orchestra’s repertoire is extremely diverse ranging from the Baroque music right through to music of the 20th Century.
Their 2011 North American tour will feature a program including Richard Wagner's Overture from the Opera The Flying Dutchman, Frédéric Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 — with soloist Alexander Pirozhenko— and Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100.
The "Tchaikovsky" St. Petersburg State Orchestra was founded in the years following World War II. During this time the Orchestra successfully worked in different musical genres and received broad acknowledgement and popularity throughout Russia. In the course of the history of the Orchestra it has worked with many of the outstanding conductors from the St. Petersburg Conducting School. The Orchestra has undergone much change since its inception, including a change of name and leadership but through all this time it has been developing its repertoire strengths and building a devoted audience .
The Orchestra’s repertoire is extremely diverse ranging from the Baroque music right through to music of the 20th Century. The Orchestra’s repertoire includes a range from baroque compositions by Vivaldi, Bach, Handel and contemporary compositions by Schnitke, Banshikov, Desyatnikov, Kancheli. The Orchestra is at home in the works of famous Russian Romantic composers (Tschaikowski, Rachmaninoff) to the classical composers of the 20th Century (Honegger, Poulenc, Hindemith, Stravinsky). The Orchestra performs in the best St. Petersburg Halls, such as the Dmitry Shostakovich St. Petersburg Philharmonic Grand Hall, State Academic Capella, Smolny Cathedral, and City Cultural Center. Since 1990s the Orchestra has held a regular Subscription Series in addition to standard concerts throughout Russia. The Orchestra offers many educational and charity programs aimed at exposing children and young people with vast repertoire and performs very popular Young People’s Concerts in St. Petersburg on a regular basis.
For the past ten years the "Tchaikovsky" St. Petersburg State Orchestra has become an ensemble with unlimited musical possibilities including the regular commissioning and performances of new compositions, a testament to the high standard of the Orchestra, which commissions many new works written especially for the Orchestra each season. The Orchestra has a special relationship with several local composers in St. Petersburg but also collaborates and premieres works of foreign composers, who have dedicated may of their works to the Orchestra.
The "Tchaikovsky" St. Petersburg State Orchestra tours regularly all over the world and has had successful concert tours in Europe, China and Japan.
Many of Russia’s legendary and most distinguished soloists and conductors have worked with the Orchestra over the past several decades including Montserrat Caballé, Sviatoslav Richter, Elena Obrastsova, Yevgeni Nesterenko, Yuri Egorov and Viktor Tretyakov.
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