PROGRAM:
- Brahms
- Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra
- Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra
- Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
- Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor – Dimitris Botinis
Marc-André Hamelin, OC, CQ (born September 5, 1961), is a Canadian virtuoso pianist and composer. Hamelin is recognized worldwide for the originality and technical proficiency of his performances of the classic repertoire. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Marc-André Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five. His father, a pharmacist by trade who was also an amateur pianist, introduced him to the works of Alkan, Godowsky, and Sorabji when he was still young. He studied at the École de musique Vincent-d'Indy in Montreal and then at Temple University in Philadelphia. In 1989 he was awarded the Virginia Parker Prize.
Marc-André Hamelin has given recitals in many cities. Festival appearances have included Bad Kissingen, Belfast, Cervantino, La Grange de Meslay, Husum Piano Rarities, Lanaudière, Ravinia, La Roque d’Anthéron, Ruhr Piano, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Singapore Piano, Snape Maltings Proms, Mänttä Music Festival, Turku and Ottawa Strings of the Future, as well as the Chopin Festivals of Bagatelle (Paris), Duszniki and Valldemossa. Marc-André Hamelin appears regularly in both the Wigmore Hall Masterconcert Series and the International Piano Series at London’s South Bank Centre. He plays annually in the Herkulessaal in Munich and has given a series of recitals in Tokyo.
He has made recordings of a wide variety of composers with the Hyperion label. His recording of Leopold Godowsky's complete Studies on Chopin's Études won the 2000 Gramophone Magazine Instrumental Award. He is well known for his attention to lesser-known composers especially of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century (Leo Ornstein, Nikolai Roslavets, Georgy Catoire), and for performing works by the pianist-composers Leopold Godowsky, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Kaikhosru Sorabji, Nikolai Kapustin, Franz Liszt, Nikolai Medtner and Frederic Rzewski.
Hamelin has also composed several works, including a set of piano études in all of the minor keys, which was completed in September 2009 and is published by C. F. Peters, with a recording released on the Hyperion label. A cycle of seven pieces, called Con Intimissimo Sentimento, was published (with a recording by Hamelin) by Ongaku No Tomo Sha; and a transcription of Zequinha de Abreu's Tico-Tico No Fubá has been published by Schott Music. Although the majority of his compositions are for piano solo, he has also written three pieces for player piano (including the comical Circus Galop and Solfeggietto a cinque, which is based on a theme by C.P.E. Bach), and several works for other forces, including Fanfares for three trumpets, published by Presser. His other works are distributed by the Sorabji Archive.
In 1985 he won the Carnegie Hall International Competition for American Music. In 2004 Hamelin received the international record award in Cannes. He has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Québec (National Order of Québec).
Most recently, he won the 2008 Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Ensemble—Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano.
His first marriage was to soprano Jody Karin Applebaum. He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his second wife Cathy Fuller, pianist and WGBH classical music broadcaster.
State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra) for 75 years has been one of the leading orchestras of Russia and a special pride of this country's musical culture.
The ensemble's debut performance took place on 5 October 1936, at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Only a few months later, it went on an extensive tour around the former USSR.
Winner of the International Antonio Pedrotti Conducting Competition (Italy, 2006), winner of the 1st All-Russian Conductors Competition (Moscow, 2011).
Dimitris Botinis was born in 1986 in Moscow in a family of musicians, and grew up in Greece. At the age of 5 he began his studies in violin and later in viola. As a violinist he graduated summa cum laude from the Conservatory of Patras with a Violin Diploma.
At the age of 14 he started his studies in orchestral conducting under the guidance of his father – a symphony orchestra conductor, and also by participating in International Master Courses for conductors instructed by Prof. Yuri Simonov in Budapest.
In 2011 he graduated summa cum laude from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory “Rimsky Korsakov”, where he has been studying Symphonic and Operatic conducting since 2006, under Prof. Yuri Simonov.
He has conducted orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre , Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, State Academic Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg, State Academic “Cappella-Glinka” Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Orchestra Camerata of the State Hermitage Museum, Orchestra of the Frankfurt Opera, Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, Bialystok Symphony Orchestra, “Liszt-Wagner” Symphony Orchestra Budapest, Orchestra Haydn of Bolzano, State Symphony Orchestra of Athens, State Symphony Orchestra of Thessaloniki, Greek Radio National Symphony Orchestra, Patras Orchestra and others.
In 2010 he made his opera debut in the Opera Theater of St. Petersburg State Conservatory where he conducted P.I. Tchaikovsky’s “Ιolanta”.
Dimitris Botinis has participated in International Festivals such as “Musical Olympus” of St. Petersburg and “International Festival of Patras”.
He is currently an assistant conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.
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