- Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor – Alexey Bogorad
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.
From its inception, the orchestra has been led by the finest musicians such as its founder Alexander Gauk (1936-1941); Natan Rakhlin (1941-1945), who guided it through the difficult World War II years; Konstantin Ivanov (1945-1965), who, for the first time, took it on international tours; and "the last romantic of the 20th century", Evgeny Svetlanov (1965-2000). Under Svetlanov's leadership the orchestra became one of the world's best, and its repertoire has grown to include virtually all Russian symphonic music, nearly all Western classics, and countless works by contemporary composers. From 2000 to 2002 the orchestra was headed by Vassily Sinaisky, and from 2002 to 2011, by Mark Gorenstein.
On 24 October 2011 Vladimir Jurowski is appointed an artistic director of State Symphony Orchestra of Russia.
On 27 October 2005, the name of Evgeny Fedorovich Svetlanov became part of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia official name in recognition of his invaluable contribution to Russian musical culture.
The orchestra performs at such prestigious venues as the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow), Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall (New York), Kennedy Center (Washington, D. C.), Musikverein (Vienna), Albert Hall (London), Salle Pleyel (Paris), Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), and Suntory Hall (Tokyo).
The list of world renowned and legendary figures who graced the podium of the orchestra as guest conductors includes H. Abendroth, A. Cluytens, V. Gergiev, N. Golovanov, M. Jansons, E. Kleiber, K. Kondrashin, K. Masur, A. Melik-Pashaev, Y. Menuhin, E. Mravinsky, C. Munch, M. Rostropovich, G. Rozhdestvensky, S. Samosud, and Y. Temirkanov to name a few.
Among the outstanding soloists who have performed with the orchestra are I. Arkhipova, Yu. Bashmet, M. Caballe, P. Domingo, A Fischer, Gilels, N. Gutman, O. Kagan, L. Kogan, V. Krainev, M. Long Y. Menuhin, D. Oistrakh, N. Petrov, M. Pletnev, S. Richter, V. Spivakov, V. Tretyakov, and E. Virsaladze. Recently, this stellar roster was expanded to add A. Baeva, A. Buzlov, M. Fedotov, M. Gulegina, D. Hvorostovsky, E. Kissin, A. Knyazev, A. Korobeinikov, M. Kultyshev, N. Lugansky, D. Matsuev, V. Rudenko, A. Rudin, and M. Vengerov.
After its first tour abroad in 1956, the orchestra has regularly represented Russian culture in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, the US, and other countries and participated in the major international festivals and charitable events.
The ensemble devotes a great deal of time to touring Russian cities and also, to charitable activities, including free performances at the country's hospitals, schools, and orphanages.
The orchestra's discography includes hundreds of recordings released by leading Russian and foreign labels such as Melodiya, Bomba-Piter, EMI Classics, BMG, Naxos, Chandos, Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm, and others. The special place in this list belongs to the famous Anthology of the Russian Symphonic Music encompassing audio recordings of Russian composers from Glinka to Glazunov, a Svetlanov's project, to which he dedicated many years.
The orchestra's creative biography is a succession of triumphant achievements that have secured its permanent place in the annals of world culture.
Alexey Bogorad is a staff conductor at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, a position he has held since 2011. His 2011 triumph at the Lovro von Matačić International Conducting Competition in Zagreb pushed him to the front ranks of today’s generation of European conducting talent.
Born in a family of musicians, maestro Bogorad started studying music at the age of three. After completing Moscow’s prestigious Central School of Music he ãrst studied clarinet and then studied conducting with maestro Gennady Rozhdestvensky at the Moscow State Conservatoire. In 2009 he completed his conducting studies with honours, including master-classes with Michail Jurowski and Colin Metters.
In 2010 Bogorad was awarded a fellowship by the American Academy of Conducting to study and perform at the Aspen Music Festival under Music Director Robert Spano. In the same year, he won 2 prize and special recognition from the Ukraine National Symphony at the Stefan Turchak International Conducting Competition in Kiev. Also in 2010, he was selected by maestro Vladimir Jurowski to be assistant conductor of the Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra.
An experienced solo clarinettist and chamber musician, Bogorad was a leader of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra from 1997 to 2011. He was also a soloist of Mikhail Pletnev’s Russian National Orchestra from 2001 to 2012.
Acclaimed for his mastery in conducting opera and ballet repertoire, maestro Bogorad supervises a wide range of programmes at the Bolshoi. His work in opera includes Ruslan and Lyudmila, Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades, The Fiery Angel, Don Giovanni, Der Fliegende Holländer, Madama Butteräy, Tosca, La Bohème, L’Enfant et les sortilèges and Wozzeck. Of the ballet repertoire, he has conducted Giselle, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Raymonda, Cinderella, Don Quixote, La Bayadère, Jewels, La Sylphide and Marco Spada, which – among other Bolshoi productions led by Bogorad – was widely broadcast by Bel Air Classiques. He has worked with such stage artists as Svetlana Zakharova, Albina Shagimuratova and Natalia Gutman.
Regularly invited to conduct the Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra, Bogorad has mastered an extensive symphonic repertoire. With Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra he has recorded a double CD of classical ballet music for the Columbia Records label.
Maestro Bogorad performs as a guest conductor with various Russian opera companies and symphony orchestras including the Russian National Orchestra and the St Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra. In 2013 he substituted for Valery Gergiev, conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra during the G20 Summit in St Petersburg. In 2015 he was honoured with an invitation to conduct the piano ãnals of the XV Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, live-streamed by Medici TV with more than ten million viewers worldwide.
Internationally, Bogorad has made debuts with the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oita Symphony, the Teatro di San Carlo, the Craiova Opera House and the Prague National Theatre.
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