2007-08 Concert Season

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.

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 us for our third appearance in the "Sound Ways Festival": an exciting concert featuring two world premieres, and renown pianist James Giles.

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)
Video of opening of piano concerto (live audience member video)
Video of final applause with Timothy Dunne (live audience member video)

Slonimsky (arr. Dunne): Margarita's Aria from The Master and Margarita (2007) (World Premiere)
Slonimsky: Symphony No 8 for strings, trumpet and percussion

Alexander Radvilovich	Sergei Slonimsky	Timothy Dunne	James Giles

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.

PROGRAM
Michael Torke: Lucent Variations
Heather Schmidt: Flute Concerto (World Premiere)
Brian Cherney: "In the Stillness of September 1942"
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

Heather Schmidt	Vernon Regehr	St. PCP in performance

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