2010-11 Concert Season

Join the St. PCP with its fifth appearance at the 2010 Sound Ways International New Music Festival. The program features Olga Kleiankina, originally from Moldova, performing a world premiere of a new work written by American composer Rodney Waschka. The concert will also feature a world premiere performance of a work written for the St. PCP by Alexander Radvilovich, the esteemed Director of the Sound Ways Festival, and the Russian premiere of Steve Reich's Pulitzer-winning work Double Sextet.

PROGRAM
Ligeti: Ramifications (1969)
Radvilovich: Chehov-Symphony (2010) (world premiere)
Waschka: Piano Concerto (2010) (world premiere)
  Olga Kleiankina, piano
Reich (2007): Double Sextet (Russian premiere)

The St. PCP has the honor of introducing Gilbert Kalish to its St. Petersburg audience, with a repeat performance of Slonimsky's Jewish Rhapsody. The St. PCP's first performance of the work with Mr. Kalish was a resounding success at the 2010 Symphony Space Wall-to-Wall "Behind the Wall" festival in New York City. The New York Times called the St. PCP's performances "impressive... powerful... blazing..." and "polished". Read Review

Mr. Kalish's discography of some 100 recordings encompasses classical repertory, 20th Century masterworks and new compositions. Of special note are his solo recordings of Charles Ives' Concord Sonata and Sonatas of Joseph Haydn, and immense discography of vocal music with Jan De Gaetani and landmarks of the 20th Century by composers such as Carter, Crumb, Shapey and Schoenberg. In 1995, he was presented with the Paul Fromm Award by the University of Chicago Music Department for distinguished service to the music of our time.

The program will also feature several of St. Petersburg's most talented young musicians. The performance of the Jewish Rhapsody will also feature Nikolai Mokhov, principal flute of the Mariinsky Theaterh. The concert will begin with a world premiere performance of a new work written for the St. PCP by Timofey Buzina, a former student of Slonimsky. The second half of the concert will begin with the Russian premiere of Pulitzer-prize winning composer Steven Stucky's (USA) orchestrations of songs from Hugo Wolf's lyrical Spanisches Liederbuch with up-and-coming mezzo-soprano Anastasia Vinogradova-Zabolotskaya (Анастасия Виноградова-Заболотская), and this extraordinary program will conclude with Beethoven's dynamic Symphony No. 4.

PROGRAM
Buzina: Threads, 3 Etudes for Strings (World Premiere)
Slonimsky: Jewish Rhapsody
  Gilbert Kalish, piano; Nikolai Mokhov, flute
Hugo Wolf/Stucky (2008): Five Songs from the Spanisches Liederbuch by Hugo Wolf, orchestrated by Steven Stucky (2008) for medium voice and orchestra (Russian Premiere)
  Anastasia Vinogradova-Zabolotskaya, mezzo-soprano
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, op.60, B-flat major

The St. PCP celebrates the era of Schoenberg's Society for Private Musical Performance in both spirit and substance. Arnold Schoenberg’s private concert series from 1918-1922, the Verein Für Musikalische Privataufführungen in Wien, presented a dramatically eclectic group of works, including some of the most important works of the early 20th century.

The concerts — some 353 performances from 1918 to 1922 — were performed for society members only; critics were forbidden to attend.

The St. PCP recreates the intention, intimacy and dramatic intensity of these concerts with works arranged by Schoenberg (Mahler and Debussy), Reinbert de Leeuw's arrangement of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, and the early Schoenberg masterpiece Chamber Symphony No. 1.

PROGRAM
Debussy/Schoenberg: Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun
Mahler/Schoenberg Songs of a Wayfarer
Mahler/de Leeuw: Kindertotenlieder
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No.1, op.9 (Kammersymphonie)

The St. PCP, featuring conductor Jeffery Meyer (Third Prize, The Antonio Pedrotti International Conducting Competition, Trento Italy, 2008), offers a concert for the spring season at the world famous Hermitage Theatre.

PROGRAM

F.Liszt (1811 – 1886)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major (1849 – 1856)
Soloist Masataka Goto (Japan), First Prize, The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, Utrecht (The Netherlands), 2011

J.F. Ibert (1890-1962)
Concertino Da Camera for Alto Saxophone and Eleven Instruments (1935)
A. Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Two Tangos (Arr. for Saxophone and String Orchestra by Ashu)
Soloist Ashu (USA), First Prize, “The International Salon de Virtuosi Career”, New York (USA), 2008

J. Rodrigo (1901-1999)
Concierto Madrigal for two Guitars and Orchestra (1966)
Soloists Anabel Montesinos (Spain), First Prise, The “Michele Pittaluga” Classic Guitar Competition, Alessandria (Italy), 2010
Marco Tamyo (Austria)

R.Strauss (1864 – 1949)
Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, op. 11 (1883)
Allegro
Andante
Rondo. Allegro
Soloist Premysl Vojta (Chech Republic), First Prize and Audience Prize, The ARD International Music Competition, Munich (Germany), 2010

The 2011 International Masterclass in Orchestral Conducting will be the third international workshop run by the St. PCP for talented young conductors who will come from all over the world to develop their craft of conducting under the tutelage one of St. Petersburg’s most important teachers. 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.

PROGRAM
Britten: Simple Symphony

Prokofiev: Classical Symphony

Debussy: Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun (arr. Schoenberg)
Mozart: Symphony No. 40, K. 550, G Minor (version without clarinets)