2011-12 Concert Season

The St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic's Tenth Season opens with a dynamic program of two world premiers and one Russian premiere. The St. PCP won a prestigious 2011 Koussevitzky Library of Congress award to commission Laura Kaminsky of New York City to write a piano concert for the St. PCP and American new music virtuouso Ursula Oppens. Ms. Oppens will make her first appearance at the Sound Ways Festival with the St. PCP performing the world premiere of this work. Also on the program will be the Russian premiere of Pulitzer prize winning composer Steven Stucky's Chamber Concerto written in 2009 for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra of the United States. Both Ms. Kaminsky and Mr. Stucky will be present for the performances and offer a pre-concert talk to the audience as well as classes at the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory during the days prior to the concert. The concert also includes another exciting world premiere: Leonid Rezetdinov's Feuerwerk-Hana-Bi.

PROGRAM
Steven Stucky: Chamber Concerto (2009)
Leonid Rezetdinov: "Feuerwerk-Hana-Bi" symphonic fantasy for piano with orchestra (2010)
Ligeti: Ramifications (1968-69)
Laura Kaminsky: Piano Concerto (2011)
  Ursula Oppens, piano

Darrell Ang, Conductor Laureate of the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, returns for the 10th Anniversary season to conduct a program of contemporary Asian masters with a focus on Chinese composer YE Xiaogang.

PROGRAM
Ye Xiaogang: Nine Horses
Ye Xiaogang: Hibiscus
Ho Chee Kong: Shades of Oil Lamps
Angel Lam: Red Peony Sky in Mid-June

The Troika International Festival 2012 is the first of its kind in St. Petersburg, presenting a four day collaborative journey with three of the world’s cultural tours de force, and bringing together musicians and composers from China, the United States and Russia. 

The festival will introduce four of China’s premiere performers on traditional Chinese instruments (pipa, zheng, sheng, erhu).  They will be playing not only traditional Chinese music, but also new music written by some of China’s most important living composers, Ye Xiaogang, Chen Yi, Qin Wenchen, Tang Jianping, Guo Wenjing, Jia Guoping, three of whom will be in attendance at the festival. 

Representing the United States, in addition to Artistic Director Jeffery Meyer, will be New York City’s Margaret Kampmeier (piano), as well as composers Ed Harsh and Laura Kaminsky, also from New York City.  Harsh, who is the President of New Music USA, will present a talk entitled 'New Voices in New York' at the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory.  The final festival concert will feature Pulitzer-prize winning American composer Melinda Wagner, as well as a world premiere by the young American composer Christopher Stark, whose music has been described as 'fetching and colorful' by The New York Times.

Listeners will experience a wide range of Russian works, from the rarely performed early 20th century composer Nikolai Roslavets, to a world premiere by the up-and-coming Timofey Buzina, whose works have been praised by The New York Times as 'exuberantly pulsating.'  Listeners will also hear Schnittke’s powerful Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s ever-popular masterpiece the Serenade for Strings.

The Troika International Festival 2012 is a celebration of both the unique cultural identity of three nations and the new frontiers created through international collaboration. We look forward to sharing the excitement of this cross-cultural alliance and exploring new artistic ventures throughout the festival and beyond.

The 2012 International Masterclass in Orchestral Conducting will be the fourth 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
Stravinsky: Concerto in D
Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, op. 90, A Major (Italian)