Performers

Fogliani studied composition at the Conservatorio "G. B. Martini" in Bologna with Francesco Carluccio and graduated with honors in orchestral conducting at the Milan Conservatory, under Vittorio Parisi. He then furthered his musical training at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena where he studied conducting with Gianluigi Gelmetti and composition with Franco Donatoni and Ennio Morricone. Fogliani's debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro in 2001 with Il viaggio a...

Jonathan Cohen is one of Britain’s finest young musicians. He has forged a remarkable career with notable success as a conductor, cellist and keyboardist. He is well known for his passion and commitment to chamber music which he expands to diverse activities such as the Baroque opera and Classical symphonic repertoire.
Jonathan enjoys a close relationship withLes Arts Florissants, with whom he is Associate Conductor, and for their thirtieth anniversary season he...

Born in Upper Austria, Ernst Theis studied at the the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. He completed the courses of trumpet and percussion. He graduated with honors with an artist degree in percussion in 1983 and received the Honour Award from the Federal Ministry of Education and the Arts of the Republic of Austria. He subsequently played in various orchestras in Vienna (Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Volksoper Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic)....

Alexander Vakoulsky is considered as one of the most gifted Russian conductors of his generation. He graduated from the famous St. Petersburg Conservatory and was strongly influenced by Evgeny Mravinsky and Evgeny Svetlanov, the two great maestros under whom he studied.
In 1976, he moved from Russia to Holland, where he is the Principal Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra and was the Principal Conductor of the Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra for twenty three years.
He has...

Yurlov Russian State Academic Choir (Yurlov Choir) is recognized as one of the most outstanding choirs of any kind in Russia. It is the country’s flagship choral ensemble.

The choir has acquired a reputation for the breadth of its programming and its dynamic and exciting performances. We aim to develop performance skills at the highest level, challenging singers to embrace a vast repertoire and to develop a flexible and creative approach to musical performance.

Chamber Choir of the Republic of Tatarstan is a group of talented young people with a big creative potential. The Choir is frequently enrolled in several cultural events.

The repertoire includes such works as Mozart’s Requiem, Rachmaninoff’s The Bells (with the Mariinsky Theatre Choir under V. Gergiev – the X Easter Festival), Fuare’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana,...

Founded in 1947, three years after the opening of the N. G. Zhiganov Conservatory.

For 50 years the Choir was led by its founder - the outstanding coral conductor, Professor Semyon Abramovich Kazachkov. It is under that  the Choir became one of the leading coral ensembles in the Republic of Tatarstan.

From 1997 the title of its Artistic Director and Principal Conductor was taken up by the Head of the coral conducting department, Honoured Man of Art - Prof. V....

Luciano Acocella is Music Director of the Opéra de Rouen Haute Normandie. 
After completing his studies at the Santa Cecilia conservatory of Rome and the Royal Academy of Music of Copenhagen, he did several courses and master classes at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, the Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia and the Kondrashin Masterclass a Hilversum.
Prizewinner of the Prokofiev and Mitropoulos competitions in 1996, he started collaborating...

Vladimir Fedoseyev, artistic director and chief conductor of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra and permanent guest conductor of Opernhaus Zurich and Zurich Tonhalle, is world-famous for his interpretations of most unlike composers from various epochs and styles. Along with Mozart, Brahms or Shostakovich, his repertoire also includes less known masters like Janacek or Berg. Over his long career, Vladimir Fedoseyev has won numerous international awards: Russia’s order “For...

Tatarstan National Symphony   Youth  Orchestra  is  the orchestra of the Republic  of Tatarstan, Russia. It was Alexander Sladkovsky who first  conceived the idea of creating an orchestra in Tatarstan.

The mission of the Symphony Youth Orchestra is to educate students through high level orchestral training in a professional environment while developing new audiences for symphonic music. The orchestra consists of 61 pupils from Tatarstan music...

Born in Moscow into a family of famous Bolshoi Theatre artists — the singer Tamara Sorokina and the dancer Shamil Yagudin. In 1985, he completed his studies with distinction at the piano department (Lev Naumov’s class) of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, and in 1989, also with distinction, he graduated from the Conservatoire’s department of opera-symphony conducting (Yury Simonov’s class).

Михаил Мосенков родился в 1986 году в Ярославле. Окончил Тверское музыкальное училище им. Мусоргского по классу фортепиано (класс заслуженного работника культуры Шляпниковой Тамары Александровны). С отличием окончил магистратуру Российской академии...

The Tatarstan State Song and Dance Ensemble is a legendary ensemble with a 75 years of history.

The Tatarstan State Song and Dance Ensemble is the only professional ensemble with truly national Tatar traditions, music and dancing culture, arts and crafts represented on a very high professional level.

The Ensemble has always been distinguished with and awarded prizes for its high performance level and bright concert programmes. Within the period of its existence, the...

People’s artist of Russia, the knight of Honor, the laureate of International contest among celloists “Prague Spring” (IIIrd prize and bronze medal, 1980), since 2006 he is an art director of created by his lead St.Petersburg’s Music house. Since 2004 he went into conductor’s activity.He performs in Moscow, St.Petersburg, Novosibirsk and also abroad in Germany, Finland and Japan. The invited conductor from Mariinsky Theatre. The extensive solo and orchestral...

Ken-David Masur is quickly emerging as “a brilliant and commanding conductor with unmistakable charisma”on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. His recent and upcoming engagements include the Dresden Philharmonic, the Russian National Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de Toulouse, the Munich Symphony, the Neue  Philharmonie Westfalen, the Collegium Musicum Basel, the Rio de Janeiro Symphony Orchestra and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra.