Events

On 31st of March, Johann Sebastian Bach's "Passion for John" will be performed on the stage of Arnold Kats State Concert Hall. A story about the latest events of Christ's earthly life will be sounded by Ilia Korol, an expert in authentic performance. The international team of singers will take part in the performance. The concert will be held within the framework of Vadim Repin’s Trans-Siberian Art Festival.

On 30th of March Vadim Repin's master class completed the educational project of the Trans-Siberian Art Festival "Communicate with the Star Simply." Thanks to the high reputation of artistic director of Trans-Siberian Art Festival Vadim Repin and the professionalism of the TSAF Director Oleg Bely, from March 13th to 30th the Cultural Environment Energia hosted world stars, among them there were pianists Dana Ciocarli (France) and Maria Meerovitch (Belgium), conductor Alexei Shatsky, Trumpeters Sergei Nakaryakov, Otto Sauter (Germany), Andrey Ilkiv (Ukraine), trombonist Elias Faingersh (Sweden), improvisator Arkady Shilkloper, cellists Alexander Knyazev and Pablo Ferrandes (Spain), violinists Vadim Repin, So-Ok Kim (Great Britain), Natalia Prischepenko, Leonard Schreiber (Belgium), Ilya Korol (Austria), vocalists: countertenor Matthias Rexroth (Germany), coach Marcus Wyler (Switzerland).

On 27th of March in Novosibirsk for the first time in his career Vladimir Fedoseyev performed – the legendary conductor, celebrating this year his 85th anniversary. American pianist Nicholas Angelich played solo in the concert with Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev. The conductor gave the Novosibirsk orchestra the highest rating.

On 3rd of April in Novosibirsk IV Trans-Siberian Art Festival will be closed. Together with Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Gintaras Rinkevicius, Vadim Repin and Alexander Buzlov, the brightest cellist of the younger generation, will perform in the final concert program. Announcement of earlier performance of Leonidas Kavakos will not take place.

Vladimir Spivakov and Chamber orchestra "Moscow Virtuosi" performed at the Trans-Siberian Art Festival on 26th of March in Novosibirsk. At the concert Vladimir Spivakov and Vadim Repin played for the first time in a duet: Concert for two violins of Bach was performed in the performance of soloists and orchestra. At the end of the concert, Vladimir Spivakov turned from the stage to the scientists of Akademgorodok with a request "to do something with a deficit in the world of love".

On 25th of March in Novosibirsk in the framework of the Trans-Siberian Art Festival, the world premiere of a double concert of German composer Enjott Schneider Dreamdancers was held, dedicated to Sergei Nakaryakov and Otto Sauter. The musicians performed a concert with Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Lande. For the first time in the history of music, the composition was written for a pipe-piccolo, flugelhorn and orchestra. The composer contrasted the two galaxies and told the story of people who live in their world and are far from reality.

On 27th of March Vladimir Fedoseyev – legendary conductor, celebrating this year his 85th anniversary – for the first time in his career will perform in Novosibirsk. In honor of his anniversary maestro conducts a great tour, Novosibirsk will hear him one of the first cities along with cities of Japan, Austria, Hungary and Switzerland.

On March 21st in the program of Trans-Siberian Art Festival Vadim Repin, artistic director of the forum, played for the first time a violin accompanied by an organ. In his performance and in the performance of Alexander Knyazev Chaconne by Vitali sounded. The rest of the concert program was dedicated to Bach's organ music, the concert was held on the birthday of the great German composer. The opening speech to the program was delivered by Julian Makarov, the host of the program "The Main Role" on the "Russia C" TV channel.