Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg
The Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg ( Russian Санкт-Петербургская Российская Камерная филармония ) was founded in 1990 in St. Petersburg ( Russia ).
history
The Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg was founded in 1990 by graduates of the St. Petersburg "Rimsky-Korsakov" State Conservatory .
The orchestra is one of the country's most important musical ambassadors. Its wide- ranging repertoire , which ranges from the baroque to the modern as well as from chamber music to large symphonies , has made it one of the most sought-after orchestras in Europe.
The orchestra performs regularly in major European concert halls and at numerous international festivals, such as Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , Rheingau Music Festival , Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Saar Music Festival , Harzburger Music Days , Brandenburg summer concerts , tent music festival , Istanbul Music Festival and George Enescu Festival Bucharest. The tours also took the orchestra to non-European countries. a. to Lebanon, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, South Africa, Dubai and Turkey.
The orchestra has been a magnet for international soloists since it was founded . The legendary Mstislav Rostropovich , Igor Oistrakh , Mikis Theodorakis , Giora Feidman , David Garrett , Jelena Bashkirova , Andrei Gavrilov , Sergei Nakariakov , Mischa Maisky , Dmitri Hvorostovsky , Nigel Kennedy , Edita Gruber , Fazıl Say , Eva Lind , Matthias Schlubeck , Nikolai Tokarev , Sir James Galway , Vadim Repin , Lilya Zilberstein , Gábor Boldoczki , Anna Maria Kaufmann , Dmitri Berlinsky, Otto Sauter , Olga Peretyatko and Martin Stadtfeld were among the celebrated artists who performed with the orchestra.
Guest performance highlights include a. Concerts in the Philharmonics Berlin , Cologne , Essen and Munich , the Teatro Real Madrid , the Schauspielhaus Berlin , the Kurhaus Wiesbaden , the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig , the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma , the Dresden Kulturpalast , the Alte Oper Frankfurt , the Meistersingerhalle Nuremberg , the Laeiszhalle Hamburg , in the Copenhagen Tivoli , in the Kuppelsaal Hannover , the Tonhalle Zürich , in the Paris Théâtre des Champs Elysées , in the Wiener Konzerthaus , in the Grand théâtre de la ville de Luxembourg , in the Budapest Béla Bartók National Hall , in the Bucharest Athenaeum , in Moscow Bolshoi Theater , as well as in the Elbphilharmonie .
The intensive worldwide concert activity of the Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg is supplemented by the studio productions. The orchestra's CD with works by Carl Maria von Weber , which was published by SONY MUSIC , was awarded the coveted “Editor's Choice” by the renowned British gramophone magazines.
In 2000 the orchestra moved its headquarters to Frankfurt am Main .
management
In the spring of 1998 Juri Gilbo took over the position of artistic director of the orchestra.
He succeeded in setting new standards for the orchestra, shaping it into a top international orchestra and giving it a distinctive sound. The musician, who was born in St. Petersburg , is strongly influenced by the musical traditions of his homeland. Even as a child he always attended opera performances in the Mariinsky Theater and concerts in the Philharmonie in his hometown with legendary soloists and conductors such as Vladimir Horowitz , Martha Argerich , Leonard Bernstein , Kurt Masur , Gidon Kremer , Igor Oistrach , Mariss Jansons , Emil Gilels and Svyatoslav Richter .
He received his first music lessons at the age of four and initially devoted himself to the violin and viola . Further studies took him to the traditional St. Petersburg State Conservatory and to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main in the viola class of Tabea Zimmermann . At the same time he trained as a conductor with Luigi Sagrestano.
Discography (selection)
- Max Bruch : Moses - Oratorio, opus 67 (J. Kindler, 2005)
- Carl Maria von Weber : Clarinet concertos No. 1/2 and Clarinet quintet (Sony Music, 2009)
- Louis Spohr : The Last Things - Oratorio based on words of the Holy Scriptures in the original version from 1826 (J. Kindler, 2010)
