17 April 2018

“Svetlanov – Universe!” Festival – First edition

“Svetlanov – Universe!” Festival (Crazy Weekend)

We are happy to announce the launch of the “Svetlanov –  Universe!” Festival, which will be held on November 10th and 11th, 2018 at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. For the first time ever, 13 concerts will be given in a single weekend in all halls of the Conservatory. 
This first edition is a tribute to one of the greatest  Russian musicians of the 20th century –  Evgeny Svetlanov – to commemorate the 90th anniversary of his birth.

Programme
The subtitle of the Festival “Crazy Weekend” highlights the versatile character of this event with 13 concerts of classical music including Maestro Svetlanov‘s favourite classic works, jazz, his own compositions and new works paying tribute to his memory.
The Festival also will include master classes, an  Evgeny Svetlanov tribute exhibition of the Moscow Museum, video projections of documentaries and performances with Maestro Svetlanov, as well as round tables titled “A Corner of Memory”.

The mission of the Festival is to create in the Conservatory – and Moscow city at large – a “crazy” and creative musical atmosphere.

Among the artists and orchestras who will dedicate their performances to Evgeny Svetlanov during the Festival: Evgeny Svetlanov National Symphony State Orchestra, two Moscow Conservatory Orchestras, Alexander Yurlov Russian State Capella, Alexandre Vedernikov, Vadim Repin, Alexander Kniazev, Boris Berezovsky, Dmitri Makhtin, Andrei Korobeinikov, Alexandre Rudin, Yana Ivanilova, Ekaterina Morozova, Vsevolod Grivnov, Petr Migunov, Yaron Herman (jazz), Quatuor Borodine, as well as Lio Kuokman, Robert Trevino, Roberto Fores Veses and Kalle Kuusava (Winners of past Svetlanov Conducting Competitions, now world-renowned conductors) and many others.

Get to know the full programme.

Direction
The Festival is organized by the Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition and supported by: The Moscow Conservatory, The Trans-Siberian Art Festival, The Moscow Museum, Productions Internationales Albert Sarfati, artists’ agency “Olga Aleksandrova Management”, Radio France, The Svetlanov Foundation as well as by medici.tv who will broadcast the concerts of the Festival live from the Conservatory halls.

Founder and Artistic Director of the Festival – Mrs Marina Bower.
The Festival Executive Producer is the PR and Concert Agency “Tourne” (Moscow) headed by Mrs Galina Golubova.

The first press conference was held on April 11th. You can watch some excerpts here (in Russian).

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All the information about the festival on the website: https://svetlanovfest.ru

Contacts of the Festival

In Russia:
Agency “Tourne”:
Tel: +7 (977) 347-8176, +7 (495) 741-7735
Send an e-mail

In France:
Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition
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12 April 2018

The Svetlanov Competition application period has now ended

The Svetlanov Competition application period has now ended. We are grateful to all 350 conductors, hailing from 57 countries across all continents, who applied. The Artistic Commitee will now start selecting the 18 candidates who will take part in the Svetlanov Competition, a task made exceptionally difficult by the very high quality of the candidates.
The results of the selection will be announced in early June 2018.
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23 March 2018

The Final Round Works

Only one week left until March 30th for candidates to send their applications to take part in the 4th Svetlanov Competition.

Just 18 candidates will be selected. They will go through two eliminatory rounds with two compulsory works. The 4 participants of the Final Round, open to audience, will have to demonstrate top-notch conducting technics and artistic sensitivity, in this challenging programme :

Daugava, symphonic poem by Evgeny SVETLANOV

A contemporary work by Olga Victorova

Olga Victorova, composer
Olga Victorova, composer

 

 

 

 

 

A great symphonic work chosen by the candidate from the list:

1. BALAKIREV: Symphony n°2 in D-Minor
2. BARTOK: Concerto for orchestra Sz. 116 
3. CHAUSSON : Symphony in B-flat Major opus 20
4. D’INDY: Jour d’été à la montagne, symphonic poem opus 61
5. DVORAK: Symphony n°7 in D-Minor opus 70
6. DVORAK:  Symphony n°8 in G-Major opus 88
7. DUKAS: Symphony in C-Major
8. FRANCK: Symphony in D-Minor 
9. MENDELSSOHN: Symphony n°3 in A-Minor opus 56 “Scottish” 
10. MOZART: Symphony n° 41 in C-Major K. 551 “Jupiter”
11. REGER:  Variations and fugue on a Theme by Mozart opus 132 
12. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Symphony n°2 opus 9 “Antar”
13. ROUSSEL: Symphony n°1 in D-Minor opus 7 “Le Poème de la forêt”
14. SCHUBERT: Symphony n°8 in B-Minor D. 759 “Unfinished”
15. SCHUMANN: Symphony n°3 in E-flat Major opus 97 “Rhenish”
16. SIBELIUS: Symphony n°2 in D-Major opus 43
17. SIBELIUS: Pelléas et Mélisande opus 46
18. STRAUSS: Aus Italien, symphonic poem in G-Major opus 16
19. TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony n°2 in C-Minor opus 17 “Little Russia”

Dear conductors, hurry up to send your applications before 30th of March 2018 !

15 March 2018

The 2nd Round Works

The 4th Svetlanov Competition is still open for applications. The Application period will go on till March 30th, 2018.
For the 2nd Qualifying Round the selected candidates will face a concerto for violin with Marc Bouchkov as soloist:

Photo: Evgeny Evtyukhov
Photo: Evgeny Evtyukhov

SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D-minor opus 47 (1st movement)
or
BARTOK: Violin Concerto n°1 Sz. 36 (1st movement)

 

 

In the second part of their performance, they must show their best in the dramatic symphonic repertoire :
SCHUMANN: Symphony n°2 in C-Major opus 61 (2nd movement)
or
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony n°6 in B-Minor opus 74 “Pathetique” (1st movement)  

While waiting for the Second Round, which will be broadcast live on medici.tv, enjoy Maestro Svetlanov conducting his Russian State Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique Symphony.

28 February 2018

The 1st Round Works

The First Round of the 4th Svetlanov Competition 2018 will tribute to Beethoven’s overtures :
Leonore n°3, opus 72a
Coriolan, opus 62
Egmont, opus 84

While the candidats are preparing their applications, enjoy this recording of Leonore overture with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov.

27 February 2018

Lio Kuokman and Mihhail Gerts: France – Russia – Germany

Lio Kuokman and Mihhail Gerts, two laureats of the last Svetlanov Competition in 2014, starred in incredible programmes at La Folle Journée de Nantes festival whose theme this year was a tribute to Exile with the title Towards a New World.

FJ 2018

 

Then, Lio Kuokman took a plane to Moscow to conduct the Moscow Symphony Philharmonic Orchestra. He shared the stage with the pianist Boris Berezosvky in a programme tribute to the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein.

As for Mihhail Gerts, he went on a tour with the Bergische Symphoniker conducting a programme of Respighi The Birds, Messiaen Concert for 4 and Beethoven’s Symphony n°4.

To be continued…

26 February 2018

Kalle Kuusava tempo perfectly tailored to dancers’ bodies…

Kalle Kuusava
Kalle Kuusava

In December and January,  Kalle Kuusava conducted The Taming of the Shrew on Shostakovich’s music, choreographed by Jean-Christophe Maillot.
The ballet was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 2014 and recieved 3 « Golden Mask » Awards, the most prestegious recognition in Russian Theatre. The production, which is currently on a world tour, returned to Monaco, this time with the dancers of the Monte-Carlo Ballet.
The ballet, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra as well as Maestro Kuusava were highly praised by crictics.

Read the Zibeline article (in French)
Read the ConcertClassique.com article (in French)

16 February 2018

Purporses of the Evgeny Svetlanov Competition

EvgenySvetlanov (10)When we created the Evgeny Svetlanov International Conducting Competition, we took on several challenges:

  • to discover the most promising new talents according to the precepts of the great Maestro Evgeny Svetlanov
  • to support the prizewinners in the hazardous, complex journey at the beginning of their career
  • to convince institutional and musical partners that our prizewinners stand out through their excellence
  • to create a global network among festival organisers, orchestras and opera houses who will become loyal partners in order to provide our prizewinners with future engagements.

We wish to share our values in the hope that they will be shared by our sponsors and partners.
The first three competitions enabled us to launch nearly all of the prizewinners on the international musical scene.
Some of them are already among the greatest contemporary conductors and have become musical directors or principal conductors of famous orchestras and opera houses.

Get to know better our prize winners