International Music Festival Eurasia / III Международный музыкальный фестиваль "Евразия"

The Great Silk Road – a special project of the festival «Eurasia»

There are new participants in the program of the International music festival “Eurasia” – the Mughamatist`s ensemble. Ten years ago, UNESCO declared the traditional musical instrument Mugam which is one of the most important components of Azerbaijani musical tradition one of the “Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible heritage of the Humanity.” The visitors and guests of the Festival «Eurasia» will be able to touch the Masterpiece on October, 12th. The concert of Azerbaijan musicians is only a part of the special festival project named «The Great Silk Road» that will integrate four concerts including performances of Spanish cante jondo Flamenco ensemble and Romanian Orthodox Choir «Byzantion». The fourth and the last concert of the project is still a secret!

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Adrian Sîrbu

Adrian Sîrbu graduated from the “St. Basil the Great” Orthodox Theological Seminary of Iași, he holds two Bachelor’s degrees, from the “Dumitru Stăniloae” Faculty of Orthodox Theology of Iaşi, and from the Faculty of Composition, Musicology, Musical Pedagogy, and Theatre of the “George Enescu” University of the Arts from Iaşi, and a Master’s degree in in “Christian philosophy and Cultural dialogue” from the Faculty of Philosophy of the “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iași. He also graduated the Master program in Byzantine music of the State Conservatory of Athens, under the guidance of Professor Dr. Georgios Konstantinou. He is an alumni of the “Ζωοδόχου Πιγής” School of Byzantine Music from Athens and of State Conservatory of Athens, department of Byzantine Music, where he studied with Professor Lykourgos Angelopoulos, Archon Protopsaltes of the Ecumenical Archdiocese of Constantinople. Continue reading “Adrian Sîrbu” »

Fazıl Say

With his extraordinary pianistic talents, Fazıl Say has been touching audiences and critics alike for more twenty-five years in a way that has become rare in the increasingly materialistic and elaborately organised classical music world. Concerts with this artist are something else. They are more direct, more open, more exciting; in short, they go straight to the heart. Which is exactly what the composer Aribert Reimann thought in 1987 when, during a visit to Ankara, he had the opportunity, more or less by chance, to appreciate the playing of the seventeen-year-old pianist. He immediately asked the American pianist David Levine, who was accompanying him on the trip, to come to the city’s conservatory, using the now much-quoted words: ‘You absolutely must hear him, this boy plays like a devil.’ Continue reading “Fazıl Say” »

(Rus) Вера Давыдова

Today the sale of the tickets for the concerts of the Second International music festival «Eurasia» has started

Today started the sale of the ticket`s for the concerts of the II International music festival «Eurasia». Mostly the concerts of the Festival are included in the season tickets of the Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic.

№12 – «On the banks of the Danube»
№13 – «Maestro»
№14 – «Premier»
№№15a & 15b – «Premier league»
№16 – «The Ninth wave»
№17- «European Baroque»
№18 – «The Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra & MAITRES»
№22a –«Steinway Soirees»
№25 – «Choral Assemblies»
№44- «Hot format»
№46 –«Сulture shock»

Now you can choose to buy a ticket for one concert or to buy the season ticket, including 5 or more concerts from the list.

Also is expected the visit of two music columnists working for the Chinese mass media. They will arrive to the Festival together with Hong Kong Chinese orchestra.

Mughamatist’s ensemble (Azerbaijan Republic)

Briefly about the Festival
Third Intl Music Eurasia Festival: Mediterranea. 06-16 October 2015, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Music of Orient and Occident, artistic meetings, autograph sessions and sci-conferences.
Venue: Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic