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VIOLINIST MIKHAIL SIMONYAN PERFORMS LIVE AT (LE) POISSON ROUGE
Broadway World
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Violinist-Mikhail-Simonyan-Performs-Live-at-le-Poisson-Rouge-20111027
Oct 27 2011
Following recital and concerts around the world, violinist Mikhail
Simonyan will release his Deutsche Grammophon debut recording, Two
Souls, on November 1 in the United States. To mark the occasion
Simonyan will present a 7:30pm concert at New York's renowned
(le) Poisson Rouge featuring an eclectic program of works by Ysa˙e,
Tchaikovsky, and Milstein. For an evening of energetic and undoubtedly
exciting music making, Simonyan will be joined by his good friend
maestro Kristjan Jarvi (who leads the London Symphony Orchestra on
Simonyan's new album) and Jarvi's Absolute Ensemble in re-imagined
settings of music inspired by folk influences, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn,
and more, written by ensemble member Gene Pritsker.
Still in his twenties, Mikhail Simonyan is already recognized as one of
the most celebrated talents of his generation. The New York Times has
praised his, "breadth, lyricism and fleet technique," and reported that
"Mr. Simonyan play[s] as if every note counted." The 2010-11 season
saw his recital debuts at the Verbier, Aspen and Ravinia Festivals,
a debut with the NHK Symphony Orchestra performing the Sibelius
Violin Concerto under Sir Neville Marriner, a debut with the Dresden
Philharmonic and Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, and debuts with the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and Iceland
Symphony Orchestra. In October, he filled in last minute for Midori
to make his Baltimore Symphony debut to rave reviews.
Absolute Ensemble is conductor Kristjan Jarvi's celebrated chamber
band from New York City. Founded in 1993 when Jarvi was a piano
student at Manhattan School of Music, Jarvi's uncanny prescience for
the future of classical music led him to create a band so unique that
the American Record Guide claims it "may well be the most alluring
and virtuosic... of today's new music groups." An ebullient mix of
jazz, classical and world music played with virtuosic flair, Jarvi's
group of musical omnivores creates each project from start to finish,
restoring the composer/arranger/performer synthesis and flavoring each
concert with spontaneity and musical charisma. Absolute tours the globe
extensively while maintaining its New York presence and a European base
at Musikfest, Bremen. Absolute Ensemble has released eleven albums and
has been awarded the German Record Critics Prize, a Grammy nomination
and the Deutsche Bank Prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievement.
For his Deutsche Grammophon debut recording, Mikhail Simonyan decided
to pay tribute to his Armenian heritage and also the substantial amount
of time he has lived in the United States as represented by the violin
concertos of Khachaturian and Barber. Click here to learn more about
the album and watch a video of Simonyan and Jarvi discussing the works:
http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/html/special/simonyan-twosouls/index.html.
Mikhail Simonyan is of Armenian and Russian heritage and began playing
the violin at the age of 5. When he was 13, he toured the US as soloist
with the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra; soon afterwards he
moved to America and entered the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia to
study with Victor Danchenko, a pupil of David Oistrakh. "Prokofiev,
Shostakovich, Khachaturian - Victor Danchenko had known them all and
studied their music with Oistrakh, who gave the premiere of many of
their works, including the Khachaturian Concerto", says Simonyan. "It
was wonderful to learn from him the traditions of performing that
music."
For this recording Simonyan has commissioned a new cadenza for
the Khachaturian concerto since he found the original essentially
Oistrakh's version, which is violinistic and virtuosic but lacking
in an essentially Armenian quality. "This new cadenza," according to
Simonyan, "has a strong feeling of Armenian church music. Armenia was
the first Christian country and has been persecuted for religion all
through its history. Part of what it means to be an Armenian today is
rooted in our deep, ancient and unique church music tradition. This
element in Avanesov's cadenza brings a whole new color to the
concerto."
As noted, Simonyan moved to the US when he was 13 and studied at the
Curtis Institute of Music. To represent this other significant part
of his life he performs Barber's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra -
not only is the work a great American composition but Barber studied
at the Curtis Institute of Music as well. Simonyan purposefully sought
to draw out the American character of the work when, for instance,
he slows the tempo of the last movement and uses an almost folk-like
fiddling style.
Simonyan has recently launched a private initiative called "Beethoven
Not Bullets" to assist the newly founded Afghanistan National Institute
of Music (ANIM) in Kabul. He is working to raise funds to sponsor
students at the Institute which is the war-torn country's only music
school. ANIM's mission is to educate a new generation of musicians
regardless of ethnicity or gender, revitalizing music in Afghanistan
and restoring it as a cultural voice.
In Performance
Recital
(le) poisson rouge, New York, NY
Click here for details
November 1, 2011
Khachaturian Concerto
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Kristjan Jarvi, conductor
Click here for details
November 4 & 5, 2011
Recital
Troy, NY
Click here for details
November 13, 2011
Recital
Kennedy Center, Washington DC
Click here for details
March 31, 2012
Khachaturian Concerto
San Antonio Symphony
Alondra de la Parra, conductor
Click here for details
May 25 & 26, 2012
MIKHAIL SIMONYAN - TWO SOULS
ARAM KHACHATURIAN (1903-1978)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra 37:40
1 1. Allegro con fermezza 16:51
Cadenza by Artur Avanesov (world-premiere recording)
2 2. Andante sostenuto 11:31
3 3. Allegro vivace 9:18
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra op. 14 23:03
4 1. Allegro 10:35
5 2. Andante 8:38
6 3. Presto in moto perpetuo 3:50
7 Adagio for Strings op. 11 9:47
Arr. of 2nd movement of String Quartet
MIKHAIL SIMONYAN violin London Symphony Orchestra KRISTJAN JÄRVI
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Broadway World
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Violinist-Mikhail-Simonyan-Performs-Live-at-le-Poisson-Rouge-20111027
Oct 27 2011
Following recital and concerts around the world, violinist Mikhail
Simonyan will release his Deutsche Grammophon debut recording, Two
Souls, on November 1 in the United States. To mark the occasion
Simonyan will present a 7:30pm concert at New York's renowned
(le) Poisson Rouge featuring an eclectic program of works by Ysa˙e,
Tchaikovsky, and Milstein. For an evening of energetic and undoubtedly
exciting music making, Simonyan will be joined by his good friend
maestro Kristjan Jarvi (who leads the London Symphony Orchestra on
Simonyan's new album) and Jarvi's Absolute Ensemble in re-imagined
settings of music inspired by folk influences, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn,
and more, written by ensemble member Gene Pritsker.
Still in his twenties, Mikhail Simonyan is already recognized as one of
the most celebrated talents of his generation. The New York Times has
praised his, "breadth, lyricism and fleet technique," and reported that
"Mr. Simonyan play[s] as if every note counted." The 2010-11 season
saw his recital debuts at the Verbier, Aspen and Ravinia Festivals,
a debut with the NHK Symphony Orchestra performing the Sibelius
Violin Concerto under Sir Neville Marriner, a debut with the Dresden
Philharmonic and Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, and debuts with the Royal
Scottish National Orchestra, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and Iceland
Symphony Orchestra. In October, he filled in last minute for Midori
to make his Baltimore Symphony debut to rave reviews.
Absolute Ensemble is conductor Kristjan Jarvi's celebrated chamber
band from New York City. Founded in 1993 when Jarvi was a piano
student at Manhattan School of Music, Jarvi's uncanny prescience for
the future of classical music led him to create a band so unique that
the American Record Guide claims it "may well be the most alluring
and virtuosic... of today's new music groups." An ebullient mix of
jazz, classical and world music played with virtuosic flair, Jarvi's
group of musical omnivores creates each project from start to finish,
restoring the composer/arranger/performer synthesis and flavoring each
concert with spontaneity and musical charisma. Absolute tours the globe
extensively while maintaining its New York presence and a European base
at Musikfest, Bremen. Absolute Ensemble has released eleven albums and
has been awarded the German Record Critics Prize, a Grammy nomination
and the Deutsche Bank Prize for Outstanding Artistic Achievement.
For his Deutsche Grammophon debut recording, Mikhail Simonyan decided
to pay tribute to his Armenian heritage and also the substantial amount
of time he has lived in the United States as represented by the violin
concertos of Khachaturian and Barber. Click here to learn more about
the album and watch a video of Simonyan and Jarvi discussing the works:
http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/html/special/simonyan-twosouls/index.html.
Mikhail Simonyan is of Armenian and Russian heritage and began playing
the violin at the age of 5. When he was 13, he toured the US as soloist
with the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra; soon afterwards he
moved to America and entered the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia to
study with Victor Danchenko, a pupil of David Oistrakh. "Prokofiev,
Shostakovich, Khachaturian - Victor Danchenko had known them all and
studied their music with Oistrakh, who gave the premiere of many of
their works, including the Khachaturian Concerto", says Simonyan. "It
was wonderful to learn from him the traditions of performing that
music."
For this recording Simonyan has commissioned a new cadenza for
the Khachaturian concerto since he found the original essentially
Oistrakh's version, which is violinistic and virtuosic but lacking
in an essentially Armenian quality. "This new cadenza," according to
Simonyan, "has a strong feeling of Armenian church music. Armenia was
the first Christian country and has been persecuted for religion all
through its history. Part of what it means to be an Armenian today is
rooted in our deep, ancient and unique church music tradition. This
element in Avanesov's cadenza brings a whole new color to the
concerto."
As noted, Simonyan moved to the US when he was 13 and studied at the
Curtis Institute of Music. To represent this other significant part
of his life he performs Barber's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra -
not only is the work a great American composition but Barber studied
at the Curtis Institute of Music as well. Simonyan purposefully sought
to draw out the American character of the work when, for instance,
he slows the tempo of the last movement and uses an almost folk-like
fiddling style.
Simonyan has recently launched a private initiative called "Beethoven
Not Bullets" to assist the newly founded Afghanistan National Institute
of Music (ANIM) in Kabul. He is working to raise funds to sponsor
students at the Institute which is the war-torn country's only music
school. ANIM's mission is to educate a new generation of musicians
regardless of ethnicity or gender, revitalizing music in Afghanistan
and restoring it as a cultural voice.
In Performance
Recital
(le) poisson rouge, New York, NY
Click here for details
November 1, 2011
Khachaturian Concerto
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Kristjan Jarvi, conductor
Click here for details
November 4 & 5, 2011
Recital
Troy, NY
Click here for details
November 13, 2011
Recital
Kennedy Center, Washington DC
Click here for details
March 31, 2012
Khachaturian Concerto
San Antonio Symphony
Alondra de la Parra, conductor
Click here for details
May 25 & 26, 2012
MIKHAIL SIMONYAN - TWO SOULS
ARAM KHACHATURIAN (1903-1978)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra 37:40
1 1. Allegro con fermezza 16:51
Cadenza by Artur Avanesov (world-premiere recording)
2 2. Andante sostenuto 11:31
3 3. Allegro vivace 9:18
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra op. 14 23:03
4 1. Allegro 10:35
5 2. Andante 8:38
6 3. Presto in moto perpetuo 3:50
7 Adagio for Strings op. 11 9:47
Arr. of 2nd movement of String Quartet
MIKHAIL SIMONYAN violin London Symphony Orchestra KRISTJAN JÄRVI
Read more:
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Violinist-Mikhail-Simonyan-Performs-Live-at-le-Poisson-Rouge-20111027_page2#ixzz1c27q8RkM