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4th Maxim Vengerov Festival 2016, Tokyo

13239970_1103319596358031_5117891130691113167_nThe middle of May saw Maxim return to Tokyo for the 4th annual Maxim Vengerov Festival organised by Flagship Japan.

The festival opened with a special gala concert in aid of Fukushima at Kioi Hall and other festival highlights included:

19/05 Maxim & Helene Grimaud in concert with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra @ Orchard hall

21/05 Maxim & Helene Grimaud in recital @ Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall

23/05 Sony concert for young musicians, Bunkyo Civic Hall – feat. Maxim & Vag Papian

Upcoming concerts not to be missed….!!

collageWe are delighted to announce that Maxim Vengerov and Olga Borodina will be in performing in the following upcoming concerts:

Olga Borodina will perform Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky cantata at the First Night of the BBC Proms, on Friday 15th July at the Royal Albert Hall.

Maxim Vengerov & Roustem Saitkoulov will be performing in recital at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. You can catch them at the Usher Hall on Wednesday 10th August.

Bring on the summer!

Maxim Vengerov & NY Phil celebrate Chinese New Year

12695043_978199775579427_8702804983790881920_oMaxim Vengerov spent this ChineseNewYear with the New York Philharmonic & Maestro Long Yu in a special Chinese New Year Gala concert on Tuesday night.

Maxim performed Chen Gang / He Zhan-hao’s famed “The Butterfly Lovers” Violin Concerto in the concert, which took place at David Geffen Hall – the home of the New York Philharmonic.

Next, Maxim will travel to Toronto Ontario for the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition preliminaries and Saturday will see him in concert with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra & Long Yu for another Chinese New Year celebration! http://bit.ly/1TeHDVd

Maxim Vengerov on tour in Australia

Maxim Vengerov Festival 2015 - Flagship JapanMid November saw Maxim Vengerov travel to Australia in preparation for the upcoming tour which kicks off with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s season finale on 28th November. Maxim will perform the original version of Sibelius’s violin concerto and also conduct the QSO in Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique.

Onward to Adelaide where Maxim will commence a special gala recital tour with pianist Roustem Saitkoulov to celebrate Musica Viva’s (Australia’s oldest independent professional performing arts organisation) 70th anniversary. With recitals and masterclasses in Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne, the tour will conclude with a recital at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall on the 10th December.

 

Tour in a nutshell:

Brisbane – 28/11 Vengerov & QSO @ QPAC

Adelaide – 02/12 Vengerov in recital @ Adelaide Festival Centre

Perth – 05/12 Vengerov Masterclass @ Dining Hall, St. George’s College

Perth – 06/12 Vengerov in recital @ Perth Concert Hall

Melbourne – 08/12 Vengerov in recital @ Arts Centre Melbourne

Sydney – 09/12 Vengerov Masterclass @ Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Sydney – 10/12 Vengerov in recital @ Sydney Opera House Concert Hall

Olga Borodina opens the season of the Munich Philharmonic

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Tomorrow Olga Borodina will open the season of the Munich Philharmonic alongside Anne Schwanewilms and Valery Gergiev at the Philharmonie am Gasteig. Together with the Philharmonischer Chor München, they will perform Mahler’s Symphony No.2 in c minor “Resurrection Symphony”. The concert will also take place on Friday 18th and Saturday 20th September.

Following these, Ms Borodina will head straight to Bratislava for the Bratislava Music Festival, in which she will perform Modest Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, with the Slovak Philharmonic conducted by Maestro Villaume.