Following performances in Aix en Provence, Brussels, London, and Russia during April, violinist and conductor Maxim Vengerov travels to Japan in May for what will be the third year of the “Maxim Vengerov Festival, Japan” . This years festival programme will include a series of recitals, concerts, and master classes.

The Festival’s public activities begin on May 21^st with a recital at the Symphony Hall, Osaka. On May 22^nd and 24^th Maxim will give master classes at Soai University, Osaka and the Toho Gakuen School of Music Tokyo, the latter of whom he will guest with in concert at Suntory Hall (26^th May) in a programme of Mozart, Vivaldi and Rimsky-Korsakov. The 27^th May sees Maxim sharing his knowledge with 8 students during his third and final master class of the festival at the Tokyo College of Music, and the following day will see him perform alongside Akiko Tanaka in a recital at Oji Hall.

The “Maxim Vengerov Festival 2015” culminates in a June 1st concert with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at Suntory Hall, where the program will feature Maxim as soloist in Sibelius’s Violin Concerto and as conductor in Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique.

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Below is the link to the full concert of Mr Vengerov’s 40th birthday, which took place at the Luna Classics Festival on the 20th August 2014. The video is available free on the ARTE concert website for a short time only, in association with Mezzo TV.

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/maxim-vengerov-au-luna-classics-2014-de-nyon

“Maxim ‘Maximus’ Vengerov proved that he is again the ‘best violinist in the world’…he could play any piece of wood and draw miracles”  Le Monde

Easter Sunday marked Mr Vengerov’s recital in Aix-en-Provence in a program of Elgar and Prokofiev Sonatas plus a series of virtuosic shorts. The recital, which also featured pianist Roustem Saitkoulov, was extremely well received by the audience and media:

“Maxim Vengerov, emperor of the bow in Aix-en-Provence…At the summit of his art, the violinist gave a dazzling recital”  Le Temps 

This recital follows on from a very successful March during which Mr Vengerov completed a European tour with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Myung-Whun Chung. Following their concert together at the Berlin Philharmonie, the Berliner Morgenpost wrote:

“Russia’s star violinist Maxim Vengerov back with old power…Which living world class violinist can claim to be able to produce a similarly voluminous, piercing sound? A sound that even in the highest notes still sounds juicy and full of power”

After concerts in the new Philharmonie in Paris, the Musikverein Vienna, and the Cologne and Berlin Philharmonie, they entered the recording studio together to record the Tchaikovsky violin concerto – to be released soon on Mr Vengerov’s new label VMV (Vengerov Music Vision).

For more information about the recital program in Aix-en-Provence as well as the impact of conducting on his career as a soloist, Mr Vengerov discusses this and more, in a short video here.

Photo credit: Caroline Doutre

Maxim Vengerov is on a European tour this month with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France & Maestro Myung-Whun Chung. Together they will perform concerts in Paris, Austria & Germany:

Friday 20th March: Philharmonie de Paris

Sunday 22nd March: Musikverein, Vienna

Tuesday 24th March: Philharmonie Cologne

Wednesday 25th March: Philharmonie de Berlin

Programme: Tchaikovsky violin concerto & Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique

Maxim Vengerov will perform the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Maestro Long Yu  in three concerts this January 2015.

Vengerov will replace horn player Philip Myers as soloist, who had to withdraw after having a recent surgery.

This will be Vengerov’s 31st (32nd & 33rd) appearance with the N.Y Phil, last appearing in April 2006 when he performed the Shostakovich Violin Concerto conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich.

The three concerts will take on January 22nd, 23rd and 24th 2015 at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York City.

Vengerov’s N.Y Phil debut was in February 1991 at the age of 16, where he also performed the Tchaikovsky violin concerto, after having won the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition performing the Tchaikovsky concerto the year before, at the age of just 15.

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