MARIINSKI SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA HAD ITS FIRST PERFORMANCE IN YEREVAN
PanARMENIAN.Net
04.05.2009 19:25 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Mariinski Symphonic Orchestra had its first
performance in Yerevan within the framework of Easter Concerts
cycle. On the first concert day, the orchestra, under the guidance
of Valeri Gergiev performed the works of Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and
Maler’s 5th symphony.
2nd concert day was Gergoev’s birthday. On May 4, 5th fortepiano
concert was performed by Rodion Shedrin Orchestra jointly with young
pianist Denis Matsuev. The composer with his wife Maya Plisetskaya
and RA President Serzh Sargsyan participated in the concert.
The concert also featured Alexander Harutyunyan’s festive overture,
Edward Mirzoyan’s Symphony and Chaykovsky’s symphony N 5.
In 1978, he became assistant conductor at the Kirov Opera, now the
Mariinsky Opera, where he made his debut conducting Sergei Prokofiev’s
War and Peace. He was chief conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic
Orchestra from 1981 until 1985 – the year he made his debut in the
United Kingdom, along with pianist Evgeny Kissin, and violinists
Maxim Vengerov and Vadim Repin, at The Lichfield Festival. In 1991,
for the first time, Gergiev conducted a western European opera company
with the Bavarian State Opera in a performance of Modest Mussorgsky’s
Boris Godunov in Munich. From 1995 to 2008, Gergiev was principal
conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.