A gift for the 60th anniversary. European tour of the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra

NOVOSIBIRSK. The anniversary tour of the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra in Europe has begun.

For 12 days, the orchestra plans to visit Spain, Austria and Germany with concerts. The team, founded 60 years ago by a student of Ilya Musin, Arnold Mikhailovich Katz, will again have to demonstrate an excellent level at the best European venues. In the title of the anniversary concert - “60 years of triumph”, which will be held in late March, there is not a drop of exaggeration. Katz was an outstanding conductor, charming, witty, charismatic man. The high bar set by him remains at the same level 9 years after the death of the maestro.

All these years, the head of the Novosibirsk Academic Academy was conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius, who managed to maintain a positive creative atmosphere in the team. Guest conductors Fabio Mastrangelo and Thomas Sanderling complement the Lithuanian counterpart. It was Zanderling who was behind the conductor’s console at a concert in Zaragoza, which opened the tour. On the stage of Auditorio de Zaragoza, works by Tchaikovsky were performed. The famous violinist Alyona Baeva soloed.

Thomas is the son of the famous German conductor Kurt Zanderling. During the war, he was evacuated to Novosibirsk together with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Evgeny Mravinsky. Behind Thomas - joint performances with such luminaries as Oistrakh, Gutman, Kremer, Gilels, cooperation with symphony orchestras of Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Helsinki, Liverpool, Osaka. Energetic, gushing with the ideas of Mastrangelo, with his charm and cheerfulness a bit like Katz, he also harmoniously blended with the conductor’s triumvirate.

Soloists such as violinists Letizia Moreno, a student of the brilliant Novosibirsk educator Zahar Bron, who currently lives in Switzerland, and Monet Hattori, are announced on the anniversary tour. One of the climaxes of the tour will be the performance of pianist Valentina Lisitsa with such “super hits” as Rachmaninov’s Concerto No. 2 and Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru