JUNE 12 - Platonov Arts Festival

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With the support of
the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Founders
Voronezh Region Government
Voronezh City District Administration
International Platonov Festival Directorate
Partners
Voronezh Regional Public Organization «Leader»
Sberbank of the Russian Federation
Moscow Industrial Bank
«Russian Railways» JSC
SIEMENS
Angstrem Group
Hamin’s Group of Companies
Megion Group
Association «Gallery Chizhov»
National Non-Metallic Company
«КodiMir» company
Industry Group «SoDEISTVIE»
VOLVO
Construction company «Voronezh-Dom»
«DSK» JSC
Construction company «Instep»
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Construction company «VYBOR»
Restorator Projects
Creative Partners
Chekhov International Theatre Festival
Adam Mickiewicz Institute
State Central Theatre Museum named
after A.A. Bakhrushin State Tretyakov Gallery
Kursk Deineka Picture Gallery
Krasnodar Art Museum named after F. A. Kovalenko
Penza Art Gallery named after K.A. Savitsky
Samara Art Museum
Saratov State Art Museum
named after A.N. Radishchev
Yaroslavl Art Museum
Vita Nova Publishing House
Voronezh State University
Book club «Petrovskiy»
International House Voronezh-Linguist
Prosveshchenie Digital
Information Partners
«Rossiyskaya Gazeta»
Orpheus Radio
RIA «Voronezh»
TV-Gubernia
«Dorogoe Udovolstvie» magazine
Voronezh Regional House of Journalists
Downtown.ru
LikenGo
Geometria.ru
Dear guests and participants
of the IV International
Platonov Arts Festival !
I am very pleased to welcome you
on the hospitable Voronezh land!
It is for the fourth time that the annual
International Platonov Festival has given us
a unique opportunity to become a part
of the grand celebration that Art is. Not only has
the festival become a major cultural project of
our region, but it has also been deemed
a remarkable event in the life of Russia at large.
Over 70 thousand spectators have visited
the festival venues since 2011. This creative
showcase is gaining still greater popularity,
fostering goodwill and setting new trends.
This year, the number of participant-countries
has amounted to 18. It is well worth mentioning
that for many musicians, directors and actors
taking part in Platonov festival has become
a tradition – they look forward to coming
to Voronezh again, which indicates a high level
of the arts forum organization as well as an
invariably warm reception the artists are given
here.
Platonov Festival is meant to highlight
the numerous facets of modern art, strengthen
the interregional and international cultural
bonds, provide new impetus for
the development of culture, and, of course,
bring joy and pleasure to a great many art
lovers. The mission of the festival is particularly
relevant today, in the Year of Culture announced
in Russia.
Our prominent countryman – the writer
Andrey Platonov, the festival is named after, –
said in his philosophical novel «Chevengur»,
«Only words can turn a fleeting sensation into
a thought, which is why a thinking person talks».
I hope that the performances, concerts,
exhibitions and other events of the festival
program will turn into a fruitful discussion
between the Artist and the Spectator followed
by deep thought on both parts. Let your heart
and soul soar high in the wake of art!
Governor of the Voronezh Region
Aleksey Gordeev
Dear Friends !
Dear Friends and Colleagues !
Platonov Festival is a unique, special
phenomenon of modern Russian culture,
a hymn of praise to the blessed, fertile Voronezh
land, known for time-honored traditions and rich
in talents.
This year, Platonov Arts Festival program is
remarkably great and diverse: «World Music»
has been added to the musical part and
«Street Theatres» has made the theatre program
complete. Thousands of Voronezh citizens will
discover the magnificent samples
of the multifaceted world culture, see the works
of traditional, classical, contemporary
and avant-garde art and meet with creators
and performers.
As a spectator, I am full of impressions
of the previous festivals: the dazzling, dynamic
and extraordinary program emphasized with
spiritual and creative unison of all
the participants and guests can’t but immerse
one in the atmosphere of art, and makes
the international cultural forum extremely
popular.
As a fan of Voronezh, I am pleased to realize
that the leading artists of our city demonstrate
their skills on a par with world-famous masters,
arousing genuine interest and highly emotional
response among even the most sophisticated
audience.
As a Mayor of the city, I am really proud that
today’s potential of the Black Soil Region's
capital enables us to receive the world stars and
stage rare performances, please a great many
guests with the comfort and originality of the
city, whose modern achievements are in perfect
harmony with its centuries-old history.
This year Voronezh celebrates a remarkable
event – Andrey Platonov’s 115th birth
anniversary. But for this person, Russian culture
would be incomplete. So the warm and eventful
days of the festival should be particularly
memorable, bright and creative.
Three continents – Asia, Africa and Europe –
will be presented in our forum. All in all, about
300 actors, musicians, artists and literary figures
from 18 countries will take part in the festival.
We hope all the participants and guests have
the most cordial welcome in Voronezh
and cherish the sweetest memories
of our hospitable city.
We aspire to broaden our public’s view
of the world and its cultural diversity, involve
as many people – first of all youth – as possible
in the festival and, as a result, in cultural life.
We would like music, literature, theatre, visual
arts to become an integral part of people’s life.
We are proud of the opportunity to be doing
such a large-scale, unique and long-expected
project as Platonov Arts Festival and hope
it proves to be unprecedentedly bright and
eventful with the help of the artists coming
to Voronezh this year.
Welcome!
May you have unforgettable meetings, indelible
impressions and a lot of fun in
Andrey Platonov’s hometown!
Mayor of Voronezh City District
Alexander Gusev
Director – Art director
of the Platonov Arts Festival
Mikhail Bychkov
platonov
The author of two novels («Chevengur»,
«Happy Moscow»), nine novellas (among which
are such masterpieces as «The Innermost Man»,
«The Foundation Pit» and, «Soul»), satirical short
stories («Doubting Makar»), astonishing love stories
(«Fro», «The River Potudan») and short stories about
children («The Cow», «A July Storm»), stories of great
spiritual depth about the Second World War prose,
introducing spiritual images («Inspired People»,
«There Is No Death!», «The Claim of the Dead»);
a playwright among whose plays are both the lyrical
comedy «The Hurdy-Gurdy» and the tragedy
«14 Little Red Huts», an extraordinary screenwriter,
a literary critic who wrote a paradoxical history of
Russian and European literature (the book of articles
«Reader’s Reflections»)… These are just the peaks
of Andrey Platonov’s creative work.
They represent the powerful and free artistic gift,
which could not be stopped by censorship,
decade-long bans, life and fate themselves of,
probably, the most unliterary writer of ХХ century,
who said more than once that «the work ends not
in literature, but in life». A specialist in land
reclamation with his own model of «land repair»
and peasant farming modernization. A professional
engineer and designer with an impressive list
of patents. This too is Andrey Platonov.
His legacy to the culture of our ХХI century culture
includes weighty volumes of prose, drama,
journalism, literary criticism, notes and letters.
Platonov’s amazing world is reflected in music,
visual arts, films and theatre. Platonov’s readers
and fans live not only in Russia but all over the world.
This grand picture of Platonov’s «return»
is epitomized in the program of Platonov Arts
Festival, which is held in Voronezh, Platonov’s
hometown.
Natalia Kornienko
exhibitions
I worship life
of every
kind!
Paintings and graphics
of Alexander Deineka
from collections of
The State Tretyakov Gallery and
The Kursk Deineka Picture Gallery
June 5 –
July 13
Opening – June 5, 4 p.m.
Voronezh regional
art museum
named after I.N. Kramskoy
Alexander Deineka and Andrey Platonov were
contemporaries. This year marks the 115th anniversary
of both the great artist (born 20 May 1899) and
the great writer (born 1 September 1899). Their creative
biographies proceeded in parallel and cross for the first
time at the festival.
Deineka is one of the most outstanding figures in
the history of Russian art of ХХ century. He is commonly
considered a master of socialist realism. However,
it was the years of academic studies at the printmaking
department of Moscow’s VKhUTEMAS (Higher Art and
Technical Studios, where representatives of the Russian
avant-garde taught), that had an ever-lasting impact
on the artist’s work.
Alexander Deineka is a phenomenon beyond
the confines of one country: in Soviet times his works
were repeatedly displayed at the Venice Biennial.
In 2010 Deineka’s major personal exhibition was held
in Tretyakov gallery, followed by one in the Exhibitions
Palace in Rome (Italy) in 2011. Platonov festival hosts
yet another big display of Deineka’s 34 works thus
marking the artist’s 115th anniversary.
Alexander Deineka proved an ideal link
between the art of the previous centuries and
that of the future <…> This bizarre tandem of
broken space and massive hovering figures –
the heavy and the light – simply mesmerizes.
Zhanna Vasilyeva, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
The characters’ energy is contagious, and the
artistry seems innovative even today <…> He
stretched the boundaries of painting to a great
extent, enriching it with the artistic means of
photograph and poster. His art encapsulates
the experience of avant-garde, the belief in
changing the world and the awareness of time. State Tratyakov’s gallery press-office
The State Tretyakov Gallery is one of the biggest
and oldest art museums in Russia founded in 1856
by a merchant P. M. Tretyakov. The gallery’s collection
comprises over 170 thousand works of art featuring
Russian painting, graphics, sculpture and applied arts,
spanning centuries: from XI to early XXI.
The Kursk Deineka Picture Gallery was founded
in 1935. The gallery numbers about 10 thousand
exhibits, many of which belong to Alexander Deineka
and other artists whose life, in some way or other,
is connected with Kursk.
Авангард
Freedom –
the reason
for the world
Russian avant-garde from
Krasnodar, Penza, Samara,
Saratov and Yaroslavl museums
June 6 –
August 3
Voronezh regional
art museum
Russian avant-garde is a complex and
heterogeneous trend in art, developing in
Russia from 1910 to 1932. It turned out to be
more massive, profound and radical than in
the West, which can be accounted for by our
country’s history. For years, Soviet leaders
disapproved of avant-garde art, so most of
the exhibits have never been displayed –
stored by foundations scattered all over the
country. Platonov festival brings together the
masterpieces of Krasnodar art museum named
after F. A. Kovalenko, Penza art gallery named
after K. A. Savitsky, Samara art museum,
Saratov state art museum named after
A.N. Radishchev and Yaroslavl art museum.
The collection of the works will give a vivid
picture of what a significant and large-scale
phenomenon Russian avant-garde was.
“
Russian avant-garde is an amazing
phenomenon, very short-lived yet
exceptionally rich, dazzling and, in
a way, even tragic, which makes it
almost parallel to Russia’s modern
history. «Freedom – the reason for the world»
features 78 paintings by 56 artists representing
various radically innovative movements of
the first three decades of XX century, such as
cubo-futurism, suprematism, constructivism and
others. Russian avant-garde artists destroyed
or made an extraordinary mixture of traditional
styles, rejected aesthetic taste, aspired to free
the art from conventions, sever its bond with
the old world. The exhibition presents abstract compositions
by Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Stenberg,
Aleksandra Ekster, Vera Pestel, figurative
paintings by Robert Falk, Aristarkh Lentulov,
Fedor Zakharov, Alexander Kuprin – all those who
managed to transform avant-garde discoveries
in tune with their own individuality. Painting and
graphic art by Natalia Goncharova – dubbed
«the Amazon of Russian avant-garde» by her
contemporaries – play an important part in
the exposition. Revealing strong individuality,
the artist at the same time relied heavily
on the traditions of medieval folk painting in her
cubo-futuristic works. Influenced by futurism
and surrealism, Marc Chagall does not break
with tradition combining stylistic features of
neo-primitivism and expressionism in his works.
Among other artists, whose paintings can be
seen on display, are such leaders of the «left» art
as Mikhail Le-Danteau, Varvara Stepanova,
Adolf Millman, Vasily Chekrygin, Lubov Popova.
Andrey Sarabyanov, art critic
“
Avant-garde is commonly believed to have evolved from rejection of tradition,
overthrow of authorities, which is not quite true. What was peculiar to Russian
avant-garde is continuity: the artists derived knowledge and inspiration from
a variety of sources. As Natalia Goncharova used to say, «Everything that was
created before me – is mine».
ROSIZO State exhibition centre press-office
Things and Things
that happened
Daniil Kharms and the people around him
June 7 –
June 29
Voronezh Centre
of Contemporary Art
(VCCA)
Daniil Kharms (1905–1942)
is an outstanding Russian writer, poet, creator
of absurdist fiction and also the founder
of artistic unions, among which OBERIU
(translated from Russian as the Union
of Real Art) is the most famous. The significance
of his creative work goes far beyond the limits
of the artistic experiment of that epoch; it has
had a great impact on literature and theatre
of the second half of the twentieth century
on the whole. The issues Kharms raised
continue to be relevant up to now.
“
It is obvious that the major exhibit
is the suitcase used during the
blockade of Leningrad
in 1941-1942 by Yakov Druskin, a sick
and malnourished philosopher, who
salvaged the suitcase from Kharms’s
bombed-out flat, mounted it on
a sleigh and evacuated. Owing
to the philosopher’s enterprise,
we now possess a great number
of things that used to belong
to Kharms and Vvedensky. This story
is familiar to everyone who takes
interest in OBERIU.
Igor Gulin, Kommersant
«Vita Nova» specializes in limited edition
collection classics and publication of
biographical and literary works. Books
published by «Vita Nova» are among those
owned by the State Hermitage Museum, the
State Russian Museum, the Russian Academy
of Arts and others.
The exhibition will feature Kharms’s personal
belongings, recently found manuscripts, books
from his personal library, photographs, authentic
items connected with the life and work of the
writers close to Kharms –
Alexander Vvedensky, Nikolay Oleynikov,
Yakov Druskin, Konstantin Vaginov and
others. The exhibits include a suitcase used
during the blockade of Leningrad in 1942
by Yakov Druskin to save a great number
of Kharms’s manuscripts; Kharms’s radio
«Telefunken», books and printed music with
his marginal notes; a number of very important
original manuscripts by Kharms and his close
associates (e.g. an original manuscript
«The Gray Notebook» by Alexander Vvedensky);
unpublished works by Konstantin Vaginov,
Nikolay Oleynikov and other writers.
«Things and Things that happened.
Daniil Kharms and the people around him»
is created on the basis of private collections.
A great number of exhibits and the very idea
of the exhibition belong to Vita Nova publishing
house, a creative partner of Platonov Arts
Festival. Designer Arkady Opochanskiy
(the author of the exposition design in
St. Petersburg) has created the special design
project especially for the exhibition
in Voronezh Centre of Contemporary Art.
David Borovsky.
Selected works
On the 80th anniversary of his birth
June 7 –
June 29
Opening June – 7, 4 p.m.
Exhibition Hall
on Kirova Street
David Borovsky
“
I’m astonished, I haven’t been here for
over 6 years. Looking at these sketches
now I remember how it all began...
What I’m really amazed at is how just
a nice ordinary man, absolutely
ingenuous and unaware of his
«largeness», all of a sudden turns into
a prominent artistic and historic figure.
Lev Dodin, artistic director
of MDT – Europe Theatre
“
How gripping and instructive it is to
watch an idea conceived, even more
so when you know what a magnificent
performance it will eventually develop
into progressing from a scratch to
a sketch, from a cut to a set model. Maria Sedykh, Itogi
State Central Theatre Museum
named after A.A. Bakhrushin
was founded in 1894 by Aleksey Bakhrushin,
a well-known industrialist and patron of the arts
from Moscow. Today, the museum stores over
1.5 million exhibits: costume and set sketches
created by master set designers, photographs
and portraits, costumes worn on stage by
prominent actors, theatre programs and bills,
rare editions on theatrical art, items
of decorative and applied arts, etc. – a prominent Russian set designer.
Such famous theatre directors as
Georgy Tovstonogov, Anatoly Efros,
Oleg Efremov, Lev Dodin, Ishtvan Khorvai,
Valery Fokin, Leonid Kheyfets, Mikhail Levitin
and Mikhail Reznikovich called him a co-author
of their productions.
David Borovsky’s name has appeared
on a theatre bill for the first time in 1956: it was
performance «Lies with Long Legs» production
of Lesya Ukrainka Theatre. Soon afterwards,
the young artist was invited to Moscow, where
in a few years he has become the chief designer
of the Taganka Theatre. Those were 30 blissful
years of work in tandem with Yury Lyubimov,
they have created together 20 performances,
destined to become classic: «Alive»,
«The Dawns are Quiet Here…», «Hamlet»,
«The House on the Embankment»… In his
late period, the artist collaborated with such
directors as Lev Dodin, Adolf Shapiro and
others, in addition to designing operas.
«David Borovsky. Selected works» is unique
in scale: the exhibition comprising costume
sketches and models of the set created by
Borovsky can be divided into 5 independent
expositions – «Selections», «Beginning»,
«Borovsky in Opera», «King Lear» and
«Taganka Golden Age» – presented at different
times in his «Workshop».
«Beginning» includes the set models and
sketches for the artist’s first performances
designed at the Lesya Ukrainka theatre in Kiev
(Borovsky called this theatre his homeland),
while «Selections» is the result of his prolific
career, his last exhibition in his lifetime, exhibits
for which he selected himself. «King Lear» is
devoted to Lev Dodin’s performance at MDT –
Europe Theatre (2006.). «Borovsky in Opera» is
all about the master’s musical performances,
whereas «Taganka Golden Age» reveals
the plays co-authored by Borovsky and
Lyubimov («Hamlet» starring Vladimir Vysotsky,
«Alive» based on Boris Mozhayev’s novella and
«Sharashka» based on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s
novel «In the First Circle»). The exhibition
also presents a book by D. Borovsky entitled
«Runaway Space».
«David Borovsky’s Workshop» Memorial
museum, a branch of Bakhrushin theatre
museum, is the set designer’s first museum
in Russia. The workshop settings create the
atmosphere David Borovsky used to work in,
reveals his life style as well as his style in art.
The display has been set up
by Aleksandr Borovsky, the artist’s son.
The Innermost Man
Solo exhibition of Sergey Bazilev
June 8 –
July 5
Gallery H.L.A.M.
Sergey Bazilev,
one of the creators of hyperrealism in our
country and a representative of the «Six» group
(Aleksey Tegin, Sergey Sherstyuk, Sergey Gheta,
Igor Kopytyansky, Nikolay Filatov) has become
famous for his projects back in the 80-s. He has
taken part in more than 50 group exhibitions,
has had more than 20 solo exhibitions both
in Russia and abroad. As a result, the artist’s
works have received incredible acclaim – his
paintings are included in the collections
of The State Tretyakov Gallery,
The State Russian Museum, Museum Ludwig
(Germany), Norton Dodge Museum (USA),
Gallery Alpha Cubic (Japan).
The exhibition presents the vibrant portraits
of Sergey Bazilev’s «innermost» people – his
friends and associates from Voronezh.
Andrey Platonov’s works, especially novella
«The Innermost Man», have a great significance
to the artist. Platonov’s protagonist,
«the wind blowing past the revolution sail»,
reflects the Moscow hyperrealists’ views in
Soviet times. However, the most important
feature both Bazilev’s modern characters and
Platonov’s «innermost» people have in common
is that they are not influenced by the outlook
on life imposed from without.
Russian hyperrealism appeared as an
opposition of private life to the official Soviet
reality and, unlike its European counterpart
visualizing the myths of the Consumer Era,
portrayed the private life of the artists and those
close to them as a myth. Even today, Sergey
Bazilev still depicts unpretentious episodes from
the life of his nearest and dearest. Such series
as «Sunlit», «Travel Notes», «Good Deeds»,
«Toasts», «Pink Wine» demonstrate the artist’s
interest in the «innermost man» who is guided
by love but not by an idea.
The palette … of the pictures is not just warm. It’s hot, if not scorching.
The author does love burning, almost tropical temperatures. And he openly
admires the models – not without a carnival, not without relish, not without drive.
There’s a clear attempt to share simply mind-blowing life power and radiant
energy.
Anna Zhidkikh, Bereg
Jerusalem
is not just a city
Photo exhibition of Dmitry Brickman
June 8 –
june 29
Voronezh regional
art museum
Dmitry Brickman
is a famous Israeli photographer. Born in
Leningrad, he now lives in Israel. In 2009
a publishing house «Piter» published his photo
book «Jerusalem - not just a city».
In August 2013, at the Window to Europe Film
Festival in Vyborg, his photo film «Ecclesiastes.
Phototranslation» was shown to public for the
first time.
… there are lots of different faces –
happy and sad; thoughtful and joyful;
dazzlingly beautiful and mysteriously
charming; old and young... you name
it! But, according to Dmitry Brickman,
no faces are plain or silly. Such is the
photographer’s vision.
Andrei Maksimov, Rossiiskaya Gazeta
«Jerusalem is not just a city»,
comprising portraits, genre photos and
photojournalism, has already been displayed
in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod
and Novosibirsk.
Dmitry Brickman’s photos reveal an attempt
to understand the nature of things that people
tend not to notice. An attempt to look into
the eyes of the people whose fortunes were
twined with ours for a fleeting moment. The
photographer encourages us not only to look
at the photos but also try to understand them,
because each photo encapsulates somebody’s
life story, even those featuring no people.
For thousands of years Jerusalem has been
a city where people of different cultural and
religious backgrounds have been living together:
Muslims, Christians, and Hebrews. This diversity
is reflected in Brickman’s photos. The main idea
of the festival – world’s harmony in its diversity –
is in tune with the message of this exhibition.
Platonov Award
in Literature and Art
Platonov Award, established in 2011 by the government of the Voronezh region, is annually conferred on Russian
and foreign cultural figures for their significant contribution to cultural heritage of the Russian Federation, for creation
of outstanding works of literature, theatre, music, visual arts, and for innovative development of humanistic and
cultural traditions.
The winner is determined by a Council formed of cultural figures, representatives of public organizations and public
authorities. The amount of the Award is 500 thousand rubles.
Boris Ekimov, a prominent writer, became the first Platonov Award laureate. In 2012 the award went to People’s Artist
of Russia Lev Dodin, the artistic director of the The Maly Drama Theatre – Theatre of Europe; and in 2013
Mikhail Pletnev, the artistic director and chief conductor of the Russian National Orchestra as well as an outstanding
pianist, was awarded the prize.
Aleksandr Petrov, one of the most gifted animators of our time and an Oscar laureate (Academy Award for Animated
Short Film «The Old Man and the Sea», 2000) has become the Platonov laureate in 2014.
The artist is an acclaimed master of «animated painting» technique – he paints on glass mostly with his fingertips,
hardly ever using brushes. He likes the challenge of filming complicated authors’ works, such as «The Old Man
and the Sea» by Hemingway and «The Dream of a Ridiculous Man» by Dostoevsky. Incidentally, Aleksandr Petrov’s
graduation work at the Advanced school for screenwriters and directors was an animated film based
on Andrey Platonov’s short story «The Cow».
The award ceremony will take place on one of the Platonov festival days.
theatre
Танец человека и экскаватора
Transports
Exceptionnels.
Duo for a Dancer
and an Excavator
ASSOCIATION BEAU GESTE
France
Concept, choreography, direction – Dominique Boivin
Dancer – Philippe Priasso
Excavator driver – William Defresne
Stage director – Eric Lamy
Production manager – Christelle Fleury
Premiere in 2005
June 5
6 p.m., 8 p.m.
June 6
6 p.m., 8 p.m.
Lenin Square
Duration –
20 minutes
12+
Dominique Boivin
© Olivier Bonnet
Duo for a Dancer and an Excavator
has had over 600 performances in more than
40 countries. The show demonstrates
a possibility of physical interaction between
a human and a huge machine, which by
definition has nothing to do with creativity,
dancing and feeling. However, the machine
comes alive and an expressive, at times even
dangerous dialogue unfolds between the two.
The project was inspired by the choreographer’s
memories of the childhood – the time when
proportions took on another dimension and
the street seemed an extraordinary playground.
“
– is a choreographer and artistic director
of the BEAU GESTE production company.
His performing experiments take the audience
to multidimensional worlds: Aqua ça Rrime?
takes place in a pool, A quoi tu penses?
is a choreographic play based on Marie Nimier’s
monologues and Transports Exceptionnels
is a duo of a dancer and an excavator, which
has been successfully touring the world
for almost ten years.
The BEAU GESTE production company
was created in 1981 by seven dancers from
the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine
(National Centre of Contemporary Dance).
Putting the emphasis on each dancer’s unique
personality and movement – BEAU GESTE
ventures into multiple performance styles: solos,
cabarets, variety shows, dance conferences…
all opportunities to affirm a taste for diversity,
distance and humor. Besides Dominique Boivin,
the company engages choreographers
Christine Erbe and Philippe Priasso. It is the latter
who performs pas de deux with the excavator.
According to Philippe Priasso, his partner
is a She, despite Her weighing a few tons.
Performing in different cities, the dancer has
to do with different machines, every time
adapting to the size and other features of any
given excavator.
It’s an unexpected encounter, a double act between steel and flesh. I have chosen to
work with the arm of an excavator because of its functionality and dynamics but also
because it is, in a way, similar to a human arm: it takes, pushes away and caresses!
Coming back to the childhood again and again, the spectator can easily recognize
a circus arena, where the tamer bonds not only with ferocious beasts, but also – in
a strange, extraordinary way – with the audience. Elephant, tiger, King Kong – there’s
a touch of the uncontrollable about the machine.
Dominique Boivin
Добрый человек
Bertolt Brecht
The Good Person
of Szechwan
Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre
Russia
Original music – Paul Dessau
Translation – Yegor Peregudov
Director – Yuriy Butusov
Design – Aleksandr Shishkin
Lighting – Aleksandr Sivaev
Composer and music director – Igor Gorsky
Cast: Aleksandra Ursulyak, Aleksandr Arsentiev, Aleksandr Matrosov,
Anastasiya Lebedeva, Vera Voronkova, Andrey Sukhov, Irina Petrova,
Natalya Reva-Ryadinskaya, Aleksey Dadonov, Aleksey Rakhmanov,
Anna Begunova, Ivan Litvinenko
Premiere - February 1, 2013
june 5, 6
7 p.m.
Voronezh
concert hall Duration –
3 hours 20 minutes with one intermission
12+
Yuriy Butusov
is one of the most brilliant modern theatre
directors in Russia. He is the leading director
of the Lensoviet Academic Theatre, awarded
with the Stanislavski Award, the Golden Mask
and St. Petersburg's Highest Theatre Prize
«Golden Sofit». Butusov has staged plays
not only in St. Petersburg and Moscow theatres,
but also in Bulgaria and Norway.
Bertolt Brecht’s play «The Good Person
of Szechwan» has become a cult play
for the theatrical world. In Russia it is associated
with Yuriy Lyubimov’s legendary performance
staged at the Taganka Theatre half a century
ago. However in Butusov’s production
the play has taken on an entirely new tone.
The play is about a city of poor and embittered
citizens, among which there is only one good
person – the prostitute Shen Teh who cannot
cope with the pressure of society. Butusov
has transformed the play into a philosophical
parable about a world which has lost its
coordinates, where “good” has to turn into its
direct contrary in order to survive. Original music by Paul Dessau used
in «The Good Person of Szechwan» is
performed by leading singers of the Pure Music
ensemble led by Igor Gorsky.
The performance was honored with
Stanislavsky Award as «Event of the season»
as well as two Golden Mask awards (season
2012-2013) for the «Best actress» in drama
(Alexandra Ursulyak as Shen The and Shui Ta)
and Drama Jury`s Special Award (Yuriy Butusov).
“
In his performances Butusov sets a cry of human despair free, the energy
of a being who understands that it is necessary and at the same time impossible
to change the sequence of events, as well as not to scream about it.
“
… you leave the theatre bewildered, amazed by notorious catharsis, but happy
because our theatre is still capable of such breakthroughs.
“
The soul isn’t sold and mustn’t be sold, otherwise a person will live, but in agony.
A man is what I am interested in; what I want to do is to show his complex inner
feelings.
Marina Tokareva, Novaya Gazeta
Marina Shimadina, Izvestiya
Yuriy Butusov
Последняя лента
Samuel Beckett
Krapp’s
Last Tape
Oskaras Koršunovas Theatre (OKT)
Lithuania
Director – Oskaras Koršunovas
Performer – Juozas Budraitis
Set designer – Dainius Liškevičius
Composer – Gintaras Sodeika
World premiere – May 30, 2013
June 6, 7
8:30 p.m.
Voronezh
Academic Drama
Theatre A. Koltsov
Duration –
1 hour without intermission
Oskaras Koršunovas
is a star of not only Lithuanian but world
directing. He is a Knight of the French Order
of Arts and Letters, and a holder of a worthy
collection of awards, such as prizes from
festivals in Edinburgh, Torun, Saint Petersburg,
Riga, Sarajevo, Belgrade, as well as Lithuanian
national theatre prizes and the Europe Theatre
Prize (the most prestigious European theatre
award) for New Theatrical Realities.
Oskaras Koršunovas Theatre (OKT)
started as an independent project in 1998,
but it has since come to hold the status of
Vilnius City Theatre. Every year OKT now hosts
Sirenos, one of the most prestigious theatre
forums of the Baltic region.
«Krapp’s Last Tape» is based on a play
of the same name by one of the founders
of theatre of absurd, Nobel Literature prize
laureate, Samuel Beckett. The plot is formed
from an old man’s recollections and reflections,
as he makes a last effort to catch hold of his life
while knowing that the end is fast approaching
and inevitable. The main and only character
of the play is Krapp, who listens to recordings
of his own voice made many years ago, and
makes a retrospective journey into the past.
“
Krapp is played by Juozas Budraitis, one
of the most famous actors of the Soviet period,
a laureate of the National Lithuanian Award
in the field of culture and art, and People’s Artist
of Lithuania. He has played over 100 roles in
films and TV productions, but his name is most
closely associated with such films
as «Nobody Wanted to Die», «Feelings»
(Jausmai) and «Short Confession»
(Maža išpažintis). Oskaras Koršunovas says
that he «would never stage “Krapp’s Last Tape”
without Budraitis, who perfectly suits
the role of Beckett’s symbol because of his age,
experience and intelligence».
When you compare the voice in the records with the voice on stage you can’t stop
admiring the range of acting skills, articulation and intonation skills, ranging from
excited tremor to the huskiness of a sick old man. Daina Habdankaitė, Literatūra ir menas
Майская ночь
Based on the works of Nikolai Gogol
May Night
Moscow Puppet Theatre
Russia, Moscow
Director – Karolina Žernytė
Set design, puppets design – Paulina Nešukaitytė
Cast: Anna Antonova, Lev Bobyshev, Evgeniy Kazakov, Aleksandra
Kapustina, Mikhail Kokhanov, Aleksandr Mosin, Ekaterina Nahabtseva,
Yulia Serova, Evgeniy Iljin
June 7
2 p.m, 5 p.m
June 8
2 p.m, 5 p.m
Chamber Theatre
Duration –
60 minutes without intermission
12+
Karolina Žernytė
is a young Lithuanian director. She staged her
first experimental performance, «Bee Fairy
Tales for Six Senses», in Vilnius. Besides sight,
hearing, taste, smell and touch, the director
highlights the sixth sense, the sense of the
theatre, which, according to Karolina Žernytė,
becomes stronger with your eyes closed.
The Moscow Puppet Theatre
is a modern, multigenre, high-tech theatre
company. It has unusual for Russian theater
management system: there is no artistic
director, guest directors and designers work
on the performances, and actors are selected
through auditions. A number of Moscow Puppet
Theatre productions have been awarded
with Golden Mask awards.
Performance «May Night» is a creative
experiment that unites blind and sighted people
in a theatre auditorium. It turns the audience
into participants of a theatrical ritual:
they listen, feel, touch, smell and taste, but don’t
see! With the help of the actors’ proficiency
(and blindfolds!) one will find himself far from
auditorium into the heart of Ukrainian night.
To increase the participation effect, the designer
of the performance, Paulina Nešukaitytė,
has developed for the blind people special
wheelchairs which actors roll on a hall during
performance.
«May Night» was nominated for the 2012-2013
season Golden Mask National Theatre Award
in the «Innovation/Best Production» category.
Like a child I always wanted to change the world. When I see happy faces of actors
and the blind, I feel that I made it a little bit better. The audience should have
positive emotions after the performance. And I think we manage with it.
Karolina Žernytė
They <the actors> create an audio environment and everyday world without music,
but with the help of a choir and everyday noises. For a moment they touch their
main audience, let them feel a texture of a flower or a doll, combed hair or wolf’s
claws, a light wind or bushes. There is even a smell of food in the feast scene, air
movements and drops of water… Actors sit around the audience, surround them
with sounds and touch, excite their sensuality.
Pavel Rudnev, theatre critic
Войцек
Woyzeck,
or the hint
of vertigo
Free interpretation of Georg Büchner's «Woyzeck»
National Choreography Centre of Orleans
and National Theatre of Brittany
France
June 7, 8, 9
7 p.m.
Voronezh
Academic Drama
Theatre A. Koltsov
Duration –
16+
Direction and choreography – Josef Nadj
Music – Aladár Rácz
Lighting designer – Raymond Blot
Lighting – Lionel Kolet
Dancers – Guillaume Bertrand, Istvan Bicskei, Denes Debrei,
Samuel Dutertre, Peter Gemza, Josef Nadj, Henrieta Varga
Technical direction – Steven Le Corre
Production manager – Michel Chialvo
Coproduction Théâtre National de Bretagne – Rennes (France) – Centre
chorégraphique national d'Orléans (France)
World premiere in 1994
© Lajos Somolosi
Josef Nadj
“
Nadj’s every performance is
something between ballet, art
installation and traditional theatre…
Nadj’s actors can say everything
with one gesture; their bodies
are much more expressive than
language.
is a French director and choreographer, one
of the main figures of European theatre.
He has headed the Orleans National
Choreography Centre for almost 20 years.
According to the Russian journal «Expert»,
Josef Nadj is «one of the most mysterious
personalities of modern theatre». Critics still
argue about which genre they should place
his performances in, as elements of dance,
pantomime and dramatic theatre can be noticed
in Nadj’s works. Josef Nadj is not only
a choreographer, but also an artist: his sculpture
installations, paintings and photographs are
regularly exhibited at galleries and theatres.
Perhaps, the source of Nadj’s visual theatre can
be found in his love for art.
Josef Nadj has received the Critics’ Award
at the Mimos festival in Périgueux, France,
the Europe Theatre Prize for New Theatrical
Realities, and Officer of the French Order
of Arts and Letters.
Viktoriya Nikiforova, Expert
Büchner’s play «Woyzeck» has attracted the attention of quite a number of experimentalist artists, from
Werner Herzog, who made a movie with Klaus Kinski, to Bob Wilson, who staged a performance with
the music of Tom Waits. Josef Nadj suggests his own version of this play, left unfinished
by the playwright’s early death. In his interpretation one will see Büchner’s characters: small and haunted
Woyzeck, his girlfriend and corporal… But Nadj’s work is too far from original source: this performance
isn’t about jealousy, murder and suicide. The director transformed characters of «Woyzeck» into golems
(people made of clay and sand). Energy of the play is the most important thing for Nadj, he explores
the madness of the main character and the force which leads Woyzeck to cruelty.
«Woyzeck, or the Hint of Vertigo», first staged by Nadj 20 years ago, has not yet been taken
off the repertoire. Such a long run is an exceptional rarity for theatre performances. «Woyzeck» received
an Audience Award at the BITEF festival in Belgrade in 1998 and the 2003 Golden Mask festival award
for the best foreign performance. Last year «Woyzeck» was shown with great success in Avignon.
The Centre chorégraphique national d'Orléans was founded in 1995. It is a member of the Association
of Centres Chorégraphiques Nationaux (ACCN) and receives grant from Ministère de la Culture and
Communication – DGCA - DRAC Centre, the City of Orléans, the Region Centre, the Départment of Loiret,
French Institute.
“
There is a huge amount of versions of Büchner’s unfinished play, but the part of
the theatrical space, which Nadj reserved for his «Woyzeck» at the Avignon festival
<…>, belongs only to him.
Leyla Guchmazova, Vremya MN
Острова
Islands
Theatre DEREVO
Germany – Russia
Director – Anton Adasinskiy
Performers – Anton Adasinskiy, Elena Yarovaya, Makhina Dzhuraeva,
Pavel Alekhin, Ivan Nevzorov
Music composer – Roman Dubinnikov
Sound - Grigory Shmidko
Lighting designer – Falk Dittrich
Light - Igor Fomin
Costume and set designer – Elena Yarovaya
Manager – Anna Bogodist
June 8, 9
8:30 p.m.
Voronezh
concert hall
Duration –
1 hour and 20 minutes without intermission
16+
Anton Adasinskiy
is an actor, director, choreographer and
musician, founder of the avant-garde theatre
company DEREVO. He has received a number
of prestigious awards: the «Golden Mask»
(2007), the «Berlin Academy of Arts Award»
(2000), «Prix du Jury de Presse (Critics’
Award)» at the Mimos International Festival
of contemporary mime (2000), and several
awards at the Edinburgh Festival (the «Fringe
First» twice, the «Total Theatre Award» twice,
as well as both the «Herald Angel» and «Herald
Archangel»).
«Islands» is a collection of sketches which
explores the eternal conflict between dream
and reality. Alongside plastic arts, the main
components of the performance are music and
light, which are used not only for construction
of the mise en scene, but also for creation
of the holistic scenic image. The performance
was nominated for the «Golden Mask –
Most Innovative Performance» prize in 2003.
DEREVO was founded in 1988 in St. Petersburg
and is now based in Dresden, Germany.
Immediately after its foundation, the European
press hailed it as «the cutting edge of art slicing
through the Iron Curtain». Critics have likened
DEREVO's style to auteur cinema, coining
the term «auteur theatre» to describe the
company. DEREVO performances have been
successfully staged at a number
of European festivals.
They are clowns in the highest sense, who have mastered this area of performance.
Only a clown can explain the most difficult things in simple words, see and make
others see the great in ordinary things, mix the funny and the dramatic, exaggerate
and simplify. These clowns do all that, and never leave the field of absolute
performance.
Andrey Kirillov, St. Petersburg Theatre Journal
Без названия
Untitled
Sláva Daubnerová
Slovakia
Concept, director, performer – Sláva Daubnerová
Choreography – Stanislava Vlčeková
Dramaturgy and technical cooperation – Pavel Graus
Financial support – Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic,
Ars Bratislavensis Fund and Slovak Literary Fund
Premiere – December 10, 2012
June 9, 10, 11
9 p.m.
Chamber Theatre
Duration –
18+
Sláva Daubnerová
is a distinctive figure of Slovakian theatre
life. She comes up with the concepts of her
performances on her own and performs
on stage without fear of experiments with
the form and content. In 2006 Sláva Daubnerová
founded P.A.T., an independent platform
for contemporary theatre; there she creates her
solo performances, which are a combination
of performance art and theatre.
«Untitled» is a suggestive piece
of theatre, drawing the audience
to a different time and space and
intoxicating it with visual and aural
sensations. With no exaggeration,
this performance is to be called
outstanding.
Peter Scherhaufer,
Socialand Political Weekly
She surrounds herself with sounds,
carefully picked props, but most
importantly with emotions. With
choreographer Stanislava Vlčeková,
they have created a work of art,
delicately touching upon loneliness
and nakedness.
Zuzana Uličianska, Daily SME
The visual solo performance «Untitled» was
inspired by work of Francesca Woodman an American photographer, famous for her
black-and-white conceptual photographs.
She explored the fragmentation of the body,
capturing it in unusual positions, making gestures,
and in motion. Surreal compositions combined
with a blurred figure, caused by long exposure
time, became the trademark of her works.
Francesca Woodman committed suicide
at the age of 22 and it was only after her death
that her work started to attract attention. Most
of her photographs are marked as «Untitled».
The performance by Sláva Daubnerová shows
Woodman’s inner world. There are no words,
but the emphasis is on flawless movements,
impressive stage scenery and music.
«Untitled» was awarded the «Dosky» (the most
prestigious Slovak theatrical prize at Divadelná
Nitra festival) as the best performanc
of the season.
Untitled is an aesthetic experience only scarcely offered by Slovak theatre. You
don't need to be adept in Woodman's photographs to enjoy it. It's enough to like
watching and be able to see beauty.
Sоňа Smolková, Daily Pravda
Филлипенко
Platonov
Night
Aleksandr Filippenko
Moscow
June 8
6 p.m.
voronezh theatre
for young spectators
16+
Aleksandr Filippenko
Although he has played numerous
villains, has always seemed
a good-hearted and fair artist.
I have seen very few actors like him
who are so genuinely happy for the
opportunity to be on the stage and
express freely their thoughts and
emotions.
Marina Davydova, Izvestia
His intonation, extraordinarily
ingenious, charming gestures and
facial expressions, his lean body and
the valiant atmosphere around him
(when we mention it we can easily
visualize an army of all villains that he
has created in a number of movies
and performances) – all this make us
think that his acting can be compared
with such masterpieces as works
by Mikhail Zoshchenko and Nikolai
Gogol.
Grigory Zaslavsky, Nezavisimaya Gazeta
is a theatre and film actor, awarded with People's
Artist of Russia. He is the Artistic Director of his
own theatre project «Mono-Duet-Trio». Filippenko
was a member of the famous Taganka Theatre
under the leadership of Yuri Lyubimov, worked
at Vakhtangov Theatre for 20 years collaborating
with such theatre directors as Eugene Simonoff,
Aleksandr Remizov, Rachiah Kaplanyan,
Robert Sturua and Roman Viktuk. His prolific
career includes roles in more than 80 movies
(«Torpedo Planes», «My friend Ivan Lapshin»,
Azazello in «Master and Margarita»
by Vladimir Bortko, Koroviev in «Master and
Margarita» by Yuri Kara, and others) and more
than 10 one-man shows.
One of Filippenko’s favorite authors
is Andrey Platonov, that’s why his performance
entitled «Platonov night» at the 4th Platonov Arts
Festival edition will be dedicated to Platonov’s
works.
Filippenko has recently started to present
one-man productions where he is the only person
on stage. He brilliantly plays the parts
of all characters, and for this reason critics have
called him «the undisputed master of one-man
performances». It is even said that
Aleksandr Filippenko is an embodiment
of the theatre itself, because he does not need
co-actors, directors and decorators. The actor
says that he «just interprets theatre productions
from the language of the author to that
of the audience». Aleksandr Filippenko’s
one-man performances have gained him
the State Prize of the Russian Federation and
a great number of awards at festivals
in the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Russia.
Русский космос
Based on the works of Andrey Platonov
Russian Cosmos
Theatre «Plody Prosvescheniya»
Saint Petersburg
Director – Seppo Kantervo
Music – Andrei Kondakov, Vladimir Volkov
Choreographer – Vera Arbuzova
Cast: Seppo Kantervo, Vera Arbuzova, Andrei Kondakov, Vladimir Volkov
June 10
8 p.m.
Voronezh
concert hall
Duration –
60 minutes without intermission
16+
Seppo Kantervo
(Sergey Pronin)
is a playwright, director and actor. He is an
honored artist of the Republic of Karelia,
who has won the 2006 All-Russian
Cinematography Competition (Mosfilm),
the theatrical award «Onega Mask
(2005, 2007 and 2010), a gold medal
of the Joint Theatrical Union of Finland (2010)
and many other awards.
Theatre «Plody Prosvescheniya»,
translated from Russian as The Fruits of
Enlightenment, was founded in Saint Petersburg
in 2001. The theatre hosts not only its own
performances but also productions of other
theatres from different cities, concert programs
and meetings with popular actors from
Saint Petersburg and Moscow.
Fedor, played by Sergey Pronin says: «The man is knowledge and mind!» Fro, played by Vera Arbuzova,
shows that «The woman is beauty
and feelings». The simplicity of
these fundamental vital principles
is emphasized by the duet music of
Volkov and Kondakov.
Polina Vinogradova,
Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti
The jazz and choreographic performance
«Russian Cosmos» presents the theatre fantasy
based on Andrey Platonov's prose. The director
calls the play an allegorical narrative «about
how the entire universe can fit inside a woman's
heart when she is in love; and that love
is a great power. Keeping and protecting this
feeling, people can make magic».
All the music of the performance is composed
and played by the well-known jazz musicians
Andrei Kondakov and Vladimir Volkov.
Vera Arbuzova, a ballet dancer and
choreographer, Meritorious Artist of Russia,
and the prize winner of the «Golden Soffit»
theatre award, not only acts in the leading
dramatic role, but is also the choreographer
of plastic miniatures. The director plays one
of the leading parts. Production’s creative
teams collaborate on the mixture of jazz,
choreography, drama and text.
Шарманка
Andrey Platonov
The Hurdy-Gurdy
Theatrical play reading with graphic novels
Voronezh Theatre for Young Spectators
and Platonov Arts Festival co-production
Воронеж
Director – Kamil Tukaev
Graphic art – Natalya Konshina
Sculptures – Sergey Gorshkov
Cast – Ivan Markushev, Sergey Smirnov, Ekaterina Pukhnachova, Kamil
Tukaev, Yury Ovchinnikov, Oleg Stalpovsky, Kira Kovaleva
and other actors of Voronezh Theatre for Young Spectators
June 12
6 p.m.
Voronezh Theatre
for Young Spectators
12+
Kamil Tukaev
My aim as director of this piece is
to create a very delicate dramatic
reading which is faithful
to the author. I want to focus on
the melodic sounds and rhythmic
structure of this original piece of
drama. In my opinion, it is one of
Andrey Platonov's best plays.
The main task is to convey above
all Platonov's text to the audience,
without loading it with any director's
particular original interpretation.
However, in our opinion, a dramatic
reading does require some visual
support and some musical,
decorative and costume highlights,
which will help make it even more
scenic and interesting.
Kamil Tukaev
Voronezh State Theatre for Young Spectators
(TYS) opened in 1963 with «City at Dawn»
production. Boris Naravtsevich, Vadim Puchkin,
Vladimir Bugrov, Mikhail Logvinov and
Mikhail Bychkov headed the theatre at different
times. The present chief director is People’s
Artist of Russia Alexander Latushko.
Since 2000 TYS has been holding «Theatre of
Childhood and Youth – XXI century» festival,
which brings together colleagues from all over
Russia and abroad.
is an actor and director, Honoured Artist
of Russia. He has played roles in shows
at the Voronezh Theatre for Young Spectators
and the Voronezh Chamber Theatre, and also in
films and TV serials, including «The Truth about
Shelps» (he was awarded the prize
for the «Best Actor» on «Kinotavr» film festival
in June 2003), «Soldier's Decameron»,
«The Red Pearl of Love», «Vstrechnaya Polosa»,
«Twice in One River», «The Miracle»,
«The Photographer», «Running», and
«Dostoevsky». Tukaev admits that he has
chosen «The Hurdy-Gurdy» for staging, because
he considers it as one of the best of Platonov's
plays.
The theatrical play reading
of Andrey Platonov’s «The Hurdy-Gurdy»
is a specially created for the 4th festival edition
co-production of Voronezh Theatre for Young
Spectators (TYS) and Platonov Arts Festival.
Speaking of «The Hurdy-Gurdy» on the TYS
stage, first of all we recall the eponymous
performance of Valery Sarkisov staged in the
90s, with People's Artist of Russia Anatoly
Abdulayev, Meritorious Artist of Russia Valery
Blinov and other wonderful actors. Play
reading staged by Kamil Tukaev will begin with
a flashback visualising memories about that
production on the screen.
This theatrical reading can be called
a comic-book version of Platonov's play. The
reading will be accompanied by graphic novels,
or comics, created by Voronezh graphic artist
Natalia Konshina. The video content includes
20 such stories, illustrating the most significant
parts of the play. Additionally, the famous
Voronezh artist and sculptor Sergey Gorshkov
has created wooden props and figures of the
main characters especially for the performance.
Избушки
Andrey Platonov
Fourteen
Red Huts
tragicomedy
Chamber Theatre
Voronezh
Director, costume designer – Mikhail Bychkov
Set design – Nikolay Simonov
Sound, music selection – Vladislav Toletsky
Cast – Boris Goloshchapov, Andrey Novikov, Anastasia Novikova,
Yury Ovchinnikov, Vladislav Morgunov, Andrey Miroshnikov, Vasily Markov,
Tatiana Babenkova, Lyudmila Guskova, Alexander Tarasenko
Premiere – June 27, 2013
June 13
6 p.m.
Chamber Theatre
Duration –
2 hours 30 minutes with one intermission
16+
Mikhail Bychkov,
the founder and art director of Voronezh
Chamber Theatre and Platonov Arts Festival,
the winner of the Stanislavsky award (1995), has
staged more than 80 performances
in Russia, Latvia and Estonia. A great number
of his performances have been shown in
Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Holland, Ireland
and Ukraine. Mikhail Bychkov has also been
nominated several times for the Golden Mask
Award. He is an award winner of «Novayay
Drama Award» («Best Director», 2003) and
other theatre showcases.
This tragicomedy, written 80 years
ago, is about an eccentric foreign
professor who ends up on a starving
Soviet collective farm near the
Caspian Sea. Modern audiences are
affected most of all by the visionary
courage of Platonov's language;
bold, free, but stifling with despair in
the face of unfulfilled revolutionary
hopes and inescapable human
suffering. What worries Bychkov is
maybe not so much the tragedy of
the early Stalin period, but a timeless
story about broken false ideals.
«Fourteen Red Huts» was first staged
at the 3d Platonov Festival for critics during
the private rehearsal. This year the play has
been included into the festival program as
a finished production.
The action takes place in 1932 and originally
the play was supposed to be a comedy,
however during the process it transformed into
a tragedy. The critics claim that this play and
the other dramaturgic works of Platonov are
extremely complicated for the staging. However,
the performance has been going on successfully
in Voronezh Chamber Theatre for about a year
and was included in the list of nominees
for the major Russian theatre award Golden Mask Award (season 2012-2013).
Roman Dolzhanskiy, Kommersant
Platonov's plays often put theatre companies' skills to the test – a test, it seems,
that the Chamber Theatre has courage to pass, as this is their second production
based on Platonov play. After the brilliant absurd comedy «Fools on the Periphery»,
this time it is a tragic farce about the wreck of the great historical illusion.
Anna Botnikova, Voronezhskiy Kurier
Summer Dreams
Street theatres parade
DEREVO, TEATR BIURO PODRÓŻY, PAVANA,
TALL BROTHERS, CARDBOARDIA
Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Russia
Street theatres parade «Summer Dreams» presents five theatre companies
from Europe and Russia making their first appearance together.
Participants of various Russian and foreign festivals, organizers of amazing
street shows – mime artists, stilt-walkers, acrobats, dancers and actors
– make the most fantastic ideas come true bringing to life unbelievable
dreamlike creatures. The parade starts from the monument to Andrey
Platonov in Prospect Revolutsii and marches all the way to the Voronezh
Academic Drama Theatre A. Koltsov. Then the parade participants present
their street shows at different city venues.
June 12
2 p.m.
Prospect Revolutsii
(Revolution avenue)
0+
Teatr Biuro Podróży makes the dreams
of the future come true. Their fantastic show as
well as meticulously designed costumes of robots
and aliens, which the Polish theatre’s stilt-walkers
demonstrate in the parade, simply blows
the mind.
The Russian theatre Tall Brothers («Vysokie
Bratia») has participated in all Russian street
theatre festivals as well as those
in the Netherlands, Germany and Poland.
The troupe unites actors who specialize
in different performance genres:
stilt-walkers, clowns, mime artists, illusionists
and jugglers. Their repertoire ranges from light
improvisations to street parades and carnivals.
Each performance is a true feast for the eye
appreciated not only by children but also
adults – those who remain children at heart.
Avant-garde theatre DEREVO is famous
for not only its theatrical shows but also its
amazing open-air performances. The theatre has
taken part in many European festivals including
the Edinburgh Festival. As a rule,
the philosophical, mystical performances, staged
by the theatre, appeal to the emotional and
the subconscious inner selves.
The theatre PAVANA will perform its famous
show Colors in Voronezh. What distinguishes
the performance is all shades of colors and
extraordinary costumes making the actors look
like hovering butterflies. The actors begin
to move, and so do their costumes joining in
the dance. A whirlwind of dazzling colors will spin
and carry away the spectators and passers-by
making the artists and the audience merge into
one whole. PAVANA theatre was founded
in Venice but it is now based in Amsterdam.
The actors pay great attention to their costumes,
so artists from all over the world are invited
to participate in their creation.
Cardboardia is an independent community
of artists, performers, event managers and
experts with various backgrounds from Russia,
USA, UK, the Netherlands and other countries
of Asia and Europe. This Moscow-based theatre
is a good example of a phantasy come alive.
As the members of the community say,
Cardboardia is a country without a territory but
it comes into being through the «materialization»
of Cardboardia performances.
Since its foundation in 2007 Cardboardia has
«materialized» 11 cities and organized 17 events
in Russia, Finland, Germany, Slovakia and Taiwan.
At the Platonov festival parade Cardboardia will
present their fantastic Dream-forest, which is
materialized from the dreams of Tyran-ruler
of Cardboardia, with a Dream-machine
in the depths of this forest, materializing people’s
dreams. Volunteers from Voronezh are welcomed
to help Cardboardia members to create costumes
and props.
Неподвижный поток
with support of Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the British Council
within 2014 UK-RUSSIA Year of Culture
Regional Fund in support of Chekhov International Theatre Festival
Still Current
A Sadler’s Wells /
Russell Maliphant Company Production
United Kingdom
Direction and Choreography – Russell Maliphant
Lighting and Projection Design – Michael Hulls
Costume Design – Stevie Stewart
Music – Armand Amar, Andy Cowton, Mukul, Erik Satie
Dancers – Russell Maliphant, Dickson Mbi,
Thomasin Gülgeç, Carys Staton
© Warren Du Preez & Thornton Jones
June 11, 12
8 p.m.
Opera and Ballet
Theatre
Duration –
1 hour 35 minutes with one intermission
12+
Russell Maliphant
Russell Maliphant is now Britain’s
leading modern dance creator
Daily Express
Ex-Rambert star Thomasin Gulgec
tumbles bonelessly through his
mercurial solos, his body fastforwarding and rewinding with
uncanny facility. Break-dancer
Dickson Mbi’s physique is a
sculptor’s dream, as knotty and
complex as the underside of a crab
Sunday Telegraph
Carys Staton performs a yearning
solo, full of sadness as well as
sensuous beauty (…). It still provides
some of the most beautiful images
and profound ideas I’ve experienced
in dance this year.
is a leading contemporary choreographer.
He trained at the Royal Ballet School and
after graduating performed with Sadler’s Wells
Royal Ballet, an English theatre company with
300 years of history, before leaving to pursue
a career in independent dance. He combines
different techniques including classical ballet,
contact improvisation, yoga, tai chi, capoeira
and others.
He formed the Russell Maliphant Company
in 1996, and has since also worked with other
renowned companies and artists including
Sylvie Guillem, Robert Lepage, Isaac Julian,
Balletboyz and Lyon Opera Ballet. Russell
Maliphant’s works have received a number
of awards including the Time Out Live award,
the South Bank Show dance award,
the Laurence Olivier Award and Critics’
Circle National Dance award for best modern
choreography.
«Still Current» is collaboration by Russell
Maliphant and the master lighting designer
Michael Hulls. Together they have created
more than 20 performances. In this ballet Hulls’
lighting joins the dancers as a main character.
Maliphant and Hulls have created a new art
form maintaining an ongoing dialogue between
movement and light, which makes the audience
think that the bodies of the dancers themselves
are the sources of the light.
Sadler’s Wells in London was originally founded
in 1683 and widely credited as being the leading
house for contemporary dance in Great Britain.
It presents a wide range of dance at its two
London locations and produces and tours
work in collaboration with its Associate Artists,
including Russell Maliphant.
The Telegraph
Dancing bodies rarely look more
beautiful than in the work of Russell
Maliphant
The Guardian
© Warren Du Preez & Thornton Jones
Вспоминая утраченное
with support of Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the British Council
within 2014 UK-RUSSIA Year of Culture
Regional Fund in support of Chekhov International Theatre Festival
Missing
Gecko
United Kingdom
Created by Amit Lahav
Design – Rhys Jarman and Amit Lahav
Lighting – Chris Swain and Amit Lahav
Original music – Dave Price
Sound – Enzo Appetecchia and Nathan Johnson
Assistant Director – Rich Rusk
Cast – Georgina Roberts, Christopher Evans, Ryan Perkins-Gangnes,
Solene Weinachter, Francois Testory
Supported by Arts Council England
© Richard Haughton
June 12, 13
7 p.m.
Voronezh
concert hall
Duration –
1 hour 15 minutes without intermission
16+
Amit Lahav
is the Artistic Director of the Gecko Theatre
Company. He has collaborated with such
leading figures of dance, visual and physical
theatres as Lindsay Kemp, Steven Berkoff,
Ken Campbell, and has also acted in
David Glass’s productions. Over the years
Amit has worked as a director, facilitator, writer
and choreographer for numerous companies
throughout the world. In recent years, Amit has
mentored young artists and companies as they
search for theatrical language.
... a living, breathing patchwork quilt
of visual illusions, multiple languages
and original music (by Dave Price),
which is at times both wonderfully
uplifting and desperately sad ...
The Stage
The story in Missing, Amit Lahav's
new production for his company
Gecko, is not the main element.
But then, there is no main element:
the work's distinctiveness comes
from its mix of actors and dancers,
sounds and images, subjects and
scenarios, even of languages.
The Guardian
«Missing» is about how images from our
memory burst into our real life
Lily (Georgina Roberts) recalls episodes from
her past – her wedding day, flamenco classes,
parties, quarrels between her parents –
and the means with the help of which these
stories are told are really astonishing. Shadows
spin on the stage, taking shape of tangible
figures, and almost immediately melt away.
Gecko was founded in 2001. Its award-winning
performances have been shown in more than 20
countries. In 2012 Gecko was included
on a list of theatre companies receiving annual
government financing from Arts Council
England. This shows acknowledgment
of the company’s high standard of work, and at
the same time, a new stage in its development.
Планета Лем
Based on the works of Stanislaw Lem
Planet Lem
Teatr Biuro Podróży
Poland
Director – Paweł Szkotak
Designer – Agnieszka Zawadowska
Lighting designer – Magdalena Górfińska
Cast – Bartosz Borowski, Filip Stefanowicz, Justyna Paluszyńska,
Katarzyna Pielużek, Adam Mikołajczak, Miron Jagniewski,
Filip Maksymiuk, Łukasz Kowalski, Jarosław Siejkowski, Marta Strzałko,
Piotr Wojtyniak, Tomasz Wrzalik, Łukasz Jata, Jacek Nowaczyk
Producers – Teatr Biuro Podróży and Adam Mickiewicz Institute
June 13, 14
4 p.m.
Event-Hall
Duration –
60 minutes
12+
Paweł Szkotak
is a Polish director from Teatr Biuro Podróży.
Paweł Szkotak has managed to “improve”
the outdoor theatre genre which has become
“ordinary”. Everything is thought out
meticulously: acting, costumes and scenery.
His performances have received awards
at the Edinburgh Festival, Grand Prix
at the Athens Theatre, etc.
«Planet Lem» explores a possible future world,
where an illusory state of well-being ensured
to the human race by technological progress
makes people degenerate and idle. They live
in an illusion of welfare. This false paradise is
both effective and at the same time repellent.
There are robots, giant computers and
people-servants in this world of future.
The characters featuring in the performance will
be familiar to readers of Lem’s novels and short
stories: Ijon Tichy and Professor Tarantoga.
The performance presents a story which was
never written by Stanislaw Lem – it is an original
idea by Teatr Biuro Podróży based on Lem’s
writings. «Planet Lem» has already been shown
in Brussels, Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid,
Moscow, Kiev and Minsk, and finally it comes to
Voronezh.
Teatr Biuro Podróży has existed for over
20 years. During this period it has performed
in fifty countries around the world.
It has received prestigious awards from
the Polish Ministry of Culture, which also
confirm the high quality of theatre performances.
Moreover, Teatr Biuro Podróży organizes annual
Maski Theatre Festival in Poznan.
Technological acceleration enables us to create and satisfy needs while at the
same time introduces virtually unlimited possibilities for control and manipulation.
<...> Planet Lem is a future land which has become a false paradise; a kind
of dystopia. It is inhabited by Mucillids – humans of the future. Ijon Tchy, our
contemporary, sets out to meet them thanks to time travel technology. What will
their confrontation bring? Where does the borderline between imposing one’s own
vision of truth and intending to offer aid lie?
Paweł Szkotak
Митина любовь
Ivan Bunin
Mitya's Love
Gogol Centre
Moscow
Direction, scenic design, composer and text stage adaptation –
Vladislav Nastavshev
Constructions and technologies – Ruslan Nekrasov
Props – Anna Fatina, Maxim Parkhomenko
Light – Evgeniy Lifatov
Sound – Philippe Caretsos
Executive producer – Suzanna Akezheva
Cast – Philippe Avdeev, Alexandra Revenko
June 13, 14
8:30 p.m.
Voronezh
concert hall
Duration –
16+
Vladislav Nastavshev
is a Lithuanian director, a laureate
of the National Lithuanian Theatre Award
«Spelmanu nakts» («Night of Dissemblers»)
in the «Young Stage Master» category.
He studied at the acting faculty of St.
Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy and
the general stage management faculty of the
London Drama Centre (Central St. Martin's
College of Art and Design). He has worked in
London, Lithuania and Russia, and has been
invited by Kirill Serebrennikov to stage such
plays as «Fear», «Mitya’s Love» and «Medea».
Gogol Centre is a dynamic space where all
types of modern art coexist. It is one of the most
popular Russian theatre centers among young
people. Here people view debates and lectures
at the Gogol+ discussion club, enjoy world
premieres of films which haven’t yet reached
the Russian market in the Gogol-cinema club,
attend big music concerts and performances
from the best Russian and European directors.
«Mitya’s Love», based on Ivan Bunin’s novel,
is a touching and dramatic story about first real
love. For Mitya, his love becomes a kind
of featheriness, and life turns into a constant
flight. He sees his beloved girl Katya in every
person, and so all the other characters are
played by the same actress. She is his air, his
forest and all other characters. There is no more
air left for anything else in Mitya’s world.
Gogol Centre is organized according
to a system which is specific to Russian
theatres. Three residents were invited to work
in the Gogol Centre: Dialogue Dance,
a well-known dance company, SounDrama,
the studio that created a totally new aesthetic
language and Studio Seven, one
of the youngest theatre companies with huge
potential headed by Kirill Serebrennikov.
Gogol Centre does not limit itself with any genre
boundaries and constantly strives to reflect
Modern Art in the most relevant way.
This is not the first time that Vladislav
Nastavshev has interpreted Bunin’s works.
Vladislav likes working with Russian actors,
as he thinks that Bunin is in the nature of
Russian people. «I wanted to portray the state
of a 17-year old teenager, who is experiencing
such feelings for the first time and doesn’t
understand what is happening». When you are
in love, it's like walking on air.
It is an absolutely different dimension», – says
Vladislav Nastavshev. And to realize this wish
he has found an unusual scenographic solution.
The characters in the truest sense of the word climb walls with passion, or like
Shagal’s beloved float above the ground. But more often these acrobatic sketches
vividly show physical discomfort, anguish and painful tension of first love.
Marina Shimadina, Izvestiya
Two young actors - Philippe Avdeev and Alexandra Revenko … play their
characters with such an excitement and passion that you believe in the «feeling»
between them at once.
Nataliya Vitvitskaya, Vash Dosug
Иллюзии
Illusions
Praktika Theatre Company
Moscow
Author and director – Ivan Vyrypaev
Art-director – Margarita Ablaeva
Cast – Aleksandr Alyabiev, Karolina Gruszka,
Cazimir Liske, Inna Suhoretskaya
June 14
7 p.m.
June 15
4 p.m.
Chamber theatre
Duration –
18+
Ivan Vyrypaev
But just when the plot starts
to look like a Brazilian soap opera,
the playwright adds a tingle of
the grotesque, and everything falls
into place. The trivial melodrama
gradually becomes a philosophical
essay about the instability and
illusiveness of everything
in the world.
Marina Shimadina, Trud
The confession stories, which have
made years of well-spent lives
senseless, here create instead
an hour and a half of magnificent
theatre, in which incredibly talented
actors bring the most difficult
acting techniques to life. And the
spectators gratefully take their
acting for melodrama.
is a playwright, director and actor. Vyrypaev’s
plays have been translated into 30 languages,
and successfully shown in England, France,
Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Canada
and other countries. Ivan Vyrypaev is a
scriptwriter and director of such films
as «Euphoria» (Venice Film Festival, Youth Jury
Award), «Oxygen» («Kislorod») (Best Director
Award, Best Music Award at Kinotavr film
festival) and «Delhi Dance» (premiere took place
at the Rome Film Festival). Ivan has received
prizes at such festivals as «New Drama»,
«Golden Mask», «Kontakt» (Poland),
the «Triumph» Award, the «Texture» international
film and theatre festival, the Heidelberg
Stückemarkt festival of contemporary drama
(Germany), and many others.
«Illusions» was written specially for Chemnitz
theatre (Germany). It is a love story in which
four young actors tell the stories of the lives
of two married couples. Spectators call the
performance melodrama, but the director
himself says that it is quite difficult to define the
genre, and that the most important in this play
is the relationship between the actors and the
audience. «Certainly, in stories told in plays,
there is melodrama and a plot, but the play itself
is primarily about communication. I hope it will
be the sort of play where everyone meets in one
place to share a certain experience», - says Ivan
Vyrypaev.
Alena Karas, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
The Praktika experimental new drama theatrical centre was founded in 2005 on the initiative
of producer and director Eduard Boyakov. Ivan Vyrypaev has been an artistic director of the theatre since
April 2013. «Praktika» is not only a theatre company, but a contemporary culture centre, at which film
showings, training sessions, exhibitions and performances are held.
Устрица
Oyster
Inbal Pinto
and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company
Israel
Choreographers, Directors, Costumes, Set, Soundtrack
and wig designers – Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak
Lighting Designer – Yoann Tivoli
Assistant Costume Designer – Gila Lahat
Musical Arrangements – Zahi Patish and Avshalom Pollak
Performers – Avshalom Pollak, Einat Betsalel, Avidan Ben Giat,
Benny Elder, Zvi Fishzon, Noga Harmelin, Cordelia Lange,
Mayumu Minakawa, Mirai Moriyama, Andrea Martini, Stav Struz,
Gil Shachar, Tom Weksler
Production Coordinator – Keren Yuval
Master Carpenter – Gilad Bonneau
Assistant Master Carpenter – Yuval Glickman
Lighting Manager – Oren Elimelech
Sound – Asaf Ashkenazy
Wardrobe – Ela Givol
Wigs & Makeup – Irina Segal
World premiere in November 1999
June 14
8 p.m.
June 15
6 p.m.
Opera and Ballet
Theatre
Duration –
12+
© eyal landesman
Inbal Pinto
and Avshalom Pollak
founded their Dance Company more than
20 years ago. Their work has been presented
and acclaimed in Israel and in many other
countries around the world.
Inbal Pinto was awarded a Bessie the New York Dance and Performance Award
and The Landau Award for Arts and Stage.
Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak received
the Israel Theatre Award for their creation
«Oyster» and the Israeli Ministry of Education
and culture award for Creation and Artistic
Achievements.
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While watching «Oyster»…
the word that comes to mind is
«transcendence». The dancers move
like creatures from another planet,
but they uncover truths about human
nature.While watching «Oyster»…
the word that comes to mind is
«transcendence». The dancers move
like creatures from another planet,
but they uncover truths about human
nature.
Kate Mattingly, Washington Post
By the end of Inbal Pinto &
Avshalom Pollak’s ingenious Spoleto
production of «Oyster», it is hard to
distinguish between what is absurd
and what is normal. The vision of
the two artists is truly original and
results in delightful whimsy that
has multiple layers of emotion and
subtext.
Eliza Ingle, The Post & Currier
Exquisite and sensational, ingenious
and ironic, fabulous funny and quite
gloriously unique: attempting to
describe the magical experience of
«Oyster» soon places you in danger
of running out of adjectives.
In «Oyster» Pinto and Pollak create a fantastic
circus-world of wandering street acrobats and
oddly beautiful creatures, combining
the dreamlike qualities of Fellini and the keen
intellect of Pina Bausch. Performers and
dancers in doll-like make-up, spiky blonde
wigs, and tutus talk with the help of mime,
and perform modern ballet, acrobatics and
acting accompanied by fragments of the opera
«Pagliacci», tango by Piazzolla, songs by
Harry James and Yma Sumac, and Tuvan throat
singers. The New York weekly newspaper
«Village Voice» described this stunning
performance as «part surreal vaudeville, part
circus, and part toy store after midnight».
Critics and press claim the influence of famous
American filmmaker and writer Tim Burton on
this dance theater work, this applies in particular
to the book of poetry titled «The Melancholy
Adventures of Oyster Boy and Other Stories»,
written and illustrated by Burton. However,
the creators of the show did not draw inspiration
directly from Burton’s works, and if «Oyster» can
remind someone of his freaky movie characters,
the dance itself is not dark in the way Burton’s
tales usually are. Instead, there’s something
deeply touching. And, the giddy inventiveness
would make youngsters giggles with delight
instead of fright.
Sophie Gorman, Irish Independent
© eyal landesman
music
Mikhail Pletnev
Piano
Russia
Program:
Beethoven – Sonate Nr. 10 G-Dur op. 14/2
Beethoven – Sonate Nr. 17 d-Moll op. 31/2
Schumann – Humoreske B-Dur op. 20
Scrjabin – 24 Préludes op. 11
June 5
7 p.m.
Opera and Ballet
Theatre
Mikhail Pletnev
– an outstanding pianist, conductor and
composer is considered as one of the best
musicians of our time. For his contributions
to Russia's artistic heritage, Pletnev has
been awarded the Presidential Prize of the
Russian Federation, State Prize of the Russian
Federation, the Russian «Triumph» Independent
Award and the European Cultural Award, as
well as last year's Platonov Festival's Platonov
Award in Literature and Art.
At the age of 16 Pletnev won the International
Youth Piano Competition in Paris and at 21
he won the Gold Medal and First Prize
at the VI International Tchaikovsky Competition.
“
He performed with famous orchestras including
the Philarmonic Orchestras of Berlin, London,
Munich, Israel, and the Czech Republic, as well
as the Symphony Orchestras of San Francisco,
Pittsburgh, Berlin, the French National Orchestra
and many others. Audiences and colleagues
alike have admired his impeccable technique,
sophisticated sense of style and unique musical
interpretations.
Pletnev performs each composition as
if it were his own. His interpretations
are staggering. It is unlikely that any
other pianist can do the same.
BBC Music Magazine
Pletnev’s recordings of virtuoso performances of
Beethoven, Grieg, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart,
Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and
Chopin have won him numerous prestigious
prizes including EMI, Deutsche Grammophon
and GRAMMY.
Дель рей
José María
Gallardo Del Rey
Classic guitar
Spain
Voronezh Youth Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Yury Androsov
Program:
Joaquín Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez for classical guitar and orchestra
Gallardo Del Rey – Concierto de La Eliana
Lorca Suite, Rosales, Fuego, Estudios de Concierto solo pieces
June 6
7 p.m.
Philharmonic Hall
6+
José María Gallardo Del Rey
is one of the world’s most distinguished guitarists,
and an outstanding composer and conductor.
Since his début in Seville at the age of nine,
Jose Maria has achieved universal public
and critical acclaim.
As a guitarist, composer, director,
the founder of Orquestade Cámara
Maestranza, and also accompanying
leading soloists… Taking into
account his educational work <...>,
it is easy to understand why Jose
Maria Gallardo del Rey is hailed
as one of the most multi-talented
musicians of Spain.
12 notas
An impeccable execution,
meticulous in the articulation,
digitation, tone and color.
An entirely sensitive musician.
Los Angeles Times
José María Gallardo del Rey has given concerts
at many prestigious international venues: Théâtre
des Champs-Élysées (Paris), the Royal Palace of
Stockholm, National Auditorium (Dublin), Opéra
Comique (Paris), Konzerthaus (Vienna), Auditorium
Stravinski (Montreux), the Performing Arts Centre of
California, Carnegie Hall (New York), Rome Theatre
(Brussels), as well as at the best concert halls in
Spain. He has participated in many major music
events, for example Darwin International Guitar
Festivals (Australia, 1995, 1997) and Celebrating
the 70th Anniversary of Mstislav Rostropovich
(Paris, 1997), where he performed on stage with
Yehudi Menuhin, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Seiji Ozawa
and Elton John.
He is director and founder of La Maestranza, a
Spanish chamber ensemble with which he performs
his own music, and which since its formation in 1994
has played in a number of major international events.
Voronezh Youth Symphony Orchestra was founded
in 2004. Yury Androsov, Honored Artist
of the Russian Federation, is an art director and one
of the orchestra’s conductors.
The orchestra regularly takes part in Russian
and international festivals such as the Sozvuchie
International Festival of Contemporary Music,
the Rostropovich All-Russian Cello Festival and
the V. Gergiev Easter Festival. Famous conductors
and solo singers have collaborated with the orchestra:
M. Inoue, V. Chernushenko, A. Skulsky,
J. Marot, D. Matsuev, F. Kempf, J. Rachlin,
A. Shilkloper, E. Mechetina, G. Murzha,
I. Sobotka and many others.
Гасымов
Alim Qasimov
Ensemble
Art of Mugham
Azerbaijan
Alim Qasimov – vocal, daf
Fargana Qasimova – vocal, daf
Rauf Islamov – kamancha player
Zaki Valiyev – tar player
Rafael Asgarov – balaban player
Javidan Nabiyev – nagara player
June 7
6 p.m.
Philharmonic Hall
12+
Alim Qasimov
“
Mugham – traditional vocal music of Azerbaijan
based on the ancient and modern Persian and
other Middle-East lyrics. Azerbaijani people
consider this music to be of one of the most
important cultural values that composes the
national identity. Mugham is included into
UNESCO List of Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
It has a thousand years of musical tradition and
is a highly complex art form that weds classical
poetry and musical improvisation in specific
local modes accompanying an orally transmitted
collection of melodies and melodic fragments that
performers (called khanende) can draw on when
improvising. Performance of mugham demands
great professional skills of leading singer and his
ensemble, for centuries these skills have been
passing from mouth to mouth and every master
while improvising added to the leading tune his
experience and fantasy.
The greatest singer alive.
The New York Times
is a prominent mugham singer named
a «Living National Treasure» of Azerbaijan.
In 1999, in recognition for his musical
contributions to world peace, Qasimov was
awarded the coveted International IMC-UNESCO
Music Prize. His numerous awards also include
the title of the People's Artist of Azerbaijan,
the highest artistic rank in the country. In 2007,
on the occasion of Qasimov’s 50th birthday,
the President of Azerbaijan awarded him
the Medal of Glory. Alim Qasimov is also included
in a book on the 500 Most Influential Muslims
of The World (2009). In 2012 Alim Qasimov’s
performance opened the final Eurovision contest
in Baku. Alim Qasimov and his daughter Fargana
Qasimova working together
in Alim Qasimov Ensemble are the honored
guests of the prestigious international world
music festivals, they perform at the most famous
concert venues of the world including
the Barbican Centre (London, 2008)
and Carnegie Hall (New York, 2010).
Thanks to Alim Qasimov mugham has become
popular not only in Europe but also in the USA,
Canada, Japan and other countries.
In an interview given to The Guardian world
famous Iceland singer Björk called Alim Qasimov
her «favorite singer alive today». The legendary
and late American musician Jeff Buckley
in 1995 performed a duet with Alim Qasimov
at the Festival of Sacred Music in France. This is
how that meeting influenced him:
“
The second time I saw my life pass
before my eyes because of a human
being was when I sang with
Alim Qasimov. <…> he just came
with his drum, and he sang, and
it was so pure and effortless, and
like...a huge hill of blooms. That's
what the voice is for. It really is
beyond anything I understand right
now.
Jeff Buckley
Marlene Dorcena
Creole songs
Haiti
Marlene Dorcena – vocal
Eloko N’Djoku – guitar
Toms Ntale – bass
Frederic Savinien-Caprais – percussion
Osvaldo Hernandez Napoles – percussion
Representative in Russia and CIS countries – Nazim Nadirov
june 8
9:30 p.m.
Park
«Alye parusa»
12+
“
Marlene Dorcena
For me music is a way of sharing,
a kind of therapy, with the help of
songs I communicate important
messages to people. Music knows
no boundaries, no nationalities,
and no races. But it tastes delicious,
it smells divine and feels incredible.
Marlene Dorcena
Performing a lot around the world Marlene
Dorcena keeps a tight contact with her roots.
She actively supports the people of her country.
She performs Creole songs, takes part
in theatrical performances and participates
actively in the public life. Marlene Dorcena has
founded an association called «Haïti Chérie»
the purpose of which is to promote Haitian music
and culture in foreign countries.
Marlene Dorcena’s first social project was the
installation of a water-pumping station in the
village where the villagers used to walk several
miles in search of fresh water. She has also written
a book of Creole fairytales and a book
of Creole songs. The money that she earns selling
these books is donated to the community where
she grew up.
In her first album «Mèsy» (Contre-Jour) that was
released in 2002 Marlene unveils the soul,
the colors, the laughter and the poetry
of the people of her island. She sings
the complaint of the slaves, the cries of revolution
but also the songs of love and other bursts
of laughter with original compositions, at
the African rhythms and jazzy sonorities.
Accompanied by very good musicians and
a production as discrete as successful, she is a
breath of fresh air between Africa of the voodoo
and gospel. «Mesy» got in the top 10
of World Music Charts Europe in Belgium,
Norway, Switzerland and some other countries. In
the Russian World Music Charts (version
by Nazim Nadirov, a member of the jury of World
Music Charts Europe) «Mesy» was in the top 10
for several month, the second of the top 10 in
August 2002 and later included in 100 best World
Music albums of the year.
Marlene Dorcena is a frequent guest of music
festivals in Russia. One of her first appearances in
Russia was performance in the Russian TV project
«Anthropologia Live» with Dmitry Dibrov.
In 2013 she was the headliner of the Russian
ethno-festival KAMWA in Perm.
Mostar Sevdah
Reunion
Balkan ethno-blues
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Miśo Petrović – lead guitar Sandi Duraković – rhythm guitar Nermin Alukić Čerkez – vocal and guitar Vanja Radoja – violin
Marko Jakovlkević – double bass Senad Trnovac – drums Gabrijel Prusina – piano
Vladimir Mičković – vocal Dragi Šestić – producer June 7
8:30 p.m.
Voronezh
Concert Hall
12+
Mostar Sevdah Reunion
perform «sevdalinkas» (traditional old Bosnian
folk songs) fused with blues arrangement.
The band have already put itself on the map
of World Music at the end of 90’s and now it is
considered as one of the major World Music
groups of the Balkan region.
Sevdah is traditional Bosnian music that
appeared over 300 years ago. The name itself
originates from an Arabic word meaning love,
longing, ecstasy. The greatest poets of sevdah
were born in the Bosnian town of Mostar, which is
the heart and soul of this music style.
The band is multicultural: it consists of
the musicians of different nationalities and
confessions. The Balkan area has experienced
Turkish, Hungarian, Gipsy and Slavic influences,
which has been reflected in the band’s music
style. Mostar Sevdah Reunion have been touring
all over Europe and America for over 15 years
and have received the world acclaim by now.
Mostar Sevdah Reunion’s performing style, based
on authentic roots, combines melancholic blues
with jazzy flavor of skilled improvisations.
The band has taken part in a great many
international blues and jazz festivals.
The BBC has made an hour-long documentary
about Mostar Sevdah Reunion as a part
of the series dedicated to the greatest world
music bands. Besides, in 2013 the Bosnian
director Amir Grabus filmed a movie
«Tales from a Forgotten City» about «sevdalinka»
style, Mostar town and its glorious band
Mostar Sevdah Reunion.
Musicality of the band’s elders is perfect in all respects: amazing technique,
incredible virtuosity and genuine passion. Despite producing a melancholic effect,
their sadness is beautiful… It’s not for the first time that the band is dubbed
the Balkan Buena Vista Social Club.
BBC MUSIC WORLD REVIEWS
Брунелло
Mario Brunello
Cello
Italy
Voronezh Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductors – Vladimir Verbitsky, Mario Brunello
Program:
Nikolai Myaskovsky –
Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 66.
Robert Schumann –
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Dmitri Shostakovich –
Suite from the musical score to the film «Hamlet» (1964, USSR)
June 8
6 p.m.
Philharmonic Hall
6+
Mario Brunello
The Voronezh Academic Symphony
Orchestra was founded in 1925. It has been
named one of the best orchestras in Russia
for its harmonic cooperation and sophisticated
performance style. Since 1972, the Orchestra's
chief conductor and artistic director has been
Vladimir Verbitsky, a People's Artist of Russia.
The Orchestra has performed with musicians
such as E. Gilels, S. Richter, D. Oistrakh,
L. Kogan, M. Rostropovich, V. Tretyakov,
V. Spivakov, D. Bashkirov, N. Gutman, O. Kagan,
L. Isakadze, E. Virsaladze, N. Petrov, M. Pletnev,
Y. Bashmet, M. Maisky, B. Berezovsky,
D. Geringas, S. Krylov, H. Xu, H. Gerzmava.
“
One of the most renowned
cellists in the world, a symbol of
experimentation in the field of
culture, he has unusual skill, and
the courage to break clichés and
choose his own interpretative path.
Greca Piras, L’unione sarda
“
The first Italian ever to win the Tchaikovsky
Competition in Moscow, Brunello plays with
some of the most prestigious orchestras –
London Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic,
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, NHK Symphony
Tokyo, Filarmonica della Scala,
Accademia di Santa Cecilia – and works with
conductors such as Valery Gergiev,
Yuri Temirkanov, Antonio Pappano,
Manfred Honeck, Ton Koopman,
Vladimir Jurowski, John Axelrod, Zubin Mehta,
Riccardo Muti. In chamber music he collaborates
with Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Isabelle Faust,
Martha Argerich, Andrea Lucchesini and
the Hugo Wolff Quartet.
He often takes on the dual role of conductor and
soloist, and in 1994 he founded the Orchestra
d'Archi Italiana. He reserves ample time for
projects involving diverse art forms (literature,
philosophy, theatre) and he interacts with actors
and musicians from other cultural influences.
The diverse artistic genres are reflected in a wide
ranging collection of recordings which include
Beethoven’s Triple Concerto conducted by
Claudio Abbado (Deutsche Grammophon), Egea
Records 5 CDs “Brunello Series” and Dvorak’s
Concerto with Antonio Pappano (Emi).
Besides appearing in Platonov Arts Festival
in Voronezh, highlights of the current season
include concerts with the Accademia di Santa
Cecilia and Antonio Pappano, a tour with the
Kremerata Baltica as soloist and conductor, a US
tour with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, a return
to Moscow with the Moscow Virtuosi and in St.
Petersburg with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky
Orchestra, concerts in the dual roles of soloist
and conductor.
Mario Brunello plays a precious Maggini cello
from the 1600s.
… it is difficult to separate the undoubted compositional merits of these works from
the amazing interpretative abilities of Mario Brunello, which he fully commits to
exploring the instrument's range of capabilities to express emotions which abound
in these pieces.
Maurizio Pancotti, Hubculture
Lakshminarayana
Субраманиам
Subramaniam
India
Dr. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam is
an acclaimed Indian violinist who presents
contemporary interpretations of classic pieces
from India’s rich musical heritage. «The Times
of India» called him «Paganini of Indian classical
music» and «The God of Indian Violin».
For his outstanding contribution to music he
was awarded the Padma Shri in 1988,
the Padma Bhushan in 2001, Global Indian
Music Academy awards in 2010 and 2012 and
many other awards. In 2012 L. Subramaniam
was included in the Limca Book of Records –
the Indian equivalent to the Guinness Book of
World Records which has a special emphasis on
unique musical achievements.
Till date, Dr. Subramaniam has released more
than 200 albums – solo and in collaboration
with such artists as Yehudi Menuhin, Stephane
Grappelli, Ruggiero Ricci, Jean-Pierre Rampal,
Herbie Hancock, Jean Luc Ponty, Stanley Clarke
and many others. Не is the only musician who
has performed/recorded Karnatic Classical
Music, Western Classical Music, both Orchestral
and non-Orchestral, and has also composed
music for ballets, orchestras and scores for
Hollywood movies. He performed at
the numerous venues around the world
“
June 9
6 p.m.
Dr. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam – violin
Ambi Subramaniam – violin
Venkata Ramana Murthy Vankayala
and Satya Sai Ghantasala – percussion
including the Royal Opera House Muscat,
the Middle East’s most prestigious concert hall.
He has popularized the Indian violin and Carnatic
music for the Western world and at the same time has
worked in such different as it may seem genre as jazz
fusion, establishing himself as a force that is strongly
Indian, but universal in nature and approach.
Dr. L. Subramaniam is the serenity of an Indian
musician combined with the magnetism of a western
star. He is also the founder and director
of the Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival,
the biggest music festival in India.
In Voronezh, L. Subramaniam will perform with his
son Ambi Subramaniam who has been hailed as
the new king of Indian classical violin.
With percussion masters they will play classical
Carnatic Indian ragas (traditionally spread in
the south of India) which are very different from
European music, because they are not notated.
Ragas are works of pure improvisation; played in
accordance with traditions of the most ancient music
in the world.
I find nothing more inspiring than the
music making of my very great colleague
Subramaniam. Each time I listen to him,
I am carried away in wonderment.
Yehudi Menuhin
and Loyko
Philharmonic hall
Russia
The World of Violin
12+
Indian classical music & Gypsy music
Sergey Erdenko – violin, lead vocal
Artur Gorbenko – violin, vocal
Michael Savichev – guitar, vocal
Loyko was founded in 1990 in Dublin, and it
performs classical gypsy music. Over
the years, the band’s lineup has gone through
several changes, which of course reflects in their
style. Today Loyko’s sound can be considered
as gypsy alternative – a mixture
of many ethnic traditions, classical, jazz and
rock music, covers of gypsy songs, blues and
old ballads. The greatest musicians, Yehudi Menuhin and
Gidon Kremer, have many times invited Loyko
to be the part of their concert programs and
festivals such as «The World's Best Violinists»,
where Loyko played with such geniuses
as Stephan Grappelli, Ravi Shankar, Ezma
Radzhapova and others. André Heller,
the famous Austrian director, has invited Loyko
to participate in the famous European show
Magneten many times. Held in Austria, Germany
and Switzerland this show gathers Gypsy
musical bands throughout the globe.
Up to this day Loyko had released more than
10 solo albums and DVDs in Great Britain,
Russia, Germany, Belgium and Holland. By the
opinion of the European Musical critics, Loyko
were titled the best group in World Music and in
2006 its founder Sergey Erdenko was chosen as
one of five best Gypsian musicians
(Roma Opre).
Dr. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam was first
acquainted with the music of the Russian
trio Loyko in 1995. The concert at Platonov
Arts Festival in Voronezh won’t be their first
collaboration - they have already performed
together, for example, in 2011 in India.
“
Theirs is music of extraordinary,
tortured passion, at once thrillingly
intense and gorgeously camp.
Masterfully embroidered with long,
lavish improvised stretches…
The Independent
Voronezh listeners will discover the musical
heritage of South Indian and gypsy music
through one musical instrument that unites
East and West – the violin. «The concept of
our collaboration with L. Subramaniam is the
world’s music, “the world of violin” – says
Sergey Erdenko, the founder of the band. –
«This is a musical bridge from ancient Indian
music to contemporary European music.
Only through improvisation one can feel the
differences, similarities and mastership of
these two schools. There are only seven notes
in music, but it is enough to build a spiritual
temple, where the violin reigns».
Daniil Trifonov
Piano
Russia
Program:
Igor Stravinsky – Serenade
Claude Debussy – from Image I
Maurice Ravel – from Miroirs
Robert Schumann – The Symphonic Etudes
June 10
7 p.m.
Philharmonic Hall
6+
Daniil Trifonov
is one of the brightest stars of the up-and-coming
generation of pianists.
He first received the attention of the general
public during the 2010/2011 season when
he won medals at the Chopin Piano Competition
in Warsaw (Third Prize), the Rubinstein
Competition in Tel Aviv (First Prize) and
the International Tchaikovsky Competition
in Moscow (First Prize and Grand Prix).
He has worked with such conductors as
Mikhail Pletnev, Krzysztof Penderecki,
Vladimir Fedoseyev, Neville Marriner and many
others. His recitals have taken place at many
world famous venues including
the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington,
the Stern Auditorium of New York Carnegie Hall,
the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London,
the Wigmore Hall in London,
the Berliner Philharmonie, the Louvre in Paris,
the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels,
the Tonhalle in Zurich, Milano Sala Verdi,
Tokyo Opera City and others.
The Washington Post has described his playing
as «a visceral experience»; the Süddeutsche
Zeitung as «a real culture shock». The recording
studio Deutsche Grammophon, on the occasion
of announcing their exclusive contract with
Trifonov, described him as «the next one –
the Russian pianist-poet for the 21st Century».
His performances have included concerts with
the London Symphony Orchestra and Mariinsky
Theatre Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra with Zubin Mehta and
the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
with Antoni Wit.
“
…He has everything and more.
What he does with his hands is
technically incredible. It’s also his
touch – he has tenderness and also
the demonic element. I have never
heard anything like that.
Martha Argerich, pianist,
the founder of Lugano Festival
“
This is a major artist, phenomenally
gifted and almost fully formed,
with fresh ideas and a winning
stage presence that is quite
irresistible from the moment he
bounds through the door and sits at
the keyboard, unable to contain his
need to share.
Norman Lebrecht, Slipped Disc
Rokia Traore
Blues rock, ethno
Mali
Rokia Traore – lead vocal, guitar
Mamah Diabate – n'goni
Giovanni Ferrario – guitar
Kouame Matthieu N'Guessan – bass
Moise Ouattara – drums
Fatim Kouyate, Bintou Soumbounou – back vocals
Yacouba Fofana – tour manager
Francois Galland – monitor engineer
Alexis Giraud – FOH engineer
Michael Roussel – light designer
June 10
8 p.m.
Event-hall
12+
Rokia Traore
is an incredibly successful singer and
extraordinary artist in the world of ethnic music
from Africa. Only in 2013 she already had more
than 60 concerts in Rome, Paris, Oslo, Ljubljana,
London and other European cities as well as
tours in the USA, Australia and Canada.
Being both the composer and performer of
her own songs based on singing traditions of
Bambara folk Traoré often accompanies herself
on electric guitar – which is quite unusual for
Malian singers and gets her close to rock stars.
More than half of her repertoire consists of
songs in Bamana language – the second official
language of Mali besides French. Rokia also
sings in English and French.
Her breakthrough came in 1997 when she was
hailed as that year’s ‘African Discovery’ by
Radio France Internationale after playing at the
Angouleme Festival in France, and since then
she has continued to experiment and explore
new ideas. Among her awards – the prestigious
BBC Radio 3 World Music Award in 2003,
«Victoires de la Musique» by the French Ministry
of Culture for the Best folk album in 2009 – that
year the British magazine Songlines named her
the Artist of the Year.
“
She recorded with Kronos Quartet, appeared
in Jools Holland’s show, participated
in Damon Albarn’s «Africa Express»
with John Paul Jones and Paul McCartney,
collaborated with Nobel Prize–winning novelist
Toni Morrison and director Peter Sellars
on the theatre piece Desdemona, took part in
major world famous music festivals, including
WOMAD, Glastonbury and Roskilde.
Being busy with her musical projects Rokia
does not forget her homeland – she has created
The Passerelle Foundation, whose mission
is to support the process of organization and
development of the music industry
and the arts in Mali.
Rokia’s performance at the Platonov Arts
Festival will be her first concert in Russia. She
will perform her latest album «Beautiful Africa»
(2013). iTunes, amazon.co.uk, the Boston Globe,
the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) and
Vulture included this work in their lists of the
best albums of 2013.
This is the most commercial, rock-influenced album to date by Africa's most
inventive singer-songwriter, and it's dominated by sturdy riffs and bass lines. Rokia
Traoré has always set out to surprise, and by choosing to work with John Parish,
the producer and guitarist best known for his work with PJ Harvey, she has moved
away from the acoustic or blues influences of her other recent projects. But this is
still a distinctively African album.
Robin Denselow, The Guardian
Vadim Repin
Sergei Nakariakov
Maria Meerovitch
June 11
Violin, trumpet, piano
Russia, Belgium
6+
Program:
Robert Schumann – Fantasiestücke,
Op. 73 (arr. for Flugelhorn and Piano)
Robert Schumann – Arabesque, Op. 18
Robert Schumann-Liszt – Widmung, S. 566
Francis Poulenc – 3 Songs (arr. for Flugelhorn and Piano)
Claude Debussy – Sonate for Violin and Piano in g-minor, L. 140
Johannes Brahms – Trio for Piano, Violin and Horn in Es-major, Op. 40
7 p.m.
Philharmonic
Hall
Maria Meerovitch
Sergei Nakariakov
has won first prizes at several International
Competitions (G.B. Viotti, Italy; Ch. Hennen,
the Netherlands). In 1990 Maria went to study in
Belgium after having received a scholarship from
Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, and later graduated
from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.
She has performed at many prestigious venues
including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in
Amsterdam, Theatre des Champs Elysees (Paris),
Opera City Hall (Tokyo), Teatro Municipal (Rio de
Janeiro), National Center for the Performing Arts
(Beijing).
Maria Meerovitch has collaborated on
a number of recordings with such musicians as
Saulius Sondeckis, Herman Krebbers, Philippe
Hirschhorn, Dora Schwarzberg, Boris Berezovsky,
not to mention her close and productive duo
partnership with trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov.
is one of the world’s most famous trumpeters.
He has been dubbed «The Paganini
of the trumpet» and «Caruso of the Trumpet»
by the press. In 2002 Sergei Nakariakov received
the ECHO Klassik Award on ZDF as
instrumentalist of the year from the German
Phono-Academy. Sergei Nakariakov's
discography with TELDEC CLASSICS
INTERNATIONAL (WARNER) has drawn the most
enthusiastic public and critical acclaim.
From the age of 15 he has recorded exclusively
for this company. Nowadays Sergei Nakariakov
performs in many of the world’s leading centers
of music including the Hollywood Bowl in Los
Angeles, the Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts in New York, the Royal Festival Hall
and the Royal Albert Hall in London,
and at festivals in most European countries.
Sergei Nakariakov plays the trumpet
the way the rest of us breathe…
San Francisco Chronicle
Vadim Repin
Repin is one of the best we’ve got
in the solo violin world. Like his
great Russian predecessors, he can
convey intensity and passion without
forcing his tone…
Los Angeles Times
is an outstanding Russian violinist. In 1989 Repin
became the youngest ever winner of the most
prestigious and demanding violin competition
in the world, the Queen Elisabeth Music
Competition in Brussels. Vadim Repin plays a
1743 'Bonjour' violin built by Guarneri del Gesù.
Vadim Repin has performed at the most
prestigious venues with the world’s greatest
orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio
Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestras
of Berlin, Vienna, Israel, Los Angeles, New York,
the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in
Amsterdam, Symphony orchestras of London,
Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, La Scala in Milan
and many others.
For his recordings Vadim Repin has won
numerous prestigious prizes including an Echo
Award as «Instrumentalist of the Year 1999»,
the Diapason d’or, the Prix Caecilia
and the Edison Award.
хуун-хуур-ту
Huun-Huur-Tu
Tuvan throat singing
Russia, tuva
Khovalyg Kaigal-Ool – throat singing, vocal, igil, doshpuluur, khomus
Sayan Bapa – throat singing, vocal, three-strings plucked doshpuluur,
two-strings bow igil, guitar
Alexei Saryglar – throat singing, vocal, big drum “kengirge”,
leather sack with bones «khapchyk», hoofs of horse «duyuglar», igil
Radik Tyulyush – throat singing, vocal, four-strings bow byzaanchy,
vertical flute «shoor», khomus
June 12
6 p.m.
Philharmonic Hall
12+
Huun-Huur-Tu
is the most famous internationally acknowledged
ethno-music band of the former Soviet Union.
This project has definitely established itself as
one of the best among the top World Music
groups. Since 1993 the band has performed
at practically all the biggest festivals of world
music, jazz and rock-music festivals, made
more than 20 tours of the United States and
Canada, numerous times has played gigs in
Europe, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Hong Kong,
Singapore, and Malaysia.
The members of Huun-Huur-Tu are
perhaps the best known practitioners
of throat singing and accompany
themselves on all manner of strange
and wonderful instruments...
The resulting sound is as compelling
as a wild gallop across the steppes.
The Oregonian
It's music that can seem alien
(especially the throat singing)
but there's a deep beauty to it all.
For all that it sounds ancient,
inspired by the rhythms of
horse's hooves on the steppes,
this is modern music, inspired
by the tradition. It's a wonderful
soundscape.
Обложка музыка
iTunes & All Music.com
Frank Zappa was very enthusiastic promoting
music of Huun-Huur-Tu. In his home studio
the Tuvan musicians managed to record with
many classical singers of ethnic music.
Besides, the band has recorded several times
with the American Kronos Quartet,
and in 1994 they gave a joint concert in the
overcrowded Stanford University Memorial Hall
with an audience of four thousand.
Their music is unique and magical, embodying
the rich heritage of Tuvan folk art
and the traditions of throat singing.
Huun-Huur-Tu uses such instruments as the igil
(Tuvan «grandfather» of the cello), the khomus
(«lip harp»), the doshpuluur (a relative
of the banjo) and the tungur (Shaman’s drum –
a forerunner of modern percussion instruments).
In 2000 the band performed at the BBC Live
Music festival. In 2012 it was nominated
for the BBC World Music Award – the most
prestigious annual award in World Music.
Imagine cool, fresh air, high altitudes, the wild open spaces of the steppes, rushing
rivers, singing birds, galloping horses, yurts, and a culture that combines Buddhism
with shamanism, and then imagine that you hear the sounds of all these elements in
the music. With a beat. That's what it sounds like.
Union News
Бранку
CRISTINA BRANCO
Fado
Portugal
Cristina Branco – vocal
Ricardo Dias – piano
Bernardo Couto – Portuguese guitar
Bernardo Moreira – double bass
Mário Pereira – sound
June 12
9:30 p.m.
Castle park
in Ramon
12+
Cristina Branco
one of the best contemporary fado singers,
winner of numerous prizes and awards, the soul
voice of Portugal, till date, she has released
13 successful albums. The peculiarity
of Cristina Branco's fado is the way she brings
elements of other music styles into traditional
forms, including jazz, blues, bossa nova.
Interpreting fado in this way, Branco lifts
the unique Portuguese musical genre above
its national boundaries, thus contributing
to its global popularization.
Her emotional rendition of classical
fado has given this genre a new lease
of life – the form of ballade, which is
frequently called Portugal blues.
Amazon.com
Fado music is a special style of traditional
Portuguese music, in which the dominant
emotions are loneliness, nostalgia, sadness and
a complex combination of love and languor,
called «saudadi» in Portuguese (Port. saudade).
Fado is also called «Portuguese blues» and
sometimes «Portuguese tango». This genre
takes the form of lyrical solo songs (male or
female) with Portuguese guitar accompaniment.
Her voice is as warm as the southern Sun, as tart as the Portuguese Madeira, as
passionate as a kiss: it suffers, calls and prays. The throaty note gives it a gypsy
charm, and fate itself sings with the voice of this incredibly beautiful woman. Real
magic – and all this is Cristina’s and her musicians’ mastership. They impassioned
the audience with the Portuguese sun so hot that the spectators gave the diva
a standing ovation.
Larisa Vaganova, Karelia
Ибрагимова
Alina Ibragimova
Violin
United Kingdom
Voronezh Academic Symphony Orchestra
Program:
Jean Sibelius – The Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Conductor – Vladimir Verbitsky
«Three Faces of the Second Viennese School»
Anton Webern – Passacaglia
Alban Berg – March
Arnold Schoenberg – Five Pieces for Orchestra
Conductor – Igor Verbitsky
June 14
6 p.m.
Philharmonic Hall
6+
Alina Ibragimova
© Sussie Ahlburg
“
Four notes. That’s all it took for
Alina Ibragimova to entrance her
audience in the first of Bath’s Bachfest
concerts. As she began to play, there
was an instant, magical hush in the
audience… This was a performance of
exquisite, lyrical joy.
Rebecca Franks, BBC Music Magazine
“
Ibragimova possesses a range of
technique to cover all styles from the
baroque to the present day, her unique
asset is the priceless ability to make
time stand still.
Alfred Hickling, The Guardian
is a Russian-born violinist who lives in the UK.
She is one of the brightest and most talented
young interpreters of classical music.
She has received a number of prestigious
awards including the Borletti-Buitoni Trust award
and Classical BRIT award for «Young British
Classical Performer». Alina Ibragimova was also
a member of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation
Artists scheme.
She has already performed concertos with many
world-famous orchestras: the London Symphony
Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra,
the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Stuttgart
Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé,
the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
She has worked with outstanding conductors
including Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir John Eliot
Gardiner, Sir Mark Philip Elder, Carlo Rizzi,
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Gianandrea Noseda.
The violinist has appeared at venues including
the Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw
in Amsterdam, Salzburg Mozarteum, the
Viennese Music Association, Carnegie Hall in
New York, the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels
and the Vancouver Recital Society.
The Second Viennese School was one
of the greatest groups of composers of the 20th
century, consisted of Arnold Schoenberg
and his pupils: Alban Berg and Anton Webern.
The new music genre that they created
contrasted itself with «faded» romanticism;
it is expressive, ascetic, and abstracted from
everything that is «too normal» in style.
The main achievements of the Second Viennese
School composers were the creation of new
tonality and destruction of arranged music.
Premiere performance of the program
«Three Faces of the Second Viennese School»
is prepared under the direction of coductor
Igor Verbitsky.
literature
Platonov Festival
Book Fair
In collaboration with the Book club «Petrovskiy»
June 6 – 8
Soviet Square
(next to Voronezh concert hall
and Pokrovsky cathedral)
The Book Fair, set by the festival for the third time, presents the books of independent Russian publishing
houses at exceptionally low prices. This year, the fair has become even larger than at the previous festival
editions: a wide range of books of about 90 publishing houses from Moscow, St. Petersburg,
Kharkov (Ukraine), Vladimir and Voronezh can be found on its stalls.
The fair features press-conferences, meetings, lectures and autograph-sessions
with the leading Russian literary men.
The children’s tent has a lot of interactive games, quizzes, activities, master-classes and presentations
in store for the young guests.
Publishing Houses:
Aletheia, Art-Tranzit, Berrounz, Ves Mir, Galart, Hyperion, Dar,
Dmitry Bulanin, Evropa, Zebra E, Ivan Limbakh’s Publishing house,
Institute of Applied Psychology «Humanitarian Centre», Kaleydoscop,
Career Press, Kvadriga, Clever-Media-Group, Gayatri Books, Kolo,
Kompasgid, Komilfo, Krasnyy Matros, Lingvistika, Moscvovedenie,
MEDIAKIT, Nastya i Nikita, Polyandria, State Russian Humanitarian
university, Rostok, Russkiy Impuls, Serafim-Sofia, Symposium, Skifia,
Sovpadenie, Assistance in Development of Modern Russian Poetry,
Universitetskaya Kniga, Forum, Centre of Humanitarian Initiatives,
Centre of Spiritual Revival of Black Soil Region, Eterna and others.
Meetings, Lectures, autograph-sessions
of the well-known Russian literary figures
within Platonov Festival Literature Program
June 6, Friday
Evgeniy Vodolazkin
«Literature Making a Comeback?
Modern Literature in the Eyes of an Expert in the Old Russian Literature».
6:30 p.m.
In his talk Evgeniy Vodolazkin, a philologist and expert in the Old Russian literature, the author of the novels «Laurus»,
«Solovyov and Larionov», the book of essays «The Instrument of Language» and other works, will share his view of
the contemporary literature.
Round-Table Meeting
«Geography of Reading: Provincial Reader and Metropolitan Publisher»
8:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Alla Bezrukova, a leading research associate of the State Literary Museum, the chief editor of the publishing house
«Sovpadenie», will chair the round-table discussion with participation of the major publishing houses’ representatives.
Discussion topics:
- the reader: is (s)he a real or hypothetical figure for the publisher?
- the reader’s demand and the publisher’s portfolio;
- regional publishing: publishing policy peculiarities;
- bookshops: the publisher versus the reader;
- library as a publishing centre: a union of the publisher and the reader?
- museum and the reader: in search of effective publishing solutions.
Participants: Vladimir Soldatov (publishing house «Evropa»), Sergey Kalinin (managing director of the publishing house
«Mediakit»), Ivan Tikhonyuk (managing director of the publishing house «Kvadriga»), Olga Dvornyakova (PR-director
of the publishing house «Nastya I Nikita»), Veniamin Astrakhantsev (publishing house «Lingvistika»).
June 7, Saturday
Denis Dragunsky: «Novella and Fable. Story about a Story»
3:00 p.m.
Denis Dragunsky is a philologist, political expert, writer, playwright and chief editor of «Kosmopolis» magazine.
His book of short stories «There’s no Such a Word» was shortlisted for «Prose of the Year» award
n the «Book of the Year» contest in 2009.
The well-known author of short stories shares the tricks of the trade.
June 8, Sunday
Yuri Nechiporenko
«The Worlds of Adults and Children.
Childhood as a Key to a Man»
12:00 p.m.
Teenagers (aged 10 and above) together with their parents and teachers
are invited to a presentation of the book «To Laugh and to Whistle»
by Yuri Nechiporenko, a prose writer, art-critic, artist and culture expert.
Presentation of the book by Yuri Nechiporenko
«To Laugh and to Whistle»
4:00 p.m.
Soviet square (Children’s tent)
For children aged 6 and above.
Natalia Kornienko
«Andrey Platonov in 2014»
1:00 p.m.
Voronezh Regional Universal Scientific Library named after I.S. Nikitin
Natalia Kornienko is a scholarly expert in the History of XX Century
Russian Literature, Textology and Source Studies, corresponding
member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, author of over 400
academic papers and one of the most prominent authorities
on Andrey Platonov’s works.
Elena Shubina and Vladimir Sharov
lecture on modern publishing
and presentation of the novel «Return to Egypt»
4:00 p.m.
The novel «Return to Egypt», written by Vladimir Sharov in 2013,
is a story in letters of a family related to… Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol.
June 13, Friday
Grigory Kruzhkov
translation theory. absurdist poetry
12:00 p.m.
Grigory Kruzhkov is a poet, essay writer, critic, translator, author of
«The Book of NONsense. English Absurdist Poetry in Grigory Kruzhkov’s
Translation». Among his numerous translations are the selections
of Wyatt, Donne, Keats, Tennyson, Yeats, Joyce, Frost and others.
His awards include the State Prize of the Russian Federation, the Bunin
Prize, several national prizes for children’s literature and an honorary
diploma from the International Board on Books for the Young Readers.
Grigory Kruzhkov
master class on absurdist poetry translation
3:00 p.m.
Public Readings
of Andrey Platonov’s Prose
June 7
12:00 p.m.
Open air stage in Soviet square
Public readings are the major and long-anticipated event within
the festival literature program: every year the writers, critics and journalists
pay great attention to this project in their published works and blogs.
This year, the candidates have applied for participation via internet.
Thus, a great many citizens of various age-groups and occupations
from Voronezh and neighboring towns have had an opportunity to join
the well-known politicians, scientists, businessmen and artists traditionally
invited to participate in the readings. Now, the readers number is over
70 persons, each one is to present a three-minute extract from
Andrey Platonov’s novella «The Juvenile Sea».
Book Fair Events for Children
June 6, Friday
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
«Post: from Cave Painting to E-mail»
everyone present will be writing Sumerian and Egyptian letters,
using pictograms and Morse code and learning to fold a triangular letter-from-battlefield and stamp a wax-seal!
Publishing house «Nastya I Nikita». For children aged 6 and above.
Эстафета
6:20 p.m. – 6:50 p.m.
«Matilda’s Magic Adventure!»
master-class on assembling a paper model of a fire engine.
Publishing house «Gayatri». For children aged 4 and above.
June 7, Saturday
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
«Find and Show» game.
Teams compete in finding a certain figure in the book: whichever team spots the figure first gets a point.
In the end, the team with the greatest score wins, the participants receive prizes and gifts.
Publishing house «Clever-Media-Group». Children aged 3 to 9.
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
«13-storied house on a tree»
The game in which children draw and paint the large model of the 13- storied tree house.
Publishing house «Gayatri Books». For children aged 4 and above.
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
«Who are Samozveri?»
Based on the book by Aleksandr Rodchenko and Sergei Tretyakov «Samozveri»
Сhildren learn to design from paper models of animals.
Publishing house «Career Press». For children aged 5 to 11.
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
«Polyandria Book Theatre»
Interactive readings of the book «The Day the Crayons Quit» by Drew Daywalt and by Oliver Jeffers
with the professional teachers and actors; creative workshops.
Publishing house «Polyandria». Children aged 4 to 8.
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. «Card Game»
Schoolchildren receive a set of 20 cards containing Russian artists’ works and practical tasks with clear,
inspirational instructions on how to paint their own picture, make a collage or a sculpture.
Publishing house «Clever-Media-Group». For children aged 7 to13.
June 8, Sunday
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
«Why is Water Wet?»
Presentation of a new book by Gemma Elwin Harris «Why is Water Wet? Big Questions from Little People
Answered by Some Very Big People» in a way of an interactive quiz.
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
«Walking around Paris and London»
Based on children’s guide books «This Is Paris» and «This Is London» by the Czech writer and artist
Miroslav Sasek. Primary schoolchildren will test their knowledge of the famous places in Paris and London,
as well as learn polite phrases in English and French.
Детская программа
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
«Who Did Pushkin Stick out his Tongue at?»
Master class, whose participants will find out what was so special that Alexander Pushkin did
in order to occupy a prominent position in our literature. In addition, everyone present will learn
«dlinnokhvostoslozhnye» words and many other amazing things like how often one should make «plezir»,
what are sentiments and how to wear «mokrostupy» in the right way.
Publishing house «NastyaI Nikita». For children aged 7 and above.
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
A Meeting with Yuri Nechiporenko.
Presentation of the book «To Laugh and to Whistle»
A talk about pleasures of life, children’s games, dolls and science.
For children aged 6 to 10.
Open Air Stage
in Soviet Square
June 6, Friday
5:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Book Fair opening
Concert of Voronezh State Academic Russian Folk Choir named after K.I. Massalitinov.
June 7, Saturday
12:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m.
Public readings of Andrey Platonov’s prose featuring well-known politicians, businessmen,
scientists and artists
Concert of Marlene Dorcena (Haiti)
June 8, Sunday
7:00 p.m.
Concert of Mostar Sevdah Reunion band (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
June 11, Wednesday
7:30 p.m.
Concert of Voronezh music bands
June 12, Thursday
6:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
Performance of Tall Brothers street theatre (Moscow)
Performance of PAVANA street theatre (the Netherlands)
June 13, Friday
6:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
Performance of PAVANA street theatre (the Netherlands)
Performance of Tall Brothers street theatre (Moscow)
Voronezh State Academic Russian Folk Choir named after K. I. Massalitinov is a professional group that has
become a brand of Voronezh. For years, it has presented concert programs based on the unique traditions of southern
Russian folk singing and dancing from Voronezh. The choir is conducted by the People’s Artist of Russia, composer
Vyacheslav Pomelnikov.
Concert of Voronezh music bands Surfer Rose, SharoW BouqueT, The Sheepray, BananaBis and EvaEva is a bright
youth event, which has brought together on one stage representatives of different trends in pop and rock music.
Most bands performing at the concert are very young. However, they have already received considerable public and
critical acclaim not only in Voronezh but also in other Russian cities and even abroad. For instance, Surfer Rose won
Studio №7 contest organized by the Rolling Stone magazine and warmed up The Offspring in Voronezh.
SharoW BouqueT band has been started recently but its members – the drummer and the vocalist of Lovtsy Snov
power-pop-team popular in the 2000-s – are very familiar to the Voronezh underground fans.
BananaBis is a daring project, whose shows turn into an explosive mixture of theatrical performance, eccentric singing
and live interaction with the audience. Another interesting band – The Sheepray – possesses tremendous energy and
peculiar music style, which – as the musicians themselves put it – «has both dancing and contemplative spirit».
EvaEva band, a fine example of good contemporary pop-music, develops the tradition of «proper» mainstream in their
sound. Seldom do you hear such pop music, it leaves you feeling light instead of empty.
Platonov Club
June 6, Friday
Presentation of the book «Andrey Platonov. Philosophical Matter»
10:30 a.m.
Round-Table Discussion «Andrey Platonov. Philosophical Matter»
12:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Voronezh State University Conference Hall
Participants: Lev Anninsky (Moscow), critic, literary scholar, member of Union of Russian Writers, PEN-club member;
Natalia Kornienko (Moscow), PhD in Philology, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
Sergey Nikolsky (Moscow), PhD in Philosophy, assistant director of Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy
of Sciences; Vladimir Porus (Moscow), PhD in Philosophy, professor of National Research University «Higher School
of Economics»; Igor Evlampiev (Saint-Petersburg), PhD in Philosophy, professor of Saint-Petersburg State University;
Alexey Gryakalov (Saint-Petersburg), PhD in Philosophy, professor of Saint-Petersburg State Pedagogical University;
Vladimir Varava (Voronezh), PhD in Philosophy, professor of Voronezh State University.
June 7, Saturday
Presentation of the book «Andrey Platonov. I Have Lived a Life. Letters [1920 – 1950]»
featuring Natalia Kornienko and Elena Shubina
5:00 p.m.
«Andrey Platonov. I Have Lived a Life» was published in 2014 by AST publisher group. Elena Shubina is one of the
AST editors. Platonov’s letters were collected in one volume for the first time by Natalia Kornienko, a literary scholar,
corresponding member of RAS, head of the department of Modern Russian Literature of the Gorky Institute
of World Literature, RAS.
On the traditional Festival night Voronezh citizens have an opportunity to visit
all Platonov festival exhibitions for free – all galleries are open
till 1:00 a.m. This year, the heart of the Festival night is the park «Alye Parusa»,
where spectators can enjoy a performance of the street theatre PAVANA
(the Netherlands), a concert of the music band Droogoe Delo (Voronezh),
and the highlight of the Festival night – an open air performance
«Midnight Balance» by DEREVO theatre.
Festival
Night
June 13
Festival
exhibition venues,
park «Alye Parusa»
till 01:00 a.m. – Voronezh regional art museum named after I.N. Kramskoy
I Worship Life of Every Kind!
Paintings and graphics by Alexander Deineka
from collections of The State Tretyakov Gallery and The Kursk Deineka Picture Gallery
Freedom – the reason for the world
Russian avant-garde from museums of Krasnodar, Penza, Samara, Saratov and Yaroslavl
Jerusalem is not just a city
Photo exhibition of Dmitry Brickman (Israel)
till 01:00 a.m. – Voronezh Centre of Contemporary Art exhibition hall
Things and Things that happened.
Daniil Kharms and the people around him
till 01:00 a.m. – Exhibition Hall on Kirova Street
David Borovsky. Selected works.
On the 80th anniversary of his birth
till 01:00 a.m. – Gallery H.L.A.M.
The Innermost Man
Solo Exhibition of Sergey Bazilev (Moscow)
8:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. – Park «Alye Parusa»
8:00 p.m. – Theatrical performance of the street theatre PAVANA (the Netherlands)
PARVANA’s dazzling stilt-walkers will carry you into the kaleidoscopic world of magic.
All shades of colors and amazing costumes are the striking features of their show.
9:00 p.m. – Concert of the trunk-band Droogoe Delo (Voronezh)
What distinguishes the Voronezh band Droogoe Delo, self-defined as a trunk-band, is not only
sophisticated lyrics, but also the harmony, rhythm and style of performance absolutely untypical
for Russian rock. Their music has retrospective sounding, rhythmic patterns of the «new wave» and
harmonious combinations typical for art-rock.
10:30 p.m. – Midnight Balance (Dresden)
«Midnight Balance» is an open air performance staged at three levels: on the sand, on the water's edge
and in the water. «Dreams and fantasies in DEREVO’s silent performances turn into quite tangible and
somewhat intimidating objects, - says Anton Adasinskiy, the author of the project, – in «Midnight Balance»
there appears the City of Memory on the sand: unrepented sins, people’s misdeeds fill the beach, while
the people themselves face the dark, seedy part of their life. However great the desire to hide, bury these
atrocious fragments in the sand might be, the wind won’t let them do so. Obviously, a perfect body and
neat clothes are not enough, something else needs to be done, something right and unexpected, in order
to be given a new lease of life and turn memory into «tabula rasa». Only then will there be a chance to
walk in the water cleansed, and the awful wreckage of the past will cease to be, transformed into museum
exhibits the children will play with and their voices and laughter will be the only music no one will ever be
bored with».
master classes, workshops, open rehearsals
in theatre, music, dance and visual arts
led by famous Russian and foreign
actors, choreographers, musicians, photographers
Admission is free, preliminary registration is required.
In collaboration with Chekhov International Theatre Festival
Commedia dell’Arte
Laboratory
Participants: actors of Voronezh theatres and students of the theatre
faculty of Voronezh Academy of Arts.
Commedia dell’arte is a form of theatre characterized by masked «types»
which began in Italy in the 16th century and was responsible for the
advent of the actresses and improvised performances based on sketches
or scenarios.
Giorgio Bongiovanni and Enrico Bonavera, well-known Italian actors,
performers of the leading parts in «Harlequin, the Servant of Two Masters»
(«Arlecchino Servitore Di Due Padroni» by Carlo Goldoni) directed by
Giorgio Strehler production of «Piccolo Teatro di Milano», will present to
the participants of the Laboratory main characters of Commedia dell’Arte,
play alive some scenes, speak about plot-building, teach theatre masks
techniques, as well as situations and improvisations typical for traditional
Italian comedy. Specially for the workshop, the Italian actors will bring
professional handmade leather masks and costumes elements from
Milan. At the showcase, finalizing the workshop, students will present
their scenes prepared during the Laboratory to the audience.
June 6 - 9
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m.
2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Theatre for Young
Spectators (TYS)
Master class
Jose Maria Gallardo Del Rey
June 7
Open general rehearsal
Mario Brunello
June 8
classic guitar
Participants: guitar players and students of Rostropovich Music
College (classical guitar specification).
Jose Maria Gallardo Del Rey is an outstanding Spanish guitarist,
composer and conductor. During his master-class Maestro, who has
performed at the most prestigious venues throughout the world, will share
with the colleagues from Voronezh the secret of his virtuoso playing.
cello
Listeners: teachers and students of music colleges
Mario Brunello is a renowned Italian cellist. He works with the most
famous music groups and such outstanding conductors as Valery Gergiev,
Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Yuri Temirkanov, Seiji Ozawa, Claudio
Abbado and many others.
9:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Voronezh
Rostropovich Music
College
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Philharmonic Hall
«Photography. Seeing Whatever Seen».
Master class of Dmitry Briсkman
Participants: photographers
From 8 to 29 June, Voronezh regional art museum named after I.N.
Kramskoy hosts Dmitry Brikman’s solo exhibition «Jerusalem is not Just a
City» featuring portraits, genre photos and others. Brickman believes that
a photographer’s most important skill is the ability to «see», and during
the master-class he is going to explain to Voronezh photographers how to
develop this skill.
Master class of Josef Najd
Choreography, dance
Participants: professional dancers, students of the Voronezh
Choreographic College, actors of Voronezh theatres,
students of theatre faculty of Voronezh Academy of Arts.
Josef Nadj – an outstanding French choreographer, director, artist and
«one of the most mysterious personalities of the modern theatre»,
thinks that movement is the main element that frees actors or dancers
to play, and the skill of immersing in the character depends directly on
the ability to move. Since 1995, he has been the director of the Centre
Chorégraphique National d’Orléans. Critics still argue to what genre
they should refer his performances as one can notice there both dance,
pantomime and elements of drama theatre.
Master class
Sergei Nakariakov
trumpet
Participants: students of Voronezh Music College
Sergei Nakariakov is one of the most renowned trumpeters in the world.
He plays in the most prestigious music halls of the world including
Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Lincoln Center in New-York, Royal
Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London, and also participates in
many European festivals.
Master class
Maria Meerovitch
piano
Participants: students of Voronezh Music College
Maria Meerovitch, a prominent pianist, the winner of the first prizes
at international competitions J. B. Viotti (Italy) and Ch. Hennen (the
Netherlands), has performed at such venues as Concertgebouw
(Amsterdam), Theatre des Champs Elysees (Paris), Opera City Hall
(Tokyo), Teatro Municipal (Rio de Janeiro), National Center of the
Performing Arts (Beijing).
Open general rehearsal
Alina Ibragimova
violin
Listeners: teachers and students of music colleges
Alina Ibragimova, a violinist, is one of the brightest and most talented
young interpreters of classical music. She has performed in a great
many concert halls including Wigmore Hall (London), Concertgebouw
(Amsterdam), Mozarteum (Salzburg), Musikverein (Viennese Music
Association), Carnegie Hall (New York), Fine Arts Palace (Brussels) and
Vancouver Concert Hall.
June 9
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
The House
of Journalists
June 9
12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Opera and Ballet
Theatre
(rehearsal hall)
June 12
11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Voronezh Music
College
(Nikitinskaya, 26)
June 12
11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Voronezh Music
College
(Nikitinskaya, 26)
June 14
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Philharmonic Hall
Platonov
Festival
afterparty
June 15
9 p.m.
BARak O’Mama
café-bar
Platonov Festival invites all its participants, friends, partners, organizers, volunteers, journalists covering
its events as well as guests who have bought the tickets for AVIA concert to a special hilarious PARTY
in BARak O’Mama café-bar! Traditionally we will thank and award all those who have supported the 4th
festival edition. But this year the real treat for all the guests will be a unique show by AVIA rock-band at its
best.
AVIA,
a real music theatre with musicians, actors and an athlete group under Anton Adasinskiy’s leadership,
has toured all over Europe performing at rock festivals in Great Britain, Finland, Italy, Germany and other
countries. «This is something we’ve never seen or heard like before!», the oldest British music weekly
Melody Maker said about «AVIA» concerts in London. It is one of the most remarkable Russian rock-bands,
the award-winners of the legendary Rubenstein Street Rock Club festival and the characters of Aleksey
Uchitel’s «Rock» documentary. They were booming all over the country in the 80s, and their recent reunion
after a long break has become an exciting event for the numerous fans of «totalitarian ska».
International Platonov Arts Festival –
the major cultural event
in the Central Black soil Region
International Platonov Arts Festival, bearing the name of one of the most prominent Russian writers
of ХХ century Andrey Platonov, has been taking place in Voronezh since 2011. The festival, founded
under the patronage of Alexey Gordeev, the governor of Voronezh region, has become the major cultural
project of the region. It provides a unique opportunity to residents of Voronezh and of the surrounding areas
to enjoy the outstanding achievements of different kinds of art and promote Voronezh as one of the most
important Russian cultural centres.
The annual Platonov festival program includes «Music», «Theatre», «Visual Arts» and «Literature».
In 2014 «World Music», presenting the greatest pieces of various nations’ musical culture,
and «Street Theatres» featuring a range of free performances staged by troupes from Russia and Europe,
were added.
For the past three years, prominent contemporary musicians, actors, artists and literary figures have taken
part in the festival. For instance, the Music program has presented the concerts of Yuri Bashmet and State
Symphony Orchestra «Novaya Rossiya», Mikhail Pletnev and Russian National Orchestra, Gidon Kremer
and «Kremerata Baltica», Ensemble of Soloists of the Berlin Philarmonic, Chamber orchestra «CHAARTS»
from Switzerland, Studio for New Music Ensemble, Borodin Quartet and Kopelman Quartet,
cellists Mischa Maisky and David Geringas, pianists Boris Berezovsky and Frederick Kempf,
violinist Julian Rachlin, Viktor Tretyakov, Sergei Krylov and others.
The Platonov festival Theatre program has featured performances directed by Philippe Genty,
Eimuntas Nekrošius, Alvis Hermanis, Mindaugas Karbauskis, Rezo Gabriadze, Lev Dodin, Rimas Tuminas,
Sergey Zhenovach, Susanne Andrade, Victoria Thierrée-Chaplin, as well as productions of young theater
companies from St. Petersburg, Estonia, Moscow and Kiev. Quite a number of Russian premieres have taken
place within the festival Theatre program: «Miranda» by Oskaras Koršunovas Theatre (Lithuania),
«A Piece on Mother and the Fatherland» of the Polski Theatre from Wroclaw (Poland),
cabaret-show «In the CROCODILE bar» directed by Ralph Reichel (Germany), and other performances.
The art of choreography has been presented by performances directed by such legendary ballet masters as
Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, Jorma Elo, Ohad Naharin. Ballets «Daphnis and Chloe» and «The Rite of Spring»
by the Grenoble National Choreographic Centre made their first appearance at Platonov Festival in Russia.
The Platonov festival Literature program is distinguished by a variety of most interesting projects:
Platonov club, meant to unite literary, scientific and cultural communities of Russia and other countries,
«Translation Workshop», public reading of Andrey Platonov’s works, unique publishing projects, meetings
with well-known Russian writers and poets like Alexey Varlamov, Victor Erofeyev, Zakhar Prilepin,
Sergey Gandlevsky, Lev Rubinstein, Evgeniy Grishkovets, Dmitry Bykov, Pavel Basinsky, Marina Moskvina,
Vera Pavlova and others. For the first time in the history of Voronezh, the festival holds Book Fair featuring
independent publishing houses, children program, street show and free open air concerts.
The Platonov festival Visual Arts program has organized exhibitions of artworks from the collections
of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Polytechnic Museum, Saratov State Art Museum
named after A.N. Radishchev, Museum «Moscow House of Photography/Multimedia Art Museum»
and others. Solo exhibitions of Irina Zatulovskaya, Yury Petkevich, Leonid Tishkov, Emil Kapelush
and Lazar Gadaev have been held. Besides, there have been graphics expositions featuring works
by modern artists that have illustrated Andrey Platonov books published in our time, among them
Kirill Sokolov, Nik Popov, Mikhail Verkholantsev, Alexander Antonov, Svetlana Filippova.
Platonov Arts Festival is very popular with the residents of the region and, above all, Voronezh.
Every year it attracts more and more guests from different Russian cities and foreign countries.
This year over 40 thousand people will visit the festival events.
IV International Platonov Arts Festival takes place in Voronezh from 5 to 15 June 2014.
Over 300 musicians, actors, artists and literary men from 18 countries take part in its program.
Acknowledgements:
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Regional Fund in support of Chekhov
International Theatre Festival
Israeli Embassy in Russia
Culture and Archives Department
of Voronezh Region
Culture Department
of Voronezh City District Administration
Voronezh State University
Voronezh Philharmonic Hall
Voronezh State Opera and Ballet Theatre
Voronezh Chamber Theatre
Voronezh State Academic Drama Theatre
named after A. Koltsov
Voronezh Concert Hall
Voronezh State Theatre for Young Spectators
Event-Hall
Voronezh regional art museum
Gallery H.L.A.M.
Voronezh Centre of Contemporary Art
Municipal Exhibition Hall
Voronezh International Airport
RusbusinessAvto
Voronezh regional House of Journalists
Photographs provided by festival participants.
Booklet created by
Raisa Zhdan, Daria Kobzarenko,
Vera Guseva, Tamara Tsyganova
The English version of the booklet
is prepared in collaboration with
Design and layout by Alexander Nikitin
International Platonov Festival Directorate
30 Teatralnaya street,
Voronezh 394036, Russian Federation
Tel/Fax +7 (473) 255 55 30 info@platonovfest.com
platonovfest.com

JUNE 12 - Platonov Arts Festival

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