Verdi, Requiem Mass

On October 27th 2007, The Grand Hall of The Moscow Conservatory.

MOSCOW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents the next concert in the season 2007/2008 witch takes place in the Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory. VERDI -REQUIEM MASS, Conductor Wilson Hermanto

STATE RUSSIAN A. YURLOV CHOIR CAPELLA Soloists: Lolitta Semenina, Elena Manistina, Sergey Balashov, Peter Migunov.

WILSON HERMANTO - is the Indonesian-American conductor. Mr. Hermanto has made appearances with orchestras such as, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Florida Orchestra, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, the Sofia Symphony Orchestra and the Sinfonietta Cracovia.

Between 2002 and 2004, he worked regularly in performances with the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra. Mr. Hermanto founded and served as Music Director of the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra in New York from 1996 to 2002. Since September 2004, Mr. Hermanto works as Assistant Conductor to Maestro Christoph Eschenbach with the Orchestre de Paris. During the 2006-07 Season, Mr. Hermanto made his debut conducting the Brandenburgische Staatsorchester Frankfurt and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.

MOSCOW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - today is one of the leading capital orchestras. The Moscow Symphony Orchestra is the first independent orchestra in Russia established with private resources and free of state support, was founded in 1989. Since the very beginning the orchestra became an active participant of the Moscow musical life, it has performed under famous Russian and foreign conductors and with many outstanding soloists. Since 1996 under the general sponsorship of "Nestle" the MSO performs annually a series of concerts in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The main achievement during the past years is that the MSO has acquired its own audience due to the high professionalism and a very interesting repertoire.

STATE RUSSIAN A. YURLOV CHOIR CAPELLA founded in 1990, the State Russian A. Yurlov Choir Capella is one of the oldest and well-recognized music bodies in Russia.

The most important period of the Capella is connected with the name of professor Alexander Yurlov (1927 - 1973), an outstanding musician, People's Artist of the Russian Federation. In 1958 he became the head of the Capella and began tireless work on the vocal perfection of the choir, its stuff and the repetoire. Thanks to his titanic efforts the Capella achieved the highest artistic level. Despite his early death Maestro's contribution was so great that his name was bounded up with the whole epoch in Russian music.

The Capella performed with such outstanding conductors as E. Svetlanov, G. Rozhdestvensky, J. Temirkanov, V. Fedoseev, V. Gergiev, J. Simonov, P. Kogan, V. Ashkenazy and other brilliant musicians.

In 2004 Gennady Dmitryak, an honoured worker of arts was appointed a new artistic director and chief conductor of the State Russian A. Yurlov Choir Capella. Dmitryak is known to be one of the best Russian choir-conductors, successor of his outstanding teacher A. Yurlov.

To reserve tickets please call to the booking-office of the Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory (495) 629 3218 or please write us msorchestra@gmail.com.