Concerto No 2 for piano and Orchestra by Rachmaninov, Symphony No 2 by Kalinnikov

On April 12th, 2008 MOSCOW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents its concert in the Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory. Vladimir Ziva, Chief Conductor and Art director of the Orchestra, will conduct this concert. The program consists of such amazing and famous compositions as Concerto No 2 for piano and Orchestra by Rachmaninov, Symphony No 2 by Kalinnikov. The soloist is brilliant pianist Andrei Korobeinikov, one of the most powerful talents of his generation.

MOSCOW SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (Chief conductor and Art director Vladimir Ziva) – 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 beinning 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.

Vladimir Ziva is possessed of strong volition, powerful virtuosity, energy, stage charisma and great capacity for work. His distinguished quality at the podium is his skill to produce a fine-toned sonority from the orchestra (which today is a great rarity) through scrupulous attention to detail ... His interpretations are always convincing and precisely recreate the individual style of a composer. In the evaluation of experts, V. Ziva has entered the ranks of the best conductors in Russia.

Andrei Korobeinikov is an extremely talented pianist. Since the age of 5 he plays the piano. Since 1994 till 2006 he has got more than 20 prizes in different national and international competitions. Among them – the I prize at the III Alexander Scriabin International piano competition in Moscow (2004) and the II prize with the Audience prize at the II Sergey Rachmaninov International piano competition in Los Angeles (2005). Andrei gave his first professional solo recital at the age of 8 at the Great Hall of the Baku State Conservatoire of Music in Azerbaijan. Since then he's performed concerts in 25 countries of the world: in Belgium, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Taiwan, United States of America, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and many cities of Russian Federation.

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