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| The early history of the orchestra, which then performed under a
different name, includes concerts conducted by the composers Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Alexander Glazunov, Sergei Taneyev, Sergei.Rachmaninov, Anton Rubinstein, Alexander
Scriabin and the legendary Serge Koussevitsky. They have also presented many of the great
soloists of the 19th and 20th centuries, including Henryk Wieniawski, Pablo Sarasate,
Leopold Auer, Feodor Chaliapin, Mario Battistini and Tita Ruffo. The orchestra's debut as the Kharkov Philharmonic was in October 1929 under the direction of J. Rozenstein, a professor at the Kharkov Conservatory. In the next ten years, a number of renowned Soviet conductors worked with the orchestra, including Nikolai Malko, Alexander Klimov, Nicolai Golovanov, Alexander Gauk, Konstantin Ivanov, Konstantin Simeonov, Natan Rakhlin and Evgeny Mravinsky, as well as many outstanding European masters, including H. Adler, Ene. Sencaire, Paul Kletsky, Kurt Sanderling and Friedrich Stiedrie. During the 1930s, many of the great international soloists of the day performed with the orchestra, including Pablo Casals, Joseph Szigeti, Artur Rubinstein and then-young performers who later won worldwide recognition such as David Oistrakh, Jacob Flier, Lev Oborin, Jacob Zack and Emil Gilels. The KPO quickly gained the reputation of being one of the best orchestras in the Ukraine and attracted many more world-class soloists in subsequent decades, including Sviatoslav Richter, Leonid Kogan, Mstislav Rostropovich, Daneel Shafran, Rudolf Kerer, Pavel Serebryakov, Dmitri. Bashkirov, Igor Bezrodny, Vladimir Kraynev, Oleg Krysa, Bogodar Kotorovich; conductors such as Kiril Kondrashin, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Evgeny Svetlanov, Stepan Turchak and Odisei Dimitriadi, and many other international performers. The orchestra has premiered and presented many new works and has worked with the Russian composers Isaac Dunayevsky, Reinhold Gliere, Tikhon Khrennikov, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Rodion Schchedrin, Andrei Eshpai and Boris Chaikovsky, the Ukrainian composers Andrei Shtogarenko, Nicolai Skoryk, Lesya Dychko, Vladimir Silvestrov and, of course, composers from Kharkov - Vitaly Gubarenko, Valentin Bibik, Valery Zolotukhin, Nicolai Stetsun and Vladimir Ptushkin. Conductors have been an invaluable resource to the orchestra across the years. Two especially bright periods have been the 1946 to 1957 tenure of Israel Gusman (1946 - 1957), when the house was full not only during concerts but also during rehearsals, and the years 1976 to 1983, when the KPO was headed by the prize-winner of The International Contest of Herbert von Karajan Foundation, Vakhtang Jordania. Maestro Jordania has since returned to the KPO as its Chief Conductor and Artistic Director and continues to lead a period of significant growth and international recognition of the orchestra. Under his direction, performances were given in Kiev, Moscow, and cities throughout Georgia and Armenia and the orchestra appeared regularly on radio and TV. Together with Maestro Jordania, the orchestra recorded its first CD - compositions by the American composer James Oliverio. They next recorded Felix Mendelssohn's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G-minor (soloist - Virginia Shao, Taiwan) and Nicolai Stetsun's Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra (soloist - Michael Long, USA). While on tour in France with conductor Michel Piquemal, they recorded W. A. Mozart's “Great Mass” in C-minor, with flutist Alan Daboncourt, and concertos by Franz Joseph Haydn, Stamitz and, Hoffmeister with the conductor Volf Gorelik.. They have also recorded Kabir Sings by American composer Janice Hamer. Maestro Jordania and the KPO have recorded a series of CDs of 20th Century Ukranian orchestral music for the American Angelok1 label that will be internationally released in early 2001. The most exciting recent events in the life of the Kharkov Philharmonic have been their tours of France in 1997, their tour of Spain in 1999, and their tour of Germany in 2000, and participation in international festivals and contests. Since holding the “Kharkivski Assamblei” (Kharkov Assemblies) International Contest in 1991, the orchestra has performed several important programs of the great masters - Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, and concerts of musics by modern Ukrainian and international composers. Conductors at the Assemblies have included Vakhtang Jordania, Alexander Alekseyev, Vitalky Kutsenko, Igor Palkin, Urs Schneider (Switzerland) and Burghardt. Rempe (Germany). Soloists have included a number of Russian pianists - Aleksandr. Sevidov, Naum Shtarkman, Lev Shugom, Pavel Yegorov, the Austrian Peter Lang and Switzerland's Steven Manz , as well as the violinist Bogodar Kotorovich.. The Assemblies have also featured jubilee concerts of the music of Mikhail Skoryk, Vitaly Gubarenko and the Macedonian composer V. Nikolovsky. The orchestra has works extensively with young musicians - both as co-participant in the final tours in Vladimir Kraynev and Bogodar Kotorovich, in honor of the Vladimir Horowitz International Contests, and as a presenter of talented young performers at its concerts. For many years the “Young Musicians Play” subscription series has been an important part of our season. Young players from Moscow and St.-Petersburg (including Victoria Mullova and Sergei Stadler) and Kharkov: (including Olena Kolesnichenko, Nana Mamayeva, Nana Kravchenko, Alexander Bidenko and Valery Sokolov) have made their debuts with the Kharkov Philharmonic Orchestra. Concerts are given at the lovely and intimate Philharmonic Hall. Performances here are a very special experience, bringing the enthusiastic, overflow audiences into close contact with the performers and the music. |
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| THE COMPETITION TIMETABLE Entries will be screened by an international panel of judges. 24 people will be selected to compete in the first round.
12 contestants will be selected to move on to the next round.
6 contestants will be selected to move on to the next round.
3 contestants will be selected to move on to the final round. Round 4 - Final Concert Round - The 3 finalists will rehearse and conduct the Kharkov Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in concert at Philharmonic Hall. The jury will decide which pieces are to be performed at the final concert. Prizes will be announced immediately after the concert The final concert will be videotaped and DAT recorded. Copies of these recordings will be presented to the 3 finalists. The day after the final concert will feature a special day tour of the area for contestants and jury, culminating in a gala banquet and prize award ceremony that evening. Ó÷àñòíèêîâ áóäåò îòáèðàòü ìåæäóíàðîäíîå æþðè. 24 ÷åëîâåêà áóäóò îòîáðàíû äëÿ ñîñòÿçàíèé â ïåðâîì òóðå.
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