Two productions, both under musical direction of Valery Gergiev, could be seen at Mariinsky Theatre on consecutive days in February 2020: Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et … Read more
Anjelika Akbar: music is reflecting hidden things beyond reality
Anjelika Akbar is a Soviet-born Turkish composer, pedagogue, TV presenter and pianist. She has graduated from the Uspensky School in Tashkent (Uzbekistan, USSR) and then … Read more
Sarah Oates: the orchestra feels really safe if they can trust the concertmaster
Sarah Oates is an associate concertmaster with the Philharmonia Orchestra (London, UK), holding this position since 2013. Sarah’s education began in her native South … Read more
Vasily Petrenko: to understand music you don’t need to know any languages
Born in St Petersburg and educated at the St Petersburg Capella Boys Music School, the oldest music school in Russia, Vasily Petrenko studied at … Read more