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Квинтет деревянных духовых инструментов Санкт-Петербургской консерватории

Квинтет деревянных духовых инструментов Санкт-Петербургской консерватории существует два с 1998 года. В его составе – талантливые молодые музыканты, студенты и выпускники Консерватории: Николай Мохов (флейта), Денис Быстров (гобой), Иван Столбов (кларнет), Алексей Позин (валторна) и Родион Толмачев (фагот). Все они лауреаты многочисленных конкурсов. В течение двух лет квинтет участвовал в мастер-классах Летней Академии Камерной музыки  в Германии, а также имел концертные туры по этой стране. В 2002 году ансамбль стал Лауреатом Международного конкурса ARD в Германии.

В 2002 году ансамбль стал Лауреатом Международного конкурса ARD в Мюнхене, Германия.

Expromt Quintet

Ensemble Expromt appeared in 1997 when the students of the St. Petersburg Conservatoire – winners of various musical competitions – decided to make a group. The musicians were inspired by the idea of giving classical music a new modern sound with the help of Russian folk instruments.

The group made its debut in February 1999 in the Hall of the St. Petersburg Academic Capella. In those days it was Expromt Quartet. In 2001 the musicians won the First Prize at the 6^th All-Russia Competition of National Music in the city of Tver’. Never resting content with what had been achieved, they went on with their experiments. They included a new instrument (contrabass) in the ensemble. Thus, the quartet turned into a quintet. And again, this time Expromt Quintet made a success. In the autumn 2001, Expromt Quintet was awarded the First Prize at the open variety actors competition held in Saint Petersburg.

The repertoire of the ensemble includes classical music and music by contemporary composers, arrangements of folk melodies and variety pieces based on popular songs.

The group has performed a lot, presenting various concert programs to the audiences, has taken part in festivals and festivities of all kinds, both in Russia and abroad.

Tischenko Boris  

One of the leading representatives of the contemporary St. Petersburg school of composers, People’s Artist of Russia, Professor Boris Tischenko was born in Leningrad 23 March 1939. He had his first music studies at the age of 12 at the Pioneers House of the October district of Leningrad with О. Dashkova (piano) and Ye. Neifeld (history and theory of music). In 1953 he entered the sixth grade of the piano class of V. Mikhelis of the Music School of the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music and in 1954 - the composition class of G. Ustvolskaya at the above stated College.

In 1957 Boris Tischenko became a student of the Leningrad Conservatoire in the class of composition of V. Salmanov and the piano class of A. Logovinsky. Having finished in 1962 the course of composition of Prof. V. Voloshinov and Prof. O. Yevlakhov, he entered the Conservatory’s postgraduate courses and became a student of D. Shostakovich. He finished the postgraduate composition course in 1965 and the piano class in 1963.

Since 1965 and up to date, B.Tischenko has taken positions of a teacher, assistant professor and later, professor of composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

B. Tischenko has composed 7 numerical symphonies, 4 program symphonies (with titles), «Requiem» based on Anna Akhmatova’s poems, 9 concertos for different instrumental ensembles, 10 piano sonatas, 4 sonatas for string instruments solo, a sonata for block-flutes and organ, 12 inventions and 12 portraits for organ, 5 string quartets, 3 ballets («Tsokotukha Fly» based on the poem of the same title by К. Tchukovsky, «The Twelve Ones» based on the poem written by a famous Russian poet A. Block, «Yaroslavna» based on «The Song of Igor’s Campaign»), opera «The Stolen Sun» and musicale «The Cockroach» based on К Tchukovsky’s poem, several vocal cycles, orchestral suites, piano suites, compositions for different instruments and choir a cappella, and music for theatre performances and films. He has also made instrumentations, new versions and restructuring of music compositions. Currently the composer is working on a choral-symphony cycled composition “Beatrice” based on Dante’s poetry.

Upon graduation from the Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad State Conservatory, Tamara Novitchenko performed as a soloist for the Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after I. Franko in the city of Lvov (the Ukraine), singing the leading parts of the lyrical coloratura repertoire.

In 1969 Tamara Novitchenko was appointed as an assistant probationer of the Leningrad Conservatory and a vocal teacher at the Conservatory’s College of Music.

She has made regular appearances in recitals in the concert halls of St. Petersburg and throughout Russia, as well as in the former Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany. In 1988 she was granted the title of the Honoured Artist of Russia. Since 1972 Tamara Novitchenko has taken the post of solo vocal teaching professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and in 1992 she was given the academic title of professor for her academic studies.

Every year Tamara Novitchenko holds vocal master classes in Petrozavodsk, Volgograd, Pskov and other cities of Russia and also abroad - in Stuttgart, Prague, Wroclaw, Seoul. T. Novitchenko has often been invited to serve on the jury at different vocal competitions, including the S. Moniuszko competition in Poland, the competition in Carlovy Vary (the Czech Republic) and many others.

During her teaching career at the Conservatory Tamara Novitchenko has trained over fifty vocal singers who nowadays perform with the leading opera theatres of St. Petersburg, other cities of Russia and CIS, and abroad. Among them are laureates of international vocal competitions Ye. Ustinova, G. Shoydagbaeva, Ye. Mirtova, M. Shaguch, A. Netrebko, T. Pavlovskaya, and I. Matayeva – to name but a few. 

Sumerkin Victor 

Victor V. Sumerkin is one of the outstanding trombone players of today and one of the leading representatives of the St. Petersburg school of performing. He finished with distinction the Leningrad Conservatory and its post-graduate course under the guidance of the famous teacher Michael Buyanovsky.

Victor Sumerkin is a laureate of different music competitions, the Honoured Artist of Russia and a holder of the Decoration of Honour.

His performing career began at the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Theatre and continued for another 30 years with the Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonic Society directed for many years by Yuri Temirkanov. Once the famous conductor wrote the following: “Unfortunately, too little is written about musicians playing with symphony orchestras and even less is written about orchestral brass players. Though there is quite a lot of orchestral musicians whose performing activities deserve not only our close attention but also a careful study. Victor Sumerkin, a soloist trombone player with the Leningrad Philharmonia Symphony Orchestra is among such performers. One can say that he has reached perfection in comprehending the secrets of his instrument. A colourful flying sound, the widest range of intonation, an excellent sense of rhyme and brilliant technique have gained him a stable reputation of the first-rate soloist both in Russia and abroad.”

Victor Sumerkin has successfully combined his performing career lasting for fifty years now with teaching activities. Here are the words of the renowned French horn player Vitaly Buyanovsky: “Representing the best traditions of the Leningrad-St. Petersburg school of trombone playing founded by P. Volkov and V. Kuznetsov, Victor Sumerkin has been passing them on to his students. His students are always distinguished by their high performing culture and music intelligence.”

The best illustration of V. Sumerkin’s successful teaching practice may serve the fact that since 1963 his students have never failed to become prizewinners and award recipients at each competition they took part in. Today one can find the former students of Victor Sumerkin playing with orchestras of St. Petersburg, other cities of Russia and CIS, as well as in Germany, Columbia, South Korea, Vietnam, and Poland.

Neretin Nikolai  

Nikolai Neretin was born in Leningrad. In 1974 he finished the Leningrad Conservatory where he studied oboe with K. Nikonchuk. In 1972 he was taken as a probationer and in 1974 became a soloist with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonia under the baton of Eugene Mravinsky. In 1990 N. Neretin started his teaching career in the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 2000 he was appointed Assistant Professor and in 2002 - Professor.

Sokolov Kirill  

Kirill Sokolov was born in our city into a family of musicians and lived all through the 900-day siege of Leningrad. After he had graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music where he studied bassoon, he continued his music education in the Leningrad Conservatory and then took a postgraduate course conducted by Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation, Prof. D. Yeriomin.

In 1963 K. Sokolov joined the Mariinsky Theatre orchestra and became its soloist. In 1972 his professional career brought him to the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Philharmonia, the Honoured Orchestra of Russia where he played until 1989 as a soloist and master of bassoon group. Currently Kirill Sokolov is Professor of Bassoon and Head of the Chair of Woodwind Instruments at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

K. Sokolov was a prizewinner in the All-Union Competition in 1963 (2^nd Prize), a diploma recipient from the International Woodwind Quintet Competition in Budapest in 1965 and the Prague Spring International Competition in 1969. He is Honoured Artist of Russia. Kirill Sokolov was privileged to get an honorary title “The Man of Year 1998” from the Scientific Research International Council of the National Biography Institute (USA). 

As chairman of the jury or jurist, K. Sokolov has taken part in international and all-Russia musical competitions. He has regularly given master classes both to Russian and foreign students. Among his former and today’s students there are many prizewinners in all-Russia and international competitions.

During his teaching career in the St. Petersburg Conservatory over 40 bassoon players have finished his class. Now they can be found performing with symphony orchestras of St. Petersburg, Moscow and many other Russian cities, as well as in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Germany, the Ukraine, Armenia, Uzbekistan, South Korea, and Peru.

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Oberlin Conservatory (Oberlin, USA)