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9 December 2022 Friday 19.00 Chamber hall
19.00 Chamber hall

Boris Pinkhasovich, baritone
Alexey Goribol, piano

Boris Pinkhasovich graduated from the Choral Conducting and Vocal Departments of the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. Nowadays, the singer appears at the best European venues. He is the soloist of the Vienna Opera and Bavarian Opera, the guest soloist of the Paris Opera and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Monte-Carlo Opera. He also appears at the Saltsburg Festival. His recent engagements include Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin in Vienna and Munich, Sharpless in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in Vienna, and Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff in Munich. In October 2021, he performed Kovalyov in the première of Shostakovich’s Nose staged by Kirill Serebrennikov at the Bavarian Opera. The singer’s répertoire also includes Thésée in Enescu’s Oedipe and Ben-Saïd in Gounod’s Le tribut de Zamora. The singer was a featured soloist at the Chorégies d’Orange Gala Concert and in the Hvorostovsky Memorial Concert at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Recently the Avignon Opera has hosted a recital of Boris Pinkhasovich.In 2011, Boris Pinkhasovich joined the Mikhailovsky Opera, where nowadays he performs leading baritone roles. In August 2021, Boris Pinkhasovich was appointed director of the Mikhailovsky Opera.

Alexei Goribol performs concerts throughout Russia and Europe, records for radio and on CD, presents music programmes on Russia’s Channel 5 (including thirty episodes of the programme Night. Sound. Goribol) and takes part in Russian and international music festivals. He is well known as a proponent of the music of Leonid Desyatnikov and has been the first performer of many of the composer’s works. He has been Music Director of several acclaimed Russian films in recent years.From 2004 to 2007 he directed the Arts Festival in Kostomuksha (Karelia). Since 2008 he has been an organiser and manager of the Levitan Festival in Plyos. Artistic Director of the Russo-Finnish music and poetry festival Towards Vyborg. Artistic Director of the Britten Evenings at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (2013).