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Running time:
50 minutes, no break
6+
31 December 2022 Saturday 18.00 Grand hall
18.00 Grand hall

RNO. Conductor Felix Korobov

Eva Gevorgyan, piano
Varvara Koutouzova, piano
Konstantin Emelianov, piano
Alexey Melnikov, piano

Eva Gevorgyan was born in Moscow in 2004. Prize-winner at the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youth (Szafarnia), the Santa Cecilia International Competition (Porto), the International Giuliano Pecar Piano Competition (Gorizia), the International Competition for Young Pianists Astana Piano Passion, the International Robert Schumann Piano Competition (Düsseldorf), the International Competition for Young Pianists Grand Piano Competition (Moscow,), the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists, the Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition (Dallas), the Chicago International Music Competition and the International Piano Competition Jeune Chopin for Children and Youth (Martign) among other contests. In 2020 Evgeny Kissin has selected Eva as a grant recipient of the Klavier-Festival Ruhr. Participant in programmes of the St Petersburg Music House since 2020. In 2021 she received the title of “Young Yamaha Artist”.

Varvara Koutouzova was born in 2003 in Arkhangelsk. Student at the Gnessin State Musical College (class of Mikhail Khokhlov) since 2019. Having first appeared with an orchestra at the age of 6, and given her first recital at 8, Varvara Kutuzova now performs in Moscow's major venues and tours Russia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Europe, Mexico, Brazil, China, and the U.S. She has been a regular guest of several festivals, including Denis Matsuev's Stars on the Baikal, Christmas Meetings, Crescendo, festivals in Tyumen and Voronezh, as well as in France, Portugal, Turkey, and Switzerland. She has appeared under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov, Vladimir Fedoseev, and other conductors. Varvara Kutuzova has won numerous international competitions, such as Prima Artists in New York (2011, 1st Prize), Artobolevskaya Competition in Moscow (2012, 2nd Prize), Astana Piano Passion in Kazakhstan (2013, 1st Prize), online competitions in Mexico and Serbia (2013, 2014, Grand Prix), Grand Piano Competition in Moscow (2016), Nota Bene! in St. Petersburg (2017, 1st Prize) etc.

Konstantin Emelyanov (Yamaha Artist since 2019) graduated the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He became a true discovery at the 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019. The pianist has been actively touring and taking part in various musical project and festivals: The Stars on Baikal, La folle journee in Ekaterinburg, International piano series in Bern, ArsLonga festival in Moscow, Pianissimo piano festival and others. Regularly takes part in the projects of the  Moscow Philharmonic Society. Konstantin Emelyanov has performed with many symphony orchestras and collaborated with such artists as Yuri Bashmet, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Vladimir Spivakov, Alexander Rudin. 

Alexei Melnikov graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. In 2014 he took 1st prize and several special prizes at the San Marino International Piano Competition, and in 2015 he won 3rd prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition (Japan). In 2017 he was a prize-winner at the Manhattan International Music Competition and gave a recital at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2018 he received a prize from the Neva Foundation at the Verbier Music Academy and Festival. In 2019 he took 3rd prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. He has given recitals at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Bunka Kaikan concert hall in Tokyo, the Žofín Palace in Prague, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. 

Felix Korobov is a graduate of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory in two disciplines: cello and opera and symphony conducting. Since September 2004 Mr Korobov has devoted himself solely to the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre. He is a principal Guest Conductor at the Saint-Petersburg Camerata orchestra of the State Hermitage Museum headed by S.Sondeckis. Besides, he is Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Chamber orchestra at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory.

The Russian National Orchestra was founded in 1990 by pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev. Maintaining an active international schedule, the RNO appears in the music capitals of Europe, Asia and the Americas, is a frequent guest at festivals such as Edinburgh, the BBC Proms and presents the RNO Grand Festival each September to open the Moscow season. Their discography, launched with a highly praised 1991 recording of Tchaikovsky's Pathétique, now numbers more than 80 critically acclaimed recordings. Their recording of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and Beintus' Wolf Tracks, conducted by Kent Nagano and narrated by Sophia Loren, Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev, received a 2004 Grammy Award, making the RNO the first Russian orchestra to win the recording industry's highest honor.  Their recording of Shostakovich Symphony No. 7, conducted by Paavo Järvi, was awarded the Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2015 as the year's best symphonic album, and was nominated for a 2016 Grammy Award.