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    MARIINSKI SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA HAD ITS FIRST PERFORMANCE IN YEREVAN

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    04.05.2009 19:25 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Mariinski Symphonic Orchestra had its first
    performance in Yerevan within the framework of Easter Concerts
    cycle. On the first concert day, the orchestra, under the guidance
    of Valeri Gergiev performed the works of Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and
    Maler's 5th symphony.

    2nd concert day was Gergoev's birthday. On May 4, 5th fortepiano
    concert was performed by Rodion Shedrin Orchestra jointly with young
    pianist Denis Matsuev. The composer with his wife Maya Plisetskaya
    and RA President Serzh Sargsyan participated in the concert.

    The concert also featured Alexander Harutyunyan's festive overture,
    Edward Mirzoyan's Symphony and Chaykovsky's symphony N 5.

    In 1978, he became assistant conductor at the Kirov Opera, now the
    Mariinsky Opera, where he made his debut conducting Sergei Prokofiev's
    War and Peace. He was chief conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic
    Orchestra from 1981 until 1985 - the year he made his debut in the
    United Kingdom, along with pianist Evgeny Kissin, and violinists
    Maxim Vengerov and Vadim Repin, at The Lichfield Festival. In 1991,
    for the first time, Gergiev conducted a western European opera company
    with the Bavarian State Opera in a performance of Modest Mussorgsky's
    Boris Godunov in Munich. From 1995 to 2008, Gergiev was principal
    conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
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