SELECTED EVENTS:
Saturday 2 May 2009
Wigmore Hall, London
Rostropovich Remembered Festival / Rostropovich Memorial Prize
Alexander Ivashkin, Artistic Director/cellist/judge
Mstislav Rostropovich in memoriam
Recital tour with Irina Schnittke, piano
Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke cello sonatas and Rostropovich's own works for cello: - 21 February 2008 – London, Deptford Town Hall
- 8 March 2008 – Paris, Salle Cortot
- 12 April 2008 – StPetersburg Philharmonia Hall
- 13 April 2008 – Moscow, New Philharmonic Hall on Tverskaya street
- 11 May 2008 – Cambridge
- 11 July 2008 – Festival Hommage a Mstislav Rostropovich, Colmar, France
- 9 December 2008 – Recital in Leeds Concert Hall, Leeds
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23 April, 2009
Moscow Dom Muzyki (House of Music), The Svetlanov Great Hall Moscow, Russia
Penderecki – Largo (Cello Concerto), 2005
Alexander Ivashkin, cello, Russian Philharmonia Orchestra,
Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor
5 April, 2009
Town Hall Illott Concert Chamber, Wellington, New Zealand
Bach – Gamba Sonata in G major, BWV 1027
Shostakovich – Sonata, op. 40 (1934)
Schubert – Arpeggione Sonata, D.821
Prokofiev – Suite from ballet 'Chout' ('The Buffoon', 1920)
Alexander Ivashkin, cello. Michael Houstoun, piano
26 March – 3 April, 2009
Great Hall, Arts Centre/Town Hall Auditorium, Christchurch, New Zealand
The 7th International Adam Cello Festival/Competition
Recital (27 March), masterclasses, conversations, competition rounds
Alexander Ivashkin, Artistic Director and Chairman of the jury
22-24 March, 2009
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore
Masterclass (23 March) and Recital (24 March)
6 and 7 March, 2009, London
International Bach Competition
Alexander Ivashkin, Itzhak Rashkovsky, judges
21 February, 2009
Philharmonic Concert Hall, Tambov, Russia
British Music as seen by Russians
James MacMillan – Britannia
Edward Elgar – Cello Concerto
Gioacchino Rossini-Benjamin Britten – Soires Musicale
Songs by The Beatles, arranged for orchestra
The State Russian Symphony Orchestra of Tambov
Alexander Ivashkin, conductor
12 February, 2009
Birmingham Conservatoire
Public Masterclass
18 December, 2008
Town Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
Penderecki – Largo for cello and orchestra
World premiere of the revised version.
With Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki
9 December, 2008
Recital in Leeds Concert Hall, Leeds (UK)
With Irina Schnittke, piano
Bach, Shostakovich, Schnittke
26 November, 2008
Recital in Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille (France)
With Roberte Mamou, piano
Tchaikovsky
20 November, 2008
Deptford Town Hall, London
Dmitri Smirnov at 60. Anniversary Concert
Goldsmiths Strings, Philippa Mo (violin).
Alexander Ivashkin, conductor
6 October, 2008
Great Hall of St Petersburg Philharmonia (Russia)
Concert series "Passions on Romanticism"
Schumann – Cello Concerto
with St Petersburg Philharmonic orchestra,
conducted by Vladimir Verbitsky
September, 2008
1st volume of Alfred Schnittke. Collected Works
Critical Edition. Alexander Ivashkin, Editor
More details…
27 – 31 August, 2008
Festival in Santorini, Greece
Bach – Solo Cello Suites
Britten – Solo Cello Suites
23 – 30 July, 2008
festival 'Musica Reservata', Brugge, Belgium
Recitals / masterclasses
www.mreservata.com
1 July, 2008
June – July, 2008
Australian-New Zealand Tour as cellist and conductor,
including performance of Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto;
numerous recitals and masterclasses
11 June, 2008
PureGold Festival, Deptford Town Hall, London
Bach – Gamba Sonata BWV 1027 in G major
Carter – Cello Sonata (1948)
With Alexander Szram, piano;
02 June, 2008
PureGold Festival, Deptford Town Hall, London
Gubaidulina – 'Quaternion'
With Natalia Pavlutskaya, Ben Hughes and Alissa Lyubarskaya
1 May, 2008
 Anna Akhmatova
ALMA CLASSICS CD MANU 5022, 2008
It includes world premiere recording of Giya Kancheli's 'Having Wept' for solo cello, 1994 (dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich)
Available at Marbecks.co.nz…
7/8 February, 2008
Ostrava, Czech Republic, Philharmonic Hall
Schnittke Cello Concerto No.2
With The Janacek Philharmonia, conducted by Theodore Kuchar
9 November, 2007
Baku Philharmonic Concert Hall, Azerbajdzhan
Schnittke – (K)ein Sommernachtstraum
Karaev – Piano Concerto
Macmillan – Britannia
Mendelssohn-Korngold – Ein Sommernachtstraum, fragments of film music (1934)
State SO, conducted by Alexander Ivashkin
Read a review (in Russian)…
November, 2007
The new album (2 CDs) is released by Chandos:
Schnittke:
Cello Concertos and Sonatas
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Irina Schnittke piano
Tatiana Grindenko violin
Alexander Ivashkin cello
Conducted by Valeri Polyansky
Available on Chandos.net…
More CDs…
17 October, 2007
Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Great Hall
Beethoven – Triple Concerto
With Derek Han, piano, Massimo Quarta, violin,
Alexander Ivashkin, cello,
Berliner Sinfoniker, Martin Panteleev, conductor
15 October, 2007
the new book published in Japan:
Rostropovich.
Tokyo: Shunjusha Publishing Company, 2007. 280 pp.
ISBN 978-4-393-93518-7
English summary…
More books by Alexander Ivashkin…
5 October, 2007
Goldsmiths Great Hall, London
Ives – Washington's Birthday
Mahler – Kindertotenleader (Jennifer Hunt, soprano)
Prokofiev – Songs of our days. Cantata (1937). UK premiere
Goldsmiths Sinfonia, and chorus, conducted by Alexander Ivashkin
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With Alfred and Irina Schnittke, discussing the Second Cello concerto
With Mstislav Rostropovich in London. 2000
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