Centre for Russian Music Events
All events held in Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall, 298 New Cross Road, SE14, unless otherwise indicated.
For further information on all events, please contact Professor Alexander Ivashkin, tel. 020 7919 7646 or e-mail crm (@gold.ac.uk).
How to get to Goldsmiths
Nearest tube/train stations: New Cross or New Cross Gate
Bus routes include: 21, 36, 53, 136, 171, 172, 177, 225, 321, 343, 453
Term 1, 2009/10 | ||
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| 3 June 2010, 6 pm |
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Elena Firsova at 60
Composer Elena Firsova in conversation with Alexander Ivashkin 7 pm Concert featuring new works by Elena Firsova. Karine Georgian, cello Goldsmiths Strings Alexander Ivashkin, conductor |
| June (date tbc) 6 pm |
Council Chamber Deptford Town Hall, |
Research Seminar
Professor Ilya Levinson ( Chicago, USA): George Gershwin and Joseph Schillinger. The Schillinger's System of Music Composition as found in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess Including Goldsmiths students performances of Levinson's own compositions influenced by Schillinger. Inquires: crm@gold.ac.uk, music@gold.ac.uk |
| 9 February 2010 4 pm |
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Research Forum
- Tara Wilson: '' More hated than Philip Glass? The Rise and Fall of Vladimir Martynov and his Response to (Just?) Criticism over Vita Nuova'.
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| 22 October, 6pm |
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | World as a large symphony. Composer and painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ( 1975 – 1911). In association with the Embassy of Lithuania. 6pm : Talk. George Kennaway, University of Leeds. 7 pm: Recital. Piano works by Ciurlionis Rebecca Wiles, piano. Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Programme: Nocturne in F# minor VL 178 (1900) Nocturne in C# minor VL 183 (1901) Prelude in B minor VL 182a (1900-1902) Prelude in F major VL 188 (1901) Cycle of Small landscapes, 'The Sea', 2nd movement VL 317b (1908) Prelude VL 300 (1906) Prelude VL302 (1906) Admission free. |
| 17 November, 4 pm |
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Research Forum. - Alexander Ivashkin talks about Centre for Russian Music, its collections and activities. - Ekaterina Mordasova (The Rakhmaninov State Institute, Tambov, Russia) talks about unknown documents and sources in Rakhmaninov's museum and archive in Ivanovka, Russia. - Ekaterina Mordasova will also perform Rakhmaninov’s Moments Musicaux, op. 16, and his Etudes-Tableaux, op. 33. [Ekaterina Mordasova ‘s visit is a part of exchange programme between CRM and The Rakhmaninov Institute, Russia] - CRM research performance students presentations: - Magdalini Nikolaidou presents her research and creative work: Rakhmaninov’s Piano Style; - Elena Artamonova presents her research and creative work : Nikolai Roslavets and new music for viola Admission free. |
| 21 November, 10am - 6pm 22 November, 10am -9pm |
Council Chamber, Great Hall, Goldsmiths Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre |
Schnittke : Between Two Worlds.
International symposium, recitals, discussions and exhibition of archival materials , jointly presented by CRM, RMA, Schnittke Archive, LPO, Southbank Centre, Alfred Schnittke Akademie Hamburg, Schnittke Centre, Moscow and Schnittke Gesellschaft, Germany. Including the CD 'Schnittke Discoveries' presentation based on the materials from Schnittke archive and World premiere of Schnittke's Concerto for electric instruments (in association with EMS; Mariano Nunez West, sound designer and producer). Admission: £5 on the door. |
| 3 December, 6pm |
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Performers of Russian Diasporas in the twentieth and twenty-first century
6 pm: Dmitri Smirnov in conversation with Anatole Liebermann, cello (Paris) and Alissa Firsova, piano ( London). 7 pm: Recital: Anatole Liebermann, cello, Alissa Firsova, piano Bach – Solo Cello Suite BWV 1008 Shostakovich – Sonata for cello and piano, op 40 Elena Firsova – Per Slava, for solo cello ( 2007) Rakhmaninov – Sonata for cello and piano, op.19 (1901) |
Special events 2009 | ||
| Saturday 25 April 10:45am - 5:30pm |
Deptford Town Hall London, 290 New Cross Road SE14 |
VTB Capital Prize for Young Cellists, Round 1 |
| Saturday 2 May 10:00am – 2:00pm |
Wigmore Hall, London, W1 | VTB Capital Prize for Young Cellists, Finals |
International series 2008-09 | ||
This season’s series
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| Saturday, 21 November 2009 | Alfred Schnittke: Between Two Worlds. A Symposium. | |
| Thursday, 18 June 2009 6pm |
"The lady with the hammer" Music and ideas of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919 - 2006) Rachel Foulds (speaker) Elena Nalimova (piano) Alexander Ivashkin (cello) | |
| Thursday June 11 2009 | (part of PureGold Festival) The Music of the 'Northern Venice' (new music from St Petersburg, Russia | |
| 6pm | Two visiting composers from St Petersburg - Alexander Radvilovich (b. 1955) and Nastasia Khruscheva (b. 1987) - in conversation with Roger Redgate and Alexander Ivashkin | |
| 7pm | Victoria Soames-Samek (clarinet) and Stephen Bingham (violin) join Alexander Radvilovich in performance of his work "1,2,3" for violin, clarinet and piano. Nastasia Khrushcheva performs her Two Preludes and Fuges for Well Prepared Klavier. | |
| Friday 1 May | Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | (Centre for Russian Music) Galina Ustvolskaya in memoriam (1919-2006) |
| 6pm (Talk) | Rachel Foulds on Ustvolskaya | |
| 7pm (Recital) | Elena Nalimova (piano) Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in D minor, op.87 Shostakovich: Ten Aphorisms, op.13 Alexey Nikolayev: Sonata N2 Galina Ustvolskaya: Sonata for Violin and Piano (1952) with Anna Cashell (violin) Both Rachel Foulds and Elena Naimova conducted extensive research at the Galina Ustvolskaya's Archive (the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel, Switzerland), as well as in the composer's native city of St Petersburg. | |
| Thursday 7 May, 2009 7pm (Recital) |
Piano: Alissa Firsova Beethoven Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109 Dmitri Smirnov Sonata No. 6, "Blake" Rachmaninov Sonata No. 2 (original version 1913) | |
| Sat. 2 May 2009 10:30am – 10:30pm |
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, W1 | Rostropovich Remembered Festival [More information] |
| Thursday 5 March 2009 6 pm (Talk) |
Russia As Seen By Britten, Britain As Seen By Russians Cameron Pyke: Britten’s creative response to Russia (based on materials from Britten’ s diaries at Britten - Pears Library) | |
| 7pm (Recital) | Richard Black, piano, plays monumental Passacaglia on DSCH by Ronald Stevenson (the piece Shostakovich was inspired by while composing his Sonata for Violin and piano) | |
| Saturday 14 February 2009 | Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | (M)other Russia ; A Study Day Researching and Performing Russian Music |
| 10am – 5:30pm (Admission Free) |
Special guest: Vladimir Martynov (Moscow) Martynov’s opera "La Vita Nuova" (after Dante) to be performed by LPO under Vladimir Jurowski (18 February 2009 at the Royal Festival Hall) | |
| 10.00 (Talk) | Tara Wilson: "Vladimir Martynov and the "Rebirth' of (Russian) Music: Space, Time, Ritual and Performance" | |
| 10.30 | Vladimir Martynov plays his piano work "Bricolage" | |
| 11.00 | Vladimir Martynov in conversation with Roger Redgate and Alexander Ivashkin | |
| 12 - 1pm | Lunch (own arrangements) | |
| 1pm (Talk) | Anna Kounadi: "What did Scriabin actually played?" | |
| 1.30pm (Recital) | Anna Kounadi (piano) Scriabin's Piano Sonata No 2 | |
| 1.45pm (Lecture- recital) | Elena Artamonova: "Russian viola as a reflection of traditional and modern. From Roslavets to our days" Including performances of works by Vasilenko, Kovalev and Schnittke. (With Rebecca Wiles, piano) | |
| 2.30pm (Talk) | Rachel Foulds: "An Equivocal Relationship and Acrimonious Split: A Chronicle of Influence in the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and Galina Ustvolskaya". | |
| 3pm (Recital) | Elena Nalimova (piano), Pavlos Carvalho (cello) Galina Ustvolskaya. Six Piano Preludes (1953) Galina Ustvolskaya. Grand Duet for Violoncello and Piano (1959) | |
| 3.45 (Talk) | Drosostalitsa Moraiti: "Pleasant against irritating: evolution of Schnittke' Piano style" | |
| 4.10 (Recital) | Drosostalitsa Moraiti (piano) Schnittke - Piano Preludes, 1953-55 (world premiere) Korndorf - Yarilo (1981), for piano and tape | |
| 4.45 -5.15pm | Round table discussion chaired by Rachel Foulds | |
| Thursday 22 January 2009 | (Centre for Russian Music / Centre for Contemporary Music Cultures) Culture, Composition, Politics – Series One Armenia: First Christian Ex-Soviet Country | |
| 6pm | Special Guest: leading Armenian composer Ashot Zohrabyan in conversation with Alexander Ivashkin | |
| 7pm | Music by Ashot Zohrabyan played by Goldsmiths students | |
| Thursday 4 December 2008 | (Centre for Russian Music / Centre for Contemporary Music Cultures) Culture, Composition, Politics – Series One Special Guest: composer Vladimir Tarnopolski Professor of Composition, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, Artistic Director, "Music Forum" International Festival, Artistic Director, "Studio New Music" chamber orchestra | |
| 6pm | Vladimir Tarnopolski in conversation with Alexander Ivashkin | |
| 7pm | Screening of Tarnopolski’s multimedia-opera Beyond the Shadow (after Plato and Plinius) | |
| Vladimir Tarnololski will also speak about his music and current cultural situation in Russia for Goldsmiths students on Friday, 5 December, at 9:30 am, Recital Room, Main Building. | ||
| Thursday 20 November 2008 | (Centre for Russian Music / Centre for Contemporary Music Cultures) Culture, Composition, Politics – Series One ‘Dmitri Smirnov at 60!’ | |
| 6pm | Dmitri Smirnov in conversation with Alexander Ivashkin | |
| 7pm (Recital) | music by Dmitri Smirnov (With Alissa Firsova, piano, Harriet Mackenzie, violin, Philippa Mo, violin, Alexander Ivashkin, cello and Goldsmiths Strings) | |
Summer Term 2008 | ||
| Thursday 24 April | Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall |
(Centre for Russian Music) “East meets West” |
| 6.00pm (Lecture) | Paradox of Logic and Logic of Paradox: 'Faradzh Karaev, Russian - Azeri composer and Professor of composition (Moscow State Conservatoire) will talk about his music and Eastern elements in it. | |
| 7.00pm (Concert) | Music by Faradzh Karaev. Played by the composer, in collaboration with Goldsmiths students | |
Spring Term 2008 | ||
| Thursday 24 January 6pm |
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Russian composer today Professor Leonid Bobylyov (Moscow State Conservatoire) will talk about his own music and music by new generation of Russian composers. |
| 7pm | Lenid Bobylyov plays his own piano compositions. | |
| Thursday 31 January 6pm |
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Post-Soviet Music Stylistic Plurality and Gnosticism, Unity of Style and Orthodoxy: the Dialectics of Spirituality in Late Soviet/Early Post-Soviet Music Talk by Dr Levon Hakobian (Moscow Institute of Arts Studies), author of the books Shostakovich and Music of the Soviet Age |
| 7pm (Recital) | Stjepan Hauser, cello; Anton Lyakhovsky, piano Rakhmaninov – Sonata for cello and piano Shostakovich – Sonata for cello and piano | |
| Thursday 21 February | Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Remembering Slava Mstislav Rostropovich in memoriam [part of the concert series given by Irina Schnittke and Alexander Ivashkin in London, Paris, St Petersburg and Moscow - Rostropovich’s four major home cities] |
| 6pm | Larissa Chirkova (Curator, Mstislav Rostropovich Archive in StPetersburg), Lilian and Victor Hochhauser (Rostropovich’s impresarios in London since 1970s) and Irina Schnittke (pianist, Rostropovich’s friend and colleague, the widow of the composer) in conversation with Alexander Ivashkin | |
| 7pm (Recital) | Irina Schnittke, piano/Alexander Ivashkin, cello Prokofiev - Sonata for cello and piano ( 1949), premiered by M. Rostropovich Shostakovich – Moderato (1934) Shostakovich Sonata for cello and piano op 40 Rostropovich – Humoresque, op. 5 Schnittke – Sonata for cello and piano No 2 , 1992 ( dedicated to M.Rostropovich) Schnittke - Epilogue from ‘Peer Gynt’, 1991 (dedicated to M. Rostropovich) | |
| Thursday 13 March 6pm (Talk) |
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Alfred Schnittke in memoriam (10th Anniversary of his death) Beyond Good and Evil? Discourses on Morality in Schnittke's Third Symphony Dr Gavin Dixon (The Horniman Museum) Gavin Dixon’s PhD thesis on Schnittke was based on his extensive research work at the Schnittke Archive at Goldsmiths as well as in Moscow. |
| 7pm (Recital) | Drosostalitsa Moraiti, piano (Centre for Russian Music) J.S.Bach - Fantasia and Fuga in A minor Berg - Sonata Op.1 Rachmaninov - Etude Tableaux Op. 39, A minor Rachmaninov - Etude Tableaux Op. 39, E flat minor Schnittke - Sonata No. 3 | |
| Thursday 24 April 6pm (Talk) |
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | East meets West: Paradox of Logic and Logic of Paradox Faradzh Karaev, Russian - Azeri composer and Professor of composition (Moscow State Conservatoire) will talk about his music and Eastern elements in it. |
| 7pm (concert) | Music by Faradzh Karaev. Played by the composer in collaboration with Goldsmiths students | |
| Thursday 1 May 6pm (Talk) |
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Galina Ustvolskaya (1919 – 2006) in memoriam Galina Ustvolskaya, the Znamenny Raspev and the Greek Connection Rachel Foulds (Centre for Russian Music) |
| 7pm (Recital) | Elena Nalimova, piano (Centre for Russian Music), Piano and chamber works by Galina Ustvolskaya Both Rachel Foulds and Elena Naimova conducted extensive research at the Galina Ustvolskaya’s Archive (the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel, Switzerland) as well as in the composer’s native city of St Petersburg. | |
Autumn Term 2007 | ||
| Friday 5 October, 7:30pm | Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Goldsmiths Sinfonia and Chorus Ives - Washington's Birthday Mahler - Kindertotenlieder Prokofiev - 'Songs of our days', Cantata (1937) UK premiere of the Prokofiev's Cantata written at the time of Stalin's terror. Later, during so called ' Khrushchev thaw' all references to Stalin have been removed from the text. The Cantata will be performed with its original text. Mezzo-soprano: Jennifer Hunt, baritone: Hamish Gallie Conductor: Pre-concert talk by Noelle Mann Concert presented in conjunction with the Music Department, CRM and the Prokofiev Archive Admission: £9 (£6 concessions) |
| Thursday 25 October 6:00pm (Talk) |
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Russian Piano traditions, by Manolis Neophytou |
| 7:30pm (Recital) | Manolis Neophytou, piano Chopin - Nocturne in C sharp minor, Etude op.12 no12 Schuman - Kreisleriana Tchaikovsky - Russian dance, Razmichlenie Rachmaninoff - Prelude op.2 no1 Elegie - op.2 no2 Rimsky - Korsakoff Rachmaninoff - The flight of the Bumblebee Rachmaninoff - Prelude op.32 no5 Albeniz - Prelude in g minor | |
| Thursday 1 November | Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Anzel Gerber - Russian Cello Performance School Traditions |
| 7.00pm (Recital) | Anzel Gerber, cello, NN, piano Rubinstein - Sonata no 2 Chudova - new piece for solo cello Shostakovich - Sonata op 40 | |
| Thursday 6 December 6pm (Talk) |
Council Chamber, Deptford Town Hall | Professor Alexander Bazikov, Director, Rakhmaninov State Conservatoire, Tambov, Russia: 'Rakhmaninov and the traditions of Russian musical education' |
| 7:00pm (Recital) | Rebecca Wiles, piano Beethoven 32 Variations Rakhmaninov Four Preludes Messiaen Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus: No.13 and No.11 | |