Svetlin Rusev in a French Romantic Evening with the Orchestra of the State Opera - Stara Zagora

News публикувана на: 04.11.2021

On 10 November at 19.00 the brilliant violinist Svetlin Rusev will perform at the Stara Zagora Opera House. The symphonic concert conducted by Maestro Ivaylo Krinchev and featuring the orchestra of the Stara Zagora State Opera is part of the cycle "Bulgarian virtuosos from the world stages" and is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the death of the great French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. A rich programme including some of the most popular and beloved masterpieces for violin and orchestra will delight fans of French instrumental classics.

Here is what conductor Ivaylo Krinchev has to say:

"Following Svetlin Rusev's offer to perform works by Camille Saint-Saëns on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the composer's death, the choice of the rest of the programme took a natural shape with works by the most outstanding representatives of French Romanticism. I tried to select works that were contrasting and included examples from the earlier period, such as the Overture , "Roman Carnival" by Berlioz, to the Suite , "Pelléas et Mélisande" by Gabriel Fauré, whose music has been described as a kind of bridge between Romanticism and Modernism. If in Carnival in Rome the energetic and brilliantly orchestrated music brings to life the carnival scenes of the Piazza Colonna in Rome, in Pelléas et Mélisande Fauré has unerringly grasped with the most tender inspiration the poetic purity that pervades and envelops Metterlinck's piece. Most people know Georges Bizet through his operas for his unique ability to create charming and striking melodies. In La Harlesienne, too, one senses that appeal and sensitivity that is not only a phenomenon of orchestration, but also creates a real driving force in the music that is at the same time absolutely connected to the theatrical moment in Alphonse Daudet's play."

SVETLIN RUSEV (violin)

Since winning First Prize in the first edition of the now widely acclaimed Sendai International Violin Competition in May 2001, the charismatic violin virtuoso Svetlin Rusev has enjoyed a glittering international career, associated with many of the world's greatest concert halls, including the Bolshoi Theatre and Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Seoul Center for the Arts, the Salle Pleyel, UNESCO, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Cité de la Musique and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, and the Salle Bulgaria, Béla Bartók Hall in Budapest, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Kirchner Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the UN Palais in Geneva. His intense concert activity has taken him all over the world - Europe, the USA, Latin America and Asia. He is a regular guest soloist with orchestras of the highest caliber, including the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre National de Radio France, the Orchestre de la Romande de Suisse, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Seoul Philharmonic, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique Giorgette Enescu (Bucharest), the Romanian National Radio Orchestra, Cremerata BalOca and others. He has soloed under the baton of renowned conductors such as. Svetlin Rusev shares his devotion to music with his many admirers around the world, both as a soloist and as a remarkable chamber musician. He has partnered musicians in the class of Myung-Woon Chung, Yoram Son, Jean-Yves Thibodeau, Peter Frankl, Maxim Rysanov, Antoine Tamestier, Gauthier Capuisson, Jian Wang, François Leloglio, Paul Meier, and Ning Feng. He is a founding member of the Rusev-Salk-Rozanova piano trio. Since 2000 he has led and conducted various ensembles and orchestras in Bulgaria, France, Poland, Korea, Japan and Sweden. He has an extremely wide repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music and popular genres. His performances of music by Bulgarian and Slavic composers are also memorable. Following the successful recording of compositions by Pancho Vladigerov with pianist Elena Rozanova (Ambroazi), Svetlin Rusev made a CD of Carl Amadeus Hartmann's Violin Concerto with the Orchestre d'Auvergne, as well as recordings of violin sonatas by E. Grieg and N. Mettner with pianist Frederic D'Oria - Nicolas. His CD Fire and Ice, including Pancho Vladigerov's First Violin Concerto and Jan Sibelius's Violin Concerto, with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio conducted by Emil Tabakov, was also released. The disc is produced by the French labels Integral and Fondamenta. In 2016, DECCA released his recording of the piano trios of F. Mendelssohn (No. 1) and A. Dvořák (Dumky), made with pianist Elena Rozanova and cellist François Salk. The disc is followed by a new recording of works by E. Isai for violin and orchestra (Musique en Wallonie) and Spanish Symphony (Arcantus) by E. Lalo, under the baton of Jean-Jacques Cantorov. Svetlin Rusev's latest recording is the album Midnight Bells, realized in creative partnership with the talented pianist Yoram Son (YESM & ART). Currently, in addition to his intense and fast-paced artistic career, Svetlin Rusev is a professor at the prestigious Haute École de Musique in Geneva, having previously taught as a professor for 10 years at the Conservatoire National Supérieure in Paris. He gives masterclasses in violin and chamber music all over the world. In parallel, he is successively the artistic advisor of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and currently the artistic advisor of the International Festival "March Music Days" in his hometown of Ruse. Svetlin Rusev has won numerous prizes at a number of prestigious international competitions, including those in Indianapolis, Long-Tibo and Melbourne. In 2001, at the Sendai International Competition, he won not only first prize, but also the Audience Award and the special prize for Best Bach Performance. He began his musical education from an early age with his mother, a violin teacher at the music school in Ruse, as well as with Anelia Popova and Alexi Draganov. At the age of 15, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Gérard Poulet, Devi Herli and Jean-Jacques Kantorov. Three years later the jury unanimously awarded him first prizes for violin and chamber music. He subsequently entered the conservatoire's postgraduate programme. Svetlin Rusev was awarded the 2006 Musician of the Year prize by the national poll of the Allegro Vivace programme of the Bulgarian National Radio. He is also a three-time winner of the Crystal Lyre Award of the Union of Bulgarian Music and Dance Artists (2007, 2016, 2019). In 2018 he received the title of Honorary Citizen of his hometown Ruse - the Danube Capital of Bulgaria. In February 2019, he also received the Honorary Award of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, presented by the Head of State Rumen Radev, for outstanding achievements in the field of performing arts.

Svetlin Rusev plays a 1720 Amati-Stradivarius violin, courtesy of AMUNDI.

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