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The Moscow Symphony

The Moscow Symphony

The Moscow Symphony Orchestra was established in 1989. The members of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra include prize-winners and laureates of International and Russian music competitions, graduates of the conservatories of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kiev, who have played under conductors such as Svetlanov, Rozhdestvensky, Mravinsky and Ozawa, in Russia and throughout the world. The orchestra toured in 1991 to Finland and to England, where their collaboration with a well known rock band demonstrated readiness for experiment. A British and Japanese commission has brought a series of twelve television programs for international distribution and in 1993 there was a highly successful tour of Spain. The Moscow Symphony Orchestra has a wide repertoire, with particular expertise in the performance of contemporary works.

T oday the Moscow Symphony Orchestra owes its name to the Hall where it takes rehearsals and gives concerts — to the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatoire. Acoustic perfection and traditional concern in the most important events of country's musical life have attributed it to the same grade of the greatest world's Music Halls such as Santory-Hall in Japan, Gewandhaus in Germany, Music-Ferein in Austria, Covent-Garden in Great Britain, and Carnagy Hall in USA.

T he basis of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra - leaders of strings, wind and percussion groups - are professors of Moscow Conservatoire, worldwide famous solo-performers, but the groups themselves are mostly composed by their followers and disciples, the most talented musicians of the young generation. This structure of the Great Hall Symphony offers capabilities that allow musicians to fully express different styles in their performances, causes creative activity inside the Moscow Symphony Orchestra that produces unforgettable orchestral sonority which quality is repeatedly marked in press, TV and radio.

Where to Find the Moscow Symphony Orchestra:

 

Small hall of the conservatory named after P.I.Tchaikovsky

Address: Bol. Nikitskaya ul., 13, Moscow, Russia

Nearest metro station: Ploshchad Revolutsii, Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya

Phone: (095)229-7446

Ticket Office: From 4 p.m. till 7 p.m.

The vale of chamber music. The best musicians of Moscow play here regularly. A small, stuffy hall. Gorgeous soft chairs. In the foyer there are marble plaques with names of golden medallists of the conservatory. In summer entrance examinations take place in this hall.

 

The Rakhmaninov Concert Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky

Address: Bol. Nikitskaya ul., 13, Moscow, Russia

Nearest metro station: Ploshchad Revolutsii, Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya

Phone: (095)229-0294, 229-7795 (director)

Ticket Office: Monday, Wednesday-Sunday from 4 p.m. till 7 p.m.

One of the best chamber halls in Moscow. Wonderful acoustics. Classes of professors from the conservatory (free entry). Festivals of modern music and chamber concerts are organized regularly here. Tickets are sold in the foyer before concerts.