27 November 2014

VI International Cello Festival

Шестой международный фестиваль Vivacello

From November 11 to 24, 2014 the Sixth international festival Vivacello took place. Six concerts, six halls and evenings widely different in the mood and atmosphere. The festival gathered world-renowned musicians, among which, certainly, not everybody is a cellist.

Vivacello goes far beyond the scope of direct associations triggered by the wording “cello festival”. Nevertheless, all of its components, namely, theatrical performances, video installations and shows of musicians working in all kinds of genres, are intertwined into a single story where a cello is the protagonist.

November 11, 2014 Great Hall of the Moscow

The grand opening of the festival took place in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The world premiere of the musical piece “Musica con cello” for solo cello, chamber orchestra and phonogram created by the Russian composer Pavel Karmanov was the high point of the festival. The opening programme was drawn up with due account for versatile tastes and preferences: apart from the music of the XXI century (pieces by Pavel Karmanov and Giovanni Sollima), cello opuses by Rakhmaninov, Glazunov and Tchaikovsky were played by the musicians of the Berlin chamber orchestra and soloists such as Tatyana Vasilyeva (Russia), Monika Leskovar (Croatia) and Boris Andrianov. Cristian Mandeal was at the conductor’s stand.

Pavel Karmanov — composer

It is a great honor for me to participate in such event. I know Boris Andrianov for a long time, and there was much conversation about me composing a special piece for Vivacello for three years, and finally we managed to implement our plan. It has to be said that Boris asked me to compose a piece with rock music elements; therefore, I added drum beats to it. The music is composed in a cheerful manner of the festival on purpose, and I hope that after the show the audience will return to our gloomy autumn Moscow living in good spirits.


Cristian Mandeal, Romanian conductor	Tatyana Vasilyeva, Monika Leskovar and Boris Andrianov	Pavel Karmanov, composer; Boris Andrianov, cellist, and Cristian Mandeal, conductor

Deputy Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery Lidiya Iovleva and founder of U-Art fund Iveta Manasherova	President of Hearst Shkulev Media Viktor Shkulyov with his daughter Elena	Tatyana Ivanova (Richemont Group), the firstvice-president of Gazprom-bank Aylin Suntay and Mariam Hakimi, actress

November 14, 2014 Presentation of the ‘‘Seance’’ CD. Chamber Hall of the Moscow International Performing Arts Center

A unique concert took place in the Chamber Hall of the Moscow International Performing Arts Center: Boris Andrianov performed along with Edin Karamazov, renowned Bosnian lutenist, guitar player and Grammy prize winner who recorded the album called “Songs from the Labyrinth” with Sting in 2006.

Last year a collaborative CD of Boris Andrianov and Edin Karamazov named “Seance” was recorded, pieces from which were played at the concert. Pieces of old and modern composers were played, from Bach, Schubert and to our contemporaries, including Russian guitarist and composer Nikita Koshkin.


Anatoli Andrianov with his wife and Natalia Poppel (Severstal)	Head of Sotheby’s auction house in Russia Mikhail Kamenskiy with his wife Elena	Artist Yevgeni Zevin with the chief medical officer of the Moscow city clinical hospital No. 61 Konstantin Sobolev

General Director of “Restavracia N” Enver Kuzminand vice-principal of the Moscow State University of Foreign Affairs Natalia Kuzmina	Sculptor Paata Merabishvili with his wife Rusiko	Senior Director of Sotheby’s auction house in Moscow Irina Stepanova and vice-chairmanof the board of directors of Sotheby’s Europe Lord Mark Poltimore

November 16, 2014 State Tretyakov Gallery. Vrubel’s Hall

Vivacello в Государственной Третьяковской галерее

The Vivacello programme continued in the State Tretyakov Gallery. Gringolts Quartet and Boris Andrianov performed in the Vrubel’s Hall that evening. Gringolts Quartet is a music formation founded in 2008 by the world−renowned Russian violinist Ilya Gringolts who resides in Switzerland now. In the midst of magnificent paintings string quintets of Taneyev and Glazunov as well as the Third quartet of Bartok were played.


Ambassador of Spain in Russia Jose Ignacio Carbajal, founder of Bosco di Ciliegi Mikhail Kusnirovich, President of Unident group of companies Tamaz Manasherov and Magomed Musayev	Executive supervisor of “Chereshnevy Les” festival Edith Kusnirovich	Tamaz Manasherov with his son Anthony

President of the Dental Association of Russia Vladimir Sadovskiy with his wife Marina, director of DRCgroup of companies Svetlana Matelo with Sergey Levin and daughter Vasilisa	Producer Sergey Arshinov with his wife Nadezhda	Kira Kizenko with a guest

November 21, 2014 Multimedia Art Museum

Vivacello в Мультимедиа Арт Музее

A project which combined cello with modern video art was presented in the Multimedia Art Museum on Ostozhenka Street. Arnold Schoenberg’s “Transfigured Night” was played, which the composer wrote in 1899 using the poem of Richard Dehmel “The Woman and the World” as a basis.

Video installation created by the soloist of “SPBCh” group Kirill Ivanov, a poet and journalist who is also known by his video art works became an integral part of the “Night”. The second piece of the programme — “Blitz” for chamber orchestra — was written by modern French composer Richard Dubugnon. It is dedicated to famous chess games in history. Musica Viva chamber orchestra conducted by Leonid Kazakov, the David Oistrakh quartet, Boris Andrianov and Daniel Austrich (viola) took part in the concert.

Richard Dubugnon — composer

I wanted to compose a piece that would be accompanied by video on a concert for a long time. It seems to me that working with visual art is of importance today. I walked down the Moscow streets yesterday and saw many advertisements which are shown not as a poster but as a moving picture. Such works represent the common modern trend. Therefore, I wanted to create something interactive, so that piece had both musical and visual interpretation. Both video sequence and the structure of “Blitz” are united by a general topic — a chess tournament. The number of musicians matches the number of pieces on a chess board. I composed melodies for different chess moves, and it took some time for harmonious sounds to appear in this system of mine. I had to devise non-standardsolutions. And I think this work showed a great deal of things to me as a composer.


French composer Richard Dubugnon and Marketing Director of UNIDENT Yana Klevtsova	Anthony Manasherov and Director of VIP accounts of UNIDENT Lali Manasherova	Artist, chief designer of “Culture” TV channel Elena Kitayeva

November 22, 2014 Sovremennik Theater

A theater project which is especially important for Vivacello took place in the Sovremennik Theater. The first night of the project had a great success two years ago during the Fourth festival.

Literary and musical piece “Dedicated to Yalta” was included in the programme of the Sovremennik Theater this season, and one of the performances was given within the framework of the festival. The stage play in which Artur Smolyaninov is both a director and an actor is based on the cognominal poem of Joseph Brodsky accompanied by Alfred Schnittke’s music. As compared to the performance given at the festival earlier, this theatrical obtained complete sound supplemented with costumes, set design and new scenic solutions. During the whole performance we can see musicians: Boris Andrianov and Katya Skanavi (piano), whose role in the play is by no means less important than the role of actors.


Artur Smolyaninov, Boris Andrianov, Yevgeniya Brik and Katya Skanavi	Musicians of Musica Viva chamber orchestra	Head of the Department for Corporate Relations of ММАМ Ekaterina Finogenova

Valery Todorovskiy, movie director	Founder of the Social fund Vladimir Smirnov with his wife Liana	Executive supervisor of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art Vasily Tsereteli and his wife Kira Sacarello

Honoured Science Worker of the RF, professor Semyon Isaakovich Rapoport	Art historian, reader in History of Russian art of the Moscow State University Sergey Khachaturov	Press secretary of Russian ex-President Boris Yeltsin Vyacheslav Kostikov and his wife

November 24, 2014. Three centuries of cello. The P.I. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall

Vivacello в Концертном зале им. П.И. Чайковского

Festivals of different years were dedicated to the brightest Russian musicians: first Vivacello — to greta Rostropovich, fifth festival — to incredible Daniel Shafran. This year’s festival is confined to the 80th anniversary of the birth of Alfred Schnittke. His Concert No. 1 for cello performed by Boris Andrianov and orchestra was played at the Vivacello closing ceremony in the P.I. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.

The evening programme also included pieces of C. Ph. E. Bach, Vivaldi and Edouard Lalo. Each of these composers represents its era, from baroque to romanticism, and along with Schnittke’s avant-gardism the programme lines up chronologically, hence the name “Three centuries of cello”. The following musicians were the soloists: Boris Andrianov, German cellist Johannes Moser and German musician Claudio Bojorquez of the Russian school, featuring the Moscow symphony orchestra “Russian Philharmonia” conducted by Dmitry Yurovskiy.


Boris Andrianov and Dmitry Yurovskiy	Johannes Moser at the closing concert	Claudio Bojorquez at the closing concert

Iveta Manasherova—founder of U-Art: You and Art fund

Our fund worked with many various projects before the festival but this is our first music experience, and we are very glad that we had it. We are interested in the festival, and each year it brings something new. The idea came to our heads pretty easily, and I think that many important solutions in life are made in this particular way. Probably, the main task of this festival is to attract as many diverse listeners and music lovers as possible and to show that cello is an essential and fancy instrument which is engaged in a dialogue with music, theater and modern art in general.


Cellist Claudio Bojorquez and pianist Katya Skanavi	Restaurant-keeper Anatoly Grebelsky with his wife Lyudmila	Director of “Moscow Kremlin” State Museum Elena Gagarina

Music critic and TV presenter Artyom Vargaftik	President of the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio Oleg Poptsov and his spouse	Elena Kurakina

Georgiy Yufa, musician	Cellist Johannes Moser and Tamaz Manasherov	Commercial Director of Bosco di Ciliegi Ekaterina Moiseyeva

Iveta and Tamaz Manasherovs and Katya Skanavi	Elena Lisina with her son Artemiy	General Drector of Unident Volga Igor Bezumov and his wife Larisa

12 January 2015

Edin Karamazov: The most beautiful music is silence and sounds of nature

Edin Karamazov, Bosnian musician, came to one of the Vivacello festival concerts. Seemingly, there is nothing unusual in this sentence – musicians of world renown tend to give concerts in various countries of the world. But as it turned out, this story is full of surprises.

29 October 2014

VIVACELLO VI. Festival program book

10 October 2014

Boris Andrianov: every show at Vivacello is a unique story which is unlike all the others

Vivacello festival is always a revelation. It will take place for the sixth time already this year, and of course, people expect the programme to be as much as impressive and vivid as before. World-renowned cellist Boris Andrianov, art director of Vivacello, speaks of the forthcoming festival, musicians who would come to Moscow, concerts and opening nights.

24 September 2014

Vasiliy Schukhaev Exhibition

The Moscow Museum of Modern Arts presents a large-scale retrospective of a master of drawing and painting Vasiliy Ivanovich Schukhaev. UNIDENT and a cultural charity fund U-Art: Art and You are strategic partners of the exhibition.

9 April 2014

Innovation 2013 Award

Russian competition Innovation is becoming every year more and more important for Russian artists, art critics and cultural workers. A greater number of applications is received, the competition is extending and media attention to it is growing. But, in spite of that, the current celebration took place in a small platform in the Moscow Museum in nearly home atmosphere, compared to the previous celebrations.

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