VIVACELLO VI. Festival program book

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 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.

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.

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.

The closing concert of the Festival held in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall on November 16, was dedicated to the memory of Daniil Shafran, the great cellist, the brightest representative of the Russian cello school who would be 90 this year. The event was attended by such world-renowned cellists as Giovanni Sollima, Alexander Rudin, Boris Andrianov, David Geringas and the unique countertenor Oleg Bezinskikh. The Russian Philharmonic Orchestra directed by the Italian conductor Gianluca Marciano also performed. The program included pieces by Kancheli, Tchaikovsky, Sollima and Martin. At the concert, the audience could hear Amati's cello made in 1630, which Daniil Shafran played his entire creative life.