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Bethlehem, Eduard Said Conservatory. Jan, 8-9 2015
“In the extreme weather conditions, when all Bethlehem was covered with snow and there was a big problem even to get from one part of the city to another, Maria, Vutaly and Artyom stayed real professionals and brought lots of inspiration and pleasure to the people who however came to watch them,” – said Sergey Shapovalov, the head of the Russian Center of Culture and Science, who was in charge of the Project coming to Bethlehem.The soloists of the “MUSIC FOR PEACE” Project Maria Nemtsova, Vitaly Vatulya and Artyom Shishkov gave master classes and a chamber concert at the Eduard Said Conservatory.

Because of the weather the concert planned at “Dar Al Nadwa” Hall on Jan, 9 was moved to the smaller hall of the conservatory, but the publiс there was so enthusiastic about the performance, that the soloists agreed to settle date for the new coming to Bethlehem. They plan to return in a week, when the weather hopefully will get better, and the soloists will have a spare evening on the next Friday, Jan, 16.

 

 

Maria Nemtsova and Vitaly Vatulya are currently in the Khabarovsk Region, which was the centre of the floods in the Amur River basin in 2013. They have already visited 3 cities there: Khabarovsk, Amursk and Komsomolsk-upon-Amur. In each city they had organized free master classes in the local musical schools and colleges.

The biggest event of their voyage was the concert in Khabarovsk Regional Philharmonic Society where Maria and Vitaly performed together with The “Serenade” Chamber Orchestra conducted by Tigran Hakhnazaryan and the “Symbol” saxophone quartet. Their performance was highly appreciated by the local audience and ended with their standing applause.

This concert has been the first night of the performance of the new arrangement of the famous Tchaikovsky “Nutcracker” suite for saxophone quartet and piano. Maria and Vitaly are currently on tour heading for their last point – Blagoveschensk (on 27-28.Nov)

 

In November 2014 musicians of MUSIC FOR PEACE Project are going to the Russian Far East, which suffered from the terrible floods in the Amur riverbasin in 2013. Khabarovsk will be the first stop during this Tour.

On 21 November the Founders and Leaders of the Project, many international competitions Prizes Winners Maria Nemtsova (piano) and Vitaly Vatulya (saxophone) will give a big concert at the Khabarovsk Philharmonic Society Hall together with the Chamber Orchestra of the Far East Federal District conducted by Tigran Hakhnazaryan and the Moscow saxophone quartet “Symbol”.

The concert program will contain music by Ravel, Shostakovich, Piazzola, Morricone and other composers, mostly of the XX Century.

“It’s going to be our first appearance in the Far East, – said Maria Nemtsova, – we are looking forward to performing to the people of Khabarovsk and other cities and hope that the special program that we prepare for this concert will satisfy even the most versed part of the audience.”

In November 2014 musicians of MUSIC FOR PEACE Project are going to the Russian Far East. These areas suffered from the terrible floods in the Amur river basin in 2013, when many people lost their houses had to move to the temporary refuges.

Founders and leaders of the Project Maria Nemtsova (piano) and Vitaly Vatulya (saxophone) will travel along with the “Symbol” saxophone quartet.

The first and the biggest city of this Tour will be Khabarovsk, where the MUSIC FOR PEACE Artists will give a big concert on 21.Nov in the Regional Philharmonic Society with the State Chamber Orchestra of the Far East Federal District. Then they are going to visit cities Amursk (23.Nov), Komsomolsk-Upon-Amur (24-25.Nov) and Blagoveschensk (27-28.Nov). The program of each city will contain master-classes for student of the musical colleges and schools and concerts. Special attention will be paid to the families suffered from the floods of 2013. Many of them will get free invitations to the concerts.

In February 2015, Music for Peace will visit Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. These countries are situated within the Caucasian Region and are in continuous conflict with each other. Some of these countries are without borders and rely solely on ceasefires as a means of finding peace. Music for Peace plans to give free master-classes and concerts in each of these countries with the aim to excite, thrill, console and comfort those in conflicting nations.

Maria Nemtsova and Vitaly Vatya are going to the Russian Far East in November 2014: the areas which suffered from terrible floods in the Amur river basin in 2013.

Maria and Vitaly will give master-classes in specialized music schools and colleges of Komsomolsk-upon-Amur, Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk and other cities.

The highlight of this tour will be the concert on Nov, 21 in the Great Hall of Khabarovsk Regional Philharmonic Society where the soloists of the Project will be accompanied by The State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of the Far East Federal District of Russia, conducted by Tigran Akhnazarjan.

In the coming Season we are going to visit new countries as well as the countries that the Project has already visited during the past Seasons. All the countries have one thing in common: recent history has shown that peoples lives have been disturbed by wars, terrorism or natural disasters. This has caused cultural life to suffer and has left people feeling little hope at all for a positive and cultural lifestyle. We believe that music and the arts could raise cultural awareness and bring some peace to people in these countries.

This year the Project increases its geography, number of participants and nominations. Among the Masters there will be such great artists and teachers as: honor artist of Russia, an international prize winner, and professor of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire, Pavel Nersesyan (piano, Russia), one of the most significant classical saxophonists of Europe and professor of the Lyon Conservatoire Jean Denis Michat (saxophone, France) and the head of London Piano Studio and one of the most recognised classical piano teachers in the World Richard Meyrick (piano, Great Britain). Founded and lead by Maria Nemtsova and Vitaly Vatulya, our Project gathers together many other brilliant young Artists from Eastern Europe, who will give charitable concerts and master-classes in the post-conflict zones and areas devastated after the acts of terrorism and natural disasters. This season we are going to visit The Far East of Russia (suffered from the floods of 2013), The Middle East (Israel and Arabic State of Palestine), The Caucasian Region (Russian Caucasia, Georgia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh), The Balkan Region (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Montenegro) and India (areas suffered from the Floods of 2013 and Kashmir). The Season will finish with two Gala-Concerts in Moscow and St.Petersburg in May, 2015, where four gifted young Musicians from the post-conflict or devastated areas will get Winner Diploma and prizes and perform with the famous orchestras.

The Moscow Gala-Concert will take place at the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music, one of the most recognisable classical music high schools of Eastern Europe. The date of the concert, 21 May, is the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development marked by UNESCO, which is one of the Project Partners and Patrons. Pavel Nersesyan, Jean Denis Michat, Maria Nemtsova, Vitaly Vatulya and the Four Project Winners will perform with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra “MUSICA VIVA”. This orchestra, headed by Alexander Rudin, has traveled all over the world, taking part in many international festivals and projects.