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A June concert in Beethoven Hall
On 14 June, Creative Encounters brought musicians of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra together in concert. The programme featured works by flautist Nikolai Popov, including A Frontline…
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23 October in Beethoven Hall
Leading musicians of the Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra — Nikolai Popov, flute; Sergei Lysenko, oboe; Sergei Petrov, clarinet; Andrei Rudometkin, bassoon; and Alexei Raev, horn —…
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The quintet at Time of the Maestro
The All-Russian Open Youth Competition for Clarinet Players and Woodwind Ensembles, dedicated to Ivan Mozgovenko’s centenary, brought together talented musicians of several generations from across the…
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The Bolshoi Wind Quintet
The Bolshoi Theatre’s woodwind quintet traces its history back to the middle of the twentieth century. Its membership changed over the decades, but it consistently brought…
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Sergei Lysenko — oboe
Sergei Lysenko was born in Voronezh. He studied oboe at the Voronezh Music College with Yuri Gritsei and graduated from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music,…
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Nikolai Popov — flute
Nikolai Popov was born in Leningrad in 1975. After studying at music school with Irina Pimenova and at the Mussorgsky Music College with Yevgeny Matveyev, he…
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Sergei Petrov — clarinet
Sergei Petrov was born in Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, in 1981. In 2005 he graduated from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, where he studied with Professor…
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Andrei Rudometkin — bassoon
Andrei Rudometkin is a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra and artistic director of the Bassoon+ project. From 1992 to 1997 he studied at the Academic…
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Alexei Raev — horn
Alexei Raev was born in Moscow in 1982. From 1998 he studied horn with Ruben Matikyan at the Academic Music College of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.…
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