EUFSC President Konstantin Ishkhanov: Upcoming InClassica Festival in Dubai a “Great Artistic Journey”

From fifteenth August to twenty sixth September 2021, the European Basis for Help of Tradition (EUFSC) will current, with the collaboration of SAMIT Occasion Group, the newest version of InClassica Worldwide Music Pageant in Dubai, UAE, that includes 37 extraordinary soloists, twelve celebrated conductors and eight world-renowned orchestras. The competition can be hosted in two of the town’s greatest areas: the Dubai Opera and Coca-Cola Enviornment. 

For this wonderful occasion, the organisers will work alongside a number of the most revered classical music channels, together with Medici.television, which can take part as official media accomplice. Furthermore, the EUFSC and SAMIT may also current two extra initiatives through the summer season of 2021 in Dubai: the ultimate stage of the Basic Piano Worldwide Competitors, happening from fifteenth August to third September, and the Center East Classical Music Academy (MECMA), happening in parallel with InClassica from 4th to twenty third September. Basic Piano is an occasion which can characteristic the winners of fourteen preliminary competitions from around the globe, who will compete in Dubai throughout 4 rounds in an unrivalled show of tenacity, musicianship and pianistic excellence, whereas MECMA will welcome esteemed professors and performers from throughout the globe for a collection of workshops, lectures and open masterclasses. 

The next is a listing of a number of the classical music stars who can be performing in Dubai this summer season: 

●  Unique Deutsche Grammophon artist, 2016 Vladimir Spivakov Worldwide Violin Competitors Winner and “Younger Artist of the Yr 2017” award recipient on the Pageant of Nations, virtuoso violinist Daniel Lozakovich (Sweden);

●  Unique Deutsche Grammophon artist, two-times Opus Klassik Award-winner and Principal Clarinettist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Andreas Ottensamer (Austria);

●  Grammy Award, twice Gramophone Classical Music Award, Basic Brit Award and 5 occasions Edison Classical Music Award winner, violinist Maxim Vengerov (Monaco); 

●  Gold medallist of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn Worldwide Piano Competitors and a number of First Prize Winner at quite a few different worldwide competitions, pianist Yekwon Sunwoo (South Korea);

●  Unique Deutsche Grammophon artist, five-times recipient of the Document Academy Prize in Tokyo, three-times recipient of the Echo Deutscher Schallplattenpreis award and a number of Grammy Award-nominee, cellist Mischa Maisky (Belgium);

●  Winner of the 1986 Rostropovich Worldwide Competitors in Paris and BMG (RCA), Sony and EMI recording artist, cellist Gary Hoffman (Canada/USA/France); 

●  Recipient of the Music Prize of the town of Duisburg in 2017 and Worldwide Beethoven Prize for Human Rights, Peace, Freedom, Poverty Discount and Inclusion, four-times ECHO Klassik Award-winner, pianist Fazil Say (Turkey);

●  2020 Avery Fisher Profession Grant, 2020 Lincoln Heart Rising Artist Award and Robert Levin Award (Harvard College) recipient, high prize winner of the Tibor Varga Worldwide Violin Competitors, youngest ever prize winner of the Menuhin Competitors and Winner of the 2019 Queen Elisabeth Competitors (Brussels), violinist Stella Chen (USA); 

●  Seven-times ECHO Klassik Award winner, violinist Daniel Hope (UK); 

●  Performer alongside a number of the most esteemed orchestras around the globe, winner of an Emmy Award as a TV host on the age of 16 and of the ECHO Klassik Award, probably the most magnetic figures of the trendy classical music, opera soprano Danielle de Niese (USA/Australia); 

●  Recording artists for Sony Classical, Common, Cyprès, Mirare and Capriccio, a number of award-winners together with Choc of the 12 months (Le Monde de la Musique);

●  Editor’s Selection (Gramophone), CD of the month (Fono Discussion board and BBC Music Journal), Diapason d’Or de l’Année, Trio Wanderer (France).

These artists will carry out a number of the most vital and widespread compositions of classical music, together with works by the Pageant’s Composer-In-Residence, Alexey Shor. Mr Shor has collaborated with a number of the most acclaimed soloists on this planet, together with violinists Ji Younger Lim, Andrey Baranov and Daniel Lozakovich, clarinetist Paul Meyer and Andreas Ottensamer, violist Shlomo Mintz, pianist Nikita Mndoyants, cellist Gautier Capuçon and lots of others. Furthermore, a number of the most prestigious live performance halls throughout the globe have hosted Shor’s compositions, together with the Nice Corridor of Moscow Conservatory, the Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and Gasteig (Munich), amongst others. The competition’s featured repertoire will contain quite a few concertos, symphonies, tone poems and different works from a number of the most well-known composers from the world of classical music. 

The conductors featured at InClassica embrace:

●  Music Director of the Primarily Mozart Pageant in San Diego, California, Michael Francis (UK/USA); 

●  Founder, Inventive Director and Principal Conductor of the ASSO, Principal Conductor of the MPO Sergey Smbatyan (Armenia); 

●  Music Director of Canada’s Nationwide Arts Centre Orchestra, Alexander Shelley (UK); 

●  Inventive Director and Principal Conductor of the Chamber orchestra on the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Felix Korobov (Russia); 

●  Founder and Music Director of the St. Petersburg Pageant Orchestra, Marius Stravinsky (UK); 

●  Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Gergely Madaras (Hungary).

The orchestras set to carry out below the batons of the aforementioned composers embrace the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz (Germany), Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (Israel), Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra (Russia), Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (UK), Russian Nationwide Orchestra and Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra.

The 2021 InClassica Worldwide Music Pageant will deliver collectively folks from many alternative nations, providing a singular celebration of music and selling an important platform for the efficiency of famend compositions each previous and new. Regardless of all of the difficulties that the COVID-19 pandemic has lately delivered to our lives, the soloists, orchestras and conductors seems set to make the InClassica competition in Dubai one thing to be remembered sooner or later.

(Konstantin Ishkhanov, President of European Basis for Help of Tradition)

“I’m very proud to launch this prestigious version of InClassica in Dubai, a particular location the place audiences from everywhere in the world may have the unimaginable alternative to take pleasure in a number of the most vital compositions carried out by classical music stars. I can not wait to welcome everybody to InClassica, and want the perfect of luck to all of the soloists, conductors and orchestras who’re a part of this mission. I’m positive that this version can be a fantastic success, and the beginning of an outstanding cultural and inventive journey right here within the Center East.” — Konstantin Ishkhanov, President of the EUFSC