Velikanov
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Ivan Velikanov
conductor
Ivan Velikanov was born in France in 1986 and came to Russia when he was 7 years old.
After his first piano lessons in Paris, Ivan attended the music school at the Moscow Conservatory. He then studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory from 2004 to 2009 in the class of Roman Ledenev.
In 2008 he won first prize at the International P. Jurgensons Competition of Young Composers with dance and choral work in four acts “Setanta, the fearless dog of Ulster” based on libretto by I. Velikanov
the motifs of the Irish epic and the plays of WB Yeats. With this work, Ivan also won 1st prize at the Bolshoi Theater competition in the nomination “Composition of an opera or ballet for youth” in 2012.
In 2009 he founded Russia's first ensemble of wind and string instruments of the Renaissance era "Alta Capella", in whose line-up he plays cornet, cornet, positive organ and harpsichord.
Since 2011, Ivan has been the artistic director of the International Festival of Music and Dance La Renaissance in Moscow.
From 2009 to 2012 Ivan completed his training at the Moscow Conservatory as an opera and orchestra conductor with Prof. Gennadiy Rozhdestwensky. He took part in master classes with Kurt Masur, Kenneth Kiesler, Theodor Currentzis, Sir Roger Norrington, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Giuseppe Lanzetta, Michail Jurowski, Alexander Polyanichko, Sasha Mäkilä, Kristian Järvi.
As assistant to the musical director (A. Lawrence-King), Ivan took part in the premiere of Cavalieri's opera "Rappresentazione di anima, et di corpo" at the Moscow Academic Children's Musical Theater of NISatz in 2012 (the performance received the Special Jury Prize of the National Theater Prize “Golden Mask”).
He also assisted Vladimir Jurovsky in the concerts of the State Academic Symphonic Orchestra of Russia (including during the preparation of the concert performance of the opera “Salome” by R.
Ostrich). With the ensemble “Alta Capella” he took part in Vladimir Jurowski
Concert program where romantic repertoire juxtaposed with thematically related Renaissance and Baroque pieces.
In 2014 Ivan Velikanov founded the Tarussa Chamber Orchestra, whose repertoire is the music of the 18th-20th centuries, performed in the authentic manner and with historical instruments. In five years the collective gave 30 concerts, including the production of Gluck's opera “Le Cinesi”. The most important part of the many concerts is the performance of the songs and romances of Russian and German composers in arrangements by I. Velikanov for chamber orchestra.
Ivan has worked with the following soloists, among others: Aleksey Lyubimov (piano), Dmitry Sinkowski (violin), Valentin Urjupin (clarinet), Maksim Yemeljanychev (piano), Jean-Pierre Pinet (flute, France).
In 2014-2017 Ivan worked as a conductor at the Academic Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater in Moscow. There he conducted the Russian premiere of J. Tavener's opera "The Gentle (Krotkaya)" and the world premiere of G. Varlamov's ballet "Rashomon Variations", also the programs for children: "Carnival of the Animals" by Saint-Saëns, "Orchestra Guide for young people" by Britten, "Peter and the Wolf" by Prokofiev, N. Rota's opera "Aladin and the Magic Lamp".
In the same year Ivan was invited as a guest conductor to the Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of Yakutia, where he conducted Mozart's “Magic Flute”, and to the Krasnoyarsk State Opera (“Snegurochka” by N.
Rimsky-Korsakov). Ivan was invited to the Novosibirsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, where he worked as assistant to Dmitri Jurovsky for new production of Verdi's “Ballo in Maschera”. In 2017 he made his debut as a guest conductor at the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg with Mozart's “Magic Flute” and “Le nozze di Figaro”, ballet “Romeo and Juliet” by Prokofiev.
Since December 2018, Ivan has held the position of deputy GMD at the Ekaterinburg State Theater (Ural Opera Ballet), where he has taken over the musical direction of Dvorak's "Rusalka", "Carmen" by Bizet, "Queen of Spades" by Tchaikovsky, Puccini's "Turandot". .
In 2019 he took part in the Russian premiere of P. Eötvö's opera “Three Sister” as the conductor of the stage orchestra.
He regularly appears as a conductor with various chamber orchestras, including Toscana Classica (Florence), Volga Philharmonic (Samara), and the chamber ensemble of the Rostov-on-Don Philharmonic Orchestra.
He assisted Dmitry Jurowski on several occasions, including with the concert program in Lübeck.
Ivan Velikanov is the author of intellectual, symphonic and stage works, among which are the oratorio "Seven Words of Christ on the Cross", the cantata "Pominalnaya", the symphonic allegory "Flagellants", dance and choral work "Setanta, the fearless dog of Ulster" , the musical pantomime “Prometheus Bound” based on the tragedy of Aeschylus (the first production took place in Tarusa in 2017).
After his first piano lessons in Paris, Ivan attended the music school at the Moscow Conservatory. He then studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory from 2004 to 2009 in the class of Roman Ledenev.
In 2008 he won first prize at the International P. Jurgensons Competition of Young Composers with dance and choral work in four acts “Setanta, the fearless dog of Ulster” based on libretto by I. Velikanov
the motifs of the Irish epic and the plays of WB Yeats. With this work, Ivan also won 1st prize at the Bolshoi Theater competition in the nomination “Composition of an opera or ballet for youth” in 2012.
In 2009 he founded Russia's first ensemble of wind and string instruments of the Renaissance era "Alta Capella", in whose line-up he plays cornet, cornet, positive organ and harpsichord.
Since 2011, Ivan has been the artistic director of the International Festival of Music and Dance La Renaissance in Moscow.
From 2009 to 2012 Ivan completed his training at the Moscow Conservatory as an opera and orchestra conductor with Prof. Gennadiy Rozhdestwensky. He took part in master classes with Kurt Masur, Kenneth Kiesler, Theodor Currentzis, Sir Roger Norrington, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Giuseppe Lanzetta, Michail Jurowski, Alexander Polyanichko, Sasha Mäkilä, Kristian Järvi.
As assistant to the musical director (A. Lawrence-King), Ivan took part in the premiere of Cavalieri's opera "Rappresentazione di anima, et di corpo" at the Moscow Academic Children's Musical Theater of NISatz in 2012 (the performance received the Special Jury Prize of the National Theater Prize “Golden Mask”).
He also assisted Vladimir Jurovsky in the concerts of the State Academic Symphonic Orchestra of Russia (including during the preparation of the concert performance of the opera “Salome” by R.
Ostrich). With the ensemble “Alta Capella” he took part in Vladimir Jurowski
Concert program where romantic repertoire juxtaposed with thematically related Renaissance and Baroque pieces.
In 2014 Ivan Velikanov founded the Tarussa Chamber Orchestra, whose repertoire is the music of the 18th-20th centuries, performed in the authentic manner and with historical instruments. In five years the collective gave 30 concerts, including the production of Gluck's opera “Le Cinesi”. The most important part of the many concerts is the performance of the songs and romances of Russian and German composers in arrangements by I. Velikanov for chamber orchestra.
Ivan has worked with the following soloists, among others: Aleksey Lyubimov (piano), Dmitry Sinkowski (violin), Valentin Urjupin (clarinet), Maksim Yemeljanychev (piano), Jean-Pierre Pinet (flute, France).
In 2014-2017 Ivan worked as a conductor at the Academic Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater in Moscow. There he conducted the Russian premiere of J. Tavener's opera "The Gentle (Krotkaya)" and the world premiere of G. Varlamov's ballet "Rashomon Variations", also the programs for children: "Carnival of the Animals" by Saint-Saëns, "Orchestra Guide for young people" by Britten, "Peter and the Wolf" by Prokofiev, N. Rota's opera "Aladin and the Magic Lamp".
In the same year Ivan was invited as a guest conductor to the Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of Yakutia, where he conducted Mozart's “Magic Flute”, and to the Krasnoyarsk State Opera (“Snegurochka” by N.
Rimsky-Korsakov). Ivan was invited to the Novosibirsk Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, where he worked as assistant to Dmitri Jurovsky for new production of Verdi's “Ballo in Maschera”. In 2017 he made his debut as a guest conductor at the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg with Mozart's “Magic Flute” and “Le nozze di Figaro”, ballet “Romeo and Juliet” by Prokofiev.
Since December 2018, Ivan has held the position of deputy GMD at the Ekaterinburg State Theater (Ural Opera Ballet), where he has taken over the musical direction of Dvorak's "Rusalka", "Carmen" by Bizet, "Queen of Spades" by Tchaikovsky, Puccini's "Turandot". .
In 2019 he took part in the Russian premiere of P. Eötvö's opera “Three Sister” as the conductor of the stage orchestra.
He regularly appears as a conductor with various chamber orchestras, including Toscana Classica (Florence), Volga Philharmonic (Samara), and the chamber ensemble of the Rostov-on-Don Philharmonic Orchestra.
He assisted Dmitry Jurowski on several occasions, including with the concert program in Lübeck.
Ivan Velikanov is the author of intellectual, symphonic and stage works, among which are the oratorio "Seven Words of Christ on the Cross", the cantata "Pominalnaya", the symphonic allegory "Flagellants", dance and choral work "Setanta, the fearless dog of Ulster" , the musical pantomime “Prometheus Bound” based on the tragedy of Aeschylus (the first production took place in Tarusa in 2017).
Repertoire
| Opera | |
|---|---|
| Bizet | “Carmen” |
| Cavalieri | “Rappresentation of anima, et di corpo” |
| Cherubini | “Medea” |
| Dvorak | «Rusalka» |
| Happiness | “Le Cinesi” |
| “Orfeo and Euridice” | |
| Landi | “Morte d’Orfeo” |
| Monteverdi | “L’Arianna” |
| Mozart | "Don Giovanni" |
| “Le Nozze di Figaro” | |
| "The Magic Flute" | |
| Musorgsky | “Boris Godunov” |
| Prokofiev | “The Love of Three Oranges” |
| Puccini | “Turandot” |
| “La Boheme” | |
| “Madama Butterfly” | |
| Purcell | “Dido and Aeneas” |
| Rimsky-Korsakov | “Snegurochka” (“Snowflake”) |
| “Tsarskaya newesta” (“The Tsar’s Bride”) | |
| rota | “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp” |
| Stravinsky | “Oedipus Rex” |
| Tavener | “Krotkaya” (“The Gentle One”) |
| Tchaikovsky | “Eugene Onegin” |
| “Queen of Spades” | |
| Verdi | “Un ballo in mask” |
| Ballet | |
|---|---|
| Lalo | “Suite en blanc” |
| Prokofiev | "Romeo and Juliet" |
| Tchaikovsky | "The Nutcracker" |
| "Sleeping Beauty" | |
| Varlamov | “Rashomon’s Variations” |
| Concert | |
|---|---|
| Beethoven | Coriolan Overture; Egmont Overture |
| The Creatures of Prometheus | |
| Symphonies No. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 | |
| Amber | Overture to “Candide” |
| Borodin | Polovtsian dances |
| Symphony No. 2 «Bogatyrskaya» | |
| Brahms | Concerto for violin and orchestra |
| Symphony No. 1 | |
| The Hungarian dances | |
| Britten | Matinées musicales |
| Orchestra leader for young people | |
| Soirées musicales | |
| fracture | Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 |
| Chopin | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 |
| Desyatnikov | “Like the old lyre man” |
| Dvorak | Serenade for string orchestra |
| Elgar | Enigma Variations |
| Serenade for string orchestra | |
| Glinka | Romances (arranged by I. Velikanov) |
| Waltz Fantasy | |
| Grieg | “From Holberg’s time” (suite in the old style) |
| Lalo | Spanish Symphony |
| Mahler | Songs of the traveling journeymen |
| Mendelssohn | Concerto for violin and orchestra in E minor |
| "A Midsummer Night's Dream" | |
| Symphonies No. 3, 4, 10 |
| Mozart | "A musical Joke" |
|---|---|
| Concerto for flute and orchestra in G major | |
| Concerto for Horn and Orchestra No. 1 | |
| Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 | |
| Serenade No. 6 (A Little Night Music in D major) | |
| Symphonies No. 36, 39, 40, 41 | |
| Mussorgsky | The Pictures at an Exhibition (arrangement by Ravel) |
| Songs and Dances of Death (Shostakovich's version) | |
| Dawn on the Moskva River from “Khovanshchina” | |
| A Night on Bald Mountain (Edited by Rimsky-Korsakov) | |
| Pärt | Summa for string orchestra |
| Symphony No. 1 | |
| Prokofiev | Peter and the Wolf |
| Symphony No. 1 | |
| Respighi | Ancient tunes and dances |
| Rimsky-Korsakov | "Praise of the Desert, overture to the opera "The Legend of |
| the invisible city of Kitesh and the virgin Fevronia»" | |
| Rossini | Variations for oboe and small orchestra |
| Saint-Saens | Danse macabre |
| Animal carnivals | |
| Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 | |
| Schnittke | Old style suite for string orchestra |
| Shostakovich | Concertos for piano and orchestra No. 1, 2 |
| Schubert | Songs (arranged by I. Velikanov) |
| “Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus” | |
| Symphony No. 4, 5, 6, 8 “Unfinished” | |
| “The Magic Harp” (Overture) |
| Schumann | Songs (arranged by I. Velikanov) |
|---|---|
| Manfred | |
| Symphony No. 1, 4 (Second Version) | |
| Schoenberg | “Transfigured Night” |
| Stravinsky | The story of the soldier |
| Sylvestrov | Two dialogues with the epilogue for piano and orchestra |
| Tchaikovsky | Concerto for violin and orchestra |
| Overture fantasy “Romeo and Julie” | |
| “The Nutcracker Suite” | |
| Serenade for string orchestra | |
| Symphony No. 1 | |
| Waltz-Scherzo | |
| Wagner | Overtures to “Tannhäuser” and “The Flying Dutchman” |
| Prelude and Love Death from “Tristan and Isolde” | |
| Wesendonck songs (arranged by F. Mottl) | |
| Weber | "Concerto for bassoon and orchestra in F major |
| Wolf | Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra No. 1" |
| Songs (arranged by I. Velikanov) |
| Old music | |
|---|---|
| Bach | Concerto for harpsichord, strings and basso continuo No. 5 |
| Orchestra Suite No. 3 | |
| Suite for flute, strings and basso continuo in B minor | |
| Happiness | Suite from ballet “Don Juan” |
| Handel | Fireworks music |
| Haydn | "The seasons" |
| Concerto for violin, piano and strings in F major | |
| Concerto for piano and orchestra in D major | |
| Symphony No. 39, 44, 45, 52, 90 | |
| Lully | Suite from “Le bourgeois gentilhomme” |
| Monteverdi | “Vespro della Beata Vergine” |
| Pachelbel | Canon and Giga |
| Purcell | Suites from “Abdelazer”, “Fairy Queen” |
| “Indian Queen”, “King Arthur” | |
| Rameau | Suite from “Les Indes galantes” |
| Sagittarius | “History of the Birth of Jesus Christ” |
| “The seven words of Jesus on the cross” | |
| Vivaldi | Concerto for flute, strings and basso continuo in G minor |
| Concerto for lute, 2 violins and basso continuo in D major |