Igor Ponomarenko
domra alt,
art director of the double duet, was born 30 June 1963. He
studied domra in St-Petersburg State Conservatoire, graduated
in 1989. His musical career became firmly established in 1986
when in a quick succession he became a staff soloist of the
“Terem quartet”, holding this position till 2000 and performed
in more that 40 countries all over the world. He was nominant
and a prize winner of different internationals competitions
and music awards, such as “Golden Ostap” and others. He had
shown early promise as a composer (author of the musical “Passions
for Kashtanka”, musical theatre “Zazerkalye”, “Lady-the Peasant”,
Theatre on Liteiny, some musical pieces and interpretations
for double duet and the current period studying composition
in St-Petersburg Conservatoire (Professor Falik class).
“It will be too simple to play Russian folk music on our
instruments. I am looking for exquisite work…Sometimes useless,
but sweet trinkets are more necessary for human being. And
my age is very close to this music too. Silver age-it’s a
music of those who are already after 30”.
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Grigory Voskoboinik
double bass,
was born 17 October 1970. He studies music at St-Petersburg
Conservatoire. From 1993 performing with chamber orchestra
“Divertisment” (I. Ioff), played in various theatre orchestras
(Symphonic Orchestra of St-Petersburg Philarmonia – Temirkanov,
was concert master of double bass group in Mussorgsky Theatre
of Opera and Ballet. He also played with different jazz bands
performing with famous musicians and participated in jazz
festivals.
“Works of Satie has refined harmonies without any strictness. It is also a-sexual
music with no passion. It’s laugh through tears…But I like it… And Debussy, you
could listen to his music endless like looking at the moonlight.”
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Maxim Tolstych
balalaika,
was born 20 December 1979, now a 3d year student of St-Petersburg
Conservatoire, international competition prize winner.
“Sometimes I am thinking- how could it happened… Satie, Debussy
and a specific sound of my balalaika. Satie, who performed
on Monmart was outstanding primitivist, minimalist, who had
changed his views very often during all his life. And my balalaika-they
are just the same…”
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Aleksandr Matrosov
bayan,
was born 20 March 1979, 4th year student of St-Petersburg
Conservatoire (class of Sharov), prize winner of international
competitions in Paris and Sweden.
“ We are playing music which never performed before on Russian
traditional instruments. For me Satie-is tender, Debussy-philosophy.
They are different, but both reflecting colourful shapes-sometimes
bright, sometimes dark…”
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