The new orchestra season opens with a soaring Russian flourish:
Fuad Ibrahimov
conducts Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, and keyboard magician
Kristina Miller
unleashes Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.
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powerful Russian piano music
This is the most powerful of Russian piano music. Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird offered Parisian audiences the ultimate in late-Romantic orchestral sound. And even the Russian piano titan Nikolai Rubinstein found the famous opening of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 daunting. Ideal models for Moscow pianist Kristina Miller and conductor Fuad Ibrahimov from Azerbaijan.
Kristina Miller was born into a family of musicians in Moscow as a piano prodigy. After only a short period of training she had her first performances with orchestra at the age of eight. The award-winning pianist’s foreign tours span several continents and her first CD, released in 2008, was broadcast several times on BBC radio.
Recreation is special in many ways: consisting of musicians whose nationalities range from Japan to Venezuela, most of the members received part of their training in Graz. After its formation in 2002, the collective has played in unique halls such as the Alte Oper Frankfurt and has worked with outstanding conductors.
He began his studies at the Baku Music Academy at the age of 15, and by the age of 32 he was already principal conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the New Philharmonic in Munich: the award-winning conducting star from Azerbaijan is in great demand internationally and has already been able to conduct concerts with greats such as Anna Netrebko.
