Saturday 21st September 2019. Beginning: 4 pm
ST MARY OF THE SALUTATION PARISH CHURCH IN WELSHPOOL
(19 Church Street, Welshpool, SY21 7DP, Wales, The UK, tel. 01938553164)
Organ Recital for 40 years of Andrey Chulovskiy's artistic activity
Tickets £10.00 (children £5.00)
available online on The Hafren website http://www.thehafren.co.uk, or in The HAFREN BOX OFFICE
(Llanidloes Rd, Newtown, SY16 4HU, tel. 01686 614555)
or from the Church Door before the concert (subject to availability)
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Andrey Chulovskiy is known as pianist-virtuoso, whose appearances took place in Gregynog Hall. This year he will give the organ recital at St Mary's in Welshpool to celebrate 40 years of his activity as a professional musician. He will perform not only masterpieces by Bach (Passacagliah), Reger (Choral Fantasy op.52, Nr 2) and Shchedrin (polyphonic prelude "Twinkling of Galaxies"), but also his own compositions & arrangements for organ ("Living Stone", "Voices of birds" etc.), which had been published, recorded on CDs and included into collections of main libraries worldwide, such as British Library in London, Library of Congress in Washington, National Library of France in Paris, Naxos Music Library in Hong-Kong & Tokyo, libraries of Cambridge and Oxford Universities, more than 200 libraries of US and Canada universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, New-York, Toronto, Montreal Universities and Juilliard School. The recital will include the world premiere of his new composition "Brooks and Waterfalls of Wales". His son Alexander (10 years old) will help him to introduce new compositions by singing two songs, composed recently for children. Attendees of the concert will have a good chance to see extremely beautiful stained glass windows and to hear the full range of marvellous sound palette of the great British organ, built by Henry Willis in the 19th century (restored and tuned by organ builder Mr Eric Newbound). Light refreshment will be available in the interval between two parts (35 minutes each) of the concert.
Some notes about A.Chulovskiy's artistic activity. He received prestigious education awards: gconcert organisth (Latvian Conservatoire), gconcert pianisth (St Petersburg Conservatoire) and completed full 3 years post-graduate course at the Moscow P.Chaikovskiy Conservatoire (which included half year course of the International Stuttgart Bach Academy). Then he received the "Top level Philharmonic Artist Award" and top-level academic awards as a professor of both piano and organ. His extensive concert tours took place in The UK, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, South Korea, Latvia, Russia. He collaborated with prominent conductors, singers, instrumentalists and composers. He took part in many top-level international music festivals, inaugurations of philharmonic concert halls, prestigious concert series (international concert series on Bach, Silbermann, Reger organs in Thuringia, Toledo & Sorrento International Festivals; Millenium Christmas Festival in Grand Hall of St Petersburg Philharmonic etc.) There are organists in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Columbia, South Korea, Russia among his former pupils (including two professors, laureates). In 2006 he came to the UK according to the immigration program for writers, composers and artists and settled in Wales, gthe land of poets and singersh; he started to play the organ on church services in Kerry and Welshpool, composed music for piano, organ, choir, brass-band, symphony orchestra and started to compose opera & ballet.
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