Jan 26, 2017 |
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, in the sixth concert of the Friends of Good Music season at St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
The Moscow-based orchestra, under the leadership of its founder and music director Misha Rachlevsky, will perform works by Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Founded in 1991, the orchestra, consisting of some of Russia’s finest young string players, has carved a niche for itself under the creative baton of Rachlevsky. After a recent concert at Carnegie Hall, the New York Times proclaimed: “Misha Rachlevsky elicited warm, full-blooded and virtuosic playing with colorfully shaped gleaming phrases.”
In addition to presenting an active season of concerts and festivals in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin tours regularly in North and South America, Europe and the Far East. The orchestra has recorded more than 30 CDs, many of which have won international awards.
The orchestra returns to St. Bonaventure for the first time since 2011, when it was enthusiastically received at the Quick Center. “After enjoying a great success here in 2011, I’m very glad that Chamber Orchestra Kremlin is returning, before continuing its tour with stops in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The audience is in for a special treat,” said Ludwig Brunner, Quick Center executive director.
This performance is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Regrant Program, with support from the New York State Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and administered by the Cattaraugus County Arts Council.
Tickets are $20 at full cost, $16 for St. Bonaventure staff and senior citizens, and $5 for students. For tickets and information, call The Quick Center box office at (716) 375-2494.
For each Friends of Good Music performance, The Quick Center will open its galleries one hour before the performance and keep them open throughout the intermission. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Museum admission is free and open to the public year round. For more information, visit www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.
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