An Evening Concert with Aleksey Semenenko & Inna Firsova
Aleksey Semenenko New Generation Artists 2017-2019
Born in Odessa, Aleksey Semenenko began his violin studies at the age of six. Only a year later, he performed Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in A minor with the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra. He has gone on to perform as a soloist with the Moscow Virtuosi, the Kiev National Orchestra, the Junge Philharmonie in Cologne and the Sinfonietta Hungarica. After winning the 2012 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, he presented debut recitals at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City and The Kennedy Centre, Washington DC. A keen chamber musician, Semenenko founded the Stolyarsky String Quartet, which has so far given recitals in Russia, the Ukraine, France, Malta and Switzerland.
Since 2003, Inna Firsova has been a junior student at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater in the class of Prof. Grigory Gruzman, where she was a scholarship holder of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation. She continued her studies with Prof. Gruzman at the Music Gymnasium Schloss Belvedere in Weimar, which she completed with a high school diploma. At the same time she reached two first prizes in the competition "Jugend musiziert" in the categories "duo violin and piano" and "woodwind and piano
Programme
E Grieg: Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 13 No. 2
M Ravel: Sonata No. 2 in G major, No. 2
E Ysaye: Sonata No. 6 in E major Op. 27 No. 6
R Wagner: Albumblatt
P Tchaikovsky: Romanza in F minor. Song without words
K Szymanovski: Myth - La fontaine d'Arethuse Op. 30, M. 29
M Ravel: Tzigane
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