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Philharmonic Orchestra, Anatolii Rybalko, Viktor Korotich, Ekaterina Sergeeva & Evgenii Mikhailov

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Karelian Philharmonic Orchestra is a cultural heritage of the Republic of Karelia and is the largest orchestra in the Russian North-west. This year the Orchestra celebrates its 90-th anniversary.

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In the past the orchestra was conducted by Leopold Teplitsky, Konstantin Semenov, Karl Eliasberg, Iurii Aranovich, Vitalii Kataev, Aleksandr Dmitriev, Fedor Glushenko, Edvard Chizhvel Oleg Soldatov, Marius Stravinsky. Orchestra played with such eminent musicians as Sviatoslav Rikhter, Emil Gilels, Nikolai Petrov, Naum Shtarkman, Vladimir Krainev, Mstislav Rostropovich, Igor Oistrakh, Dmitrii Bashkirov, Mikhail Pletnev, Alexei Liubimov, Denis Matsuev, Nikolai Luganskii, Vadim Kholodenko, Vladimir Spivakov, Sergei Stadler, Tatiana Grindenko, Dora Shvartsberg, Aleksandr Rudin, Natalia Shakhovskaia, Iurii Bashmet, Boris Andrianov, Arkadii Shilkloper, Ilia Gringolts and many others.

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The orchestra repertoire includes plays that belong to different world music styles and genres. Along with the well-known symphony masterpieces the orchestra often performs the music of the 20th-21st centuries. Not once the orchestra was trusted to play the Russian and world premieres of the contemporary compositions.

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Annual season tickets and festivals show the active artistic life of the orchestra, the breadth and diversity of its interests. Symphonic concerts are attended by listeners of all ages. Great attention is paid to working with child audience. In order to attract a new audience Orchestra performs pop and rock music, popular classics, is involved in educational projects.

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The orchestra performs in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, in the Republic of Karelia and other Russian regions. The touring map includes Germany, Poland, France, Spain, Italy and Switzerland. The orchestra has good relations with partners from Finland and other Scandinavian countries.

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Art director and the main conductor — Anatolii Rybalko

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Anatolii Rybalko, an Honoured artist of Karelia is an art director and a principal conductor of the Karelia Philharmonic Orchestra (since 2013).

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He graduated from the St.Petersburg State Conservatory as a choral conductor and opera and symphonic conductor. Anatolii studied from legendary teachers - professors Kudriavtseva and Martynov.

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Since 2002 he has been working as a conductor in Saint-Petersburg state children’s musical theatre Zazerkalie. At the same time, he teaches at the Department of Opera and Symphony Conducting of the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory and the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov College.

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Anatolii Rybalko cooperates with the St.Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the St.Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the State Hermitage Orchestra and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra.

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Anatolii Rybalko toured around the cities in Russia, Europe, Japan. He was recorded at Sony Pictures Classics label.

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Soloists:

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Viktor Korotich (baritone) is an Honoured Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre, recipient of prestigious prizes in arts and culture, including the St Petersburg Government Prize, the Onegin National Opera Prize and the St Petersburg Golden Sofit Theatre Prize.

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Ekaterina Sergeeva (mezzo-soprano) is a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre, winner of international and all-Russian competitions, winner of the Rodion Shchedrin and Maya Plisetskaya International Fund, solo roles in productions of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, Mikhailovsky Theatre, Bavarian State Opera, German Opera in Berlin, Opera de Monte Carlo. She has performed in premiere productions of The Tales of Hoffmann, Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades, The Idiot, War and Peace, Not Only Love, A Christmas Tale at the Mariinsky Theatre.

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Evgenii Mikhailov (piano) - Honoured Artist of Russia, People's Artist of Tatarstan, Honoured Artist of Udmurtia, Professor of the Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatoire. He is one of the most distinctive modern Russian pianists. Critics have called him an acclaimed master of performing music from the Silver Age - works by Metner, Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. \"I can only speak of him in superlatives. As a pianist he is perfect and as a musician he is very profound,\" - famous German organist and conductor Leo Kremer praised Mikhailov.

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