Classical Paradise
National Symphony
Orchestra of Uzbekistan
Orchestra of Uzbekistan
Dubai, UAE
Closing off their stay at the 2023 InClassica International Music Festival, the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan shall take to the stage of the Coca-Cola Arena on Sunday 19th February alongside Italian conductor Gianluca Marcianò, the Principal Conductor of Orchestra ICO della Magna Grecia, Principal Guest Conductor of Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director of the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut, Founder and Artistic Director of the Festival of Lerici Music, and Artistic Director of Chelsea Opera Group. Joining them for their final concert at this edition of the festival will be the celebrated pianist Nikita Mndoyants, First Prize winner of the 2016 Cleveland International Piano Competition, and of the 2007 Paderewski International Piano Competition. Together with the orchestra, he will be presenting a programme of timeless favourites from the classical piano repertoire, bringing a fitting end to the ensemble’s time in Dubai.
Praised by the Sunday Times "for his unfailingly theatrical and idiomatic conducting", conductor Gianluca Marcianò made his debut in 2006 at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.
Originally from Lerici, in the province of La Spezia, he founded the Suoni dal Golfo Festival in his hometown overlooking the Gulf of Poets, renamed Lerici Music Festival in 2020, of which he is artistic director. Marcianò has very strong ties with the Opera Houses of
Oviedo, Minsk, Ljubjana, as well as in the UK (English National Opera, Grange Park Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North and Longborough Opera Festival). At Grange Park Opera, since 2010, he conducted La Traviata, Tosca, Un ballo in maschera, Rigoletto, The
Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan Tutte, Alzira, Nabucco, Don Carlo, Evgenij Onegin, Samson et Dalila and Madama Butterfly. He is Artistic Director of the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut and Principal Guest Conductor of Armenian State Symphony Orchestra. From 2011 to 2014 he was Music Director of the Tbilisi State Opera, conducting La Forza del Destino, Cavalleria Rusticana, Nabucco, Attila, Il Trovatore, Mithridates, King of Pontus and Aida.
From 2017 to 2019 Gianluca Marcianò has been Principal Conductor of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. Marcianò has worked with many great singers and instrumentalists, such as: Elina Garanča, Sumi Jo, Joseph Calleja, Simon Keenlyside, Sondra Radvanovsky, Olga Peretyatko, Danielle De Niese, Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon, Arabella Steinbacher, Anna Tifu, Francesca Dego, Vanessa Benelli Mosell, Steven Isserlis, Boris Andrianov, Maria João Pires, Gloria Campaner, David Geringas, Khatia Buniatshvili, Sergei Krylov, Nina Kotova, Giovanni Sollima, Sergei Nakariakov, Denis Kozhukin and Alexander Buzlov. He conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia, Polish Baltic
Philharmonic, Wroclaw Philharmonic, Georgian Philharmonic, Tokyo New City Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Oviedo Filarmonia, Moscow City Russian Philharmonic, Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Classica de Madeira, State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, BBC Concert Orchestra, World Orchestra, Voivodina Symphony Orchestra, Macau Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and others. He recently recorded the album "Momento Immobile" for Rubicon Classics, with soprano Venera Gimadieva and Hallé Orchestra.
His 2021/22 engagements include Falstaff with Bryn Terfel at Grange Park Opera, Nabucco at Opera de Oviedo, a concert with Joseph Calleja at the Ljubljana Winter Festival, a concert with Carmen Giannattasio at the Inclassica Festival in Malta conducting the
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, two new productions of Tosca and I Capuleti e I Montecchi at the Slovenian National Theatre of Ljubljana, concerts with Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica della Città Metropolitana di Bari, Tokyo 21c Philharmonic.
In 2017 Marcianò receive the Honorary Citizenship of the City of Lerici for his achievements and in 2018 has been awarded of the Pavlova Award.
He is Principal Conductor designated of Orchestra della Magna Grecia in Taranto and Matera.
Winner of the prestigious Cleveland International Piano Competition 2016, pianist Nikita Mndoyants was able to convince with his elegance, his technical prowess and the transparency of his playing. In 2007, the young Nikita also won First Prize at the Paderewsky International Piano Competition Poland. Nikita Mndoyants, trained at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, has performed under the direction of renowned conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Vassily Sinaisky or Mario Venzago. He has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the “Evgeny Svetlanov” State Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra de Mulhouse, the Philharmonie de Strasbourg and many more. . In recital, he has traveled to the greatest stages in the world and was applauded in particular at Carnegie Hall in New York, at the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, at the Salle Cortot and at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, at the Opéra de Strasbourg , at the Philharmonie du Luxembourg and at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Nikita Mndoyants is also a regular guest at the Ruhr Piano Festival (Germany), the Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdroj (Poland), the Freiburg International Piano Series (Switzerland) and since 2012, the International Music Festival of Wissembourg (France). After performing with the illustrious Borodin Quartet in 2004, he continued to cultivate his passion for chamber music alongside fabulous ensembles such as the Brentano, Ebène and Zemlinsky Quartets. Recognized composer and orchestrator, Nikita Mndoyants likes to share his own compositions with the public of his recitals. Nikita Mndoyants is well known on the airwaves of France-Musique as well as Polish Radio; he has resided in France since 2018.
The National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan is a highly professional community of musicians, one of the leading collectives of the republic, rightfully constituting the pride of the national musical culture.
In the 80-year history of the orchestra there are a lot of significant events: participation in numerous music festivals, joint performances with outstanding soloists of our time - masters of the domestic and foreign scenes. The repertoire of the orchestra includes almost all major works of Uzbek, Russian, Western European classical music, many modern composers trust the team to premiere performances of their compositions. Also an important place in the activity of the orchestra is occupied by symphonic educational programs for children and youth.
Today there are about 80 musicians in the orchestra. Among them are many of those whose creative activity in this team has been going on for more than a dozen years. At the same time, recently, fresh forces — creative youth, graduates of the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan — have actively joined the orchestra. The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) was created on December 1 in 1937. Its founder and first conductor was N. Gorchakov. In 1948 he was replaced by A. Kozlovsky. From 1956 to 1963, the orchestra was headed by a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory Nariman Alimov, and from 1963 to 1997, the orchestra was headed by a professor, People's Artist of Uzbekistan - Zahid Khaknazarov. In 1986, the NSO was awarded the title of Honored Team of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
In connection with the independence of Uzbekistan, the government of the Republic showed great concern for the aesthetic, cultural, quality service of the population in 1998, the orchestra was separated into an independent creative and economic unit: “The State Unitary Enterprise“ National Symphony Orchestra ”of the Republic of Uzbekistan. This was a new, powerful impetus for the development and fruitful work of the team. The NSO was led by new, young, talented, energetic leaders: People's Artist Ismail Dzhalilov was appointed artistic director and director; chief conductor - composer - Anvar Ergashev; conductor - Vladimir Neimer.
Among the conductors with whom he had the honor of performing the orchestra are the chief conductor of the Sicilian Academy of Music, Gaetano Kolayianni, and the principal conductor of the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra (USA) is Ricardo Capasso. These concerts were a great success with the Tashkent public.
The National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan is widely known not only in its own country, but also abroad. Twice the NSO went on tour to foreign countries - to Thailand, where he performed with an independent concert program. All these performances have always been a great success, and as noted by the foreign press at the highest professional level. The concerts of the group were appreciated by the audience of Russia, Germany, France and other countries.
The main achievement of the orchestra in recent years has been the acquisition of its public, primarily due to its high performing skills and well-thought-out repertoire policies. The repertoire of the orchestra is truly limitless - it is a kind of “calling card” of the collective: compositions of all eras, genres and styles, numerous- premiere performances of works by contemporaries. Concerts of world vocalists: A. Bocelli, A. Safin, H. Carreras, A. Netrebko, and instrumentalists: Behzod Abduraimov (piano), Vladimir Sverdlov-Ashkenazi (piano), Yuri Gandelsman (alto) caused a big resonance in the musical life of Tashkent. , Rochelle Sennet (piano), Igor Kalnin (violin) and many others.
But a truly grand event was the Open Spring concert, held on April 15 2018 at the Palace of the International Forums "Uzbekistan", dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan, which was attended by stars of national, national, academic and pop music.
The National Symphony Orchestra continues to develop successfully and still remains in the very center of the cultural life of the capital. It is doubly pleasant to see that the orchestra not only keeps its high-quality brand, but also surprises listeners with professional growth and surprises in the form of rarely performed compositions. Today, the country's musical life is unthinkable without symphony concerts for connoisseurs of classical music, without programs opening the world of great music for small ones, without meetings with new and new soloists and conductors.
It should be noted that the National Symphony Orchestra makes a worthy contribution to the development of cultural ties in Uzbekistan, contributes to strengthening interaction in the field of classical music, as well as rapprochement of different peoples and nationalities of the world.
