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Music and vocal: Margarita Zelenaia Poetry: Ovsey Driz Declamation: Margarita Vishnyakova Performers: Duet “Margo-Rita” Violin: Nathaniel Faerman Piano: Gragina Benalia

The world premiere of Margarita Zelenaia’s piece “Unwinding the Memory’s Thread” for cello and piano will be featured at the concert on February 13, 2024 at 7:30pm at the Merkin Hall (129 West 67th Street btw Broadway and Amsterdam, New York, NY 10023) https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/andrey-tchekmazov-cello-irina-nuzova-piano/ Performers: Andrey Tchekmazov, cello Irina Nuzova, piano The duo Andrey Tchekmazov and Irina Nuzova won first […]

Featured Andrey Tchekmazov, cello. Choreography by Tadej Brdnik, a former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, a recipient of the Benetton Dance Award and Battery Dance’s Eugene Loring Award. World premiere – Battery Dance Festival (2015) The second premiere – at the Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University (2016) as part of the international program with work commissioned by […]

I was thrilled to be part of this project based on my music! I am talking of the “Wild Turnpike”, the film-ballet by amazingly gifted Lauren Starobin. Here is her description: “Wild Turnpike is the story of a young woman searching for a connection. Turning onto the “Wild Turnpike,” she is thrust into a surreal odyssey and encounters strange characters […]

The Pianissimo! ensemble’s mission as a four piano ensemble is topresent entertaining and education programs of Classical music on two and fourpianos. https://youtu.be/2SxR92LzoWQ The “Fantasy for Four Pianos on Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade” continues the tradition of Russian romanticism, a music style that changed the world. In 2015, it was commissioned and premiered by the “Pianissimo!” Four pianos Chicago based ensemble. The […]

Here is the production trailer video: https://vimeo.com/349955270 A few words from the author of the project Lauren Starobin, an extremely talented designer and dancer: “The concept of this film came from a desire to be expressive in the art and craft of fashion design by using costumes as symbolic devices integral to the narrative of a story. In ‘Wild Turnpike’ […]

I have finished my opera, entitled “Caligula” (“Caligula’s Favorite Play” the English adaptation), and recorded a 9’ DEMO in English. I have collaborated with the very talented librettists Igor Tsunsky and Eric Nicholas, Katya Ignatova amazingly helped Eric with translation. My cast of singers participating in the DEMO are fantastic: Mikhail Svetlov is one of the finest basses of our […]