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36th Annual Russian-American Cultural Festival
Educational Bridge Project
Fall 2019
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
October 14 - 30, 2019

XXXVI РОССИЙСКО-АМЕРИКАНСКИЙ ФЕСТИВАЛЬ
«ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОГО МОСТА»
Осень 2019 г.
Бостон, США
14 - 30 октября, 2019 г.


Fall 2019 Schedule of the EBP’s 36th Russian-American Festival
Monday, 10/14/19 Columbus Day

12 noon – 1 p.m. Boston Bilingual Singers
Professor Maria Lyudko gives a Master-class for the voice students
Tuesday, 10/15/19

2:40 p.m. JFK Airport, NYC
Nikita Tselischev arrives in New York and begins his Full-Immersion Program designed by Roland Kitsis
Wednesday, 10/16/19

5 p.m. Ludmilla Leibman’s office
Business meeting with Maria Lyudko and Georges Devdariani
Thursday, 10/17/19

2 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Boston University Marsh Chapel
Chekhov and Tchaikovsky – presentation for the students of Maria Gapotchenko’s Writing Program class
by Coloratura Soprano Maria Lyudko, film and theater actor Georges Devdariani, and musicologist Ludmilla Leibman

8 p.m. Boston Symphony Hall, Cultural program for participants
Festival participants are invited to the Boston Symphony Orchestra concert
Friday, 10/18/19

7-8 p.m. Boston Bilingual Singers
Nikita Tselischev’s first presentation: “The Conquest of Cosmos”


Saturday, 10/19/19

12 noon – 6 p.m. Harvard Yard and Harvard University
Nikita Tselishchev invited by Abigail Joseph, Harvard University student, to see Harvard University campus
and watch Head of the Charles Regatta

7-8 p.m. Boston Bilingual Singers
Nikita Tselischev’s second presentations: “Mysteries of Cosmos”


Sunday, 10/20/19

2:20 p.m. NYC Port Authority Bus Station
Nikita Tselischev returns to New York to continue his Full-Immersion Program, designed by Roland Kitsis


Monday, 10/21/19

Morning: Patrick Walker takes Nikita Tselischev for one-day tour to Poughkeepsie, NY

4:30-6:30 p.m. Tufts University Granoff Music Center, Contemporary Composition Seminar (Music 118)
Petr Iurchenko and Kristina Bibikova perform their compositions for the students of Professor John McDonald

8 p.m. BU Tsai Performance Center, Cultural program for participants
Concert of the music by the Boston University Professor Richard Cornell 


Tuesday, 10/22/19

8 p.m. BU CFA Concert Hall, Cultural program for participants
Concert of two-piano music performed by BU Professors Boaz Sharon and Pavel Nersessian


Wednesday, 10/23/19

7 p.m. Berklee College of Music, Oliver Colvin Recital Hall, Cultural program for participants
Trace Zacur performs Jazz, Rock and Soul


Thursday, 10/24/19

10 a.m. –11 a.m. Science Museum, Cultural program for participants
Ilia Kruglik invited by Katya Anoshkin for a tour of the Museum

1 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Cultural program for participants
Professor Vartan Aghababian invites Kristina Bibikova and Petr Iurchenko to see new exhibits

3p.m. – 5 p.m. Boston University School of Music Marshall Room
Kristina Bibikova and Petr Iurchenko participate in the composition workshop with Professor Vartan Aghababian and his students

7:30 p.m. Harvard Musical Association (HMA), Cultural program for participants
Concert by Z.E.N. Trio – Zhang Zuo, piano, Esther Yoo, violin, Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello


Friday, 10/25/19

Time tbc: DeCordova Museum, Cultural program for participants
Org. by Katya Anoshkin

6 p.m. (time tbc) BU CFA Studio of Professor Boaz Sharon
Professor Sharon’s Master-class with Ilia Kruglik

8 p.m. BU Tsai Performance Center, Cultural program for participants
Concert of the Boston University Symphony Orchestra;
program includes L’apres-midi by Debussy, A Guide to Strange Places by Adams, and Symphony No. 2 by Schumann


Saturday, 10/26/19

9:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Boston Bilingual Singers
Natalia Nesterova invited to attend three classes

3 p.m. NEC Preparatory Division
Ilia Kruglik meets with the NEC Preparatory Division piano students and performs his program (org. by Heeyeon Chi)

7:30 p.m. First Church Boston, Cultural program for participants
Roots and Wings - Juventas Ensemble, concert of Contemporary Music


Sunday, 10/27/19

Time tbc Afternoon, Cultural program for participants
Ilia Kruglik is invited by Katya Anoshkin to the Submarine Museum in Reading, MA


Monday, 10/28/19

11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Shaloh House Jewish Day School
Natalia Nesterova is invited to attend Irina Gelman’s class

4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Boston Bilingual Singers, 50 Kearney Rd., Needham, MA
Natalia Nesterova attends a class for 6-7 y.o. pupils (org. by Katya Anoshkin)

7:30 – 9 p.m. BU Tsai Performance Center, Cultural program for participants
Elie Wiesel Memorial Lecture Series: Writing from a Place of Survival, Sharon Portnoff


Tuesday, 10/29/19

9:30-11 a.m. BU School of Music, Concert Hall
Composers Forum: Petr Iurchenko and Kristina Bibikova perform their compositions and
talk about composers education in Russia. Org. by Prof. Martin Amlin

4-5:30 p.m. L. Leibman’s office
Iosif Raiskin’s Second Boston Tea-Party
Mikhail Bulgakov - Composer, Talk by the Mariinsky Theater Musicologist Iosif Raiskin

8 p.m. Boston Symphony Hall, Cultural program for participants
Five festival participants are invited to the BSO concert


Wednesday, 10/30/19

10:30 a.m.- 12 noon Russian Scientists Club of Massachusetts
Conference on Contemporary Music
Iosif Raiskin gives a talk:
Comparative Analysis of Two Contemporary Russian Compositions -
Gavrilin’s “Chiming” and Desyatnikov’s “The Russian Seasons”

6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. Harvard Musical Association Marsh Room
Concert of Music by Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951)
Haeshin Shin – organizer and performer; Ilia Kruglik participant