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Orchestra Gradus ad Parnassum Inaugural Concert
Inaugural concert of the new you youth Orchestra Gradus ad Parnassum presents works of Weber, Brahms, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Schubert, Bizet and Svendsen. Featured soloists are Anna Yelizarova (mezzo-soprano), Eric Wang, Bryan Sun, Anne Plescia, Alexandra Zhu
(violins), and Music Director - Imant Kotsinsh.
Praised in the early days of his career as a "fine musician whose performance touched to tears" by the great conductor Evgeny Svetlanov, Latvian-American conductor Imant Kotsinsh went on to become a prominent artist in his native country and abroad. His talent and experience brought him a recognition that propelled him to several resident conductor positions with such orchestras as The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Monterey Symphony, and Symphony of New Russia. Mr. Kotsinsh had many guest appearances with orchestras such as the Moscow Philharmonic, The National Latvian Symphony, Gyunggi Philharmonic, Symphony Orchestra of Russia, National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine and more than dozen of orchestras across former USSR. As a Music Director he also led such orchestras as Daugavpils Symphony, Yaroslavl Philharmonic and National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan.
Mr. Kotsinsh was sought after by companies like National Latvian Opera, The Tchaikovsky Perm Opera & Ballet, Chişinău National Opera, The Alisher Navoi Grand Opera, Riga Operetta and others, where he led many productions. At the Bolshoi Ballet, world's leading ballet company, he made a National premiere of the ballet Cyrano de Bergerac, choreographed by the legendary Roland Petit. His wide opera, ballet, operetta and musical repertoire ranges from Giselle to Rite of Spring, from Eugene Onegin to Il Trovatore.
Throughout his career Mr. Kotsinsh was happy to collaborate with many prominent artists like mezzo-soprano Irina Arkhipova, baritone Vladimir Chernov, bass Ildar Abdrazakov; pianists Boris Berezovsky, Derek Han, Dubravka Tomšič, Diane Walsh, Dmitry Bashkirov; violinist Mikhail Bezverkhny and many others. As an enthusiastic artistic director, Mr. Kotsinsh participated in several festivals, including Skaneateles Festival in New York State, International Arkhipova Festival in Moscow and International Sobinov Festival in Yaroslavl. A true champion of modern music, Mr. Kotsinsh premiered and performed many works of contemporary composers such as Alfred Schnittke, Edison Denisov, Evgeny Svetlanov, Sergey Slonimsky, Sergey Berinsky and others at the International Moscow Autumn Festival.
Conductor's core repertoire includes virtually all major symphonies and oratorios by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Shostakovich, just to name a few. Russia's top record label Melodia released five discs of Mr. Kotsinsh's performances and his career brought him on stages of Latvia, Russia and as far as France, Germany, South Korea and USA.
Trained first as a violinist at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga, Mr. Kotsinsh studied there also conducting with Professor Vassily Sinaisky. Later his other mentors were great conductors Ilya Musin and Arvīds Jansons. He himself rose to become a violin and conducting teacher, having been a Professor at the Saratov State Conservatory and Associate Professor in Conducting and Music Director at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music.
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LocationDublin High School Center for the Performing Arts and Education (View)
8151 Village Parkway
Dublin, CA 94568
United States
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