UPCOMING CONCERTS
November 4, 2026
Shostakovich St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonia, Small hall
St Petersburg
"Blizzard". "Coat"
Tchaikovsky; Glinka; Massene; Schnittke; Caldara; Prigogow; Donizetti - Serra; Perrotte;
"The Snowstorm", a concert performance based on the story of the same name by A.S. Pushkin ;
Ksenia Gavrilova, piano; Alexandra Korobkina, violin; Boris Nikonov, percussion; Viktoria Romanova, soprano; Daria Gavrilova, soprano; Tigriy Bajakin, baritone; Sergey Chepurcko, bass-baritone; Alexander Kashpurin, piano, musical director of the project.
November 6, 2026
Friday, 7.30 pm
Myasnikov Mansion
St Petersburg
Labyrints of Beauty and The Temptation of Beauty
Labyrints of Beauty, a Metaopus with music of Khrustcheva, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Kapustin, Panakhov, Goltz, Lyadov, Glinka, Slonimsky. The Tempation of Beauty, a Metaopus with music of Ravel, Mozart, Scriabin, Debussey, Couperin, Stravinsky/Agosti, Ravel, Liszt and Schubert
Alexander Kashpurin
November 8, 2026
Sunday, 5 pm
Teatro Dal Verne, Sala Grande
Milan (IT)
The twilight of Russian Romanticism
- Sergej Rachmaninoff: Preludio in Sol maggiore op. 32 n. 5, Barcarolle in Sol minore op. 10 n. 3, Spring Waters op. 14 n. 11 (trascrizione di Earl Wild), Preludio in Sol minore op. 23 n. 5, Étude-tableau in La minore op. 39 n. 6, Preludio in Do diesis minore op. 3 n. 2
- Medtner: Canzona serenata op. 38 n. 6
- Tchaikovsky-Pletnev. "Andante-maestoso" from the ballet "Nutcracker"
Alexander Kashpurin
December 31, 2026
Thursday, 7 pm
Shostakovich St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonia, Small hall
St Petersburg
New Year's concert
Vivaldi — Concerto No. 4 "Winter" for violin and string orchestra from The Four Seasons; Johann Strauss II — Tritsch-Tratsch Polka; Gardel — Tango (from the film Scent of a Woman); Gade — Jalousie, Tango; Tsfasman — Snowflakes, Lyrical Waltz, Fast Movement; Trojan — The Frog's Serenade for trombone and orchestra; Tchaikovsky — Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from the ballet The Nutcracker; Debussy — Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque; Johann Strauss II — Pizzicato Polka; Khachaturian — Waltz from the incidental music to Mikhail Lermontov's play Masquerade; Johann Strauss I — Radetzky March; "Carol of the Bells"; Saint-Saëns — Aquarium; Rimsky-Korsakov — Flight of the Bumblebee; Williams — Home Alone; De Abreu — Tico-Tico; Father Frost wishes the audience a Happy New Year
Olympic Orchestra,
Conductor – Maxim Val'kov,
Soloist – Alexander Kashpurin (piano)

Final Liszt competition: Alexander, conductor Stéphane Denèvre and Radio Philharminic Orchestra
Photo: Allard Willemse