Highlights of the Festival 2017
The Alion Baltic International Music Festival 2017 will present concerts by the "star line-up" of the world-recognized musicians:
- pianists Mikhail Voskresensky, Sergei Edelmann, Michael Bulychev-Okser, and the Winner of the Rubenstein International Music competition 2015 - Antoniy Barushevsky
- Violinists Victor Tretyakov, Alissa Margulis, and Sergei Stadler
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etropolitan Opera Soprano, Olga Makarina, La Scala Soprano Denia Mazzola Gavazzeni, and Baritone, David Gvinianidze
- Cellists Alexander Bouzlov and Levi-Danel Magila
- Duets Davide Alogna/Bruno Canino (Pianist for Itzhak Perlman)
- Marco Miscignia/Michael Bulychev-Okser
- Sankt-Peterburg String Quartet
- Molodechno Symphony Orchestra and Alion Baltic Intyernational Symphony Orchestra led by Maestro Gerardo Estrada Martinez (The Golden baton of South America). The Festival 2017 will also feature an evening of 3 Baritones, featuring stars of Bol'shoj Theater (Moscow), Mariinsky Theatre (St. Peterburg), and the world recognized baritone, David Gvinianidze. The concert will be devoted to Muslim Magomaev and Georg Ots. Program 2017
The Alion Baltic International Music Festival 2017 offers competitive program, which offers private lessons and master classes in Strings, Winds & Brass, Piano, Composition, Voice, and Chamber Music, Guitar, and Conducting, presenting internationally recognized musicians from Estonia, The United States, Latvia, Finland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, China, Russia, Belgium, Ukraine and Georgia. FOR STUDENTS:
CONCERTS BY TOP MUSICIANS
LESSONS/MASTER CLASSES
Alion Baltic International Music Festival also presents Private Lessons and publicly open Master Classes in:
Piano, Violin/Viola, Cello, Winds/Brass, Voice and Chamber Music, Orchestra, Guitar, and Condcuting - all students are welcome to participate. The lessons and Master Classes take place at the beautiful Georg Otsa name Academy, which is partnering with our festival. Each classroom at the Tallinn Academy equipped with 2 Pianos, and the Chamber Hall, where Master classes will be held, is equipped with Steinway, Yamaha, and Fazioli pianos: please see the conservatory picture, here:
http://alionbalticfestival.com/pollackmasterklass2015.html
New for 2017! ALION BALTIC INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRA - included into the course! Conducted by Maestro Gerardo Estrada Martinez - students for Strings, Winds/Brass, and Percussion will have a unique opportunity to be part of orchestra, combined from Estonian students and professionals and international students coming to the festival. Each weekend will feature a concert by Alion Baltic Orchestra, performing the most intriguing, yet astonishing pieces of symphonic repertoire. STUDENT CONCERTS
Daily concerts for students take place at least 12 Halls in Tallinn, and also in other cities in Estonia: Tartu, Narva, Parnu, Viimsi, Hapsulu, Rakvere, Sillamae, and Johvi. CONCERT TRIPS
Concerts will also take place outside Estonia. We take our students and faculty on the buses to perform in Riga (Latvia), Helsinki (Finland), and Vilnius, Lithuania. CHAMBER MUSIC
Chamber Music is taught AND conducted by experts like - Sankt-Peterburg String Quartet, Mikhail Voskresensky (Professor at the Moscow Conservatory), Valentina Goncharova (Professor Estonian Conservatory, Estonia). THE III Alion Baltic INTERNATIONAL MUSIC Competition 2017 - July 22 and 23! Open to all students at the festival - Free Admission. 150 Euro entry fee for students outside of the festival, just coming for the competition. Prizes: Performance with Orchestra in the 2018 Season, Cash prizes, Jewelry Gifts, Scholarships for Alion Baltic Festival 2018,
8 selected Candidates will receive a free admission to the Semi-final Round of the III G.Gershwin International Music Competition in New York, USA, sponsored by the Gershwin Family Estate. NUMEROUS SCHOLARSHIPS AND WORK-STUDIES ARE AVAILABLE
- Lodging at the International Center Hotel (10 minute walk to conservatory) with Breakfast (Meal plan - lunch and Dinner combined is another 15 Euro per day - optional)
PRESENTATION
For the IV consecutive season, The Alion Baltic International Music Festival opens its concert doors to meet the ecstatic audience. Established in 2014 with a help and support from Mr. Sten Schwede, Consul General of Estonia in The United States, the festival proved to be a unique musical event, organized on a large-scale international level. Nine days of the festival 2014 presented 21 concerts in Tallinn, Narva, Rakvere, Johvi and other cities around Estonia. The performers were world-recognized pianists and vocalists from Estonia, The United States, Bolivia, Russia, Germany, Japan, Spain, France, China, Greece, Serbia, Taiwan, and Uzbekistan. The Estonian community met it with an overwhelming enthusiasm. Continuing its traditions, The Alion Baltic International Music Festival 2015 opened in Tallinn with a triumphal recital by the legendary American pianist, festival's Artist in Residence, Daniel Pollack. Festival 2015 concerts took place in Tallinn, Parnu, Sillamae, Narva, Tartu, and in Riga, Latvia. Lessons and master classes took place at the Tallin's Academy of Music and Theatre. Season 2016 presented 3 orchestras, Solo recitals by Oxana Yablonskaya and Daniel Pollack, and an evening of Memory to Eri Klas, when Sergei Stadler conducted the Sankt-Peterburg Symphony. Season 2017 will culminate with an Opera Gala! In cooperation with the Narva Symphony Orchestra, Alion Baltic festival presented an evening of Mozart, presenting Guest Artists from United States, Finland, Ukraine, and South Korea. Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of the Estonian Composers Union, one of the festival's concert presented music of exclusively Estonian Composers: Jarvo Part, Lepo Sumera, Mart-Matis Lill, and others.
