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IV INTERNATIONAL MUSIC KALEVALA FEST ITALY, ENGLAND, FINLAND AND RUSSIA18 October (Friday) – 2 November (Saturday) 2013
Pop-jazz, blues, fusion, Latina jazz and modern mainstream The city of Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, Russia
The international music “Kalevala Fest” has been keeping the traditions of the well known jazz festivals “Stars and we” held by the Petrozavodsk music college of K.E. Rautio since 1986. “Kalevala Fest” has already become an every year event in the cultural life of Karelia due to the hard work of its two organizers – Natalia Aluferova (director of the travel company “Around.ru”) and Elena Letunovskaya (a musicologist and a teacher of the Petrozavodsk music college of K.E. Rautio). This year the festival receives the guest-musicians from Italy and England, from Finland and from Russia. The diverse calendar of the festival has always attracted the professionals and the music-lovers of different ages by concerts in philharmonic and club formats, master-classes, jam-sessions and the photo-contest “How I see music”. “Kalevala Fest 2013” will be from 18 October to 2 November in the concert hall of the Petrozavodsk state conservatoire of A.K. Glazunov, in the Petrozavodsk music college of K.E. Rautio and in the club-restaurant “Begemot”. Elena Letunovskaya leads the concerts.
Director of the festival - Natalia Aluferova (director of the travel company “Around.ru”).
Art-director – Elena Letunovskaya (a musicologist, a teacher of the Petrozavodsk music college of K.E. Rautio).
The organizers of the festival: - Natalia Aluferova (director of the travel company “Around.ru”, Petrozavodsk); - Elena Letunovskaya (a musicologist, a teacher of the Petrozavodsk music college of K.E. Rautio).
General partner: the Petrozavodsk music college of K.E. Rautio.
Main partners: - the club-restaurant “Begemot” (Petrozavodsk, Karelia); - the Savonia University of Applied Sciences, the School of Music and Dance (Kuopio, Finland).
PROGRAMME OF KALEVALA FEST
18 OCTOBER (FRIDAY)
12.00 – 13.30 The press-conference and the master-class: the band “Alice Claire Ranieri Quartet, Philology” (Italy – England). The Petrozavodsk music college of K.E. Rautio.
The entrance fee is free of charge. The number of persons is limited.
19.00 THE OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL. The concert and the jam-session. The concert hall of the Petrozavodsk state conservatoire of A.K. Glazunov. The concert of the band “Alice Claire Ranieri Quartet, Philology” (Italy – England). The band “Philology” (Italy - England): Andrea Frascaroli – the piano and the music director of the quartet, Alice Claire Ranieri – vocal, Stefano Cesare – double-bass, Gianni Di Renzo – drums.
Andrey Ryabov (guitar) and Aleksey Cheremizov (piano). Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
The price per ticket: 800 - 1500 roubles (20 – 40 euro).
2 NOVEMBER (SATURDAY)
12.00 -13.30 The press-conference and the master-class (Finland). The Petrozavodsk music college of K.E. Rautio.
The entrance fee is free of charge. The number of persons is limited.
19.00 The concert “Scandinavian cocktail”. The club-restaurant “Begemot”.
Jazz Quartet Boys of Finland with the vocalist: - Katariina Vuoristo – vocal;
Tanguango-trio: Maija Teikari, piano; Kirsi Laamanen, accordion; soloist: Matti Taskinen, baritone;
dancers: Hannu Hyttinen and Heli Laukkanen. Peter & Ñ (Russia): Petr Shaforostov – bass, Oleg Potsenkovsky – drums, Grigory Zimin – guitar, Alexander Kazarin – trumpet, Sergey Shishkov – piano and Arkady Galkovsky – saxophone.
The price per ticket (seats at tables): 800 - 1500 roubles (20 – 40 euro). Meals and drinks are extra paid.
Main partners: -the club-restaurant “Begemot” (Petrozavodsk, Karelia); -the Savonia University of Applied Sciences, the School of Music and Dance (Kuopio, Finland).
The information partners: - the tourist information centre of the Republic of Karelia; - the newspaper “10 Region”; - the radio station “Evropa+’; - the TV-company “Nika+”; - the computer net “Sampo.ru”.
The other partners: -FLYSURFER – the German producer of the equipment for kiting; - the music instruments’ shop “Muzmaster”; - the design studio “Biografica”; - the surf-station “Peski”; - the hotel “Prionezhsky”; - the hotel “Petrozavodsk .
The tickets can be bought at: 1) The office of the travel company “Around.ru”, 32-a, Suoyarvskaya St., Petrozavodsk, tel.: +7 (8142)565046, http://around-karelia.ru 2) The Petrozavodsk state conservatoire of A.K. Glazunov, 16, Leningradskaya St., Petrozavodsk, tel.: +7(8142) 672367, http://glazunovcons.ru 3) The club-restaurant “Begemot”, 7, Dzerzhinskogo St., Petrozavodsk, tel.: +7(8142) 594011, +79114375268, http://vk.com/club_begemot
For more information please contact: the travel company Around.ru tel/fax: +78142 565046 office mobile: +79114052000 email: around.ru@mail.ru http://around-karelia.ru Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia http://vk.com/aroundrukarelia https://www.facebook.com/around.ru?ref=tn_tnmn
The participants of “Kalevala Fest 2013”
The band “Alice Claire Ranieri Quartet, Philology” (Italy – England).
With her first Cd released in 2007, the 27 year old Anglo-Italian singer Alice Claire Ranieri stunned her listeners and was among the final six vocalists for the Italian Jazz Awards 2009. Here she is, three years later, with a new work which finds her more mature, incisive and aware. Supported by her modern-mainstream trio, Alice Claire performs a surprising choice of instrumental masterpieces, some beautiful vocal standards and three original tunes, written by the pianist and musical director of the quartet, Andrea Frascaroli, and introducing an exceptional lyricist: the Andalusian poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Andrea Frascaroli guides a tried and tested rhythm section, made up by the skilful bass player Stefano Cesare and drummer Gianni Di Renzo, through a variety of musical arrangements full of feeling, creativity and enthusiasm. Such as ‘Black Nile’, where Alice Claire sings an animated scat in unison with the piano, ‘The Good Life’ enriched with a tasty guitar solo by Piero Masciarelli, and the delicate soul-flavored ‘Blue Eyes’, a superb composition by Lewis Taylor. This new work by the Alice Claire Ranieri quartet, “Every Song”, stands out for its close-knit interplay and the Alice Claire’s desire to find a personal way to render and evolve the vocal jazz tradition. “The best surprise of vocal jazz in Italy”. Alex Dutilh – Radio France (Paris). “ The second fabulous record of this marvellous singer”. Silvio Horacio Zudiker – Radio Fm La Boca (Buenos Aires). “Impressive elegance and attention to details. Evening dress required.” Roberto Paviglianiti – Allaboutjazz (Italy).
Andrey Ryabov (Saint-Petersburg) – one of the best jazz guitar players; he was generally recognized not only in Russia, but also in the USA, and other countries. During the last two decades he has been touring around the world with the best jazz groups, and he regularly performs with his concerts in New York, where he is considered one of the best musicians playing jazz nowadays. Aleksey Cheremizov (Saint-Petersburg) – an excellent pianist, a wonderful accompanist and an interesting music producer. He got the public recognition by playing in different bands and by participating in jazz festivals with international projects. Jazz Quartet Boys of Finland, the students of the Savonia University of Applied Sciences, the School of Music and Dance (Kuopio, Finland). It plays with fresh hold and showing its own interpretation from their big examples music. The programme mainly consists of the American mainstream jazz, among that Latin-jazz and bebop tunes. The band's style is based on the sensitive moods - and also “up and running with dangerous situations”. Petri Lusikka - guitar, Roope Pelkonen - Piano, Tony Lehto - bass, Joonas Hiltunen - Drums.
Tanguango - two faces of tango! (Finland). Tanguango is a music and dance production which highlights the tango music of the two great tango countries of the world – Argentina and Finland. The most beloved tangos composed by Argentinean composers Astor Piazzolla and Carlos Gardell as well as the best Finnish tango music will be heard in the programme, some of them also performed by dancing tango couple. The title of the Tanguango – concert and trio comes from Astor Piazzolla chanting tango piece. Tanguango-trio: - Maija Teikari, piano; - Kirsi Laamanen, accordion; - soloist: Matti Taskinen, baritone; - dancers: Hannu Hyttinen and Heli Laukkanen. Susanna Mieskonen-Makkonen studied in the Kuopio Music Conservatoire and in the Tel Aviv Rubin-Academy with Yair Kless and Ora Shiran. She worked as a violist in the Herzelia Chamber Orchestra (Israel), in the Kuopio, Pori ja Mikkeli city orchestras and in the Savonlinna-Quartet as a leading violist. Maija Teikari studied the piano in the Sibelius-Academy and in the Helsinki Conservatoire with Liisa Pohjola, Eero Heinonen, Violeta Petrova and Carlos Juris. She completed her studies in the New England Conservatoire in Boston. She widely performed as a pianist in Finland and abroad. Her permanent position is a music lecturer in the Savonlinna Music Institute. Kirsi Laamanen has played the accordion since 8 years old and studied the accordion in the Centre-Finland Conservatory with Alpo Pohja and Vladimir Dolgopolov. Her permanent position is a music lecturer in the Savonlinna Music Institute. Matti Taskinen is a Finnish baritone who has performed as an opera and tango singer. He has just published a new record of the unique and original Finnish tango music. Hannu Hyttinen was a leading male dancer in the Dance Theatre Raatikko 1986-2000. He has worked with various national and international choreographers and performed in over 30 countries. He has done choreography works for operas, theatres and dance groups. He was director of the Savonlinna Ballet Festival 2007-2012. Heli Laukkanen studied folk and ballroom dances and works as a teacher in those dance genres. Hannu Hyttinen and Heli Laukkanen have taken part in the competitions as a couple in ballroom and Latin dances since 2003.
Peter & Ñ (Russia) - this is for the first time when so experienced musicians united for “Kalevala Fest 2013” and have prepared the new programme in the style of fusion. It is the combination of the author music of the participants and the original arrangements of the popular of jazz melodies. Petr Shaforostov (a bass player). He began his music career in the ensemble of Andrey Kondakov. Petr is educated in the traditions of mainstream and fusion; has been on many tours in Europe and the USA with jazz bands like Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the music project 50*s and 60*s nights, etc.). Petr is a versatile musician; he performed in the theatrical and philharmonic orchestras, in the folk group “Zoryayne”, in the rock club “Motoroller”; he also worked as a teacher of jazz in the Petrozavodsk music college of K.E. Rautio and the Petrozavodsk state conservatoire of A.K. Glazunov. Sergey Shishkov (the town of Velikie Luki) – a pianist of the international class usually giving the performances with the jazzmen of St.Petersburg and Moscow. Sergey plays the author jazz music.
Arkady Galkovsky – a famous jazzman, saxophonist, clarinetist, a teacher of the Pskov regional college of arts. In the repertoire of his quintet there are compositions of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespy, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
About the photo contest “How I see music”: it will take place during “Kalevala Fest” from 18th October to 2nd November. Both professional photographers and amateurs can participate in the contest. The main condition is that the photos must be taken at the concerts or the other events of “Kalevala Fest 2013”. The participants must send the applications to the email of the travel company “Around.ru” around.ru@mail.ru Please write your names, your surnames, the age, your email and your contact phone. Each participant will get a badge giving the right to make the photos at the concerts (note: the badge doesn’t give the right to attend the concerts free of charge). The participants must download the photos in the photo contest group on the VKontakte page of Around.ru http://vk.com/aroundrukarelia in the format 1000 dots (the longest side) and send the copy to around.ru@mail.ru The results of the photo contest “How I see music” will be announced after 2nd November, after the final concert of “Kalevala Fest 2013”. The photos of the winners and some other participants will be presented at the photo exhibition at the club-restaurant “Begemot”. The winners of the photo contest will get the prizes from the organizers and the partners of “Kalevala Fest”. The judges of the photo contest: Andrey Savin (a professional video designer, photographer, etc.), Natalia Aluferova (director of “Kalevala Fest”), Elena Letunovskaya (art-director of “Kalevala Fest”). The nominations of the photo contest “How I see music”: - “The portrait of a musician”; - “The motion in music”; - “The humor in music”.
For more information please contact: the travel company Around.ru tel/fax: +78142 565046 office mobile: +79114052000 email: around.ru@mail.ru http://around-karelia.ru Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia http://vk.com/aroundrukarelia https://www.facebook.com/around.ru?ref=tn_tnmn
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