When the classical piano music from the banks of the Volga crosses mountains and seas to reach the…
When the classical piano music from the banks of the Volga crosses mountains and seas to reach the mountain city on the banks of the Yangtze, and drawing on the national-level China-Russia people-to-people exchange opportunity, an authentic Russian-school two-piano classic concert is about to resound. "Seeing China in Chongqing" — the "China-Russia Year of Education" Art Education Exchange Series · Concert, jointly hosted by Chongqing Poly Wintime Theatre Management Co., Ltd. and Chongqing Normal University, draws on the China-Russia Year of Education cooperation platform to build a cultural bond of aesthetic education exchange between the two countries through piano art.
This concert specially invites two renowned Russian pianists to perform together. Andrei Pisarev is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, having won numerous international piano competition awards including the Rachmaninoff, Mozart, and Busoni competitions, and received the Moscow City Prize for Literature and Art. He regularly gives masterclasses in many countries, training numerous students who have won international competitions. Young pianist Ivan Koshcheev is a doctoral graduate of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, having won major awards at international piano competitions in China, Germany, France, and Switzerland. He serves as a contracted soloist with the St. Petersburg Music House and the Moscow Philharmonic, and also teaches at the Moscow Conservatory and the Gnessin College of Music.
The entire program features masterpieces of Russian two-piano repertoire. The first half presents Medtdtner's Two Pieces for Two Pianos and Rachmaninoff's Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos; the second half performs the composer's own two-piano arrangement of the Symphonic Dances. Each half runs 45 minutes, fully displaying the unique charmf Russian-school piano art.
Music links two places; elegance meets the mountain city. This concert is an important vehicle for deepening China-Russia art education exchange. We hope to use piano music as a bridge to deepen the cultural connection between the two countries. We sincerely invite teachers, students, and music lovers to gather at the Chongqing Grand Theatre to enjoy a cross-border classical music feast together.