UK Singletary Center for the Arts
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Moscow State Radio Symphony
Friday, February 5, 2010
7:30pm
The Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1978 as an outgrowth of the need for the symphonic repertoire of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries to be broadcast throughout Russia for the benefit of its citizens. It was decided that the Orchestra should broadcast performances on a weekly basis.
The Orchestra expanded its activities into Russian television, including projects with Korean KBC and German ZDF. In 1980 the Orchestra created a major subscription series in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall and Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The Orchestra's first music director was Alexander Mikhailov, who received his education with Evgheny Mravinsky and Ilia Musin. He headed the Orchestra until 1996 before Anatoli Nemudrov assumed the music directorship.
Alexander Sinchuk (image above), First Prize Winner of the 2009 Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition, will be joining the Orchestra.