SPREAD NEW MUSIC TO THE WORLD
2022-2023 season
Tribute to Sergei Rachmaninoff
International contemporary music festival
“Spread New Music to The World” is an international music project-festival designed to help other countries discover new or unknown American classical music through collaborative productions with top-caliber artists from the U.S. and other countries with the support of the United States Department of State.
SWIPE
US MISSION TO RUSSIA
Tribute to Sergei Rachmaninoff
Driven by the mission to unite nations through music, the “Spread New Music to the World” project provided a unique opportunity for Russian audiences to experience new American sacred music in six music productions in three cities of Russia, composed in the traditions of the great Russian-American composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth.
FEATURED COMPOSERS
Eli Tamar
Emmanuel Dubois
Kurt Sander
Serge Rachmaninoff
ARTISTS
Canticum Festum
VOCAL ENSEMBLE
Moscow Synodal Choir
CHOIR
Voce Anima
ORCHESTRA
Melody
VOCAL TRIO
Muffled Voices
ORCHESTRA
Svetlana Polianskaya
SOPRANO
Olga Nadezhdina
CONTRALTO
Iliia Khardikov
TENOR
Arielle
VOCAL ENSEMBLE
ARTISTS
Alexandra Kovalevich
MEZZO-SOPRANO
Yulia Petrachuk
SOPRANO
Grigory Soloviov
BASS
Andrey Nemzer
COUNTERTENOR
Sergey Ababkin
TENOR
Michael Kotelnikov
CONDUCTOR
Elmira Dadasheva
CONDUCTOR
Arif Dadashev
CONDUCTOR
Live & Virtual
2022-2023
SCHEDULE
Kurt Sander – “The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom” – World premiere
- November 30, 2022, at 7pm MSK – Sobornaya Palata, Moscow (live)
- December 19, 2022, at 8pm MSK – Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, White Hall (live and broadcast)
- February 24, 2023, at 11am EST – Broadcast on YouTube from Sobornaya Palata
Christmas Oratorio
Choral works by Eli Tamar and Camille Saint-Saëns
- January 9, at 7pm MSK – St. Andrew Anglican Church, Moscow (live)
Music of the New World
Orgran & vocal works by E. Dubois, E. Tamar, and S. Rachmaninoff
- March 4, 2023, at 8pm MSK – The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary, Moscow (live and broadcast)
- May 13, 2023 at 6pm MSK – Catholic Church of the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Vladimir (live)
- May 31, 2023 at 6pm MSK – broadcast on Lyrica Classic YouTube channel
To the Sobbing of the Bells
“Requiem” by Eli Tamar and “The Bells” by Sergei Rachmaninoff
- May 3, 2023, at 7pm MSK – International House of Music, Moscow (live and broadcast on TV MuseSoyuz)
- May 29, 2023, at 7pm – broadcast of Requiem on Lyrica Classic YouTube
- May 31, 2023, at 7pm MSK – broadcast on YouTube channel Soyuz
US MISSION TO AUSTRIA
Prayer for Peace
With the support of the US Embassy in Austria and in collaboration with the Austrian Artistic Agency Künstleragentur Hollaender-Calix, Lyrica Classic brings sacred organ and vocal music of two American composers Eli Tamar and Emmanuel Dubois, to the Austrian audiences. The works are written on Catholic and Orthodox prayer texts and performed by renowned American and Austrian artists.
Dedicated to the remembrance of those who tragically lost their lives due to the coronavirus pandemic.
FEATURED COMPOSERS
Eli Tamar
Emmanuel Dubois
ARTISTS
Nicholas will
ORGANIST
Hermine Haselbøck
MEZZO-SOPRANO
Elisabeta Marin
SOPRANO
Yulia Petrachuk
SOPRANO
2021-2022
2020-2021
US MISSION TO RUSSIA
Requiem for the Fallen
Contemporary Oratorio for orchestra, choir and soprano solo. Broadcasted from Mosfilm Studio in Moscow, Lyrica Classic Studio in DC, and NV Factory in NJ.
Emmanuel Dubois
COMPOSER
ARTISTS
Yulia Petrachuk
SOPRANO
Voce Anima
ORCHESTRA
Ensemble Vera
CHORUS
Michael Wittenburg & Michael Kotelnikov
CONDUCTORS
Youtube Live
VIRTUAL EVENT
