{"id":3617,"date":"2016-02-18T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T00:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2016-03-08T09:49:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:49:19","slug":"assads-gallen-and-others-set-for-moscow-guitar-virtuosos-festival-and-competition-in-late-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/assads-gallen-and-others-set-for-moscow-guitar-virtuosos-festival-and-competition-in-late-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Assads, Gallen, and Others Set for Moscow \u2018Guitar Virtuosos\u2019 Festival and Competition in Late March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For four nights near the end of March, Moscow\u2019s beautiful Tchaikovsky Hall will host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/guitar.virtuosos\/\" target=\"_blank\">XI Guitar Virtuosos International Festival<\/a>. Since its start in 2006, the festival has grown to be the largest annual international guitar event in Russia, and one of the biggest in all of Europe. The year\u2019s artistic director is Russian guitarist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dervoed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artyom Dervoed<\/a>, the 34-year-old sensation who has won 16 first prizes in international competitions (and whose last CD, <em>Ghosts &amp; Shadows: Music of Spain<\/em>, received a rave review from <em>CG<\/em>\u2019s Paul Fowles in our Winter 2015 issue). Dervoed has managed to attract a stellar group of musicians to perform and, in some cases, offer master classes, including Brazilians Sergio and Odair Assad, Spain\u2019s Ricardo Gallen, Kosovo-born Petrit \u00c7eku, Adriano del Sal of Italy, and Dervoed himself.<\/p>\n<p>Dervoed adds, \u201cThe festival\u2019s concert program provides the unique opportunity to enjoy solo classical guitar performances, as well as guitar in ensemble with other instruments, and with one of the best Russian orchestras\u2014 the State Symphony Orchestra \u201cEvegeny Svetlanov\u201d [named after the great conductor and composer, 1928-2002], conducted by Fabio\/Mastragelo\u2014at one of Russia\u2019s main venues. The educational part of the festival, featuring lectures and master classes, runs at the famous Gnessin Russian Academy of Music.\u201d Among the special guests taking part will be Russian guitarist Rovhan Mamedukliev (another multiple competition winner and currently a guitar professor at Moscow\u2019s Maimonides State Classical Academy), cellist Alexander Ramm (Russia), violinist Ivan Pochekin (Russia) and the New Russian (String) Quartet. There is also a competition component (entries are due March 1)<\/p>\n<p>The festival runs from March 23-26.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3619\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tchaikovsky.jpg?resize=768%2C514\" alt=\"tchaikovsky\" width=\"768\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tchaikovsky.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/tchaikovsky.jpg?resize=300%2C201&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For four nights near the end of March, Moscow\u2019s beautiful Tchaikovsky Hall will host the XI Guitar Virtuosos International Festival. Since its start in 2006, the festival has grown to be the largest annual international guitar event in Russia, and one of the biggest in all of Europe. The year\u2019s artistic director is Russian guitarist Artyom Dervoed, the 34-year-old sensation who has won 16 first prizes in international competitions (and whose last CD, Ghosts &amp; Shadows: Music of Spain, received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/assads.jpg?fit=720%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}