Fajr Music Festival hosts Russian VivaMuse Ensemble

The 38th Fajr Music Festival has hosted VivaMuse Ensemble from St. Petersburg.

The Russian troupe performed at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Tuesday during the festival.

In the first part of its concert, the ensemble featuring Evgeniya Klevtsova and Nataliya Grinuk on violin, Alexei Andreev on viola, Natalia Neskoromnaya on cello and Ilya Chirskov on piano.

The group gave a performance of Italian composer Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerto Grosso.

In a press release published on Wednesday by the Fajr Music Festival, pianist Chirskov expressed satisfaction with VivaMuse’s performance.

“The audience was really great and they seemed to like the performance,” he said

He said that European classical music appeals to almost everybody in the world and added that the pieces were selected for the concert based on this fact.

VivaMuse performs a wide range of musical styles ranging from baroque music to works from contemporary composers.  

The ensemble grabbed the laureate title of the 2020 All-Russian Internet competition "Musical Talents of Russia".

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