Tatarstan composer Elmir Nizamov has won the Audience Choice Award at the VIII International competition of composers named after A.Petrov

September 19, at the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic   named after D.D.Shostakovich the final concert of VIII All-Russian competition composers   named after Andrei Petrov where  the best works of composers of the contestants, carefully selected by the jury in the previous stages. The total of 120 applications from 32 cities from   Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, 8 of them from other countries - Sweden, Canada, Israel, Italy, Estonia, and even Japan. In the final,  six works sounded.

A jury has allocated places  as follows:

I place - Igor Drukh, "Betelgeuse" phantasmagoria for large symphony orchestra (St. Petersburg)

II place - Katharina Lehmann, «King of Clouds» (Sweden)

III place - Nurulla-Hodge Farangees, «Concerto for Saxophone and Sinfonietta» (Canada).

Audience Award received  the work  "Heaven movement"  by composer Elmir Nizamov from Kazan

Diplomas of Contest 2014:

Alina Pozorova, "Freefall" (Moscow)

Elmir Nizamov, "Heaven movement" (Kazan)

Arthur Vabel, «Concerto for viola and orchestra» (St. Petersburg).

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The idea of ​​the All-Russian competition named after   Andrey Petrov was born in the depths of the Composers' Union of St. Petersburg in 2006-2007, in order to perpetuate the memory of his long-term chairman,   the outstanding figure of Russian music Andrey Pavlovich Petrov.

The main objective of the competition - is to support serious art, involvement of wider audience  the Russian regions   in the world of high music wider audience,  involvement of young people in the active and passive participation in the festival events,  opening of new composers' names, preservation and promotion of heritage of the Russian school of composition.

Eighth All-Russia competition of  composers   n.a.  A.P. Petrov held in  nomination  "Symphonic Music" and took place in the period from June 2014 to September 2014 inclusive. The competition was held in three rounds. All composers  participants  presented their works anonymously(under motto).

  The first and second rounds of the competition were held in June and July in St. Petersburg.  By results of  jury  voting l six finalists   reached final.

The third and final round of the competition was held in the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic named after  D.D. Shostakovich  on  September  19 2014 in the form of a public concert-listening selected artworks. The  following took part in the concert:  Academic Symphony Orchestra (Artistic Director and Chief Conductor - People's Artist of the USSR Alexander Dmitriev), conductor - Honoured Artist of Russia Arkady Steinlucht. Soloists - Alex Ludewig (viola), Rolf-Erik Nystrom (saxophone, Norway).

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Ministry of Culture of Tatarstan