The Pharos Trust is
proud to present a song recital
with Bolshoi Opera
and Covent Garden soprano
Marina Poplavskaya
and pianist Julian Gallant, on Saturday 18
November 2006, at
the PASYDY
Auditorium in Nicosia. The evening’s programme comprises works
by Ravel, Rachmaninov and Shostakovich.
Marina Poplavskaya
(soprano)
Born in Moscow, Marina Poplavskaya studied at the State M.
Ippolitov-Ivanov Music Institute with P. Tarassov and I. Shapar.
She has won first prize in the Bella Voce Panrussian Competition
for Young Singers 1997, second prize in the First International
Elena Obraztsova Competition 1999, a prize in the Queen
Elizabeth International Competition 2000, third prize in the
Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition 2003, first prize in
the Romanciada International Competition of romance songs 2004
and first prize in the Maria Callas Grand Prix in Athens 2005.
She performed at the New Opera Theatre, Moscow from 1996-98 and
was a soloist at the Moscow Academic Opera Theatre from 2001-04.
She made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre in 2003 as Ann
Truelove (The Rake's Progress), followed in 2004 by Maria (Mazeppa)
and has a soloist's contract with the theatre. Her opera
repertory also includes Ludmila (Ruslan and Ludmila), Marfa (The
Czar's Bride), title role (Snegourochka), Oksana (Christmas
Eve), title role (Iolanta), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Xenia
(Boris Godunov), Luisa (The Duenna), Adina (L'Elisir d'amore),
Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte),
Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte), Violetta (La Traviata), Micaëla
(Carmen), Marguerite (Faust), Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus) and
Senta (Der Fliegende Holländer). Concert repertory includes
Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Shostakovich's 14th Symphony,
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Rossini's Messa di Requiem, Poulenc's
Messa di Requiem, Mozart's Litanies and Britten's War Requiem.
She joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme in September
2005 and made her Royal Opera debut as Third Norn (Götterdämmerung).
In the 2006/7 Season, she will sing Rachel (La Juive in concert)
and Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and understudy Leonora (Il
Trovatore), Lina (Stiffelio) and Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande).
Julian Gallant
(piano)
Julian Gallant read music at Oxford University, where he studied
piano and conducting. He pursued his studies as a pianist in
Switzerland with the late Achille Colassis, a pupil of Walter
Giseking. Among his conducting teachers were Alan Hazeldine,
Thomas Sanderling and the legendary Russian Arnold Katz. Since
his piano début recital at St John’s Smith Square in 1992 he has
performed all over the world and with a number of different
ensembles including the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Oxford
Philomusica, Moscow Philharmonic, Orquestra Sinfonica Brasiliera
and Kiev Chamber Orchestra. Julian Gallant has frequently
appeared in the major halls of Europe including London’s Queen
Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, the Liszt Academy in Budapest
and Moscow’s prestigious Tchaikovsky Hall.
Gallant has also acted as conductor of a number of orchestras,
including Chief Conductor of the Russian Orchestra of London and
the East European Virtuosi of London, Director of the Oxford
Philomusica Orchestra, and in September of 2006, he has
conducted the Royal Philharmonic on tour in Spain.
