The Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Atomic Cities performed at the RUSSIA EXPO
The Children's Symphony Orchestra of Atomic Cities played a
concert in the ATOM pavilion. Its participants are fifty young musicians. The
orchestra's artistic director is an outstanding Soviet and Russian violist and
conductor, People's Artist of the USSR, Professor Yuri Bashmet, and its
conductor is Freddy Cadena, the founder and chief conductor of the Amadeus
Chamber Orchestra at the Union of Moscow Composers. The event was supported by
Rosatom State Corporation and the Rosatom Cultural Territory program.
"The Children's Symphony Orchestra of Atomic Cities is
our pride, because we were able to unite talented children from different
atomic cities and create a bright band with a subtle sense of beauty. Many
thanks to these young professionals. And, of course, endless gratitude to our
artistic director Yuri Bashmet: thanks to a miraculous meeting with him, our
talented musicians are growing and the project itself is successfully
developing. And together with our wonderful conductor Freddy Cadena, music
simply comes to life," said Oksana Konysheva, head of the Rosatom Cultural
Territories program.
The young musicians prepared the concert program in record
time. Rehearsals began on February 26, and on March 3 the program was presented
for the first time at the World Youth Festival in Sochi. On March 5 and 6 the
kids performed in military hospitals of the Moscow region in front of the
participants of the Special Military Operation. The RUSSIA EXPO was the second
major venue of the "debut" program. The concert featured works by
Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Sibelius, Sviridov, Britten and Shostakovich.
Members of the Children's Symphony Orchestra of Atomic
Cities are young talents from Volgodonsk, Rostov region; Desnogorsk, Smolensk
region; Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk region; Zheleznogorsk and Zelenogorsk,
Krasnoyarsk region; Kurchatov, Kursk region; Lesnoy, Novouralsk and Zarechny,
Sverdlovsk region; Obninsk, Kaluga region; Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region;
Seversk, Tomsk region; Snezhinsk, Chelyabinsk region; and Elektrostal, Moscow
region. The collective was established in 2021 as part of the Rosatom Cultural
Territory program in partnership with the Russian Concert Agency. The lineup of
participants is constantly being renewed.
