Music From Soviet Regime Composers

DANBURY — Soviet born and educated pianist Sergei Vladimiroff will perform a recital at Danbury Music Centre on Saturday, October 25, at 8 pm. Admission is free.

Mr Vladimiroff, an advocate of the great Soviet composers including Dmitri Shostakovich, will feature compositions of Soviet Regime composers, most of which are unknown or rarely performed in the United States.

Belonging to the great Russian piano tradition, Mr Vladimiroff graduated from the oldest music conservatory in the Volga region, Saratov Conservatory.  While living in the Soviet Union, Mr Vladimiroff was a member of the Sochi Philharmonia.

Mr Vladimiroff will perform Mikhail Grachev’s Kalmyk Rhapsody, inspired by the music of the Kalmyk people now living on the western shore of the Caspian Sea; also, Moldovan-Jewish composer Zlata Tkach (1928-2006), who dedicated her Sonata-Impromptue to the victims of the Holocaust. The program will also include Sonatina by Valery Syrokhvatov; Six Preludes by Maxim Vladimiroff, son of Mr Vladimiroff; Polyphonic Sonata by the Armenian composer Arno Babadjanian; and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Prelude and Fugue No. 24 in D minor.

Danbury Music Centre, at 256 Main Street, can be reached for additional information at 748-1716, DMC1935@snet.net, or www.danbury.org/MusicCtr.