Sing with Me-143 Online. Yiddish and Russian songs for May Day.
2024-05-01 18:00 - 19:00 UTC | Online
I invite you to celebrate May Day. To me, coming from USSR, it is known as The International Worker’s Day, but it is also a pagan holiday in many parts of Europe. It was considered the last day of winter when the beginning of summer was celebrated. During Roman times, May the 1st was seen as a key period to celebrate fertility and the arrival of spring. In this session, we will sing songs in Yiddish and Russian dedicated to hard work and preparation for the summer.
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Maspindzeli and Slavic Voices concert. Brighton Fringe.
2024-05-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Brighton Spiegeltent, Old Steine, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 1EH, United Kingdom
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Songs from thousands of miles away welcome you into summer and are brought to your doorstep by these two British choirs. Experience an amazing array of repertoire from cultures that meet at the Black Sea and spread like rays of the year’s hot season.Maspindzeli is a choir devoted to singing songs from the ancient polyphonic tradition of Georgia. The choir came about in 1999 in response to the growing interest in Georgian singing. Maspindzeli has studied with visiting Georgian teachers and it makes a specific point of learning authentic styles of singing from various regions of Georgia.“Maspindzeli” means “host” in Georgian and the choir has sung for the London Georgian community on a number of occasions. It has been six times to Georgia as part of the biennial Polyphonic Symposium at the Tbilisi Conservatory of Music. It is led by Bernard Burns.

Slavic Voices (London and Brighton) present music of all styles from the Slavic world: Orthodox chants, beautiful classics by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and others, refined XVIII-XIX-century Art songs and gritty folklore from the far corners of Siberia to the banks of the Black Sea. The repertoire is sung mainly in Russian but also in Croatian, Macedonian, Ukrainian, occasionally in Romanian and Bulgarian. The choir was formed in Autumn 2023 under the direction of an international performer and cultural activist Polina Skovoroda-Shepherd.

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Surrey Voices Festival-Contest for Young Musicians. Guilford.
2024-05-25 10:00 - 19:00 | Rydes Hill Preparatory School, Aldershot Road, Guildford, GU2 8BP, United Kingdom
Organised by The Russian School and Choir in Guilford. Read in RUSSIAN below.
This is the first festival of Slavic Music in Surrey. Young pianists and singers up to the age of 18 are invited to participate. “Surrey voices 2024” is a unique opportunity for these musicians to showcase their talents at the first-ever festival of Slavic music for children in Guildford on May 25, 2024, to network, to build experience and, hopefully, to start a new tradition in Surrey.
Auditions begin at 10:00 for pianists and at 15:00 for vocalists, followed by a gala concert at 16:00.
All participants will be nominated and awarded, making this a prestigious and memorable event for aspiring Slavic musicians.
Please read more (in Russian) and apply here: https://ruscg.com/festival/.Participation fee is £27.00. Please apply following the link in this event.

Judges:For pianists: Eralys Fernandez – classical pianist and harpsichordist with more than 14 years of experience as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. She has performed in major concert theatres in Cuba as a soloist and accompanist.
For vocalists: Polina Shepherd – composer, performer, educator and cultural activist originally from Tatarstan (Russia), now living in Brighton. Her current work covers vocal music from large scale choirs to duets and solo. She performs solo, collaborates with ensembles, soloists and choirs internationally.

Вперые в Гилфорде проводится фестваль славянской музыки для детей. Приглашаются юные вокалисты и пианисты 25 мая 2024 года. Прослушивание пианистов начнется в 10:00, вокалистов в 15:00.Гала-концерт начнется в 16:00.В связи с тем, что такое мероприятие проводится впервые, все участники буду номинированы и награждены.Мы очень надеемся, что такое доброе начало станет ежегодным событием для молодых исполнителей славянской музыки.
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Slavic Voices concert. Steyning Festival.
2024-05-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Steyning Parish Church, Vicarage Lane, Steyning, BN44 3YQ, United Kingdom
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Slavic Voices present music of all styles from the Slavic world: Orthodox chants, beautiful classics by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and others, refined XVIII-XIX-centuries Art songs and gritty folklore from the far corners of Siberia to the banks of the Black Sea. The repertoire is sung mainly in Russian but also in Macedonian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, occasionally in Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, and adding a guest visit by a song in Yiddish or Georgian.
Join us on the journey to explore and share this culturally unique and musically diverse repertoire with the wide world.

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