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The Embassy Concert Series EMBASSY OF SLOVAKIA☼ Mont r eal and Sinfonieor chest er Baden-Baden. H e i s a 3523 INTERNATIONAL COURT, NW laureate of many prestigious violin competitions such 2014- 2015 Season as Q ueen Elisabet h Inter national Music Com-petition st MARTIN BABJAK, BARITONE (Belgium); Inter national (21 YEAR) DANIEL BURANOVSKÝ, PIANO O ist r akh Competition Jerome Barry, Thursday, September 18, 2014, 7:30pm (Ukraine); Inter national Director/Founder Among the many r oles which Martin Babjak has Kotorovych Violin portrayed on the stage are: Amonasro in Verdi's Aida, Competition (Ukraine), Advance Notice Brochure Count Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Inter national Spohr Count Danilo Competition (Germany); As of July 1, 2014 lovitsch in Fr anz International Montreal Competition (Canada); Lehár 's The Merry Inter national Premio Lipizer (Italy), Inter national Widow, Escamillo N ir edgazi Violin Competition (Japan), Int er nat io nal in Geor ges Bizet 's Dvarionas Violin Competition (Lithuania) and Car men, Figar o i n International Molinari Competition (Switzerland). He Uniting People Through Musical Diplomacy Rossini's The Bar - plays a violin from Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, one of the greatest violinmakers in the music history, ber of Seville, Golaud in Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, Guglielmo in Mozart's Così fan tutte, the which is lent to him to recognize his high class as a Lord Duke of Nottingham in Donizetti's Roberto violinist and a musician. Program: Schubert, EMBASSY OF SLOVENIA ☼ Devereux, Iago in Ver di's Otello and many more. He is Mendelssohn, Ysaÿe, Sarasate, Koryk, 2410 CALIFORNIA STREET, NW widely known as one of Slovakia’s finest singers. Schimanovsky. Buffet/wine/ parking acr o ss LANA TROTOVŠEK, VIOLIN Daniel Buranovský, piano, is a brilliant artist, the street ($6) or on-street parking- $95 ANNA SHELEST, PIANO r etur ning t o The Embassy Ser ies. The W ashington Times at that time wrote: “Mr . Bur anovsky’s br acing EMBASSY OF HUNGARY☼ Tuesday, September 9, 2014- 7:30pm recital offered an intellectual challenge to his 2900 SPRING OF FREEDOM, NW audience: a summons to once again learn fr om and HUGO KAUDER TRIO The winner of inter national competitions and pr izes, build upon the wor k laid down by our artistic Slovenian violinist Lana Trotovšek was a pupil of pr edecessor s r at her t han r eject ing it as ir r elevant or Tuesday, October 14, 2014- 7:30pm Ruggier o Ricci. She hopelessly outmoded in our tempestuous times — made her debut in the fashionable tactic of incr easingly out-of-t ouch Oboist Ivan Danko, the principal oboist of t he 2012 with t he post moder nist s.” Program: Arias & Songs/Piano Stuttgart St at e O per a and fir st pr ize winner of t he Mariinsky Theatr e solos. $75 -Cold buffet/wine/Ample on Street "Inter national Hugo Or chestr a under the Parking Kauder Competition" baton of Valery in N ew H aven in 2009, Ger giev; a perform- founded the Hugo ance was r eceived EMBASSY OF UKRAINE☼ Kauder Trio. Fr o m both with standing ovations and ecstatic reviews. 3350 M STREET, NW D anko's ear lier music Lana has given r ecitals in t he United Kingdom, wher e OLEH KASKIV, VIOLIN with t he violist Róber t Lakat os and pianist Ladislav she has performed at Wigmore Hall, King’s Place, Fanzowitz the idea for this unique trio was bor n. Cadogan H all , St John’s Smit h Squar e, St Mar t in-in- OKSANA SKIDAN, PIANO Oboe, Viola and Piano ar e a sonically int er est ing t he Fields. Elsewher e in Eur ope she has played at t he Friday, October 10, 2014- 7:30pm alternative to the classic piano t r i o and open a pat h to Konzer t haus in Vienna, at t he Teat r o la Fenice in an ext r aor di nar y and novel r eper t oir e. In search of Venice, Concer t gebouw in Amst er dam, As a soloist, Oleh Kaskiv regularly performs with suitable music, the musicians discover ed t he oeuvr e Muziekgebouw Frits Phillips in Eindhoven and great success in his native count r y with the National of H ugo Kauder (1888 - 1972). Kauder (now elsewher e in Ger many, Spain, Por t ugal, Fr ance, Symphony of Ukr aine, Odessa Philharmonic and Lviv Tovacov, Czech Republic) was bor n in Tobitschau Finland, Sweden, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, China, Philharmonic Symphony Or chestr as and worldwide: near Olomouc and is part of the gener at ion of UAE and the USA. Program: Beethoven: Spring with t he Camer ata Lysy, Camer ata de Lausanne, per secut ed and displaced Jewish ar t ist s of the 20th Sona t a , Škerjanc, Franck, Gershwin. Buffet/wine- Symphonisches Or chest er Zürich, Orchestre centur y. It s or igi n and it s late romantic, lar gely $95- Ample parking on the street. National de Belgique, Or chest r e Symphonique de unknown music, especially t heir centr al European folk 1 music element s inspir ed the ensemble to the name Friday, November 7, 2014, 7:30pm utter musicality and remarkable interpretive power” and H ugo Kauder Trio. The t r io is t r ying to discover called their per formance of Beethoven’s Op. 132 “ the gr eat works of other per secut ed and unknown pinnacle of the competition.” Program : H aydn: Q uart et composer s of the 19th and 20th centur ies, and to Azra’s singing reflects the lyrical melancholy of Sevdah in B-flat Major, Op. 76, N o. 4; Beethoven: Quartet in F minor, O p. 95, “Serioso” /Ravel: Q uartet in F convey this to the public. $75- and Balkan folk wit h sultr y elements of Gypsy Jazz and Buffet/wine-ample Major. Reception/wine- $75 parking on the street. Andalucian Flamenco. Her per for mances illuminate an inner world forever marked by the war in her homeland, and her immigrant life in the EMBASSY OF LUXEMBOURG☼ EMBASSY OF UKRAINE☼ United States. 2200 MASSACHUSETTS 3350 M STREET, NW Raised in Bosnia, on Tom ALEKSEY SEMENENKO, VIOLIN Waits, Django AVENUE, NW INNA FIRSOVA, PIANO Reinhardt, U2, Br oadway “COMMEMORATION OF THE musicals, o per a and classical Friday, October 24, 2014- 7:30pm TH music – the young Azr a successfully mixed t hose 70 ANNIVERSARY TO THE genres with the traditional musical form of the BATTLE OF THE BULGE” Mr. Semenenko, Young Concert Artist 2012 winner, has Balkans. A dr amat ic mezzo-sopr ano, with unique appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Moscow AN EVENING OF SONG AND Virtuosi, the Kiev National ornamentation and expressive singing style, Azra is a capt ivat i ng st age per for mer . Azra will be accompanied Orchestra, the Junge Philharmonie CHAMBER MUSIC in Cologne, and the Sinfonietta by thr ee wonder ful musicians. $80- Balkan Hungarica, among others. At the buffet/wine- Parking on street and garage (10 Friday, December 12, 2014, 7:30pm 2011 Musik:Landschaft W estfalen minute walk.) Saturday, December 13, 2014, 7:30pm Festival, he per for med Paganini’ s Concerto No. 2 with the National Philharmonic of Russia under IN COOPERATION WITH THE Limited Seating Vladimir Spivakov, and was subsequently invited by the Spivakov EMBASSY OF ISRAEL☼ Foundation to perform at the VENUE TO BE ANNOUNCED An evening devoted to music of World Kremlin in Moscow and at the W ars I & II, with an evening of chamber Moscow International Per for ming Arts Center . In 2007, Mr . THE ARIEL QUARTET music and song t hat was i ndicat i ve of t he rd Sem enenko performed the violin solo from John William’s 3 ANNUAL DANIEL PEARL period. Patriotic and nostalgic “ Schindler’s List” with the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra MEMORIAL CONCERT songs and music t hat gave under Hobar t Earle in Hambur g. An avid chamber musician, America and the world comfort Mr. Semenenko founded the Stolyarsky Quartet, which has Reception at 6:30pm and solace in very difficult times. given concerts in Russia, the Ukr aine, Fr ance, Mal t a, and Switzerland. Mr. Semenenko’s honors include First Prize in Thursday, November 20, 2014- 7:30pm The Thomas Circle Singers will the 2012 European Young Concert Artists Auditions in enhance t he pr ogram on Leipzig, Germany, the Alois Kottmann Award at the 2010 For med in Isr ael, the Quar tet moved to the United States in December 13t h with Christmas songs and carols. International Day of Music Festival in Hofheim, Germany, 2004 to continue its professional studies. The resident Buffet/wine/valet parking- $150 the Grand Prix of the 2006 National Violin Competition in ensemble in the N ew Lviv, Ukr aine. Pr ogram : Schubert, Chausson, Ysaÿe, England Conser vat or y’s Poulenc, Tchaikovsky, Rossini Buffet/wine/parking prestigious Professional across the street ($6)- $95. St r ing Q uar t et Tr aining Pr o gr am t hr o ugh t heir graduation in 2010, the EMBASSY OF BOSNIA Ariel has won a number HERZEGOVINA (New Venue!) of international prizes, including the Grand Prize at the 2006 Fischoff National 2109 E STREET, NW Chamber Music Competition. After they won the Székely WASHINGTON, DC 20037 Pr ize for t heir per for mance of Bar t ók, as well as t he over all Third Prize at the Banff International String Quartet AZRA SINGS Competition in 2007, the American Record Guide described the Ar iel Quar tet as “ a consummate ensemble gifted with 2 such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Vladimir of the ensemble it received strong support Ashkenazy, Herbert Blomstedt, Christoph von from the Herbert von Karajan scholarship, 2015 Dohnányi, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus the Musica Juventutis Vienna, Live Music Harnoncourt, Manfred Honeck, Sir Charles N ow, Jeunesse Musicales Austria, Start - EMBASSY OF FRANCE☼ Macker r as, Kur t Masur , Kent N agano , Scholarship of the Austrian Ministry for Leonard Slatkin, and 4101 RESERVOIR ROAD, NW Education, Arts and Culture.