Best Composer of the 2016 European Film Awards- Ilya Demutsky!!
FIRST TIME EVER in New York!!!

An international success, Ilya Demutsky is a composer for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensemble, piano, voice, as well film music.

His most notable work include the commission from the world-renown Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow for an original full-length ballet A Hero of Our Time winning him the 20152016 Golden Mask Russian National Theatre Award for Best Composer in Musical Theatre.
Demutsky has composed two new ballets set to perform in 2017: Optimistic Tragedy at the San Francisco Ballet and Nureyev at the Bolshoi.

The most accomplished film, working with director Kirill Serebrennikov, The Student (2016) was awarded the François Chalais Prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and Demutsky being awarded Best Composer of the 2016 European Film Awards. He has also composed music for the opening ceremony of the 2014 Paralympic Games in Sochi.

The program of the concert:
Sonata for Piano (piano-Olga Gurevich),
Concerto for Flute (flute - Denis Savelyev, piano- Olga Gurevich), Cantilena for two Violas (Boris Deviatov), Second Viola (Elise Frawley)
Scherzo for Viola and Double Bass (Viola- Boris Deviatov, double bass- Ron Wasserman)

Excerpt from the new opera BLACK SQUARE (work in progress)

Idea - Igor Konyukhov

Music - Ilya Demutsky
Libretto - Olga Maslova, Igor Konyukhov
Soprano - Bonnie Frauenthal
Mezzo-Soprano - Rachel Arky
Bariton - Kevin Wetzel
Piano - Olga Gurevich

General Sponsor of the 2017 New Opera NYC program-

Perfume Company Illuminum London, www.illuminumlondon.com

Gold Sponsors: COLLLLOR, www.collllor.com

Medici International, www.mediciinternational.com

Date: FEBRUARY 3rd @ 7:30 PM

Address: George F. Baker Jr. House, 75 E. 93rd Street, New York, NY (At Park Ave)

Please buy tickets at www.NONYC.ORG

SAVE THE DATE: APRIL 8TH, 7:30 PM
BEST of OPERA

Bass Mikhail Svetlov and soprano Kirsten Chambers

Sheen Center for the Arts, 18 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10003
http://www.nonyc.org/current-production