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The programme of the State Hermitage's The Hermitage Music Academy
is intended to revive the traditions of the so-called Hermitages which
were popular during the reign of Catherine the Great and which took place
in the halls of the Winter Place and in the Hermitage Theatre.
The Hermitage Music Academy is not only a new educational institution
but also one whose programme aims to foster cultural and spiritual contact
between people in preserving and resurrecting the heritage of classical
music.
Founded in 1997, this unique programme was preceded by the opening of
the Hermitage Theatre after its reconstruction in 1991 and the award in
1994 of the status of the Orchestra of the State Hermitage to the St Petersburg
Camerata ensemble.
The Hermitage Music Academy programme includes a rich variety of music,
from chamber concerts and master-classes to magnificent gala performances.
Its remit is to revive many musical masterpieces, to provide a platform
for the best masters of our time, to introduce new names and to display
the world-famous museum's treasures through the prism of music.
The splendid Hermitage Theatre, the exquisite/rooms of the museum and
its architecturally amazing courtyards have all become the concert venues
in which the music of the Hermitage is presented to the public. These
are the symbolic Academa Gardens where music brings happiness to connoisseurs
and fans alike.
1997 also saw the creation of the Hermitage Music Academy Charity Foundation
whose Board of Trustees includes Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the Hermitage
(Chairman of the Board), and conductor Saulius Sondeckis, art director
of the State Hermitage Orchestra. The foundation participates in such
concerts of the Hermitage Music Academy programme as the Musical Treasures
of the Hermitage, Debuts and Premiers in the Hermitage Theatre, Just Mozart!,
All the Symphonies by Beethoven in the Hermitage (2000-2001), Beethoven
Music in the Hermitage, The Window to Europe, Italian Music in the Italian
Sky-light Halls, Music Collections, Venetian Memories (Antonio Vivaldi
music in the Hermitage rooms), Chamber Opera World, Russian Church Choir
Music in the Great Church of the Winter Palace (2002-2003), Music of Joy,
Youth to St Petersburg, the annual international festivals of the Musical
Hermitage and the Music of the Greater Hermitage. The concerts take place
in the magnificent rooms of the Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage and
the New Hermitage, the Hermitage Theatre and in summer time in the Great
Courtyard of the Winter Palace.
The Director of the Hermitage Music Academy Foundation and Art Director
of the programme is the composer Sergey N. Evtushenko.
Executive director of the Hermitage Music Academy Foud is Eisuke Fujino
(Japan)
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