the Conductor and Director of the symphonic orchestra “Tavrichesky” Mikhail Golikov presented the Digital orchestra project Orchestra by Golikov. It will bring together the world’s best musicians on a single multimedia platform.
the orchestra will be constantly changing: musicians participating from around the world will jointly develop the unusual location and an extensive repertoire – from classic to the most modern interpretations of famous compositions, stylistic and genre experimentation – the authors explain the project. – An important activity of the Digital Orchestra by Golikov will also be to develop music education programs. The main goal is the development of digital spaces for creative cooperation, communication and exchange of experience among musicians and also the development of the digital formats in classical music and attracting new audiences.
According to Mikhail Golikov, the desire to create a new orchestral formation appeared at it for a long time. And for the time of forced isolation during a pandemic coronavirus, when the musicians were deprived of live performances, this idea finally took shape and came to life.
the Official premiere of the Digital Orchestra project by Golikov will be a series of performances in the framework of the international online festival Classic@Home-BEE250VEN dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. The new orchestra will perform at 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 of Beethoven’s symphonies with a modern twist.
a Series of digital concerts will begin August 21 and will end on August 29 with a performance of the Ninth Symphony with its final “Ode to joy” by Friedrich Schiller. In the composition of the Digital Orchestra is composed of leading musicians from the Mariinsky, Bolshoi and Mikhailovsky theaters, the Symphony orchestra of the Leningrad region, the International Symphony orchestra “Tavrichesky”, Russian national orchestra, National Philharmonic orchestra of Russia, the Academic Symphony orchestra of St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and soloists from Russia and other countries.
Recordings of all nine Beethoven symphonies at the moment are held in unusual locations in St. Petersburg. This is the Peter and Paul fortress, Russian Museum of Ethnography, Museum of Street-Art, Annenkirche, Vitebsk station, tram depot, the ArtPlay space, mansion Palma.
