Our symphony orchestra was created in 2009 especially for the V Summer Ballet Festival in Moscow.
The previous years different orchestras took part in the festival, but this year we made the decision to organize a symphony orchestra that will accompany all the performances of the festival.
The symphony orchestra gathers the best soloists of the leading Moscow theatres: the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, the Novaya Opera, the Helicon Opera, Stanislavkiy and Nemerovitch-Dantchenko Moscow Academic Musical Theatre. All of them graduated from the best music universities of Moscow.
An orchestra is an instrumental ensemble, usually fairly large with string, brass, woodwind sections, and possibly a percussion section as well. The term orchestra derives from the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus. The orchestra grew by accretion throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but changed very little in composition during the course of the twentieth century.
Our group consists of fifty professionals having wide experience in working all aver the world.
Art director and principal conductor Konstantin Khvatynets
Konstantin Khvatynets graduated from Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, he is a disciple of Gennady Rozhdestvensky. This young and talented conductor took part in the Summer Ballet Festival and received complimentary reviews by critics.
In 2006 Konstantin Khvatynets was invited as a conductor to the gala performance of Bolshoi Theatre's School in Brazil (art director V.Vasiliev) on the stage of GABT.
The same year the conductor was awarded a Schostakovitch grant. Since 2006 Konstantin Khvatynets has been working in Children's Music Theater named after Natalia Sats. In 2008 he was one of the judges of the first Contest of Choreographers in Moscow.
Orchestra Director Arkady Don
Arkady Don was born in Moscow and he received his first music lessons at Dunaevsky music school from a former artist of Bolshoi I.M. Gorkin who educated a great number of brilliant musicians, the best soloists of Moscow orchestras.
In 2001 Arkady Don graduated from the State Musical College named after the Gnessins specializing in trombone. He followed the class by Honoured artist, soloist of Bolshoi Theatre's orchestra E.P. Nesterenko.
In 2006 he graduated from an orchestra department of Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the course by professor Anatoly Skobekev.
In 1998 he entered the Stage Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre. He works as a concertmaster and soloist (trombone, baritone, bass).
Since 2008 Arkady Don has been an orchestra inspector.
