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Yorkwoods Library Theatre (Toronto, 28.02.2025)
Unique performance by North American Greek and Georgian dance and vocal ensembles, an evening of vibrant cultural celebration of the rich traditions of Georgian and Greek music and dance.
Performers:
– Georgian Dance Ensemble “Iverioni” – Led by Anano Sephiashvili and Zviadi Aptarashvili;
– Georgian Folk Instrumental Ensemble “Iverioni” – Led by David Sakidze;
– Georgian Folk Singing Ensemble “Iverioni” – Led by Rezo Durglishvili;
– Georgian Dance Ensemble “Kartveli”;
– Greek Dance Ensemble Brotherhood Pontion Toronto “Panagia Soumela” – Led by Anna Kotsaboikidis and Helen Hayes, Musicians: George Michailidis & Kosta Papadopoulos;
– Ana-Maria Khingava;
– Georgian Choir “Ori Shalva”.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjC4iW9
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Christmas concert (Oakville 29.12.2024)
This magical concert was about ancient Ukrainian carols and songs that preserved the spirit of a traditional Ukrainian Christmas.
GERDAN is an amazing sixteen member folk singing group from Chernivtsi, Ukraine and their arrangements of traditional folk songs are reinvigorating authentic Ukrainian music.
This tour is happening to support families in Ukraine affected by the war that will need support and rehabilitation in the months and years to come.
Gerdan group members: Kostiuk Anastasiia, Kantemir Pavlo, Yusypchuk Sophiia, Fedorova Maryna, Syrotiuk Yana, Tanasiievych Anastasiia, Surla Kateryna, Helchuk Vladyslav, Pribych Khristian, Surla Olha, Garadzhii Pavlo, Surla Bohdana, Bakriv Oleksandr, Pechereha Anastasiia.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBX48h
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Flato Markham Theatre (Toronto, 13.12.2024).
Ensemble IVERIONI
“Georgian Echoes in Toronto” concert.
Сhoreography and costumes: Anano Sephiashvili and Zviadi Aptarashvili.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBVGB4
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Leah Posluns Theatre (Toronto – December 6, 2024)
“Alone, completely alone”. Concert with conversations.
The name of Alexey Ivaschenko is known in a variety of genres – from the author’s song to musicals and jazz. Alexey is the author of many popular songs (both in collaboration with Georgy Vasiliev and solo), a guitarist with a special style, co-author and co-director of the musical “NORD-OST”, producer and actor of the musical “An Ordinary Miracle”, many foreign actors, even Bruce Willis, speak Russian in his voice.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBUMoX
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Toronto’s Elgin Theatre, Toronto (November 7, 2024)
Castro Romero Flamenco presents Esencia Flamenca, a mesmerizing evening of choreography by Rosario Castro Romero and Ricardo Castro Romero, accompanied by music from Pablo García, David Monge, and Alberto Funes.
Principal Dancers: Rosario Castro Romero, Ricardo Castro Romero, José Castro Romero. Dancers: Cristel Muñoz, Jessica Rodriguez, José Ibancos. Musicians: Jesus Heredia (guitar), Roman Molla (guitar), Alberto Funes (cante), José Uriarte (percussion).
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBRifw
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Concert “No More Searching”. Toronto 23.07.2024
Pavel Fakhrtdinov is a well-known singer-songwriter. His music is known from Vladivostok to San-Francisco. A true musical globetrotter, his songs and poems are both philosophical and ironic, nostalgic and current. His music represents a unique blend of poetry, high intensity guitar, and powerful delivery. With 10 solo albums and a cadre of collaborations with well-known artists from various genres – Pavel Fakhrtdinov represents the new wave of bard-rock renaissance.
Pavel is a kind of a person and a bridge at the same time. Between bards and rock’n’roll, between yesterday and tomorrow, between trendy and eternal, between alive and forever alive.
And most importantly, he himself is still very much alive. Who knows how to feel and most importantly – admit that he still can. There is already a lot nowadays.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBBDUj
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Phoenix Concert Theater, Toronto (03.11.2023).
Miron Fyodorov, known by the stage name Oxxxymiron, is a Russian-born British hip-hop artist. In June 2008 he graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in Middle English literature. After university, Fyodorov moved to the East End where he restarted his musical career under the name Oxxxymiron. The name is derived from his first name Miron, rhetorical device oxymoron and triple X, representing the large amount of profanity in his lyrics.
Today he is one of the most influential and prominent hip-hop performers in Russia, and his albums are considered by the community as the most important releases of Russian rap.
On February 24, 2022, he opposed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He held a number of charity concerts, and used the proceeds from them to help Ukrainian refugees. At concerts, during breaks between songs, he often spoke out against the war.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjB2Wua
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Meridian Arts Centre, Toronto (27.09.2023)
Canadian premiere of world-renowned jazz sensation Nino Katamadze and Insight Band in Toronto, featuring Gocha Kacheishvili, Ucha Gugunava, Alexander Kaki Japaridze, Papuna Sharikadze and Giorgi Berishvili.
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAWZBN
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Solo Recital Debut At Koerner Hall (Toronto, 03.06.2023)
Baroque Music from the Greatest Movies of All Time. North American Tour.
It’s no secret that music by Bach, Handel, Purcell, and Rameau have been prominently featured in movie soundtracks like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, Jean-Pierrel Jeneut’s Casanova, not to mention in films by Tarkovsky, Greenaway, and Bergman. These works have become some of the most popular and enduring musical masterpieces in history.
Hear Ms. Osetinskaya, in this unique program of Baroque art house film music. Her obvious charm, vivid interpretations, and impeccable attention to musical detail will make you understand why she rose to international acclaim as a collaborator with renowned artists like violinist Maxim Vengerov, and a soloist in demand by the preeminent conductors on stage today from Carnegie Hall, to Vienna’s Musikverein, and London’s Barbican Centre.
She began her career at the age of five and was soon recognized as a wunderkind, giving her first solo concert at the age of six and going on to study with Marina Wolf and Vera Gornostaeva. She’s since performed on international stages ranging from Rome’s Teatro Argentina, to Germany, Poland, Israel, Tokyo, the United States, and more. She’s also collaborated with the likes of Maxim Vengerov, Alexander Knyazev, Julian Milkis, Theodor Currentzis, and more. Osetinskaya is also a published author with a harrowing reflection on her childhood in her memoir, Farewell Sadness. Hers is a contemplative mind with reflections across a wide horizon, creating in various genres, including on the theatrical stage wherein she both acts and performs as a musician.
Osetinskaya has been a life-long human rights advocate, supporting political prisoners, performing charity recitals for patients in hospice care, and working as a trustee for Oxygen Foundation to support children with cystic fibrosis. Elsewhere, she has been vocal about her anti-war stance while remaining in Moscow, and has faced cancellation of her concerts in all state and government concert halls. In an interview with VAN Magazine, Osetinskaya reflected on how her childhood has prepared her to adapt to this censorship: “I remember when I was seven, I would go to the concerts of the big rock groups like Aquarium that were playing concerts in private apartments. This kind of underground culture of the early ’80s is suddenly coming back. I’ll continue to play in those places, because the people who can’t leave Russia or prefer to stay in their own country and fight as they can for truth need art and music to heal their pain.”
All pictures: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAGJZ1
