Scriabin Museum music room to host concerts

The A. Scriabin Memorial Museum, under the auspices of the Moscow Department of Culture, invites Moscow residents to a series of family-friendly events in March. Located on the first floor of the historic mansion, the music room regularly hosts classical music concerts.

On March 5 at 7 p. m., the music room will host a piano music night titled “Dialogues of Epochs”. International competition prize winners Anna Koteneva and Andrei Galoshin will perform pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Mily Balakirev, Pavel Pabst and other composers representing different styles and musical traditions. Tickets are required to attend.

On March 14 at 2 p. m., Sofya Saradzheva, a pianist and student at the Versailles and Moscow conservatories and a prize winner at international competitions, will perform works by Russian and foreign composers. Tickets are required to attend.

That same day at 5:30 p. m., a music and poetry night “Touching the Core of Being…” will take place. Poets Anna Fedorova-Maksakova and Anna Reteyum will perform romances set to their own poems and music by Anna Shatkovskaya; instrumental compositions by Shatkovskaya will also be featured. Tickets are required to attend.

On March 15 at 5 p. m., there will be a piano music concert. Maria Kalyanova, a prize winner at international competitions, will perform Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann. Tickets are required to attend.

On March 19 at 7 p. m., Scriabin Museum’s memorial exhibition will host “Scriabin and the Pioneers of the Russian Avant-Garde Art,” a concert lecture. Pianist Mikhail Dubov, a professor at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, will perform works by composers of the first wave of the Russian avant-garde art. Tickets are required to attend.

On March 21 at 4 p. m., a Sergei Rachmaninoff chamber music concert will take place. The program includes piano and vocal compositions by the composer. Performers are international competition prize winners Alexandra Avakivi (mezzo-soprano) and Alexander Rudakov (piano). Tickets are required to attend.

On March 22 at 6 p. m., pianist Aphrodite Kogevina (Greece) will present a concert program. The Scriabin Museum’s music room will offer music pieces by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Liszt. Tickets are required to attend.

The Scriabin Museum is a historic site, since the apartment on the second floor of the mansion on Bolshoy Nikolopeskovsky Pereulok is where Alexander Scriabin, the great Russian symbolist composer, pianist and philosopher, lived. The setting remains almost completely the same as it was during the composer’s lifetime. Scriabin lived here for his last three years, from 1912 to 1915. This apartment was a gathering place for prominent figures of 20 th-century art, including Sergei Rachmaninoff, Konstantin Balmont and the Gnessin family. The apartment comprised seven rooms: a study, a sitting room, a dining room, the room of the composer’s mother-in-law, the daughters’ room, the son’s room and the master bedroom. The mother-in-law’s room and the children’s room were damaged in a fire; the other five miraculously survived. Today, the mother-in-law’s room hosts temporary exhibitions from the museum’s collections, exploring the life and work of this genius of Russian music.

The program of events at Moscow’s museums contributes to achieving the goals and objectives of the Family national project in Moscow. You can find more information about Russia’s national projects and Moscow’s contribution on a dedicated page.