 News of Note
Oleg Timofeyev
was briefly back in the States, taking a break from studies and teaching in Kiev, Ukraine on the Fulbright Scholarship. He performed alongside his good friend Vadim Kolpakov, who just finished touring around the world with Madonna. Oleg and Vadim, who make up the Russian guitar duo, Zingaresca, performed at Zins Restaurant in Cedar Rapids on April 11th. On April 17 Oleg Timofeyev and John Schneiderman performed at the University of CA, Irvine. The Czar's Guitars did a Russian tribute to the Spanish composer Fernando Sor (1778-1839), or even more specifically, to his famous guitar duet Souvenir veRussie. I hope you got to join us in welcoming Oleg and Vadim back to the States!
IARMAC is preparing for IARGUS 2010 to be held in Iowa City, Iowa in September with concerts in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. Stay tuned for more information. For booking information or tickets, contact Ciuin Ferrin at Ciuin@IARMAC.org or call the office at 319-389-9455.
The IARMAC-sponsored movie, Frautschi, was unveiled to the public during 2009's Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival, with much success. Since its release, it has been shown around the world. The movie trailer has been uploaded to IMDB, and an official website is underway at arbatfilm.com. You can read a review of the film in Italian here, or also available inPDF format here.
Co-founder and artistic director Oleg Timofeyev, along with his closest colleagues John Schneiderman, Anne Harley, Etienne Abelin, Dan Caraway, and the guest fortepianist, the famous Kenneth Slowik, is back in the recording studio. Completely unprecedented in its ambition and scope, the seven-CD box set titled "The Russian Guitar" will include the best of solo and ensemble music from the Russian Golden Age (1799-ca. 1860). All of the CDs will be recorded by the Dorian Label, the same one that released Timofeyev's pioneering "Golden Age of the Russian Guitar" Cds in 1999. For more info on this project and more from Oleg, click here: http://www.semistrunka.com
A cornerstone at most IARGUS Festivals and a talented musician who can play almost any instrument with strings, John has kept a busy calendar. He recently performed a Russian and Spanish guitar recital at the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments. He also performed on the baroque guitar and five-string banjo with the Hutchins Consort, an ensemble that performs on an octet of new violin family instruments.
On April 1st, John will be performing on the archlute and theorbo with Monica Huggett and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and on April 17th, the Czar's Guitars will be performing at the University of California, Irvine.
He’s also been busy in the studio, recording for Dorian Sono Luminus who recently released his latest recording with his ensemble Galanterie, (lute, violin & 'cello) "Bernhard Joachim Hagen:Sonatas for Lute & Strings".
Later this month Dorian Sono Luminus will release "Love Leaves the World", a zarsuela performed by El Mundo, an ensemble in which he plays baroque guitar and archlute.
Dorian Sono Luminus will also be releasing the Czar's Guitars second CD "Souvenirs of Russia" later this year.
Troy Cummings, a guitarist from Kansas City, Missouri wrote an article on the transformation of four average six-string instruments into exotic Russian seven-string guitars. Click to read "Seven-String Conversions" to see the specifics of these four amazing instruments.
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