Conductors: Philipp Selivanov and Ivan Rudin

Haik Kazazyan was born in Yerevan in 1982. Studied under Eduard Grach at the Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music and the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, as well as under Ilya Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music in London. Prize-winner at the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition, the International Tchaikovsky Competition and the International Long–Thibaud Competition. In 2004 he received the Gold Medal and the Audience Award at the International Tibor Varga Violin Competition in Sion, while in 2007 he took the Gold Medal and the Audience Award at the International Yun Isang Violin Competition in Tongyeong. In 2011 the musician won the George Enescu International Violin Competition in Bucharest, while in 2015 he received 3rd prize and the Bronze Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Appeared at such acclaimed venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Barbican Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. Has collaborated with such musicians as Valery Gergiev, Teodor Currentzis, Yuri Simonov, Vladimir Fedoseyev. 

Andrey Baranov is a founding member and first violinist of the David Oistrakh Quartet. He was born in Leningrad in 1986. In 2009 he graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. He subsequently trained at the Conservatoire de Lausanne under Pierre Amoyal. Winner of the Queen Elisabeth International Competition (Brussels), the International Benjamin Britten Competition (London) and the International Henri Marteau Competition (Lichtenberg, Germany). Has won prizes at more than twenty music competi-tions. Has appeared with Vasily Petrenko, Teodor Currentzis, Yuri Temirkanov, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Emmanuel Krivine, Martha Argerich, Pierre Amoyal, Eliso Vir-saladze and Boris Andrianov. In 2009 Andrey Baranov was appointed assistant to Pierre Amoyal at the Conservatoire de Lausanne. Gives master-classes in Chicago, Bangkok, Riga, Vilnius, Stockholm, Moscow and Manchester among other cities.

Alexander Ramm is one of the most in-demand cellists of his generation. In Tchaikovsky Contest in Moscow, he was awarded Silver Medal in 2015. He is the winner of the Beijing International Competition, and 1^st All-Russia Music Contest. Ramm is the first and only Russian to become a laureate of Helsinki’s Paulo Cello Competition (2013), one of the most prestigious cello contests of the world. The musician tours the greatest venues, and collaborates with leading orchestras and famous conductors. He participated in festivals and clinics of Courchevel Academy, as well as Holland Music Sessions, while also honing his playing skills in Verbier youth academy. Since 2011, he takes part in Moscow Philharmonic concerts, and is a permanent participant of the project “21^st Century Stars”. In 2012, he became a soloist of St. Petersburg House of Music. In 2018, his solo album with complete cello suites solo by Britten was released by “Melodia” label to great critical acclaim in Russia and abroad.

Philipp Selivanov studied at the Glinka Chorus Academy. In 2010, he entered the Chorus Conducting Department of the St Petersburg State Conservatoire. In 2018, he graduated from the Opera and Symphony Conducting Department of the Conservatoire. He participated in master classes held by Vassily Sinaisky (2015), Bruno Weil (2015), Dorian Wilson (2016), and Vladimir Fedoseyev (2016). In cooperation with the soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers and Grayer Khanedanian, he staged Zumsteeg’s Lenore at the Peterhof Palace and Khanedanian’s Saint Peter the Apostle at the St Petersburg Capella. In September 2017, he made his debut at the Mikhailovsky Theatre with Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. In season 2017/2018, he conducted Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, and the ballet Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness set to music by Johann Sebastian Bach. He has performed with the orchestras of the St Petersburg Philharmonic Society, Kostroma Philharmonic Society, St Petersburg Capella, Astana Philharmonic Society, and with the Tavrichesky International Symphony Orchestra.

Ivan Rudin, conductor and pianist, studied in Gnessin Music School at Piano Department with Professor Tatiana Zelickman. He graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatoire (classes of Lev Naumov and Sergey Dorensky). In 2018, he entered St Petersburg Conservatory to study conducting with Professor Vladimir Altschuler. Ivan Rudin embarked on his professional career in the tender age of 11 It was then that he made his debut with a symphony orchestra. He has collaborated with symphony and chamber orchestras, such as Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, State Symphony Orchestra Novaya Rossiya and others. He has performed with such musicians as Natalia Gutman, Vladimir Kraynev, Eduard Brunner, Ysaye Quartet, Alexander Rudin, and others. He performs on a regular basis at greatest venues and festivals both as solo artist, or with best symphony or chamber orchestras. In 2011, he founded International Music Festival “Ars Longa”. Over the years, the festival evolved into one of the large scale events that take place in Moscow and Russian regions. In the summer of 2017, Ivan Rudin was appointed art director of Moscow State Symphony Orchestra.n 2020, Rudin is a laureate of Moscow Prize in the field of music. From 2017 on, Rudin is a member of the Public Council of The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. He is a member of Expert Council of the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives. He successfully combines touring and organizing and producing of large scale culture and educational projects.

The Moscow State Symphony Orchestra (MGSO) was founded in 1989 as the only symphony orchestra in the world that devotes a significant part of its concert activity to the musical and aesthetic education of the younger generation.In the span of 2017 – 2022, the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra was one of the most rapidly developing symphony collectives here in this country; it made its way to the greatest festivals and culture projects on the best Russian concert venues. The ensemble's repertoire includes masterpieces of Russian and foreign classics, works by contemporary composers.The orchestra successfully performed in Italy, Spain, Germany, Bulgaria, Turkey, China, Korea, successfully tours the cities of Russia. The orchestra is a regular participant of the annual international music festival ArsLonga (main and regional programs) and the International Grand Prix Competition "Golden Talents", regularly holds concerts with young soloists - winners and laureates of prestigious all-Russian and international competitions.