{"id":582,"date":"2014-07-19T21:06:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T01:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronlc.com\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2014-07-19T21:13:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T01:13:56","slug":"a-very-busy-may-from-san-francisco-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/a-very-busy-may-from-san-francisco-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Busy May from San Francisco to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can say the spring was quite busy for me; hence, this is my first post since\u00a0late April. \u00a0It was a very exciting time taking me to both the west &amp; east coasts of the US and then back to Russia for my Moscow debut concert and then St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>May 2 &#8211; 405 Shrader, San Francisco with mezzo-soprano <a href=\"http:\/\/betanycoffland.com\" target=\"_blank\">Betany Coffland<\/a>\u00a0(watch video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xw8IN97J1zo\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>May 4 &#8211; Oysterville, Washington for a\u00a0literally packed house\u00a0solo performance.<\/p>\n<p>May 10 &#8211; Saco River Theater, Buxton, Maine<\/p>\n<p>May 13 &#8211; Arrive in Moscow for\u00a0<em style=\"color: #393e37;\">Days of American Culture in Russia, <\/em>an exchange organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationalbridgeproject.org\" target=\"_blank\">Educational Bridge Project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 14 &#8211; Solo Recital, Oval Hall at the State Foreign Library &#8211; Russian premieres by <a href=\"http:\/\/kenueno.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Ueno<\/a> and Francine Trester, Moscow premiere by Kevin Siegfried (Video <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/g-0oNj8K_TQ?t=8s\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_590\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0292.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-590\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-590\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0292-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Luba Kostenko \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0292-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0292-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luba Kostenko<\/p><\/div>\n<p>).<\/p>\n<p>May 16 &#8211; Master class at the State University of Arts and Culture; Collaborative Recital with Russian actor Georges Devdariani at the Actors House; Red Arrow overnight train (former part of the Orient Express) to St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>May 18 &#8211; Luba Kostenko&#8217;s Art Studio Salon<\/p>\n<p>May 18-21 &#8211; Rehearse <em>Concert\u00a0Champ\u00eatre<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/thomaslread.com\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas L. Read<\/a>\u00a0with cellist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rkq.spb.ru\/about\/anton_andreev\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anton Andreev<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.rkq.spb.ru\" target=\"_blank\">Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet<\/a> for world premiere concert.<\/p>\n<p>May 20 &#8211; Solo performance at Baltic State University; sit, play and be drawn by Artist Luba Kostenko.<\/p>\n<p>May 21 &#8211;\u00a0Performance at St. Petersburg Izmailovsky Library. \u00a0Night tour of open bridges over the\u00a0Neva River.<\/p>\n<p>May 22 &#8211; Performance at <span style=\"color: #222222;\">Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory. \u00a0SPB premieres of New Lullabies by<\/span>\u00a0Ken Ueno and Francine Trester, and the world premiere of\u00a0<em>Concert\u00a0Champ\u00eatre<\/em>\u00a0by Thomas L. Read\u00a0with cellist Anton Andreev.<\/p>\n<p>May 23 &#8211; A tour of Catherine&#8217;s Palace in Pushkin, Russia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_591\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0538.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-591\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-591\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0538-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"With Catherine at Catherine's Palace\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0538-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/DSCN0538-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Catherine at Catherine&#8217;s Palace<\/p><\/div>\n<p>May 24 &#8211;\u00a0Depart Russia. \u00a0Hope to see you soon!<\/p>\n<p>The <em style=\"color: #393e37;\">Days of American Culture in Russia<\/em>\u00a0was organized\u00a0by the Educational Bridge Project, Ludmilla Leibman, Director, and with financial support from the Eleanor Hale Wilson Summer Scholarship from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpefoundation.org\/grants-scholarships\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can say the spring was quite busy for me; hence, this is my first post since\u00a0late April. \u00a0It was a very exciting time taking me to both the west &amp; east coasts of the US and then back to Russia for my Moscow debut concert and then St. Petersburg. May 2 &#8211; 405 Shrader, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,68,110,1,4,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts","category-contemporary-music","category-ensemble","category-general","category-new-lullaby","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}