G A L L E R Y
Marianna VASILEVA
Music critics, audiences and fellow musicians have recently been calling Marianna Vasileva an upcoming first lady of violin. She displays a truly unprecedented violin technique, and resonant tone, digitally precise intonation in all circumstances together with the breezy confidence and light-hearted intelligence that she brings to her performance.
As a winner of many international competitions (the International Glazunov Competition, the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, the Prague Spring International Music Competition, the Violin Competition Sion Valais and other) Marianna is appearing repeatedly as a guest artist with famed ensembles internationally. She cooperates with young talented artists as Tal-Haim Samnon, Miroslav Sekera, Charlie Siem as well as the well-know and renewed artists Shlomo Mintz,Krzysztof Penderezki, Itamar Golan, Paul Watkins, Yuri Bashmet, Saulius Sondeckis and others.
Marianna’s exciting charisma was admitted by Mstislav Rostropovich who has listened to her for the first time at his anniversary party in 1997. The same year, she has her debut in Germany where Marianna had a great success performing Bruch’s Concert No. 1 for violin and orchestra. A year later, Valery Gergiev invited her to his largest festival in Mikkeli, Finland.
In 1997 Marianna became a winner of the international competition “2000 Virtuosos” in St. Petersburg and the International Shostakovich Competition in Hannover, in 2000 – the International Glazunov Competition in Paris. In 2001, she not only became an awardee of the International Spohr Competition in Weimar but also won the main prize of this competition – a violin. The same year Vladimir Spivakov invites Marianna to take part in his exclusive festival in Colmar. In 2009 Marianna won the 1st prize in the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition also in the Prague Spring International Music Competition in 2010 and the Violin Competition Sion Valais.
Marianna got her first violin lessons in the age of five directed by her father. When she was in age of 7, she played her first recital concert. Then, the famous violin players became her teachers: Vladimir Ovcharek (the Vocational school and the St. Petersburg Conservatory), Dora Schwarzberg (the High School of Music in Vienna), Zakhar Bron (the High School of Music on Cologne).
She has over 40 concerts in her repertoire. Her current season includes cycle of the 24 Caprices by N.Paganini, concerts by K.Penderecki, L.Beethoven, P.Tchaikovsky etc.
V I D E O
R E V I E W S
R E P E R T O I R E
J.S.Bach
Sonata No.1 g-moll BWV 1001
Sonata No.2 a-moll BWV 1003
Partita No.2 d-moll BWV 1004
H.W. Ernst
“The Last Rose of Summer” (Etude No.6)
N.Milstein
“Paganiniana”
N.Paganini
Caprices op.1
E.Ysaye
Sonata No.3 (“Ballada”) d-moll op.27
Sonata No.6 E-dur op.27
Sonatas and Pieces with piano
L. van Beethoven
Sonata No.5 F-dur op.24
Sonata No.7 c-moll op.30 No.2
Sonata No.8 G-dur op.30 No.3
Sonata No.9 A-dur Op.47 (“Kreutzer”)
J.Brahms
Sonata No.2 A-dur op.100
Sonata No.3 d-moll op.108
E.Elgar
Sonata e-moll, op.82
G.Faure
Sonata A-dur op.13
C.Franck
Sonata for violin and piano A-dur M.8
W.A. Mozart
Sonata No.18 G-dur KV 301
Sonata No.21 e-moll KV 304
Sonata No.22 A-dur KV 305
F.Schubert
Sonata (Duo) A-dur op.162 D.547
Fantasy C-dur D.934
Rondo Brilliant b-moll op.70 D.895
D.Shostakovich
Sonata G-dur op.134
S.Prokofiev
Sonata f-moll No.1 op.80
M.Ravel
Sonata No.1 a-moll "Sonate Posthume"
Sonata No.2 G-dur
G. Tartini
Sonata g-moll "Devil's Trill"
J.S.Bach
Air in G string (from suite No.3 D-dur)
Arioso
L.van Beethoven
Romance F-dur No.2 op.50
J.Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 17 fis- moll
Hungarian Dance No.1 g-moll
Hungarian Dance No.5 fis-moll
Scherzo c-moll (from F-A-E Sonata)
F.Chopin
Nocturne cis-moll No.20
C.Debussy
La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) No. 8 of Preludes, Book I
Claire de lune
Beau Soir
A.Dvorak
Mazurek op.49
Romance op.11
Slavonic Dance No 2 op.72
G.Faure
Berceuse, Op.16
M.de Falla
Danse Espagnole (from “La Vida Breve”)
J.Hubay
Carmen Fantasie
F.Kreisler
Various Pieces
W.Lutoslawski
Subito (1992)
J.Massenet
“Meditation” (from Thais)
N.Paganini
Cantabile op.17
Le Streghe (Witches dance) op.8
Di tanti Palpiti op.13
A.Piazzolla
Various Pieces
S.Prokofiev
5 Melodies for violin and piano op.35 bis
S.Rachmaninov
Vocalise op.34 No.14
Romance op.6 No.1
M.Ravel
“Tzigane” M.76
P.de Sarasate
Gypsy Airs op.20
Introduction et Tarantelle op.43
Habanera op.21 No.2
C. Saint-Saens
Havanaise op.83
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso op.28
J.Suk
4 Pieces for violin and piano
P.Tchaikovsky
Op.42: Meditation d-moll
Scherzo c-moll
Melodie E flat-dur
Valse-scherzo C-dur op.34
Valse sentimentale op.51
T.Vitali
Chaconne g-moll
H.Wieniawski
Theme Original Varié, Op. 15
Scherzo-Tarantelle, Op. 16
Fantasie Brillante sur Gounod's Faust, Op. 20
Polonaise No. 1 in D Major, Op. 4.
E.Ysaye
Poeme elegiaque op.12
F.Waxman
Carmen Fantasie
CHAMBER MUSIC
Two violins
G.F.Telemann
12 Canons melodieux, ou 6 sonates en duo: Sonata in D major, TWV 40:120
L.Boccherini
Duet for 2 violins in G major, Op. 5, No. 1, G. 56
A.Honneger
Sonatina for 2 Violins, H. 29
P.de Sarasate
Navarra op.33
E.Ysaye
Sonata for 2 Violins in A minor
String trio
L. van Beethoven
Trio in G major, op. 9 no. 1
Trio in D major, op. 9 no. 2
Trio in C minor, op. 9 no. 3
F. Schubert
String trio in B flat major D581
String trio in B flat major D471
Piano trio
A.Dvorak
“Dumky” trio in E minor, Op. 90
D.Shostakovich
Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8
Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
D.Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 8 in c-moll op.110
S.Rachmaninov
String Quartet No.1 g-moll (unfinished)
Piano quintet
G.Faure
Piano Quintet No.2 Op.115
Concertos for Violin & Orchestra
J.S.Bach
Concerto for Two Violins & Chamber Orchestra d-moll BWV1043
Violin Concerto №1 a-moll BWV 1041
Violin Concerto №2 E-dur BWV 1042
M.Bruch
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №1 g-moll op.26
Scottish Fantasy op.46
J.Brahms
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra D-dur op.77
Concerto for Violin, Cello & Orchestra a-moll op.102
L. van Beethoven
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra D-dur op.61
S.Barber
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra op.14
A.Dvorak
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra a-moll op.53
A.Glazunov
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra a-moll op.82
E.Lalo
Symphonie Espagnole d-moll op.21
W.Marschner
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №1
F.Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra e-moll op.64
W.A.Mozart
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №3 G-dur KV216
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №4 D-dur KV218
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №5 A-dur KV219
Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola & Orchestra Es-dur K
N.Paganini
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №1 D-dur op.6
S.Prokofiev
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №1 D-dur op.19
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №2 g-moll op.63
D.Shostakovich
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №1 a-moll op.77 (99)
A.Schoenberg
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra op.36
J.Sibelius
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra d-moll op.47
K.Szymanowski
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №1 op.35
P.Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra D-dur op.35
A.Vietan
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №4 d-moll op.31
A.Vivaldi
The four Seasons
Spring.Concerto №1 in E-dur op.8 RV269
Summer.Concerto №2 in g-moll op.8 RV315
Autumn.Concerto №3 in F-dur op.8 RV293
Winter.Concerto №4 in f-moll op.8 RV297
H.Wieniawski
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №1 fis-moll op.14
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra №2
d-moll op.22
W.Walton
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra