May 18 Follow up

It is the final concert of our 2nd season!

You can view some photos here

Monday, May 18

chamber music at the studio series

May Concert this coming Monday

the 18th at 8:00pm

music director

M a k s i m V e l i c h k i n

Dear friends,

Please, join us to celebrate the beginning of summer with Music and Art!

Warmly, Alexey

P.S. Congratulations to our own, Classical Underground fomented trio of Eduardo Delgado, David Chernyavsky and Serge Oskotsky on their fabulous recent performance at Disney Hall

P R O G R A M M E

(detailes to be announced during the concert)

Music of Joaquin Turina, G. Rossini, Jean Francaix, Ralph Vaughan Wiliams, F. Chopin, S. Rachmaninov, F. Poulenc, E. Bloch, I. Stravinsky, R. Strauss, E. Granados, A. Piazzolla.

Performed by:
Iren Arutyunyan (guitar)
Yulia Barsky (piano)
Allison Bjorkedal (harp)
Leo Chelyapov (clarinet)Alexei Gourevich (clarinet)
Tina Guo (cello)
Yin Yin Huang (piano)
Alexey Klyushnik (bass)
Sam McElroy (baritone)
Anastasia Nemirovich-Danchenko (piano)
Mikael Oganesyan (piano)
Tina Chang Qu (violin)Yana Reznik (piano)Harout Senekeremian (piano)
Alex Shlifer (violin)
Marissa Sorajia (violin)
Limor Toren (violin)
Maksim Velichkin (cello)
Ling Yan (cello)
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CLASSICAL UNDERGROUND SHOWCASE

focusing on a classical art form of serious contemporary representational art

Painter Jeremy Lipking

It is a distinct pleasure to showcase a friend and one of my absolutely favorite living artists. If you still don't know Jeremy, you should, if you know of him, there is your chance to see his most recent work.

Jeremy Lipking "Skylar" oil on canvas 36" x 22"Following in footsteps of best masters of French Naturalist School, which I still prefer calling Realist School, Jeremy in many ways embodies the undeniable "figurative shift" in contemporary American art, championed by the dedicated search of an entire generation of young talents today.

His work has a rare quality of presence and authenticity, glancing at pensive, internalized characters caught in a twilight of their world and defined by delicately elegant, subtle value range, somewhat melancholic palette and exceptionally crafted forms, all making seeing his paintings an unabashed act of pleasure.

It is a true thrill to have a master of such rare ability among us, who contributes greatly to the excitement of our bubbling artistic dialog and helps making Los Angeles one of the most vibrant destinations in the most current exploration of Art's true frontiers.

Welcome to Classical Underground

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Monday, April 20 Concert

Maksim Velichkin, Boris Andrianov, Serge Oskotsky. March concert

Andrew Shapiro. Selections from "Numbers, Colors and People"

Andrew Shapiro - piano

Barbara Strozzi. Cantata "L'eraclito amoroso"

Charlene Chi - mezzo soprano

Jason Yoshida - theorbo

F. Schubert. Sonata a moll D.537

Allegro ma non troppo

Allegretto quasi andantino

Allegro vivace

Pavel Petrov - piano

Oscar Navarro. Piano Trio "Things of Destiny"

Sergio Gamez - violin

Joo Lee - cello

Regulo Martinez - piano

P.Tchaikovsky. Melody.

Valse-Scherzo

Roberto Cani - violin

Yana Reznik - piano

intermission

C.Saint-Saens. Piano Trio #2 e moll

Allegro non troppo

Allegretto

Andante con moto

Grazioso poco allegro

Allegro non troppo

Maksim Velichkin - cello

Yana Reznik - piano

Timothy Braun - violin

A.Arensky. Piano Trio in D minor Op.32

Allegro moderato

Scherzo

Elegia

Finale

Eduardo Delgado - piano

David Chernyavsky - violin

Serge Oskotsky - cello

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CLASSICAL UNDERGROUND SHOWCASE

focusing on a classical art form of

serious contemporary representational art

painter LEONID STEELE

It is our special privilege to showcase a master whose place in art history is already well-secured. Recognized for the multi-figure works, in Russian "kartina", Leonid Steele is "a living legacy to the Art of the Soviet Union" and an important part of the generation that preserved for us and passed alone the principles and traditions of venerable Russian Realist School.

Known at the time as "Socialist Realism" or "Sotsrealism," the movement has given its main attention to a common man on an unprecedented before and probably after scale. The kind, compassionate and understanding look at the everyday man/woman of society, with all his and her inner world depicted on the canvases of the best artists struck the cord with their contemporaries. The empathy towards the common man is Sotsrealism's main contribution to the World history of Art.

The Art in the Soviet Union through its capacity to communicate basic human emotions to common people helped to preserve people's integrity as individuals in midst of largely inhuman society. It became the main vehicle of people's internal freedom and now stands as a testimony to the insuppressible and self-preserving powers of human spirit.