August 7, 2011 | 
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All geared up!
Another good day in Stratford yesterday. It might have rained but it didn’t stop everyone working hard and playing hard and Rimma was heard to say that life in Stratford at the moment was ‘crazy but exciting!’. Last night there was a party at Rimma’s home and students from France, Russia, Sweden and the UK enjoyed the entertainment which included the ever popular ‘ping-pong‘!
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Festival Update!
Everyone is working very hard at the Virtuoso Violin Festival with individual sessions with the professors in the morning and an orchestra rehearsal each afternoon/evening.
It is lovely to walk around and listen to the music, and it gives you more than just a hint that the forthcoming concerts on Saturday (6th) and Monday (8th) are going to be exciting and most enjoyable.
There is plenty of time for students to fit in sight seeing and shopping in the lovely Stratford-upon-Avon and we are keeping our fingers crossed that the rain is here for only one day and the sun will return soon.
Fantastic opening concert!
The Virtuoso Violin Festival was opened on Sunday evening with a recital by Rimma Sushanskaya in Stratford-upon-Avon. The concert commenced with some lovely Bach and Paganini solo pieces, performed by Rimma Sushanskaya which was a great beginning to this, the 10th Bach and Paganini Festival. During the second half, Rimma was joined by Robert Markham (piano) and Steve Collisson (cello) who played the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires by Piazzolla and as an encore played La muerte del angel, also by Piazzolla. A very enjoyable evening!
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10th Virtuoso Violin Festival starts soon!
We are so looking forward to the start of the 10th Virtuoso Violin Festival on the 31st of March 2011 where we will meet old friends from near and far and meet new students joining us for the first time.
If you haven’t got the following dates in your diary you may want to add them now! There are 3 exciting festival concerts taking place during July / August and these are:
Sunday 31st July 2011, at Levi Fox Hall, King Edwards VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon, 7.00 p.m. A recital by Rimma Sushanskaya (Violin), Robert Markham (Piano), Steve Collisson (Cello). The music will include Bach, Paganini and Piazzolla.
Saturday 6th August 2011, Levi Fox Hall, King Edwards VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon. 7.30 p.m. The festival participants will perform a Final Recital unaccompanied and with piano. Varied repertoire from solo Bach to Classical sonatas, Romantic concertos and show pieces.
Monday 8th August 2011. A Festival Evening in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon
If you would like to find out more please visit our Festival page and/or leave us a message below.
We hope to see some of you at our concerts.
A new video on YouTube
Richard Strauss: Sonata for Violin & Piano
Exert from the 3rd Mvt of the Sonata for Violin and Piano performed at the start of the 2008 Virtuoso Violin Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon. Violinist Rimma Sushanskaya and pianist Robert Markham.
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New Videos! May 2011
We are pleased to tell you that this week we have been busy uploading some videos to YouTube. We hope you have time to take a look and listen to these lovely pieces including:
1. Shostakovich, Symphony No7. Rimma Sushanskaya conducting the State Symphony Orchestra of the Ukraine. In memory of the victims of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941 to 1944. Performed on the 19th November 2010 in Kiev, Ukraine.
2. Bach, Air from the Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major. Musical Director / Conductor Rimma Sushanskaya and the Berlin Sinfonietta. December 2010, Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall.
Two pieces performed by Rimma Sushanskaya in St James Church, Piccadilly, November 2000.
3. Bach, Sonata No 3 in C Major (BWV 1005) – Allegro Assai.
4. Bach, Sonata No 3 in C Major (BWV 1005) – Largo.
We hope you enjoy these.
Conducting Debut in Berlin Philharmonic Hall, 25th December 2008
Rimma with soloist Guy Braunstein
P.S. ……. just found an interesting photo which was taken after my conducting debut in Berlin on the 25th December 2008 (yes it was Christmas day!).
Guy Braunstein (shown in this picture on the left) is the 1st Concertmeister of the Berlin Philharmonic. He was the soloist in the Beethoven Violin Concerto.
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A look at the past
When updating the website we looked for more photographs of Rimma and found this lovely one in Czechoslovakia which was in a local newspaper . At this time Rimma was touring the
Rimma after a very successful concert in Pisek, Czechoslovakia
country after winning First Prize in Prague. On the tour she performed four violin concertos composed by Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Glazounov and Bach, and was accompanied by different orchestras. In addition, Rimma performed solo recitals .
This photo was taken after a very successful concert in Pisek, a town famous because of Otakar Szevchik who was one of founders of violin school in Czechoslovakia in early 20th Century. Rimma has very fond memories of this concert.
The second photo (below) was taken in New York by the organist Michael Lieberman during her first years in the USA in the 1980′s when she was re-establishing her career again after leaving the USSR.
Rimma in the USA