The magic violins of Marta Kushnirskaya

Only violins will break the silence...

The artistic director of the ensemble is the famous violinist Marta Kushnirskaya. Precedently she worked in the Bolshoi Theatre Violin Ensemble during 15 years. She retains succession and still continuous and develops traditions of this celebrated collective of musicians.

Today the Marta Kushnirskaya ensemble is the only group of professional violinists that appear on stage without a conductor and play by heart, synchronously and it seems to the listener that it is one big violin playing. During the years of its concert activity the ensemble accompanied such famous singers – soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre as Irina Apkhipova, Zurab Sotkilava, Elena Zelenskaya, Marina Shutova and others.

The magic of music...

“The violin exerts strong emotional influence upon its listener, but this influence becomes much stronger when some violins with theirs different voices play together. The popular repertoire and the high professional skill of our musicians generate harmonious unity of performers and audience”.
Marta Kushnirskaya

The repertoire of the violinists ensemble is accessible to a general audience and embraces the hits of  classical music (Vivaldi, Brahms, Paganini, Tchaikovsky, Mozart), popular music and jazz (Moria, Miller, Kaempfert, Dassin, Warren), famous soundtracks (Legrand, Dunaevsky, Chaplin, Shostakovitch, Doga, Khachaturian), fantasias on folk songs and also the pieces written by well-known composers specially for the ensemble. The great majority of the arrangements are made by talented jazz pianist, composer and arranger Yury Gurevitch.

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The ensemble of Marta Kushnirskaya gives recitals that always are a great success. The girls also take part in concerts along with the singers and ballet dancers of the Bolshoi Theatre and stars of Russian show business.

“Marta Kushnirskaya restored this art form on the professional basis...”
Irina Arkhipova, People's Artist of USSR

“The violin ensemble of Marta Kushnirskaya is the only professional collective that performs in this difficult style...”
Joseph Kobzon, People's Artist of USSR

“The repertoire of  Marta Kushnirskaya's ensemble makes possible to attract attention of youth to genuine art...”
T. Shumova, vice-president of the Russian Foundation of Culture

“Every concert of this collective brings great joy and satisfaction to me and our audience...”
Eugeny Glazov, chief stage director of  the State Kremlin Palace,  People's Artist of  Russia

“The concert was a feast for the soul”.
Zurab Sotkilava, People's Artist of  USSR

I know why...

The ensemble of Marta Kushnirskaya is the prize-winner of Moscow art festival and the member of the International Union of Musicians the President of which is Irina Arkhipova.

The violinists of the Marta Kushnirskaya ensemble have good professional higher education (they graduated from Moscow music institutes). Now they also play in the best Moscow orchestras.

The ensemble of violinists performs on the most prestigious stages of Moscow, such as
State Kremlin Palace
Federation Council of Russia
Cultural Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)
State central concert hall “Rossia”
Central House of Architects
Central House of Scientists
Estrada Theatre
Theatre of the Russian Army
the concert halls in the science towns – Korolev, Zelenograd, Chernogolovka
and many others.

This is the small part of the repertoire of the ensemble

Classical music
A. Vivaldi. The storm (from 'The four seasons')
A. Khachaturian. Sabre dance, Waltz
N. Paganini. Caprice №24, Perpetual motion
G. Sviridov. Waltz
A. Dvorak. Melody, Slavonic dance
N. Rubinstein. Melody
N. Rimsky-Korsakov. Flight of the bumblebee
G. Dinicu. March round-dance
V. Monti. Czardas
J. Strauss. Blue Danube Waltz, Radetzky March, Perpetuum Mobile Polka
W. A. Mozart. March alla turca
J. Brahms. Hungarian dance №5
P. Tchaikovsky. Polonaise, Waltz from the ballet 'Nutcracker', 'October' from the 'The seasons' album
P. Sarasate. Navarra
A. Glazunov. Fragments from the ballet 'Raymonda'
G. Caccini. Ave Maria
F. Schubert. Ave Maria
F. Kreisler. Waltz, Viennese march
and many others.

The performing time of each number is about 3-4 minutes. All items are executed by heart.

Retro & Jazz
G. Miller. In the mood, Know why, The moonlight serenade, Chattanooga Choo-Choo
M. Legrand. The Cherbourg umbrellas
P. Moria. Toccata, Menuet
T. Khrennikov. Moscow windows
I. Dunaevsky. My Moscow
Soloviev-Sedoy. At the front-line forest
Strock. The last tango
Jerzy Petersburski. The last Sunday ('The fatigued sun')
La Cumparsita. Tango Argentina
Vincent Youmans. Tea for two
Rock-n-roll
M. Tariverdiev. Little Prince
S. Bechet. Little Flower
J. Dassin. Potpourri of songs
J. Herman. Hello, Dolly
F. Ley. Love story
N. Frolov. Joke-souvenir
E. Doga. Waltz (soundtrack from 'My tender and affectionate beast')
Tico-tico samba
'La vie en roses' (from the repertoire of Edith Piaf)
B. Kaempfert. Strangers in the night
G. Gershwin. Porgy and Bess
J. Kern. Smoke
Ch. Aznavour. Une vie d'amour
Y. Gurevitch. Potpourri of soundtracks from Charley Chaplin's films
and many others

Contacts

Tel. +7 (495) 614 84 05; +7 (495) 145 26 73
Artistic director – Marta Kushnirskaya, mob. +7 910 443 31 80
Director – Isaak Treger, mob. +7 916 213 89 23
www.kushnirskaya.ru
e-mail info@kushnirskaya.ru