Maria Simakova, soprano and Aleksandr Kazakov, piano

Russian artists will perform a concert called La Belle Dame Sans Merci (The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy) based on the song of the same name by Alain Chartier.

Program:
Arvo Pärt
My Heart’s in the Highlands

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alma grande e nobil core, K. 578

Sergey Prokofiev
Poetico from Visions fugitives, Op. 22

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Se tu m’ami

Edvard Grieg
Praeludium from Holberg Suite, Op. 40

Anonymous
Three Renaissance dances
La Lumbarda
La cara cossa del Berdolin
Gamba Gagliarda

Johann Sebastian Bach
Bist du bei mir, BWV 508

Sergey Prokofiev
Katerina from Russian Folksongs, Op. 104

Louis-Claude Daquin
Le Coucou from Premier livre de pieces de clavecin

Johann Wilhelm Hässler
Sonate in a, I part

Frank Bridge
Winter pastoral, H.168

Gabriel Fauré
Pie Jesu from Requiem, Op. 48

John Lennon / Paul McCartney
Michelle

Valentin Silvestrov
La Belle Dame Sans Merci from Silent Songs

Biographies:
Maria Simakova, opera singer and actress, is laureate of international competitions (Russia, Poland, Serbia) and Russian Theatre Award “The golden mask” nominee for the best female role in the opera (Anne Frank – G. Frid’ s mono opera “The diary of Anne Frank”). Soloist in the contemporary opera projects “Modern Opera Lab” directed by Vasily Barkhatov and “CoOPERAtion” by Kate Vasileva (Moscow), Soloist of the festival “December Evenings of S. Richter” Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (2019), Soloist of the Chamber Musical Theatre by B.A. Pokrovsky (2011- 2016), Participant of the Youth Opera project in Nice (France), Lecturer at the Moscow State Conservatory by P.I. Tchaikovsky (2016-2021). Guest soloist of the Moscow New Opera Theatre by E.V. Kolobov and Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre.

Aleksandr Kazakov, musician, composer, lecturer, organizer. Laureate of international and all-Russian competitions on various musical instruments (organ, harpsichord, piano, accordion), participant in festivals and master classes, among them Ars vivendi clavicembalum and Dies Organorum, Serbia, Aberdeen International Youth Festival, Scotland and Russian music concerts in Denmark. He was parto fo the projects by Minnus Trelligh, Vysoko, Kandinsky orchestra.  Kazakov is founder and artistic director of the Lucis Art Ensemble. Also, he is active as organizer and artistic director of the Cinema//Theater group, as well as the International Student Festival of CLAVIER MUSIC in Belgrade.