Schedule for The Mariinsky Theatre Brass Ensemble 2022

Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
Conductor: Alexei Repnikov
Trumpet: Timur Martynov
Orchestra: The Mariinsky Theatre Brass Quintet
Orchestra: The Mariinsky Theatre Grand Brass Ensemble

Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

The programme includes:
Witold Lutosławski. Mini-Overture for brass quintet
Eric Ewazen. Frost Fire suite for brass quintet
Alexei Pozin. Journey through Europe suite for brass quintet
Performed by The Mariinsky Theatre Brass Quintet

Leonard Bernstein. Suite from the musical Westside Story
Works by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Vyacheslav Kruglik
Performed by The Mariinsky Theatre Grand Brass Ensemble

The Mariinsky Theatre Brass Quintet:
Yuri Fokin (trumpet), Mikhail Afonkin (trumpet), Alexei Pozin (French horn), Alexander Ponomaryov (trombone), Konstantin Zlatin (trumpet)

The Mariinsky Theatre Brass Quintet was founded in St Petersburg in 2008 by musicians of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra. The ensemble has already won the admiration of the public, and in summer 2009 it became a prize-winner at the International Lieksa Brass Week Competition (Finland). In 2009 the ensemble took part in the II Brass Evenings at the Mariinsky Festival. It frequently presents free concerts in the Foyer of the Mariinsky Theatre.

The Mariinsky Theatre Grand Brass Ensemble:
Timur Martynov (trumpet), Sergei Kryuchkov (trumpet), Vitaly Zaitsev (trumpet), Stanislav Ilchenko (trumpet), Stanislav Tses (French horn), Vladislav Kuznetsov (French horn), Igor Yakovlev (trombone), Andrei Smirnov (trombone), Vladimir Polevin (bass trombone), Alexander Dzhurri (euphonium), Nikolai Slepnev (tuba), Andrei Khotin (percussion), Vladislav Ivanov (percussion)
Conductor – Alexei Repnikov

The Mariinsky Grand Brass Ensemble was established in 2007. Today the Mariinsky Brass Ensemble comprises fourteen musicians who perform in the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Gergiev. The ensemble tours frequently, performing in Japan, Austria and Switzerland. Moreover, the ensemble participates in three festivals and has initiated the Brass Evenings at the Mariinsky festival. The ensemble’s repertoire includes works both specially written for it (Alexei Pozin’s brass suite Catalina and Oleg Oblov’s At the Party pièce musicale) and arrangements of well-known opuses by Mariinsky Theatre musicians including Аlexei Pozin, Vladislav Ivanov, Alexei Repnikov and Gleb Biryulin.