On October 23, the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre invites fans of the Theatre’s musicians to the first concert in the 45th season: the Orchestra Formula cycle begins. The concert will be called Baroque and Blues. For the first time, a cycle of six concerts took place in the previous 44th season and caught the fancy of spectators.

In the new season, the Orchestra Formula does not have a second title Early Music Concert. Still, the programme of the concerts will certainly include Renaissance and Baroque music, but not only it: the orchestra musicians will present the work of various composers including contemporary ones. However, the goal of the project remains unchanged: to acquaint the citizens of Krasnoyarsk with the creative abilities of the orchestra musicians of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre who can masterfully perform music of different authors, eras, and styles.

Spectators of the Orchestra Formula project are well acquainted with Pavel Studennikov, accompanist of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre's woodwind section. Now he makes his debut as the creator of the programme for the first concert of the season. Pavel graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. He is a Grand Prix winner of the Diffwinds International Festival for Winds (Luxembourg), a laureate of the 2nd International Competition Festival Contemporary Art and Education (Moscow). He is not only a brilliant soloist but also a master of an ensemble; he played the flute in the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Volga Region, the Studio for New Music of the Moscow Conservatory, the chamber orchestra of the Pavel Slobodkin Centre, the Syrinx flute quartet, the Ivan Velikanov chamber orchestra Tarusy, the orchestra of the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic; he performed at the best music venues of Russia, Europe, and Asia.

At the Baroque and Blues concert on October 23, Pavel Studennikov will perform the Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach trio sonata in an ensemble along with Olga Spiridonova (violin), Andrey Kholomkin (bassoon), and Kira Lagozinskaya (harp); the flute quartet Jour d'Été à la Montagne by the French composer of the 20th century Eugène Bozza (along with colleagues Natalia Zimaltynova, Elena Sidorova, Alexei Chervov); the jazz suite for flute and piano trio of the Frenchman Claude Bolling (double bass - Stanislav Spiridonov, piano - Eugenia Solunskaya, percussion - Eugeny Demchenko). The concert will feature another jazz surprise: the trombone duet written by the American jazzman Michael Davis performed by Eugeny Sablin and Sergei Syrokhvatov.

Thus, a spectacular jazz performance will end the concert, which will begin and continue with quite classical works by Rossini, Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Saint-Saens, Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons.