The Albanian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra opens this year’s concert season on January 15. With a special program, the RTSH Symphony Orchestra will present a very special concert to the public on Sunday.
Joseph Haydn with the concerto for cello and orchestra No. 2 in D major and Piotr Ilić Tchaikovsky with the symphony No. 6 opera 74 “Pathetic”, will light up the hall of the Theater of Opera and Ballet.
Albanian orchestra director Oleg Arapi and the cello soloist Georgi Anishenko, soloist of the Belgian National Opera “La Monnaie” will perform.
Born in Minsk, Belarus, Georgi Anishenko cultivated his passion for the cello since childhood, when he began his studies at the age of 5 at the State College of Music and played for the first time at the age of 8 on a European tour.
After completing his postgraduate studies with Jerôme Pernoo, Georgi has won several prizes in international competitions, such as the one at the International Competition for Young Musicians in Moscow in 1996, a year later he won the prize for virtuosity at the International Junior Tchaikovsky Competition in St. Petersburg, 2nd prize at the André Navarra International Cello Competition in France, 2nd prize at the Lutoslaëski International Cello Competition in Poland, 4th prize at the Isang Yun International Cello Competition in South Korea, 1st prize at the International Cello Competition for strings “Unisa” in South Africa and second prize in the Carlos Prieto international cello competition in Mexico.
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