Live oboe masterclass of the Riga Jurmala Online Music Academy with Alexei Ogrintchouk, the principal oboe player of the Concertgebouworkest.
Alexei Ogrintchouk is one of the most outstanding oboists performing today. Alexei attended the Gnessin Music School in Moscow and made solo appearances in Russia, Europe and Japan at the age of thirteen. In 1995, he was admitted to the Paris conservatory, where he was awarded first prizes for oboe and chamber music.
In 1999, Alexei Ogrintchouk was appointed first oboist of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. He took on the post of principal oboist of the Concertgebouworkest in August 2005.
As a soloist, Ogrintchouk has worked with the orchestras of the Mariinsky and the Bolshoy Theatres, the National Orchestra of Russia, the orchestras of the BBC (where he was named New Generation Artist in 2005), the BFO - Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Concertgebouworkest. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with such greats as Gidon Kremer, Leif Ove Andsnes, Radu Lupu and Thomas Quasthoff.
More about the artist: www.concertgebouworkest.nl/en/alexei-ogrintchouk
Participants and repertoire of the masterclass:
1. Varvara Zavjalova, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, lect.E.Upatnieks class / accompanist E.Bērtiņa
Repertoire:
R.Strauss - Oboe Concerto in D major, TrV 292: I mvt
2. Renate Lodzina, JVLMA, lect.E.Upatnieks class
Repertoire:
J.S. Bach - Partita in G minor, BWV 1013: Allemande, Corrente
3. Pauls Kristaps Reinis, JVLMA, lect.E.Upatnieks class
Repertoire:
F.Schubert - Symphony No.9 in C major: II mvt, opening oboe solo
P.Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4 in F minor: II mvt, opening oboe solo
J.Brahms - Symphony No.1 in C minor: II mvt
M.Ravel - "Le Tombeau de Couperin": III mvt, Menuet
3. Kira Maija Kirsanova, JVLMA, lect.E.Upatnieks class / accompanist E.Bērtiņa
Orchestra excerpts:
M.Mussorgsky - "Bilder einer Ausstellung": III. Les Tuileries
G.Rossini - "Die seidene Leiter": Ouverture
Solo piece:
B.Crusell - Divertimento for oboe and string quartet, Op.9