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Diliaver Menametov

In the orchestra since 2004

Dilyaver Menametov graduated from the Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatory as a double bass player (the class of Professor Valery Boldin) in 2004.

In 2003, he became an artist of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Symphony Orchestra. Since 2004, he has collaborated with the musicAeterna Orchestra as the concertmaster of the double bass group. Since 2005, he has worked as a double bass player in the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra. He performed as a double bass soloist, and was one of the first in Russia to perform the works by Johann Baptist Vanhal, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johannes Matthias Sperger in the original ‘Viennese tuning’. In 2011, together with the musicAeterna Orchestra, he moved to Perm, where he founded the Barocco A La Prima ensemble specializing in historically informed performance. From 2020 to 2023 he was the concertmaster of the double bass group of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre Symphony Orchestra.

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He maintains an active concert career as a double bass soloist and viola da gamba player.

IF YOU WEREN'T A MUSICIAN, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Before seriously taking up music I was a student at the Mathematics & Mechanics Faculty, so I probably would have become a mathematician. Although, perhaps, I still would have played music for pleasure.
WHAT MADE YOU SWITCH FROM MATHEMATICS TO MUSIC?
There has always been a musician in me. At some point I simply realised that I want music to be my profession and that this would require full immersion and giving up my scientific career. My choice was fully conscious and uncompromising.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE THE DOUBLE BASS?
I had no choice as such. Since I lacked musical training, I could take up either bass or bassoon. I chose bass. Although as a child I did learn percussions at a music school. In fact, I have always been surrounded by music, because my mother is a musician.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO SUCCEED?
Success is a lottery, but diligence and capacity for networking are certainly important. So is, obviously, talent.

musicAeterna orchestra events

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November 10, 20:00
St. Petersburg | Great Hall of the Philharmonic
Philipp Chizhevsky and the musicAeterna Orchestra: Bach, Bruckner
Symphony concert

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) — Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
Contrapunctus XIX, Fuga a 3 soggetti from the cycle Die Kunst der Fugue in transcription for 23 instruments (2001)

Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Symphony №3 in D Minor, WAB 103 (1873, the version of 1889)
Gemäßigt, mehr bewegt, misterioso
Adagio: Bewegt, quasi Andante
Scherzo: Ziemlich schnell
Finale: Allegro

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November 26, 19:30
Shanghai | Oriental Art Center
Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna: Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss
Symphony concert

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 (1888)
Andante — Allegro con anima
Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza
Waltz. Allegro moderato
Finale. Andante maestoso — Allegro vivace

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)

Four Last Songs for soprano and orchestra (1948)
Frühling (Spring) — lyrics by Hermann Hesse
September — lyrics by Hermann Hesse
Beim Schlafengehen (When Falling Asleep) — lyrics by Hermann Hesse
Im Abendrot (At Sunset) — lyrics by Joseph von Eichendorff

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November 27, 19:30
Shanghai | Oriental Art Center
Richard Wagner: Der Ring Ohne Worte | The Ring without Words
Symphony concert

Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
Der Ring Ohne Worte | The Ring without Words
Symphonic suite based on the opera tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung
Compiled by Lorin Maazel (1987)

I Das Rheingold |The Rhinegold
II. Die Walküre | The Valkyrie
III. Siegfried
IV. Götterdämmerung | The Twilight of the Gods

The musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor Teodor Currentzis 

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November 29, 20:00
Shenzhen | Shenzhen Concert Hall
Richard Wagner: Der Ring Ohne Worte | The Ring without Words
Symphony concert

Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
Der Ring Ohne Worte | The Ring without Words
Symphonic suite based on the opera tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung
Compiled by Lorin Maazel (1987)

I Das Rheingold |The Rhinegold
II. Die Walküre | The Valkyrie
III. Siegfried
IV. Götterdämmerung | The Twilight of the Gods

The musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor Teodor Currentzis 

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November 30, 15:00
Shenzhen | Shenzhen Concert Hall
Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna: Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss
Symphony concert

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 (1888)
Andante — Allegro con anima
Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza
Waltz. Allegro moderato
Finale. Andante maestoso — Allegro vivace

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)

Four Last Songs for soprano and orchestra (1948)
Frühling (Spring) — lyrics by Hermann Hesse
September — lyrics by Hermann Hesse
Beim Schlafengehen (When Falling Asleep) — lyrics by Hermann Hesse
Im Abendrot (At Sunset) — lyrics by Joseph von Eichendorff