Maria Zorkina
In the orchestra since 2011
Maria Zorkina was born in Leningrad. She started studying music at an early age. She played the piano, sang in a choir and learned to play the harp.
In 1998, she graduated with honours from music college where she had studied harp playing (under prof. I.A. Donskaya) and symphony conducting (under prof. L.Ya. Savich).
In 2004, Maria graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg Conservatory (prof. A.A. Varosyan’s class).
She has worked at the Mikhailovsky and Mariinsky theatre orchestras, at the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Academic symphony orchestra, at Macao Symphony, and at Hong Kong Philharmonic.
Since 2011, Maria Zorkina has been a member of the musicAeterna orchestra.
In 2018, Maria Zorkina graduated with honours from the Perm State Culture University where she had studied symphony conducting under prof. V.I. Platonov. In November 2018, she made her debut as a conductor at the Perm State Opera and Ballet Theatre.
musicAeterna orchestra events
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Francesca da Rimini
Symphonic fantasy after Dante, Op. 32 (1876)
Capriccio Italien
A fantasy for orchestra, Op. 45 (1880)
Romeo and Juliet
An overture-fantasy after Shakespeare, TH 42 (1869–1880)
musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Francesca da Rimini,
Symphonic Fantasy after Dante, Op. 32 (1876)
Capriccio Italien
on folk tunes for orchestra, Op. 45 (1880)
Romeo and Juliet,
Overture-Fantasy after Shakespeare, TH 42 (1869–1880)
musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)
Vorspiel to the opera Parsifal (1882)
Overture to the opera Tannhäuser (1843–1845)
Vorspiel und Liebestod from the opera Tristan und Isolde (1857–1859)
Vorspiel to the opera Lohengrin (1845–1848)
Overture to the opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868)
musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, B. 191 (1894–1895)
Allegro
Adagio ma non troppo
Finale. Allegro moderato
Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88, B. 163 (1889)
Allegro con brio
Adagio
Allegretto grazioso — Molto Vivace
Allegro ma non troppo
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Soloist Alexey Zhilin
Conductor Alexander Sladkovsky