Nikita Vaganov
In the orchestra since 2023
He studied at the Gnessin State Musical College (the class of Vladimir Ferapontov), the Lübeck Academy of Music (the class of Rainer Wehle), the Madrid Royal Conservatory (the class of Adolfo Garcés), and the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart (the class of Norbert Kaiser). He took part in master classes by Sabine Meyer, Eduard Brunner, Vicent Alberola, Sergio Bossi.
He is the winner of the First All-Russian Competition for Clarinettists in Moscow (2003), Possehl Music Prize in Lübeck (2009), Lion’s Club Young Woodwind Performers’ Competition in Stuttgart (2012), the fifth Prize of the International Tchaikovsky Competition (2019). In 2011, together with students of the Lübeck Academy of Music, he founded the Cascade wind sextet, which became the winner of the Inter-collegiate Competition among students of the German Higher Schools of Music in Dusseldorf (2012).
He has collaborated with various youth orchestras and festivals, including the International Youth Orchestra IRO (Oxenhausen, Germany), the Baltic Youth Orchestra conducted by Kristjan Järvi, the Russian-German Orchestra. As a chamber musician and soloist, he performed at the Beethovenfest in Bonn (2016) and the Oberstdorf Summer of Music (2013).
From 2013 to 2022 he worked as a soloist of the clarinet group of the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra. Since 2022, he has been a soloist of the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Spivakov. He performs as a guest clarinettist with such ensembles as Les Dissonances Orchestra (Paris), Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2023, he participated as a guest artist in the Utopia Orchestra.
In 2018, he was a teacher at the Gustav Mahler Summer Academy in Bolzano (Italy). Since 2019, he has been one of the clarinet teachers at the Vicente Alberola Music Master’s Courses (MMCV) in Valencia (Spain).
musicAeterna orchestra events
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77 (1947–1948)
Nocturne: Moderato
Scherzo: Allegro
Passacaglia: Andante
Burlesque: Allegro con brio
soloist — Olga Volkova
Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 (1953)
Moderato
Allegro
Allegretto
Andante — Allegro
Conductor — Alexander Sladkovsky
Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109 (1887–1896, unfinished)
I. Feierlich, misterioso
II. Scherzo. Bewegt, lebhaft; Trio. Schnell
III. Adagio. Langsam, feierlich
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Symphony №2 in C Minor (Resurrection Symphony) for soprano, alto, mixed choir and orchestra (1888–1894)
Allegro maestoso
Andante moderato
In ruhig fließender Bewegung | With quietly flowing movement
Urlicht. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht | “Primal Light”. Very solemn, but simple
Im Tempo des Scherzos | In the tempo of the scherzo
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Symphony №2 in C Minor (Resurrection Symphony) for soprano, alto, mixed choir and orchestra (1888–1894)
Allegro maestoso
Andante moderato
In ruhig fließender Bewegung | With quietly flowing movement
Urlicht. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht | “Primal Light”. Very solemn, but simple
Im Tempo des Scherzos | In the tempo of the scherzo
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109 (1887–1896, unfinished)
I. Feierlich, misterioso
II. Scherzo. Bewegt, lebhaft; Trio. Schnell
III. Adagio. Langsam, feierlich
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis