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
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Suite No. 2 from the ballet Daphnis and Chloe (1912)
Lever de jour. Lent
Pantomime
Danse générale
The Waltz, a choreographic poem for orchestra, M. 72 (1919–1920)
Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
The Pines of Rome, a symphonic poem, P. 141 (1924)
I pini di Villa Borghese | The Pines of the Villa Borghese
Pini presso una catacomba | Pines Near a Catacomb
I pini del Gianicolo | The Pines of the Janiculum
I pini della Via Appia | The Pines of the Appian Way
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Suite No. 2 from the ballet Daphnis and Chloe (1912)
Lever de jour. Lent
Pantomime
Danse générale
The Waltz, a choreographic poem for orchestra, M. 72 (1919–1920)
Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
The Pines of Rome, a symphonic poem, P. 141 (1924)
I pini di Villa Borghese | The Pines of the Villa Borghese
Pini presso una catacomba | Pines Near a Catacomb
I pini del Gianicolo | The Pines of the Janiculum
I pini della Via Appia | The Pines of the Appian Way
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 70 (1864/1872)
Moderato assai
Andante
Allegro
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Suite No. 2 from the ballet Daphnis and Chloe (1912)
Lever de jour. Lent
Pantomime
Danse générale
The Waltz, a choreographic poem for orchestra, M. 72 (1919–1920)
Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
The Pines of Rome, symphonic poem, P. 141 (1924)
I pini di Villa Borghese | The Pines of the Villa Borghese
Pini presso una catacomba | Pines Near a Catacomb
I pini del Gianicolo | The Pines of the Janiculum
I pini della Via Appia | The Pines of the Appian Way
musicAeterna Orchestra
Soloist — Andrey Baranenko, piano
Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894)
Piano Concerto No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 70 (1864/1872)
Moderato assai
Andante
Allegro
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Suite No. 2 from the ballet Daphnis and Chloe (1912)
Lever de jour. Lent
Pantomime
Danse générale
The Waltz, a choreographic poem for orchestra, M. 72 (1919–1920)
Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936)
The Pines of Rome, symphonic poem, P. 141 (1924)
I pini di Villa Borghese | The Pines of the Villa Borghese
Pini presso una catacomba | Pines Near a Catacomb
I pini del Gianicolo | The Pines of the Janiculum
I pini della Via Appia | The Pines of the Appian Way
musicAeterna Orchestra
Soloist — Andrey Baranenko, piano
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