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
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77 (1878)
Allegro non troppo
Adagio
Allegro giocoso — Poco piu presto
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (1937)
Moderato
Allegretto
Largo
Allegro non troppo
Performers:
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Soloist — Olga Volkova, violin
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor (1902)
- Trauermarsch. Im gemessenen Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt | At a measured pace. Strict. Like a funeral procession
- Stürmisch bewegt. Mit grösster Vehemenz | Moving stormily. With the greatest vehemence
- Scherzo. Kräftig, nicht zu schnell | Strong and not too fast
- Adagietto. Sehr langsam | Very slow
- Rondo-Finale. Allegro, Allegro giocoso
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
The Prelude and the Death of Isolde from the opera Tristan and Isolde (1857-1859)
Performers:
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77 (1878)
Allegro non troppo
Adagio
Allegro giocoso — Poco piu presto
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (1937)
Moderato
Allegretto
Largo
Allegro non troppo
Performers:
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Soloist — Olga Volkova, violin
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor (1902)
- Trauermarsch. Im gemessenen Schritt. Streng. Wie ein Kondukt | At a measured pace. Strict. Like a funeral procession
- Stürmisch bewegt. Mit grösster Vehemenz | Moving stormily. With the greatest vehemence
- Scherzo. Kräftig, nicht zu schnell | Strong and not too fast
- Adagietto. Sehr langsam | Very slow
- Rondo-Finale. Allegro, Allegro giocoso
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
The Prelude and the Death of Isolde from the opera Tristan and Isolde (1857-1859)
Performers:
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 77 (1878)
Allegro non troppo
Adagio
Allegro giocoso — Poco piu presto
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47 (1937)
Moderato
Allegretto
Largo
Allegro non troppo
Performers:
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Soloist — Olga Volkova, violin
Conductor — Teodor Currentzis