Olzhas Ashirmatov
In the orchestra since 2019
Olzhas Ashirmatov was born on November 3, 1987 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. In 2007, he finished the Akhmet Zhubanov Kazakh Republic specialized music school for talented children where he had studied under Yuri Lukichev and Nurtas Aigalkaev. In 2011, he graduated from Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (class of professor Dag Jensen). In 2011–2016, he studied at Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (class of professor Dag Jensen).
Olzhas Ashirmatov is the first prize laureate of the Republican young wind and percussion performers’ competition (2004, Almaty), the second prize laureate of the Shabyt International wind and percussion competition (2005, Astana), the second prize laureate of the International wind instruments competition (2005, Novosibirsk), and the first prize laureate of the Batyrkhan Shukenov First Republican woodwind competition (2018, Almaty).
In 2012, he interned at the academy orchestra of the Schleswig Holstein music festival. Since October 2017, he has been a regulator soloist at the State Academic Symphony Orchestra at the Zhambyl Kazakh State Philharmonic. Since November 2019, Olzhas Ashirmatov has been a regulator soloist at the musicAeterna orchestra.
musicAeterna orchestra events
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 – 1788)
Magnificat for soloists, choir and orchestra, Wq 215, H.772 (1749)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Krönungsmesse for soloists, choir and orchestra No. 15, in C major, K. 317 (1779)
Exsultate, jubilate, motet for soprano and orchestra K. 165 (1773)
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Guest soloists and musicAeterna Choir soloists
Conductor – Dmitry Sinkovsky
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 – 1788)
Magnificat for soloists, choir and orchestra, Wq 215, H.772 (1749)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Krönungsmesse for soloists, choir and orchestra No. 15, in C major, K. 317 (1779)
Exsultate, jubilate, motet for soprano and orchestra K. 165 (1773)
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Guest soloists and musicAeterna Choir soloists
Conductor – Dmitry Sinkovsky
Alexey Retinsky (b. 1986)
“Ty — likami tsvetov” [You Are in the Faces of the Flowers]
Mystery for Choir and Orchestra (2023, world premiere)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943)
Vespers for viola, tenor and mixed choir, Op. 37 (1915)
The musicAeterna Choir
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)
Overture to the opera Parsifal (1882)
Overture to the opera Tannhäuser (1843 – 1845)
Vorspiel und Liebestod from the opera Tristan und Isolde (1857 – 1859)
Overture to the opera Lohengrin (1845 – 1848)
Overture to the opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868)
soprano Elena Popovskaya
musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor Teodor Currentzis