Second Violins

Robert Brem

In the orchestra since 2016

Robert Bram is a laureate of numerous international contests: Valsesia Musica Juniores (Italy, 2000, 1st prize), San Nicola (Italy, 2010, Grand Prix as part of the Sebastian Trio), The Fall Marathon (Russia, 2012, 1st prize as part of Quartet 432), Muses of the World (formerly known as Modern Art and Education; Russia, 2012, 1st prize as part of Quartet 432).

Together with Quartet 432, he is a laureate of the TIM international tournament (Paris, France).

Robert Bram is a participant and laureate of various international festivals, both as a soloist and as an ensemble member: the Romantic Music festival (Moscow), the Winter Path festival (Saint Petersburg), the SEMB individual projects festival (Moscow), Primavera Classica (Moscow), Uluslararasi Eskişehir Festival (Eskişehir, Turkey), ENKA Kultur Sanat (Istanbul, Turkey), the VIIIth Mstislav Rostropovich International Festival (Baku, Azerbaijan), the International Diaghilev Festival (Perm, Russia), the Blossoming Ledum festival (Chita, Russia), the Russian-Chinese Cultural Forum (Jiangxi province, China).

He taught at the summer music school in Yevpatoria (Crimea, 2019). He is also the co-founder of the “Leonid Lundstrom’s Creative Workshop” autonomous NCO.

WHO IS YOUR BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCE?

I think everyone I’ve met on my path has had some sort of influence on me. I’ve come across a great number of outstanding musicians who have helped me. I can clearly remember my very first teacher, the late Pyotr Danilovich Chavushian. He used to tell me to grab my towel and go practice. He meant that talent and inspiration weren’t enough: sometimes, one has to be patient and learn things over and over by heart — and the towel is needed to wipe the sweat from the forehead in the process!

WHAT DO YOU VALUE THE MOST IN WORKING WITH MUSICAETERNA?

The true life is the biggest value. Our work isn’t something static, it’s our life — as real as it can get. This is what I find the most appealing about it. I really like the idea about orchestra formation that I heard from my teacher (and someone I’m close to in spirit), Leonid Igorevich Lundstrom. He said a good conductor was a person who, through his orchestra, was able to transfer not his own thoughts but something “from above” to the audience. If this system works, then the real life happens. I believe musicAeterna is one of the few ensembles where it does work this way.

WHAT INSPIRES YOU TO CREATE?

My wife and my daughter. They support me and help me to stay cheerful.

DO YOU HAVE A DREAM?

Not a dream per se, but I do have goals. I believe, in fact, that one needs goals over dreams. At the moment, my goal is to record Georg Telemann’s 12 Fantasias for solo violin. I’ve already performed with this programme several times, and I hope to get down to recording pretty soon. What next? Time will tell.

musicAeterna orchestra events

April 25, 19:00

Tashkent | Palace of International Forums «Uzbekistan»

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Capriccio Italien, Romeo and Juliet

Symphony concert

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April 27, 20:00

Dubai | Dubai Opera

Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Capriccio Italien, Romeo and Juliet

Symphony concert

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April 28, 20:00

Dubai | Dubai Opera

Richard Wagner: Ouvertures

Symphony concert

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May 26, 20:00

St. Petersburg | State Academic Capella

Dvořák: Alexander Sladkovsky and musicAeterna

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June 1, 21:00

St. Petersburg | Hermitage Museum

The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir. Ars Vivendi

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)
The thunderstorm scene from Act II of the opera-ballet Platée ou Junon jalouse (1745)
Act IV, Scene 4: Entry of the muse Polyhymnia from the lyrical tragedy Abaris ou les Boreades (1763)
Tambourines I, II from the prologue to the lyrical tragedy Dardanus (1739)

Antonio Lotti (1667–1740)
Crucifixus a 8 voci from Credo in F Major (before 1717)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
Concerto for Cello and Strings in C Minor, RV 401 (late 1720s)

Allegro non molto
Adagio
Allegro ma non molto

The soloist Rabbani Aldangor

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Ombra mai fu (There was never a shadow), aria of Xerxes from Act I of the opera Xerxes, HWV 40 (1738)
The soloist Andrey Nemzer, countertenor
Furie terribili! (Terrible Furies!), aria of Armida from Act I of the opera Rinaldo, HWV 7a (1711/1731)
The soloist Elizaveta Sveshnikova, soprano
Piangerò la sorte mia (I will mourn my fate), aria of Cleopatra from Act III of the opera Julius Caesar, HWV 17, (1724)
The soloist Elizaveta Sveshnikova, soprano
Venti, turbini (Winds, whirlwinds), aria of Rinaldo from Act I of the opera Rinaldo, HWV 7a (1711/1731)
The soloist Andrey Nemzer, countertenor

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Komm, Jesu, komm (Come, Jesus, come), motet for double choir in G minor, BWV 229 (before 1731–1732)
Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden (Praise the Lord, all ye nations), motet for four-voice choir, dubbing instruments and basso continuo in C major, BWV 230 (n.d.)
Erbarme dich, mein Gott (Have mercy, my God), aria of the alto No. 39 (47) from the sacred oratorio St Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (1727–1729/1736)
Soloists:
Andrey Nemzer, countertenor
Vladislav Pesin, violin

George Frideric Handel
Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa (Leave the thorn, pluck the rose), aria of Pleasure from Act II of the oratorio The Triumph of Time and Disillusion, HWV 46a (1707)
Soloists:
Elizaveta Sveshnikova, soprano
Andrey Nemzer, countertenor

Jean-Philippe Rameau
Les Sauvages/Forêts paisibles (The Savages/Peaceful Forests) from Act IV of the opera-ballet The Gallant Indies, (1725/1736)

Duration: 60 minutes