The Vìrtual Internàtional Phìlharmonic is a Virtual Hall registered from Lugano, Switzerland. It was founded in 2011 by the known St. Petersburg's composer, scientist-physicist, philosopher-agnostic, the writer and philanthropist Vladimir Anisimoff with his son Dmitry Anisimov,[1] a mathematician at the USI. The Virtual International Philharmonic also has residence at Seminar of Amateur composers Hall,[2] St. Petersburg, Russia. All concerts in the Virtual International Philharmonic are free of charge.
 Official Virtual International Philharmonic logo | |
| Location | Lugano, Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Owner | private |
| Type | Virtual Hall |
| Genre(s) | all Genres |
| Capacity | unlimited |
| Construction | |
| Opened | 2009 |
| Renovated | Summer 2011 |
| Expanded | Autumn 2017 |
| Website | |
| www | |
History
editSt. Petersburg's musical salon
editRussian physicist (magnetic resonance tomography) and composer, philanthropist Vladimir Anisimoff back in the 1990s established in St. Petersburg educational musical evenings. These musical concerts were held on Ostrovsky square, in the heart of the city, in Hall of Saint-Petersburg state theatre library.[3]
From 1993 to 1997 there were regular concerts (one each two months) and performances of almost all the leading composers of St. Petersburg. There was music of Georgy Firtich, Andrey Petrov, Michail Zhuravlev, Felix Shevtsov, Alexander Sledin,[4] Vladislav Uspensky, Radvilovich, Abram Ysfin and many other authors.
Support for new music
editSince 2000 Vladimir Anisimoff actively supported materially and financially new directions of development of musical art. First of all he organized with the assistance of the composer Mikhail Zhuravlev a class of electronic music at the M.I.Glinka School of musical arts in St. Petersburg.[5] Secondly, he had quite long supported the Horn orchestra of Russia and he often funded on behalf of the JSC NCI corp.[6] concerts in Oak Hall of the St.Petersburg's House of Composers.
The purpose of the Virtual International Philharmonic
editAt the beginning of 2010, the son Dmitry Anisimov of Vladimir Anisimoff moved to live and work in Lugano, Switzerland. Dmitry Anisimov became a mathematician in USI and together with Vladimir Anisimoff develop an international project to expand and promote musical works of contemporary composers.
Vladimir Anisimoff believes that music is like the air and should be available to all people[7]
Repertoire
editAll kinds of musical creativity including ballet, opera, symphony, sacred music and so on.
New expanding
editIn autumn 2017, the website was renovated and redesigned to better support the goal of the project.
Music of composers
editIn the Virtual International Philharmonic (V.I.P.) Hall there is the music of the following living composers:
Maria Kalaniemi, Kaija Saariaho, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Elena Samarina, Aleksander Gonobolin, Vladimir Anisimoff, Anatoly Zarubko, Vasily Kabalin, Oleg Negrutsa, Sandro Gorli, Andrea Talmelli, Nicola Sani, Ludovico Einaudi, Anders Hillborg, Michel van der Aa, Nicolas Bacri, Anthony Girard, Pierre Henry, Ismo Lappalainen, Raymond Ebanks, group Bomfunk MC's
Links
editNotes
edit- ^ phd student Dmitry Anisimov
- ^ Composer Vladimir Anisimoff as member of Russian Tradition Association
- ^ "Saint-Petersburg state theatre library".
- ^ "Magazine "Bohemian Petersburg", "Alexander Sledin"".
- ^ "M.I.Glinka School of musical arts".
- ^ "Joint stock company NCI corp.(ОАО НКИ)".
- ^ "Composer Vladimir Anisimoff on Virtual International Philharmonic".