Ceremonial closing of the NOMUS festival

The 49th edition of the NOMUS festival will be closed on October 26, starting at 8:00 p.m. in the Novi Sad Synagogue with a concert by the Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra with the soloist, the Russian-Armenian pianist of an impressive career, Eva Gevorgyan, with the outstanding Armenian conductor Sergej Smbatyan.

At the final program of this year’s Novi Sad music festivities, one of the most popular works of the entire musical literature of one of the greatest Russian composers of all time will be performed: the Third Piano Concerto by Sergei Rachmaninov. This sumptuous and beautiful music will be performed as a soloist by the Russian-Armenian pianist Eva Gevorgyan. Although she is only twenty years old, this young and gifted artist has an impressive career. In the impressive series of numerous eminent orchestras with which she has performed, there are also about seventy renowned conductors with whom she has played music, the greatest of whom are Gergiev, Petrenko, Topchyan, Spivakov, Sladkovsky, Libraich, Foster, Parisotto, Mariotti, Zimmerman, Tigran Haknazaryan, Dmitry Yurosvki. Eva won prizes at over 50 international competitions for piano and composition in the USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and Russia, among others the title of laureate and five special prizes at the Grand International Piano Competition in Moscow. Critics usually praise her emotional expressiveness and believability, as well as her impeccable performance technique.

In the second part of the program, the Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra will perform the Tenth Symphony of the famous Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Most often described as a kind of author’s personal confession, it is also one of his most expressive or refined creations. Perhaps because it was composed after an eight-year break from working on symphonies, but also because it was written after Stalin’s death, when the composer could depict the totalitarian system and regime of this great dictator, whose victim he himself was.

The concert will be conducted by the outstanding Armenian conductor Sergej Smbatyan, artistic director and chief conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra of Armenia and chief conductor of the Malta Philharmonic, and in the current season the chief guest conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. This artist is known in the world as an agile popularizer of classical music. Among his special and unusual ventures, projects with John Malkovich stand out, as well as collaborations with world-famous composers, such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Tigran Mansuryan, Arvo Pert, Gia Kancelli and many other authors. He often conducts the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Warsaw, Dresden, Slovak and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras, the Symphony Orchestras of Radio Prague and St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre. Sir Colin Davis, with whom Smbatyan studied in London, as well as his later mentors Riccardo Muti and Valery Gergiev, had a great influence on his professional formation.

On-line reservations and purchase of tickets (payment on account) at the link: HERE
Ticket prices: 1,200 dinars ground floor on the side and 1,500 dinars gallery and middle ground floor

The organizer of the concert is Muzička omladina Novi Sad in cooperation with Almazian Productions.