The purpose of the 150-year anniversary symposium on Carl Nielsen hosted by The Danish Cultural Institute in St. Petersburg is to review Carl Nielsen’s musical legacy and importance today in a Russian context, and thus hopefully stimulate a renewed interest in his music in Russia.
11:00am-noon: Key-note speaker Karl Aage Rasmussen – “Carl Nielsen – A Bone of Contention”
Karl Aage Rasmussen is a composer, writer and professor emeritus.
Noon-12:30 pm: Levon Akopyan – “Simple? – On Carl Nielsen’s Symphony no. 6, Sinfonia Semplice.”
Levon Akopyan is the Head the Music Theory Section at the Moscow State Institute of Arts Studies.
12:30pm-1:00pm: Tatyana Ekimenko – “Polyphony in Nielsen’s Fifth and Sixth Symphonies”
Tatyana Ekimenko is the Vice Director for Research at the Glazunov Petrozavodsk State Conservatory.
1:00pm-2:00pm: Lunch break
2:00pm-2:30pm: Mikhail Mishchenko – “The Inextinguishable – the Unrepeatable”
Mikhail Mishchenko is an Associate Professor at the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg State Conservatory. He has translated Carl Nielsen’s essay collection 'Levende musik' into Russian.
2:30pm-3:00pm: Bogdan Korolyok – “Dance and Dancing Elements in Carl Nielsen’s Music”
Bogdan Korolyok is a ballet critic. He holds a graduate degree in Music Criticism from the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the St. Petersburg State University.
3:00pm-3:30pm: Vsevolod Mititello – “Carl Nielsen: From Performer to Composer”
Vsevolod Mititello is a musician with the D.D. Shostakovich St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonia. He is a graduate in Music Criticism from the Faculty of the Liberal Arts and Sciences of the St. Petersburg State University.
3:30pm-4:00pm: Nikolai Mokhov – “Carl Nielsen’s Symphonic Thinking in the Context of the European Symphony of His Time”
Nikolai Mokhov is a composer and musicologist. He holds a graduate degree in musicology from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and is a member of the Russian Union of Composers.
4:00pm-5:00pm: Screening of the documentary 'The Light and the Darkness - On Carl Nielsen's Life and Music' (2002, 59 min.), scripted and directed by Karl Aage Rasmussen.
5:00pm-5:15pm: Concluding remarks
7:00pm: Concert of Nielsen’s chamber music, including his Quintet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, French Horn and Bassoon & selected piano works