The concert is 7:30 p.m. in Wattenbarger Auditorium in the Bryan Fine Arts Building. This Center Stage event is free and open to the public.
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, founded in 1991, has earned national and international recognition as one of Russia's leading ensembles.
The orchestra has carved a niche for itself under the creative baton of its founder and music director, Misha Rachlevsky. Whether it is the highly acclaimed CDs or its mesmerizing concerts, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin's warmth and high energy create seductive performances that stay with listeners long after the last note has been played.
In addition to an active schedule of presenting concerts and festivals in Moscow, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin tours regularly in North and South America, Europe and the Far East.
Rachlevsky’s lifetime affinity for chamber music and chamber orchestra repertoire began at the College of the Moscow Conservatory and the Gnessin Academy of Music. Born in Moscow, his violin studies began at the age of 5 and continued through the well-traveled path of the Russian school of string playing. After leaving the Soviet Union in 1973, he lived and worked in different countries on three continents, and in 1976 settled in the United States, becoming active in the field of chamber music.
Rachlevsky founded the New American Chamber Orchestra in 1984 and led it to international prominence, completing nine European tours in four years. In 1989, Rachlevsky accepted an offer from the city of Granada, Spain, for a two-year project under which NACO became the resident orchestra of Granada while, concurrently, Rachlevsky founded and led Granada's own chamber orchestra.
In 1991, in the heady aftermath of Moscow's momentous events of August 1991, Rachlevsky found it impossible to resist an opportunity to record Russian works, and Chamber Orchestra Kremlin was created.
