Centre of Visual Culture Béton invites you to a concert of SCRIPCAFORTE!
Violinist Ravil Islyamov and pianist Svetlana Ponomaryova are a duo of soloists. The musicians met and got to know each other in 2017 at the International Military Music Festival ‘Spasskaya Tower’, where they took part in a concert in the Alexander Hall of the Kremlin. The duo made their debut at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on 9 September 2022.
The concert programme is eclectic, as is the philosophy of the Centre of Visual Culture Béton. It includes works of different styles, epochs, genres and national colours: from neo-baroque and 19th century French salon to fiery Moldovan music, from Armenian ashugs songs and Polish polonaise to jazz.
1. Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) ‘Song-Poem’ (in honour of ashugs) 1929.
2 Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) ‘Suite in the old style’ Pastorale, Ballet, Menuet, Fugue, Pantomime
3. Henri Vieutan (1820-1881) ‘Rondino’ (Op. 32)
4. Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) ‘Moldavian Rhapsody’.
5. Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880) Polonaise (Op. 4)
6. Igor Frolov (1937-2013) ‘Concert Fantasy on Themes from J. Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess’ (Op. 19)

Ravil Islyamov is one of the most sought-after young violinists, winner of international and All-Russian competitions, laureate of the XVII Tchaikovsky Competition and soloist at the St Petersburg House of Music. He co-operates with the best orchestras in Russia, performs with such conductors as Valery Gergiev and Yuri Simonov, takes part in Denis Matsuev’s festivals and TV and radio projects. She plays the 1735 Giuseppe Guarneri ‘del Gesu’ violin.
Pianist Svetlana Ponomaryova was born in Omsk. She is a graduate of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. Graduate of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, prize-winner at international and All-Russian competitions. Since 1999 she has lived in Canada. In 2004 she made her debut at Carnegie Hall. Participant of gala concerts in the Kremlin of the International Military Music Festival ‘Spasskaya Tower’ in Moscow (2016-2017). Returned to Russia with her family in 2021, lives in Moscow.