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Miran Vaupotic performed 'Piazzolla-Gala' with Moscow State Symphony, Moscow – Russiaby Rob Howard |
On November 23rd, in a totally full Moscow's Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Miran Vaupotic performed a gala concert of Piazzolla's music named 'Piazzolla-Gala' with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. The conductor was Grant Llewellyn, Musical Director of the North Carolina Symphony in the USA. The event was a great success, with standing ovations and several encores. Croatian soloist and conductor Miran Vaupotic played bandoneon and bayan with tremendous inspiration and sensibility, presenting a marathon performance, which included Piazzolla's ‘Concierto de Nacar’, ‘Aconcagua’, ‘Adios Nonino’, and ‘Four Seasons in Buenos Aires’. The concert also featured pianist Nina Kogan, daughter of famous violinist Leonid Kogan, and guitarist Frane Verbanac, from Croatia, both in ‘Concierto de Nacar for 9 tangueros’ and with the symphony orchestra. Report from Russian TV can be viewed on the following link: http://www.tvkultura.ru/news.html?id=394416&cid=2 Miran Vaupotic has an active musical career. He has performed as a soloist with several orchestras and ensembles including the Rucner String Quartet, Zagreb Soloists, Rijeka Philharmonic Orchestra, Croatian Chamber Orchestra, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, Camerata Klaipeda, Kaliningrad Chamber Philharmonic, Pomorian Philharmonic, etc. After establishing his career as a soloist, he began a second career as a conductor. Miran Vaupotic is a guest conductor of Russian Symphony Orchestra Prokofiev in Moscow, and Associate conductor of Lugansk Philharmonic Orchestra in Lugansk. For further Information email: m.vaupotic@gmail.com |