About Art Union “Maestro”
Art Union “Maestro” brings together composers, vocal performers, musicians, poets, artists and other creative professionals. The purpose of the organization – assistance to its members in the creative development and implementation of authors cultural projects, the promotion of classical music, organizing live performances, and promotion of advanced musical-acoustic health-improving techniques.
Art Union “Maestro” is the winner of the presidential contest of social projects in the fields of education, culture, art and public diplomacy in 2008. At the IX International Festival and Competition of Music and Artistic Creation “Petersburg Spring” (2010) the Art Union “Maestro” is awarded to the winners of the first degree diplomas in four categories: best composer, best duet, best band, best conductor.
An impressive variety of genres of music of “Maestro”: orchestral miniatures philosophical nature, waltzes, polkas, mazurkas, minuets, tangos, marches, ragtimes, works for vocals, music for children – more than 150 works, combined into 19 audio albums. With D. Kirshin written and ready for the musical stage production of “A Christmas Tale” and a program of vocal and symphonic works. Together with the publishers “Union of Artists” group released 11 music collections.
Repertoire Symphony Orchestra “Maestro” (artistic director and chief conductor – Alexander Chernobaev) are programs by Leonid Levashkevich: “The Road of Love”, “Tango, Waltz, Ragtime”, “The Seasons” and others. Aesthetics academic symphonic found successful embodiment not only in traditional waltzes and pieces for piano and orchestra, but in the ragtimes and charlestones, the performance of which can be named the unique feature of the orchestra “Maestro”. Available forms concert miniatures, while preserving the advantages of symphonic presentation allows to expand the palette of the music genre, met an enthusiastic reception of the public.
Concert programs of “Maestro” with the same success heard in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, China, and India. Enthusiastic response to the interventions of “Maestro” from a variety of people, regardless of nationality, age and social status, as well as the excellent reviews of the Russian and European press confirm: composing and performing arts of Art Union “Maestro” promote a positive image of Russia, the glorification of the national culture and art.