Moscow Symphony Orchestra to Perform Tchaikovsky in Scottsdale

Moscow Symphony Orchestra will perform one of Tchaikovsky’s best-known compositions, Concerto No. 1, on November 4 at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts as part of Scottsdale Arts’ Virginia G. Piper Concert Series.
The performance, which will be led by music director and chief conductor, Pavel Kogan, will feature a solo by Dmitry Masleev, gold medal winner of the 2015 XV International Tchaikovsky Competition.
The Moscow Symphony Orchestra was found in in 1943 with the intention to promote Russian music. When Kogan became music director in 1989, the symphony began expanding its repertoire and winning awards.
Kogan has guest conducted the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, USSR State Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. From 1998 to 2005, Kogan was chief guest conductor of the Utah Symphony.
Masleev is a Siberian-born pianist who has won prizes at Rome’s 21st Premio Chopin Piano Competition in 2011 and the 2nd Russian Music Competition in Moscow in 2014. He received his primary training at the Moscow Conservatory under Mikhail Petukhov.
The concert will open Sergei Rachmaninoff’s symphonic poem, “The Rock.”