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“TheQuartet’simmaculatemusicianshipshineslikeanilluminatedmanuscript” - The Independent "Mozart,ChopinandBizetasyou’veneverheardthembefore–classicalmusicbecometheatre."- The Scotsman

"Unveiling all the potential of theirinstruments, using their innate musicalinstincts,theseMusiciansperforminsuchaway that the heavens seem to open upbeforeyou."- Leidsch Dagblad

"Love,hatred,irony,morephilosophicalfeelings,allofthesearemixedinRussianmusic,it’sveryspiritual!"- The Independent

All thesequotes fromtheRussianand foreignpressarededicated toa singleensemble–St.Petersburg’sTeremQuartet.Apioneerensemble,atrailblazer,theworld’sfirstcomposer-ensemble,theTeremQuartetwillcelebrateits30thanniversaryin2016!

MuchofwhattheTeremQuartethasaccomplishedoverits30-yearhistorywasneverdonebefore.

TheTeremQuartetwasthefirstRussianensemble,togetherwiththePokrovskyEnsemble,toperformforaforeignaudienceatPeterGabriel’sworld-famousWOMADfestival.

The Terem Quartet was the first Russian folk instrument ensemble to win the hearts ofRussianPhilharmonichalls.

The TeremQuartetwas the first ensembleback in the1980s that tried to combinewhatseemedat that timeunimaginable–academicmusic, folkand rock, thuscreating itsown“Folk-Rock-Fantasy”.

TheTeremQuartetbecamethefirstensembletocombinemusiconfolk instrumentswithsymphonicmusicthroughitsambitious“MaskedBall”programwithasymphonicorchestra.

The Terem Quartet was a pioneer of the Russian crossover-style: a style born at theintersectionofuniquecrossroadsofthetimes.

TheTeremQuartetwasthefirstensembletointroduceintotheirmusicelementsoftheatreandmime.“Theirmusicisintheirglance,theirsmile,theircry,theswingoftheirheador,ultimately,intheirgrimace.Strangeasitmightseem,Russiaalsohasmusicianswhoseemusicnotonlyinthescore”.NikolaiRusskiy(VechernayaMoskva,30May2006)

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Overthe30yearsofitsmusicalcareer,theTeremQuartethastouredover65countriesandperformed in the world’s best concert venues, among them are: Queen Elizabeth Hall(London,UK)John`sSmithSquare(London,UK),St.James’Palace(London,UK),OlympiaHall(Paris, France) Theatre Chatelet (Paris, France), Salle Gaveau (Paris, France), Alte Oper(Frankfurt,Germany),Concertgebow(Amsterdam,Holland),ConservatoryG.Verdi(Torino,Italy),TheatreAlterosa(Belohorizonte,Brazil),SavoyTheatre(Helsinki,Finland),FilharmoniaNarodowa (Warsaw, Poland),Opera Theatre (Brugge, Belgium),Opera Theatre (Bombay,India),Latvian National Opera (Riga, Latvia),Adelaide Town Hall (Australia),New FortuneTheatre(Perth,Australia),MoscowKremlinPalace(Moscow,Russia),TchaikovskyGreatHall&Rachmaninov Hall of Moscow Conservatory (Moscow, Russia),The State Hermitage (Petersburg, Russia),The Great and Small Philharmonic Halls (St.-Petersburg, Russia),TheInternationalHouseofMusic(Moscow,Russia).

The Terem Quartet has often acted as a cultural ’envoy’ of St. Petersburg and Russia,representingtheirnativecountryonagloballevel.AmongsuchsignificantappearancesarethemeetingofPopeJohnPaulIIwithFamiliesoftheWorldinVatican(1994),concertinSt.James’s Palace in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales (Charles) (1999), 3000thAnniversaryofJerusalem(1996),G8SummitinSt.Petersburg(2006),EurovisionSongContest(2009),OpeningoftheSochiOlympics(2014),FIFAWorldChampionshipsDraw(2015),andmore.TheuniquenessoftheTeremQuartethasbeendocumentedbywell-knowntelevisionnetworksandfilmmakersovertheworld,fromtheBBCtotheJapaneseNHK,theGerman-FrenchARTE,andtheGerman’sARD,aswellasNationalGeographic.

Thequartethascollaboratedwithnumerousmusicians,ensembles, symphonyorchestras,including Bobby McFerrin, Richard Galliano, The Swingle Singers, Yuri Bashmet, GioraFeidman,RobyLakatos,TheRealGroup,AlenaBaeva,CarelKraayenhof,DoraSchwarzberg,Igor Butman, Arkady Shilkloper, Daniel Kramer, Tim Kliphuis, Vladimir Chernov, VassilyGerello,Coba,SymphonieorchesterdesBayerischenRundfunks(underdirectionofMaestroMarissJansons),LithuanianSymphonyOrchestra,MoscowVirtuosiandmany,manymore…

Each concert of the Terem Quartet is a musical dialogue between the artists with theaudience.Thedialogueissincereandexhilarating,sweepingawaythelanguageandculturalbarriers.Musicianscanhelprevealthesoulofthelistenerandturntothelighthiddenineveryoneofus.Thisisachievednotonlybymasterlyplayingtheinstruments.

“Wegiveyoubacknowanalmostforgottencomponentofmusic,whenitceasestobejustentertainment,andbecomesamagicpower,bringingeducation,knowledgeof theworld,hopeandjoyoflifeinitself.Itmayeven,perhaps,bringyouanewmeaningoflife,–saysthesoloistofTeremQuartetAndreiKonstantinov.–Wearenotplayingthemusic,itseemsthatitratherplaysthroughus,andweareitsagentsspeakingwiththeaudienceinitslanguage”.

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OrchestralPrograms

MASKED BALL

• Concerto Grosso g-moll. (N. Budashkin — Terem Quartet, orchestration by E. Petrov) • The Little Prince. (M. Tariverdiev, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Preparance. (A. Piazzolla, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Oblivion. (A. Piazzolla, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Just dream. (F. Canaro, adapted by E. Petrov) • El Aeroplano, Creole waltz. (P. Datta, adapted by Terem Quartet) • A Flea Waltz (Shave and a Haircut). (Terem Quartet) • A Stroll with Fellini. (N. Rota, adapted by Terem Quartet, orchestration by E. Petrov) • Waltz, a soundtrack to ‘Beware of the Car’. (A. Petrov, adapted by E. Petrov) • Imitating Albeniz. (R. Shchedrin, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Time To Gather Stones Together. (E. Petrov) • Libertango. (A. Piazzolla, introduction by J. Bosso) • Oh, It's Steppe All Around (Russian folk song, adapted by E. Petrov) • Battle of Kerzhenets, a tone picture. (N. Rimsky-Korsakov, adapted by Terem Quartet

and E. Petrov) • La Serenata, a musical tournament for two double basses. (E. Petrov) • Polovets Dances. (A. Borodin, adapted by E. Petrov) • Polonaise Oginski. (Terem Quartet) • Garden Symphony. (A. Tchaikovsky) • Overture to the opera ‘The Mermaid’. (A. Dargomyzhsky)

Performed with symphony and chamber orchestras such as:

§ Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under direction of Maestro Mariss Jansons

§ Bremen Camerata

§ Chamber Orchestra "Moscow Virtuosi"

§ Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra

§ Yekaterinburg Symphony Orchestra

§ State Symphony Orchestra "New Russia"

§ Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra

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TEREM-QUARTET & RUSSIAN FOLK INSTRUMENTS ORCHESTRA

• Concerto Grosso g-moll. (N. Budashkin, adapted by Terem Quartet, orchestration by E. Petrov)

• Scotch Jig (J.S. Bach, adapted by Terem Quartet) • The Little Prince. (M. Tariverdiev, adapted by Terem Quartet) • A Flea Waltz (Shave and a Haircut). (Terem Quartet) • Once Upon a Time. (Terem Quartet) • A Stroll with Fellini. (N. Rota, adapted by Terem Quartet, orchestration by E. Petrov) • Waltz, a soundtrack to ‘Beware of the Car‘. (A. Petrov, adapted by E. Petrov) • Preparance. (A. Piazzolla, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Oblivion. (A. Piazzolla, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Time To Gather Stones Together. (E. Petrov) • Libertango. (A. Piazzolla, introduction by J. Bosso) • Oh, It's Steppe All Around (Step da step krugom). (Russian folk song, adapted by E.

Petrov)

VocalProgramswithleadingvoicesoftheMariinskyTheatre

IN SEARCH OF THE RUSSIAN IMAGE

• Aria of Swan Princess from the opera ‘The Tale of Tsar Saltan’. (N. Rimsky-Korsakov, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• Russian folk song ‘ Travushka-muravushka’. (adapted by Terem Quartet) • Romance ‘At dawn you do not wake her’. (A. Varlamov, lyrics by A. Fet, adapted by

Terem Quartet) • Russian folk song ‘Come Vanechka’ (Vanechka, prikhodi). (adapted by V. Garteveldt) • Russian folk song ‘I was in the garden’ (Ya v sadochke byla). (adapted by Terem

Quartet) • Romance ‘Chto mne zhit` i tuzhit`’.(A. Varlamov, folk lyrics, adapted by D. Saliman-

Vladimirov) • Vocalise. (S. Rachmaninoff, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Romance ‘How Peaceful’. (S. Rachmaninoff, lyrics by G. Galina, adapted by Terem

Quartet) • Romance ‘I do not want’ (Ne khochu). (P. Bulakhov, lyrics by anonymous author,

adapted by Terem Quartet) • Romance ‘Oh, do not kiss me’. (A. Varlamov, lyrics by anonymous author, adapted by

Terem Quartet) • Romance 'Zlota Rybka' (the Goldfish). (S. Moniuszko, lyrics by J. Zachariasiewicz,

adapted by Terem Quartet) • ‘Svetlana's Lullaby’ soundtrack to ‘The Hussar Ballad’. (T. Khrennikov, lyrics by A.

Gladkov, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Cradle Song ‘Sleep, My Baby Boy’, a soundtrack to ‘The Circus’. (I. Dunayevsky,

lyrics by V. Lebedev-Kumatch, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Gipsy romance ‘Hey, once again’. (I. Vassiliev, lyrics by A. Grigoriev, adapted by

Terem Quartet)

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TEREM-QUARTET AND VASSILY GERELLO

• Overture to the opera ‘The Barber of Seville’. (G. Rossini — Terem Quartet) • Romance ‘You can listen if you want’ (Slushaite, yesli khotite). (Music and lyrics by

N. Shishkin) • Romance ‘Only once in your life could be the meeting’ (Tol’ko raz byvaet v zhizni

vstrecha). (B. Fomin, lyrics by P. German) • Romance ‘Oh, If Only I Could Express in Sounds’(O, yesli b mog virazit’ v zvuke).

(L. Malashkin, lyrics by G. Lishin) • Romance ‘Yamshik Ne Goni Loshadei’. (Ya. Feldman, lyrics by N. Ritter) • Old gipsy band song ‘Zhivyot Moya Otrada’. (M. Shishkin, lyrics by S. Ryskin) • Romance ‘Hey, Yamshik’. (A. Obukhov, lyrics by E. Yuriev) • Romance ‘Dorogoy dlinnoyu’. (B. Fomin, lyrics by K. Podrevsky) • Neapolitan song ‘Musica proibita’. (S. Gastaldon, lyrics by Flick-Flock) • Neapolitan song ‘Passione’. (V. Valente and E. Tagliaferri, lyrics by L. Bovio) • Neapolitan song ‘Parlami d’amore, Mariù’. (C. Bixio, lyrics by. E. Neri) • Neapolitan song ‘Mamma’. (C. Bixio, lyrics by B. Cherubini) • Neapolitan song ‘Enamored soldier’. (E. Kannio, lyrics by A. Califano) • Ukrainian folk song ‘Chornii brovi, karii ochi’. (lyrics by K. Dumitrashko) • Ukrainian folk song ‘Ridna mati moya’. (P. Maiboroda, lyrics by A. Malishko) • Ukrainian folk song ‘Chornobrivtsi’. (V. Vremenich, lyrics by N. Singaivsky) • Ukrainian folk song ‘Nich yaka misyachna’. (lyrics by M. Starits’ky)

RecitalPrograms

ONLY BACH & SCHUBERT

• Ballet Music to H. von Chezy's play ‘Rosamunde’ No. 2. • Ballade ‘Der Erlkonig’. • Serenade. • ‘Der Lindenbaum’, from the cycle of songs ‘Winterreise’. • ‘Der Leiermann’, from the cycle of songs ‘Winterreise’. • ‘Der Jager’, from the cycle of songs ‘Die schone Mullerin’. • ‘Wohin?’ from the cycle of songs ‘Die schone Mullerin’. • ‘Das Wandern’, from the cycle of songs ‘Die schone Mullerin’. • ‘Moment musical’ f-moll, оp. 94 No. 3. • ‘Marche Militaire’ No. 1, op. 51.

• Russian Passions on Toccata & Fuga in d-minor by J.S. Bach. (Toccata & Fuga d-moll BWV 565)

• Choral prelude in f-minor. (‘Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’ BWV 177) • Fuga Plyasovaya (Fugue-dance). (Fugue C-dur BWV 953) • Prelude & Tarantella. (Prelude and Fugue d-moll BWV 851) • Aria. (Aria from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D-Dur BWV 1068) • Gigue. (L'ultima Partita o Giguetta from Sarabande con Partite in C-dur BWV 990,

No. 16) • Scotch Jig. (Gigue from Klavier Suite in g-moll BWV 822) • Shootkabacha. (‘Badinerie’ from Orchestral Suite No. 2 in h-moll BWV 1067) • Musette. (Musette from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach BWV Anh. 126)

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STRANGER-LADY with Alena Baeva (violin)

• Fantasy on the themes of N. Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera ‘The Golden Cockerel’. (E. Zimbalist)

• Romance. (R. Glier) • Prelude No. 3 ‘a la russe’. (G. Gershwin–Terem Quartet) • Rondo for violin and Terem Quartet. (Terem Quartet) • A Stranger Woman. (Yu. Falik, adapted by E. Petrov) • Five pieces. (D. Shostakovich, adapted by L. Atovmyan) • Prelude | Gavotte | Elegy | Waltz | Polka • La Cumparsita.

(M. Rodriguez, adapted by J. Bosso & Terem Quartet) • Imitating Albeniz.

(R. Shchedrin, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Introduction And Rondo Capriccioso. (C. Saint-Saёns) • Sveitin Milli Sanda.

(M.B. Johansson, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Adios Nonino (A. Piazzolla, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Rondino. (J. Sibelius, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Oblivion. (A. Piazzolla, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Libertango. (A. Piazzolla, introduction by J. Bosso)

CONFESSION OF THE HOOLIGANS

• A Stroll with Fellini. (N. Rota, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Shootkabacha. (J.S. Bach, adapted by Terem Quartet) • The Little Prince. (M. Tariverdiev, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Fantasy No.2 ‘Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky takes a stroll along the Fontanka river’ on

themes of P.I. Tchaikovsky’s album ‘The Seasons’. (Terem Quartet) • Fantasy No. 3 ‘Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky visiting peoples of the North’ on themes of P.I.

Tchaikovsky’s album ‘The Seasons’.(Terem Quartet) • The Story of a Birthday. (Terem Quartet) • Imitating Albeniz. (R. Shchedrin, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Entre. (N. Rota, a soundtrack of ‘Eight and a half’ by F. Fellini) • Aria from the Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5. (H. Villa-Lobos, adapted by Terem Quartet) • The Orphan’s Waltz. (Terem Quartet) • Prelude No. 3 ‘a la russe’. (G. Gershwin–Terem Quartet) • La Cumparsita. (M. Rodriguez, adapted by J. Bosso and Terem Quartet) • El Aeroplano, Creole waltz. (P. Datta, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Oblivion. (A. Piazzolla, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Libertango. (A. Piazzolla, introduction by J. Bosso) • A Suite of 2 Character Dances. (Terem Quartet) • The Gipsy Girl. (A.Tsygankov)

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THE ROADS

• ‘Das Wandern’, from the cycle of songs ‘Die schone Mullerin’. (F. Schubert, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• ‘Fuga Plyasovaya’ (‘Fugue-dance’), on a theme of Fugue C-dur BWV 953 by J.S. Bach (Terem Quartet)

• ‘Fugushka Pesnya’ (‘Fugue-song’), on a theme of Short Prelude and Fugue c-moll by J.S. Bach. (Terem Quartet)

• ‘Wohin?’, from the cycle of songs ‘Die schone Mullerin’. (F. Schubert, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• ‘Der Jager’, from the cycle of songs ‘Die schone Mullerin’. (F. Schubert, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• The Little Prince. (M. Tariverdiev, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Choral prelude F-moll, ‘Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’. (J.S. Bach, adapted by

Terem Quartet) • Fantasy No. 3 ‘Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky visiting peoples of theNorth’on themes of

P.I. Tchaikovsky’s album ‘The Seasons’. (Terem Quartet) • Fantasy No. 2 ‘Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky takes a stroll along the Fontanka river’ on

themes of P.I. Tchaikovsky’s album ‘The Seasons’. (Terem Quartet) • Fantasy No. 1 ‘Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Drowsing at the Fireside’ on themes of P.I.

Tchaikovsky’s album ‘The Seasons’. (Terem Quartet) • El Aeroplano, Creole waltz. (P. Datta, adapted by Terem Quartet) • First Love but Shy. (Coba, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Chili con carne. (A. Edenroth, adapted by Terem Quartet) • La Cumparsita. (M. Rodriguez, adapted by J. Bosso and Terem Quartet) • Preparance. (A. Piazzolla, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Sveitin Milli Sanda. (M.B. Johansson, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Besame Mucho. (C. Velazquez, adapted by Terem Quartet)

THE ELUSIVE AVENGERS (film music)

• ‘The Magician’s song’ from the soundtrack to ‘A Usual Wonder’. (G. Gladkov, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• ‘Chapliniana’ based on music by C.Chaplin. (Terem Quartet) • ‘Eternal Love’, a Fantasy based on soundtracks to ‘Amelie’,‘Tegeran - 43’, ‘The Irony

of Fate’, ‘Le Jouet’. (Ya. Tiersen, G. Garvarentz, M. Tariverdiev, V. Cosma, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• Choral Prelude in f-minor, a soundtrack to ‘Solaris’. (J.S. Bach, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• A soundtrack to ‘Un homme et une femme’. (F. Lai, adapted by Terem Quartet) • A Stroll with Fellini. (N. Rota, adapted by Terem Quartet) • A soundtrack to ‘Mission: Impossible’. (L. Schifrin, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Overture to the film ‘Taming of the Fire’. (A. Petrov, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Waltz from the opera ‘The Dawns Here Are Quiet’. (K. Molchanov, adapted by Terem

Quartet) • A soundtrack to ‘The Sannikov Land’, ‘There’s just a moment...’ (‘Est’ tol’ko mig’).

(A. Zatsepin, adapted by Terem Quartet) • ‘If a squeezebox could...’ (‘Yesli b garmoshka umela’),soundtrack to ‘Soldier Ivan

Brovkin’. (A. Lepin, adapted by Terem Quartet) • Soundtracks to ‘The Elusive Avengers’, ‘The Crown of the Russian Empire’. (B.

Mokrousov, Ya. Frenkel, adapted by Terem Quartet) • ‘A Farewell Song’ from the soundtrack to ‘A Usual Wonder’. (G. Gladkov, adapted by

Terem Quartet)

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RUSSIAN PAINTINGS

• Musical fantasy on themes of P.I. Tchaikovsky’s album ‘The Seasons’. (Terem Quartet)

• Rondino. (J. Sibelius, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• In Winter, fantasy on ‘Summertime’. (G. Gershwin, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• ‘The Swan Princess’ from the opera ‘The Taleof Tsar Saltan’. (N. Rimsky-Korsakov,

adapted by Terem Quartet)

• ‘The Dark Eyes’, on a theme of the old Russian romance. (F. German, adapted by

Terem Quartet)

• ‘Fugushka Pesnya’ (‘Fugue-song’), on a theme of Short Prelude and Fugue c-moll by

J.S. Bach. (Terem Quartet)

• ‘Fuga Plyasovaya’ (‘Fugue-dance’), on a theme of Fugue C-dur BWV 953 By J.S.

Bach. (Terem Quartet)

• ‘Rains of the City’. (Terem Quartet)

• Vocalise. (S. Rachmaninoff, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• Diplomat Waltz. (A. Griboyedov, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• Romance ‘How Peaceful’. (S. Rachmaninoff, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• Travelling Song. (M. Glinka, adapted by Terem Quartet)

• Poeme’. (Z. Fibich)

• ‘Snowflakes’. (A. Tsfasman)

• Tarantella from the ballet ‘Anyuta’. (V. Gavrilin)

• Elegy. (D. Shostakovich)

• Yamskaya. (V. Gavrilin, adapted by Terem Quartetа)

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