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Main article: Music in Russia in the XVIII century
Biography
Penyugin Andrey Andreevich - graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, laureate of international competitions: Premio Valentino Bucchi (Rome, 2002), Max Reger Wettbewerb (Sonderszausen, 2002).
In 2006-2022 member of the ensemble "Soloists of Catherine the Great" and an employee of the EARLYMUSIC festival.
Since 2017, he has been playing the violin by Domenico Daloglio (1748, Padua).
Andrei Penyugin is one of the main specialists in the study of Russian musical culture of the 18th century. Thanks to his archival and performing activities, the repertoire of Russian music has expanded significantly. Among the names returned are N. Leontyev, I. Yunkin, I. Dubrovsky, P. Skokov, D. Daloglio, L. Schiatti, Cossack, E. Belogradskaya and others.
In 2023, he was the founder of the St. Petersburg Baroque Ensemble.
Projects
2015: Musical director of the production of the opera "Gorebogatyr Kosometovich"
Musical director of the production of the opera "Gorebogatyr Kosometovich" (EARLYMUSIC festival, 2015).
2016: Participation in the production of the first opera in Russian "Cephalus and Prokris"
The production of the opera "Cephalus and Prokris" in the Picture House in Oranienbaum with the participation of Grand Duke Pyotr Fedorovich could take place at the end of the 1755 season, or at the beginning of the 1756 season. Read more here.
The notes of this version were preserved in the Scientific Library of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory, and the missing recitatives for the 2016 premiere were added by Andrei Penyugin[1].
2020: Music director and director of the production of the melodrama "Ariadne on Naxos"
Music director and director of the production of the melodrama "Ariadne na Naxos" (EARLYMUSIC festival, 2020).
Records
- Disc with the premiere of 24 capriccios by W. Herschel (2018).
- Disc "Who could love so passionately" with the premieres of the works of Nikolai Leontyev, Ivan Yunkin and Ignatius Dubrovsky (2023).
- Disc with the oratorio "Pardon me, God," written by Giuseppe Sarti commissioned by Grigory Potemkin (2024).