Annelle K. Gregory, the violinist on this album, is the First Prize and Audience Choice Award winner of the 2017 National Sphinx Competition.
Composer Biography
Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, a composer featured on this album, was a pupil of Nikolay Rubinstein, director of the Moscow Conservatory, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, with whom he remained close until Tchaikovsky's death.
Composer Biography
Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, a composer on this album, succeeded Tchaikovsky as professor of harmony and orchestration at the Moscow Conservatory and later became its director for four years.
Composer Biography
Rimsky-Korsakov, a composer on this album, took a position as professor of instrumentation and composition at St Petersburg Conservatory in 1871, despite his own perceived deficiencies in compositional technique.
Performer Biography
Dmitry Yablonsky, the conductor on this album, is a GRAMMY® Award-nominated cellist/conductor who was born in Moscow into a musical family.
Composer Biography
Rimsky-Korsakov, a composer on this album, met Mily Balakirev, a musician who greatly influenced him and other Russian nationalist composers like Modest Mussorgsky and Alexander Borodin, in 1861.
Composer Biography
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, a composer on this album, originally intended a naval career and entered the Naval Cadet College at age 14.
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