Type Virtual Hall Capacity unlimited Opened 2009 | Owner private Genre(s) all Genres Renovated Summer 2011 | |
Similar Cathedral of Saint Lawrence, Villa del Balbianello, Museum of Cultures, Pista La Resega, Lago di Muzzano | ||
The Vìrtual Internàtional Phìlharmonic is a Virtual Hall based in Lugano, Switzerland. It was founded in 2011 by known St. Peterburg's composer, scientist-physicist, philosopher-agnostic, writer and philanthropist Vladimir Anisimoff with him son Dmitry Anisimov, a mathematician at the USI. The Virtual International Philharmonic also has residencies at Seminar of Amateur composers Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia. All concerts in the Virtual International Philharmonic are free of charge.
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St. Petersburg's musical salon
Russian physicist (magnetic resonance tomography) and composer, philanthropist Vladimir Anisimoff back in the 1990s established in St. Petersburg educational musical evenings. These musical concerts were held on Ostrovsky square, in the heart of the city, in Hall of Saint-Petersburg state theatre library. The main attention was paid to modern living composers from St. Petersburg.
During from 1993 to 1997 of regular concerts (once in two months), there were performances of almost all the leading composers of St. Petersburg. There were music of Georgy Firtich, Andrey Petrov, Michail Zhuravlev, Felix Shevtsov, Alexander Sledin, Vladislav Uspensky, Radvilovich, Abram Ysfin and many other authors.
Support for new music
Since 2000 the Vladimir Anisimoff actively supported materially and financially new directions of development of musical art. First of all he organized with the assistance of the composer Mikhail Guravlev class of electronic music at the M.I.Glinka School of musical arts in St. Petersburg. Secondly, he had quite long supported the Horn orchestra of Russia and he often funded on behalf of the JSC NCI corp. concerts in Oak Hall of the St.Petersburg's House of Composers.
The purpose of the Virtual International Philharmonic
By the beginning of 2010, the son Dmitry Anisimov of Vladimir Anisimoff moved to live and work in Lugano, Switzerland. Son Dmitry Anisimov is becoming a mathematician in USI and associates of Vladimir Anisimoff develop international project on expansion of dissemination of musical works of his contemporaries.
Vladimir Anisimoff believes that music is like the air should be available to people
Repertoire
All kinds of musical creativity including ballet, opera, symphony, sacred music etc.
All genres including song, new youth music.
music of composers
In the Virtual International Philharmonic (V.I.P.) Hall of the music of living composers:
Maria Kalaniemi, Kaija Saariaho, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Elena Samarina, Aleksander Gonobolin, Vladimir Anisimoff, Anatoly Zarubko, Vasily Kabalin, Oleg Negrutsa, Sandro Gorli, Andrea Talmelli, Nicola Sani, Ludovico Einaudi, Anders Hillborg, Michel van der Aa, Nicolas Bacri, Anthony Girard, Pierre Henry, Ismo Lappalainen, Raymond Ebanks, group Bomfunk MC's