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  More from our Friends and Colleagues

 

 Events on this page feature  our friends and colleagues of the Minnesota Sinfonia musicians, and is posted so that you, our audiences can have access to more excellent quality programs. Be aware that some of these concerts are ticketed events, and are marked as such.

 

 Solo Appearance

 Natalia Moiseeva, violin

 with the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra

 conducted by Sinfonia violinist extraordinaire

      Adam Han-Gorski

  7:30pm on Saturday, January 23, 2010

  Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church

  5435 11th Avenue South, Mpls, 55417

  for ticket information: 952- 920 3512 or visit www. kenwoodsymphonyorchestra.org

  Natalia will perform:

Tchaikovsky Meditation from Souvenir D'un Lieu Cher for Violin and    Orchestra, Op. 42


  Natalia Moiseeva, a Dahl Fellow at the University of Minnesota,  is      now completing her DMA in Violin Performance. Born in Russia, she graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2006. During her yearsof study in Moscow, she was actively involved in several music festivals including the  Akademie Musike Chamber Music Festival in La Ferte-Saint-Aubin, France, which featured Jean-Bernard Pommier as its music Director. For five years she was an artist of the Russian State Symphony Orchestra which collaborated with such renowned conductors and performers as Mstislav Rostropovich, Vassily Sinaisky, Kathleen Battle, Dmitry Sitkovezky and Natalia Gutman.

 

 Adam Han-Gorski, violin

 with the Continental Sound Orchestra

 8:00pm on Saturday, January 30, 2010

  Beth El Synagogue

  5246 West 26th Street, St.  Louis Park, 55416

  for ticket information: 651- 690 5104 or visit www. bethelsynagogue.org

 Adam Han-Gorski was born in Lvov in 1940, after it was taken   over by the Russians in the course of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. His mother, a concert pianist on tour of the Russian Far East, was caught by the outbreak of the German attack on the Soviet Union and did not know about the whereabouts of her family until the end of the war. His father first hiding from the Nazis, managed to cross the front line to the east, where he was put by the Soviets in a Gulag labor camp.

Little Adam spent a short time with his grandparents in a shtettle of Javorov, but when that also turned too “hot” he was sent to his maternal grandparents in Cracow. They were promptly relocated to the Ghetto and were among the first to be sent to a liquidation camp of Belsec. Having the premonition of doom, they decided to leave the child behind (their last postcard miraculously survived) notifying the Christian woman who took care of him in his infancy, to smuggle him out. Through some incredible heroics, (along with the man she soon married) she succeeded to hide him as her own child risking their lives 24/7 for three years. Adam met his mother for the first time, when after the Nazis left Lvov she was able to return and serendipitously run into his guardian on the street… A daredevil plot to arrange for his father’s escape from the Gulag succeeded and the now reunited family promptly emigrated to Poland, that was now freed from the Germans.

 

After settling in Silesia, Adam started his lessons in 1946 and gave his debut by performing solo with the Silesian Philharmonic in March of ‘48. This was filmed by the National Polish Newsreel and shown in theaters throughout Poland, quickly making him a national celebrity…