Sep
21
7:00 PM
A Grand Bohemian Celebration
Tribute to Tchaikovsky
Conducted by: Sergey Bogza | Saturday, February 08, 7:00pm
A tribute to young talent featuring Victor Shlyakhtenko, College Division Grand Prize Winner of Panama City Symphony’s Emerging Artist Competition and the full force of the orchestra. Memorable melodies are contrasted with powerful themes of fate and struggle in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Immerse yourself in the music and emerge transfixed by Tchaikovsky and the artistry of Victor Shlyakhtenko.
PROGRAM
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, 30’
Victor Shlyakhtenko, piano
Grand Prize Winner, 2024 Emerging Artists Competition (College Division)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5, 45′
Soloist, Victor Shlyakhtenko
Victor Shlyakhtenko was born in Los Angeles and started learning the piano at age five. A prizewinner of several competitions, he received second place in the 2019 Waring International Piano Competition and first prize in the 2018 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition; the latter led to his European debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.
After making his concerto debut in 2014, Victor has collaborated with orchestras in concerti by Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and Clara Schumann. Victor was a recipient of the U.S. National Chopin Foundation Scholarship from 2016-2019 and a Young Scholar of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation from 2018-2020. This summer, Victor will perform a recital for the Grand Piano Series in Naples, Florida and collaborate with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic in the Czech Republic.
Victor currently studies piano with Stanislav Ioudenitch at the Oberlin Conservatory, where he also studies conducting with Raphael Jiménez.
