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The Ivanovo State Philharmonic Society is the largest concert and touring organization in the Ivanovo region, it is one of the oldest philharmonic organizations in the Central region of Russia.
The Ivanovo Philharmonic Society was organized by the decision of the Ivanovo Regional Executive Committee in 1936 as one of the branches of the Moscow State Philharmonic Society. The official date of birth of the Philharmonic is February 15, 1936.
The first orchestra created on the basis of the Philharmonic was a symphony orchestra, led by the famous Soviet conductor, teacher, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Ilya Alexandrovich Gitgarts. Paying great attention to touring activities, already in the first year of the Philharmonic's work, its administration attracted famous performers of the Soviet Union to perform in the Ivanovo region: Antonina Nezhdanova, an opera singer, future People's Artist of the USSR, Tamara Tsereteli, a pop singer, Honored Artist of the Georgian Republic, a jazz orchestra under the leadership of L. Utyosov.
During the war, philharmonic artists performed in hospitals and military units of the Soviet army as part of concert brigades, giving about a thousand concerts every year.
From the mid-1950s to the second half of the 1980s, the artistic direction of the Philharmonic was carried out by the outstanding figure of culture and art E. P. Ivanov. The director of the Philharmonic was V. E. Romanov.
At this time, talented artists joined the philharmonic society, many of them still make up the glory of the Ivanovo stage. This is the trio "Meridian", Vladimir Mirskov, Nadezhda Maksimova, Svetlana Trokhina. For many years, the legend of the Philharmonic was its administrator, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation - M. S. Oberman. A huge contribution to the development of the Ivanovo Philharmonic was made by Yuri Fedorov, Albert Kryuchkovsky, Arkady Dunaevsky, Lyudmila Konyukhova, Konstantin Yarovitsyn, Evgeny Shurupov, Alexander Kuvshinov.
It was during this period that the activities of lecture hall educational teams began to create and subsequently rent literary and musical programs for the younger generation of Ivanovo residents. The first such project in the history of the Philharmonic was a whole cycle of lectures and concerts for schoolchildren entitled “Today we are in the concert hall”.
Since 1976, the Ivanovo Philharmonic has coordinated the most famous festival in the country - the All-Union Festival of Arts "Red Carnation".
During the transitional period for the country in the 1990s, the philharmonic society employees tried their best to maintain and develop the achievements accumulated over the past years. The largest regional festival of arts "Days of Russian Culture" was organized on the basis of the Philharmonic Society. It still exists today.
In the period from January 1995 to September 2002 the Ivanovo Philharmonic carried out its activities as a touring and concert center called "Ivanovoconcert".
The Ivanovo State Philharmonic Society received its current building in 2003. Overhaul immediately began in it, and concerts were held temporarily at other venues. The main building of the Philharmonic after a major overhaul was opened in November 2009. At the opening of the Philharmonic, equipped with modern equipment, a presentation of the Steinway & Sons concert grand took place, and the Honored Artist of Russia, Denis Matsuev, gave a concert here.
Today, twelve collectives and soloists function in the Ivanovo State Philharmonic Society, including: the orchestra of Russian folk instruments (conductor and artistic director S. Lebedev), the Meridian trio (N. Lukashevich, N. Smetanin, A. Podshivalov), chamber orchestra D. Shchudrov, ensemble of folk sacred music under the direction of D. Garkavi "Svetilen", Honored Artists of Russia Vladimir Mirskov and Nadezhda Maksimova, Honored Worker of Culture of Russia Y. Gurinovich, artists Ekaterina Rakhmankova, Olga Tikhomolova, Tatiana Skvortsova, lecture groups.
In 2011, the Youth Variety Theater was organized at the Philharmonic.
The most global projects of the Philharmonic: the festival "Days of Russian Culture", which takes place every year in late October - early November in the Ivanovo region, concert cycles "Orchestral Classical Music", a chamber music festival.
By the beginning of each concert season, philharmonic groups and soloists prepare new programs, tour the regions of Russia, and also travel to the CIS countries and abroad with their concerts. Every year more than five hundred concerts and philharmonic events take place in the Ivanovo region, to which more than 100 thousand spectators come.
