Alexander Boldachev in Recital

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Wednesday February 7, 2024

Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center: Ensemble Room

6:00pm

Performers

Alexander Boldachev

Harp See Bio

Alexander Boldachev is a virtuoso-harpist, composer, exclusive artist of Italian harp house Salvi Harps, initiator of the World Harp Day, founder of the Zurich Harp Festival, co-founder of community “LYUDẎ”. Laureate of more than a dozen prestigious international competitions, including composing competitions; awarded by the “Britain’s Brilliant Prodigies”, “Aoyama Music Award” in Kyoto, “Pro Europa” in Austria, presented by Heinz Fischer for high achievements in the field of culture; Fellow of the international foundations Vontobel in Switzerland and Banque Populaire in France, as well as the Russian foundations for the development of young musicians Spivakov, Temirkanov, the Rotary Club and Houses of Music that gave a start to his career. Laureate of the Prix Walo television award in Switzerland.

 

Plays the harp, piano and writes music from the age of five. Travels with solo concerts around the world, leads master classes at such educational institutions as the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, Juilliard School in New York, Royal Academy in London, Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest. In 2018, wrote and performed an electronic harp solo at the FIFA World Cup Opening Ceremony, sharing the stage with Robbie Williams and Aida Garifullina. Performs in such world halls as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Hall of Gaveau in Paris, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Great Hall of the Philharmonic in St. Petersburg, and others, both with solo concerts and in collaboration with many European and Russian orchestras.

 

Alexander Boldachev is a participant of the festivals Burning Man, Musical Olympus, New Names, Mozart+, Davos and Gstaad in Switzerland, Big Russian Ball in Rome, Bravo Award, SKIF Sergey Kuroyokhin, Burberry and D&G shows, projects of The Moscow and St. Petersburg Houses of Music.

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Repertoire

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Californication

 

Antonio Vivaldi

Allegro from Winter

Beatles

Yesterday

 

Claude Debussy

The Girl with Flaxen Hair

 

Daft Punk

Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger. / Get Lucky

 

 

 

Frédéric Chopin

Etude in A-flat-major “Aeolian Harp”

 

Bob Marley

Jamming

 

Sergei Rachmaninov

Prelude in C-Sharp-Minor

 

Scorpions

Wind of Changes

 

Johann Sebastian Bach

Toccata and Fugue

 

 

 

Sting

Shape of my Heart

 

Peter Tchaikovsky

Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy

 

Michael Jackson

Earth Song

 

Sergei Prokofiev

Romeo and Juliet – Dance of the Knights

 

One Republic

Medley

Donor Acknowledgement

This program is made possible by the Joyce S. and Robert U. Nelson Fund. Robert Uriel Nelson was a revered musicologist and music professor at UCLA, who, together with his wife, established a generous endowment for the university to make programs like this possible.