Svetlana has been performing in front of audiences as long as she has been playing the violin. While training in Russia her performances as a soloist, as a part of a chamber trio, and as part of numerous orchestras had her go on the stages of Saint-Petersburg’s Great Philharmonic Hall, Glazunov Hall and Court Chapel Hall.
After arriving to the United States, Svetlana established herself promptly as a performing artist. She has performed with multiple orchestras in Michigan, including the Michigan Opera Theatre, the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, and the Flint Symphony Orchestra. She has been a member of the latter since 2006. She is also a founding member of the Fantasy Strings Trio, which collaborated with the band and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Heart in 2011 for a performance at Caesar's Casino in Windsor.
In recent years she delivered thematic programs in the halls of the Kerrytown Concert House, the Steinway Gallery of Detroit, and the Ecumenical Seminary of Detroit. She was accompanied by the Livonia Symphony Orchestra in her performance of the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, (op. 26, G minor) in 2017, and was guest concertmaster for for several performances of its 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 seasons.
Svetlana became a contracted concertmaster of the Livonia Symphony Orchestra 2018-2022 and brought many successes via her playing service, leadership, care, and assistance to the organization during performing major symphonic works under the baton of Maestro Volodymyr Shesuik. She organized a community outdoor concert during the lockdown months of summer 2020 to represent musicians of the Symphony she was a concertmaster of, and spread the message of music and unity despite hardships of isolation and losses due to Covid-19.
You can learn more about some of these performances below, and get in contact with Svetlana to have her perform at your event or collaborate with her.
Details On Recent Performances
+ Ann Arbor (July 2017)
Violin and Story-telling through Sounds.
J.S. Bach E major Partita for violin solo
Stephanie Ann Boyd "Nostrorbis" solo sonata for violin solo, Michigan premiere
Sergey Prokofiev Sonata fro violin solo op.115
Program Excerpt: Two giants of music world, J.S Bach and Sergey Prokofiev, raising star contemporary classical composer Stephanie Ann Boyd have looked at the violin as a solo instrument that is capable of no less than a piano or organ to be telling a musical story on its own with no accompanying instruments.
A genius of baroque era, J. S. Bach wrote six cycles for solo violin, and E Major Partita is the last cycle of seven movements that is made of uplifted and bright characters. Bach was an unprecedented master of polyphony, and uses it in these cycles as a tool in a subtle yet powerful ways, creating sound volume and an immense fullness of layers from this single instrument.
Sergei Prokofiev, a titan of 20th century music, produced an exciting experiment with the violin as a solo instrument that delivers the whole piece with no accompaniment, just like Bach's solo Sonatas and Partitas. Prokofiev’s Op.115 displays bursts of energy, explosive drives, and tender lyricism. His usage of polyphony is straightforward and yet feels inventive as it derives its material both from musical language of the 20th century, and from Prokofiev's own unique tonal palette.
Stephanie Ann Boyd is a blossoming composer of our times, currently living in New York City, who explores the capacity of the violin to express a "story" in her Nostrorbis, the result of the World Sonata Project. This solo violin sonata consists of seven movements that take their names from either a city or a place from each continent of our Earth. Stephanie takes deep introspective looks at such subjects like grief, acknowledgment, joy, and sincere contemplation through these movements that are bridging times, people of the past and the present, and feelings that surpass ages.
+ Birmingham All Seasons (August 2016)
A performance of works by Maurice Ravel, Manuel De Falla, Claud Debussy, in collaboration with Natalia Bezuglova, piano.
Program Excerpt: The unique atmosphere of Impressionism in music is the focal point of this program. The fantastic firework of colors, emotions and flavors makes this music endlessly attractive for listeners for more than a century. Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Manuel de Falla being the brilliant representatives of this artistic period made it possible to hear crunch of snow, feel the warmth of the girl with the linen hair, sense the aroma of a summer breeze and picture the provocative dances of Spain.
+ Ecumenical Church of Detroit (March 2016)
A multimedia collaboration as part of the Ecumenical Church of Detroit's Arts in Detroit Series. Svetlana performs Fritz Kreisler's Recetativo and Scherzo op.6 for solo violin, as well as Claude Debussy's Valse "La plus que lente" for violin and piano with Yuki Mack accompaning.
Program Excerpt: For this concert, titled "Colors of Music," musicians collaborate with visual and mixed-media artist, Timothy Orikri to create a multi-sensory experience combining movement, music, and visual art. Timothy creates a 3-panel 8 foot mural accompanied by live musical performances by Xiao Dong Wei, Sventlana Tsivinskaya, Yuki Mack, Brandon Grafius and Detroit Medical Orchestra Chamber Ensembles.
+ Steinway Gallery of Detroit (May 2015)
Svetlana performs Beethoven's trios fro violin, viola and cello op.9 in collaboration with Antione Hackney, viola and Andrea Yun, piano.
Program Excerpt: All those qualities of later Beethoven's palette are here such as lyricism and drama, vulnerability and force, humor and tragedy. These trios are rarely performed as usual attention goes to Beethoven's string quartets. However op.9 is a treasure, incredibly effective set of well developed individual trios that make opus complete in a way narrative progresses from work to work. The audience is invited to discover Beethoven's drama realized through sounds of three string instruments: violin, viola and cello.
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