CLASSICAL: IOSIF ANDRIASOV FESTIVAL (8/14)
Paloma Capanna
Rochester City Newspaper
Aug 10, 2011
Musicians from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and New York
City will converge at the Memorial Art Gallery to launch the first
Iosif Andriasov Chamber Music Festival. Andriasov was a composer,
a philosopher, and a teacher. Born in 1933 in Moscow to an Armenian
family, he began to play the piano and compose at the age of 3. Years
later he graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory. As his
career as a composer grew, the Soviet Ministry of Culture offered
Andriasov the position of the Head of the “Special Committee on Music
and Moral Matters.” Andriasov declined the position, and moved with
his family to NYC. His name disappeared from the repertoire of Russian
performers and scores and recordings of his compositions vanished. He
died in 2000.
Iosif Andriasov Chamber Music Festival takes place Sunday, August 14
at 2 p.m. at Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave
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