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A Road Trip to the Inland Empire with Prokofiev

By Ted Ayala, The Crescenta Valley Weekly

The afternoon of last Sunday, June 6, I took my musical journeying out quite a ways beyond Glendale and the Crescenta Valley area. Ruslan Biryukov, the founder and music director of the Glendale Philharmonic, was one of the featured soloists in the West Covina Symphony Orchestra’s season finale at the Haugh Performing Arts Center on the Citrus College campus. Last Sunday’s program was conducted by Dr. Sylvia Lee Mann.

West Covina Woman Saves the Symphony

Conductor leads W.C. symphony back from oblivion

By Sandra T. Molina, the Pasadena Star News

WEST COVINA - Professional musician and symphony orchestra conductor Sylvia Lee Mann believes in the power of music.So much so, she has used her own money to finance the relaunch of the West Covina Symphony.

The organization had been dormant for about 20 years before Mann, who is a professional musician and conductor and lives in the West Covina home in which she she grew up, relaunched it nearly two years ago.

“For All Our Mothers” Positive Motions’ Mother’s Day concert at Glendale First Baptist

By Ted Ayala, The Crescenta Valley Weekly

Last Saturday evening, the First Baptist Church in Glendale was the host for a concert that paid tribute to mothers everywhere on their special day. This concert, part of a series produced by Positive Motions, programmed a wide assortment of works.

Leading off the program was a world premiere commissioned by Positive Motions for this concert: a Sonata for 2 cellos (“Splashes of Spring”) by composer George Gianopoulos. Only the second movement was performed. Entitled “Scherzo-Humoresque,” the movement, with its Prokofieff-like harmonic sideslips, was thoroughly enjoyable. Especially captivating was the lyric writing for the cello in its very highest register. Just over two minutes, the movement left this listener eager to hear the rest of the work.

How To Found An Orchestra

A story by Jessica Donath

The current budget crisis the state of California and most communities face brings cut-backs, lay-offs and furlough days with it. In short: a climate that seems not conducive to arts and culture. Trained cellist and USC graduate Ruslan Biryukov showes that this does not need to be the case. He almost single-handedly founded the Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra, Glendale's newest addition to its cultural scene.

Concerts March 21 and 28

Rehearsal of the World Premiere of Andrey Rubtsov's "Andante Dolente & Scherzo for Two Cellos and String Orchestra."

Video by Daily News

Glendale Philharmonic starting on a high note

By Dana Bartholomew, The Daily News

It took a sea of vodka to launch the San Fernando Valley's newest orchestra, whose strings debut Saturday during a sober celebration of the arts. When cellist Ruslan Biryukov and conductor Mikael Avetisyan had each raised a glass last fall, the Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra was besottedly born.

By Yvonne Villarreal, The Los Angeles Times The Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra will make its debut Saturday -- a group of 20 under the baton of artistic director and principal conductor Mikael Avetisyan -- at First Baptist Church of Glendale. And it's all thanks to a few drinks.
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Debuts To Sold Out Audience For Inaugural Concert Held in Glendale, CA on January 9, 2010

By Steve Moyer

Glendale, CA – The Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra (GPO) made an auspicious debut in their Inaugural Concert playing to a Sold Out audience at the First Baptist Church of Glendale on Saturday evening, January 9, 2010, under the baton of Artistic Director and Principal Conductor, Mikael Avetisyan. Soloists included renowned cellists Ruslan Biryukov (also the Founder of the Orchestra) and Maksim Velichkin, along with soprano soloist Marine Abrahamyan-Abdasho.

By Jose Ruiz, reviewplays.com

For the past ten years that this web site has been in cyberspace, we always like to start out the New Year with a unique and different production, hoping it will set the tone for the coming year. Last year we opened the year by covering “Of Mice and Men” at the Pasadena Playhouse; a production that had an almost all Hispanic cast and presented the play from a Mexican laborer’s point of view.

By Wendy Kikkert, Beverly Hills Outlook (www.bhoutlook.us)

Last weekend I attended two concerts that demonstrated that new opportunities for Southern California patrons to enjoy fine music are alive and well. An astonishing young cellist from Azerbaijan, Ruslan Biryukov, had a vision to found an orchestra in Glendale. Saturday evening, January 9 at the First Baptist Church of Glendale several hundred people witnessed the realization of this dream.

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