Special Tour Project


Pictures at an Exhibition
I Musici de Montréal
Yuli Turovsky, Artistic Director & Conductor
touring with projected images of choreographed paintings
by Natasha Turovsky

Pictures at An Exhibition: I Musici de Montréal performs with large screen projections of choreographed paintings inspired by the original Victor Hartmann paintings that themselves inspired Mussorgsky’s timeless music. The centerpiece of this towering all-Russian program features the Mussorgsky classic in a production traveling with digital projections of the fifteen large-scale paintings by Natasha Turovosky, The Promenade, Baba-Yaga, The Gates of Kiev and more. Acclaimed artist Natasha Turovsky's work has been seen in solo exhibitions from Hong Kong and Barcelona to Cleveland, Boston and Montréal. Her work has been commissioned by diverse requests from record labels, chamber music ensembles and more. Among the major press generated by her remarkable paintings is a new BRAVO Documentary, produced in December 2004, entitled "Pictures at a Concert", and honors for the choreographed paintings at several film festivals. 

Watch a sample videoclip. A full DVD is available on request.  

"The big-screen projection is an uninterrupted suite of delight, with effects of movement, space and depth, always successfully achieved. The "Catacombes" are mind-boggling and a sky filled with bells dominates the "Great Gate of Kiev"... The arrangement for fifteen strings made by Turovsky recreates astonishingly well the atmosphere of each piece, including the little squeaks of the "Unhatched Chicks"."
La Presse, Montreal

Read Yuli Turovsky's description of how this special project came to be.

Sample Program Structure:

Shostakovich -Chamber Symphony op.49bis (Orchestral version of Quartet #1.)
Tchaikovsky Serenade
intermission
Mussorgsky-Pictures at an Exhibition for strings with projections

Shostakovich Prelude & Scherzo, op. 11
Tchaikovsky Serenade
intermission
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition with projections

"...every player was not only alert but brilliantly assured. It is hard to do justice to the effect of such playing, vividly committed from top to bottom..." Financial Times, London

"The orchestra responded to Turovsky's skillfully turned phrases with a golden intonation and supple sense of musical line...Turovsky and I Musici de Montréal are passionate musicians, and they go right to music's guts." The Washington Post

For more information on engaging any of I Musici de Montréal's programs, please contact: Martha Woods, Vice President, Jonathan Wentworth Associates, Ltd. at 301/277-8205 mjws@jwentworth.com or call our main office in New York at 914-667-0707.