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REMINDER!!!
The Summer '08 Concert will be held at Our Savior's Atonement Church located at 178 Bennett Ave. (at West 186th St.) this Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 7:30 PM. Admission is free (with a suggested donation of $5 which will go to benefit the "Children's Festival of Russian Culture")
Join us to hear arias from Mozart, Gershwin, Brodszky, Chopin and many others. Directed by Inna Leytush, sung by Viktoria Kurbatskaya, soprano, and David Gvinianidze, tenor and piano renditions by Rouben Aivazowzky.
MEET THE ARTISTS!!!
Viktoria Kurbatskaya, soprano
possesses a dark timbered soprano voice of amazing power which she couples with an elegant beauty and instincts of a stage animal. Career highlights of Ms. Kurbatskaya include Lucia Di Lammermoor with the National Opera House of Bratislava, Lisa in The Queen of Spades with Opera Ireland, Violetta in La Traviata and Mimi in La Boheme at Classic Open Festival, Switzerland and concerts with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra Ankara, Turkey.
David Gvinianidze, tenor
 soloist of Moscow "helicon Opera" Theater and President and Art Director of the Foundation "Talents of the World." Gvinianidze has won many prestigious awards including the 2002 First Place Award of the "International Competition of Russian Romance Romansiada", Moscow Russia; the 2004 International Competition of Nariman Sabitov, Ufa, Russia; the 2006 International Competitiion of vocal "Valsezia Music", Milan, Italy and many, many more
Rouben Aivazowzky, pianist
has had over 30 years of performance experience. He has performed in more than 100 concerts with very prestigious orchestras including: the National Philharmonic Orchestras of Armenia, Georgia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Russia and Azerbaijan.
Inna Leytush, Music Director
 has participated in the 39th Concurs International de Chant de Toulouse, France; the 10th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the American Landmark Festivals. Ms. Leytush worked as a director for Opera at Noon at Trinity Church for the concert version of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. She was also
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