The company's support of the
Premiera Ensemble of Soloists of the Moscow Conservatoire’s Academic College of Music is intended to help preserve Russia's cultural heritage in music.
The PREMIERA Ensemble was founded in 1994 and consists of talented musicians aged between 15 and 18.
The PREMIERA Ensemble is led and conducted by Igor Dronov, Honoured Artist of Russia, a professor of conducting at the Moscow Conservatoire and a conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre.
PREMIERA is one of the best young musicians’ ensembles in Russia. Many of its soloists have won international competitions and now play in Russia’s best chamber and symphony orchestras.
ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. and Premiera Ensemble have implemented a number of joint projects, including charity concerts in the Rehabilitation Center for children with cerebral palsy desease and concerts and musical shows for orphans and children from low income families in Tsaritsino museum.
ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. also provides scholarships to the young musicians.
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| Children’s opera “Snow Girl” |
ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. provides scholarships to the young musicians. |
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Supported by "ConocoPhillips Inc.", in November 2008, the Academic Music College under Moscow State Conservatoire named after P.I. Chaikovsky conducted All-Russia Open Contest of Young Performing Musicians playing wind and percussion instruments (oboe, fagotto, trumpet, French horn, trombone, tuba, and percussion instruments). |
The promoters of the Contest are the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography of the Russian Federation and Moscow State Conservatoire named after P.I. Chaikovsky. The Contest is conducted within the framework of the Federal purpose-oriented program Culture of Russia (2006-2010), with the purpose of eduction and creative support of gifted young musicians, perfection of their professional art of execution, and advocacy of playing wind and percussion instruments. About 70 young performing musicians, students of music education institution playing wind instruments from 7 towns of Russia and Byelorussia took part in the Contest.
In connection with the 15th anniversary of the Academic musical college under Moscow State conservatory named after P.I.Chaikovsky, ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. has made a gift for the young musicians – presented a new trombone.
In 2009 the company supported the staging of opera “The Pharmacist” by Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer. Students of the vocal department of the college and Premiera ensemble, participated in the performance. The opera was successfully performed in St.Petersburg Hermitage theatre and in Moscow Tsaritsino and Pushkin museums.
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| Stuart Snow, vice-president ConocoPhillips Russia Inc., congratulates the Academic musical college on the 15th anniversary;
“The Pharmacist” opera performance in the State Pushkin museum in Moscow. |
ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. is one of the active supporters of the Pushkin State Museum in Moscow. Joint programs include arts and literature exhibitions, children's educational projects, important museum's events, concerts. With the company's support, 13 schoolchildren and their teachers from Murmansk region came to Moscow to attend the Final of the All-Russia Pushkin Literature contest arranged in the Pushkin State museum. These 13 children showed the best writing skills and won their first trip to Moscow, where they spent a week visiting museums and site seeing.
Winners of the All-Russia Pushkin Literature contest in Pushkin State museum
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| ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. congratulates Pushkin State Museum with its 50th anniversary |
Concert of the young musicians of Moscow Musical college in the Pushkin State museum. |
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| Ivan S. Turgenev's note with the writer's signature in French to Hubert Leonard (1819-1890), belgian composer and violinist, professor of the Belgian conservatoir.1875.
ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. gift to the State Pushkin museum, 2009 |
Moscow Museum goes to Naryan-Mar
The State Pushkin Museum has brought the exhibition of graphic arts and paintings by celebrated Russian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries illustrating fairy tales by Alexander Pushkin to Naryan-Mar, Nenets Autonomous district. Copies of the works of art of Polenov, Vrubel, Bilibin, decoration and costumes sketches for the theatre performances, are presented at the exhibition. The exhibition was supported by ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. All the paintings and drawings are devoted to Pushkin's fairy tales. For this reason the exhibition is entitled by the immortal line of the Russian poet: "There are miracles … ". |
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Photos of the Russian writers (1850-1916) from the archives of the Literature museum in Moscow Our cooperation with the Literature museum in Moscow resulted in the publication of the unique album devoted to the history of photography in Russia.
ConocoPhillips Russia Inc. works closely with the local administrations and communities of the
Nenets Autonomous District and Arkhangelsk region to support social and cultural programs in these areas.
Reindeer Day is a traditional holiday celebrated throughout the Nenets Autonomous Okrug in early August, as one of the most important holidays in Nenets culture. Celebrations in all reindeer farms and villages of the Okrug normally continue for a week. The holiday was first celebrated by NAO's tundra dwellers in 1932. Celebrations take place on hills and riverlets in the tundra. Celebrations normally include sports competitions, presentation of awards to the best-performing reindeer farms and teams, followed by cultural events - concerts, competitions, public festivities, and a big dinner party of raw meat and blood of freshly-slaughtered reindeer. Doctors are delivered to tundra areas to provide medical care support. Essential foodstuffs are delivered for the celebrations. ConocoPhillips helps to pay Reindeer Day transportation costs.
In early April, NAO's indigenous people celebrate Spring Day or Raven's Day. Celebrations include snowmobile and reindeer-drawn sledge races. Our company contributes to the competition's prize fund, the main prize normally being a snowmobile - an essential vehicle in the Far North.
