17 December 06 - 09:30The concert tour in France
From December 15 till 25 the Admiralty Navy Band is in France with a concert tour.
13 December 06 - 14:46The VII-th Admiralty Music Festival
On December 08 the VII-th International festival “Admiralty Music” was opened by a noon shot of a gun in Peter & Paul’s Fortress. We are very happy that we were honored to fire a shot in the famous historical fortress as it speaks about the high recognition of our festival. The friendship between Russia and Germany is so great nowadays that the honor to fire a shot was afforded to guest conductor of the festival Chief of Bundeswehr Band Service Colonel Dr. Michael Schramm – who then conducted the first two concerts of the festival on December 09 in the State Hermitage and on December 11 in Capella hall of M.Glinka.
16 October 06 - 23:49Trafalgar Night
On October 13 in Saint-Petersburg there was a Trafalgar dinner in the elegant restaurant of Astoria hotel. It has become a tradition that every year a Naval Attache of the UK in Russia leads a Trafalgar Night in Saint-Petersburg.
08 October 06 - 09:28Music of mobile phones
October 05, White Hall of the Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnic University, a concert of the Admiralty Navy Band with one of the most favorite by the audience programs “Music of mobile phones”. The concert with this program had been specially requested by the audience and the organizers of the event.In reality it was a concert of serious classical music. But as actually all classical music, that is performed nowadays, have become phone melodies, Commander Karabanov considered it possible to make a program with such “phone calls”, i.e. the most popular classical music that we hear from mobile phones here and there. The conductor’s humorous comments on mobile phone calls added a special charm to the concert.
The audience and even the Band musicians couldn’t help smiling and sometimes laughing at the conductor’s words introducing every musical composition. At the same time the audience sat as silent as the dead listening to the superb music played by the Band so brightly and delicately, with so soft and exquisite touches. The Band’s voluptuous pianissimo is a topic for a separate discussion.
Dear reader, if you have a good sense of humour and wish to enjoy the light and amusing atmosphere of the concert combined with the magnificent music, you are very welcome to read more.
29 September 06 - 14:15Interview with Alexei Karabanov, chief conductor of the Admiralty Navy Band
Newspaper “Nevskoe Vremya”, publication on September 21, 2006. Saint-Petersburg. Author – Ludmila Petrova.Alexei Karabanov is the senior conductor of the Saint-Petersburg Naval Base, the artistic director and chief conductor of the Admiralty Navy Band. The Band often performs in the best concert halls not only in Saint-Petersburg but in other cities and countries. And not play just concerts but sold-out concerts.
As the tall, elegant, handsome conductor, Commander, appears on the stage – the best half of the mankind is already excited, and the fans already know that if the Admiralty Navy Band is on the stage, there will be not only a magnificent concert but Alexei Karabanov will also narrate about the music the Band plays. (A. Karabanov revives the traditions of enlightenment.) Commander has a lot to say because of his excellent musical education and wide erudition. He likes and knows history and speaks four foreign languages!
28 September 06 - 13:58Historical event in Saint-Petersburg
On September 28, the Admiralty Navy Band and the Danish Royal Life-Guard Band were honoured to participate in the reburial ceremony of the remains of the mother of Russia’s last tsar, Nikolay II.
27 September 06 - 23:34Musical dialogue on Capella stage
September 26, a remarkable joint concert of the Danish Royal Life-Guard Band under direction of Peter Harbeck and the Admiralty Navy Band took place. It was a musical dialogue that deeply impressed not only the audience but the musicians themselves.
24 September 06 - 02:57Summer concert season 2006 is over!
On September 21 in Peter & Paul Fortress the Admiralty Navy Band played a concert “HOMMAGE A L'IMPERATRICE MARIA FEODOROVNA” dedicated to the upcoming reinterment of the body of Alexander's III wife that will happen on September 28 in Saint-Petersburg. (more)
10 September 06 - 13:38The concert devoted to the 150th anniversary of Saima channel
On September 9th in Viborg castle there was a triumphal concert of the Admiralty Navy Band devoted to the 150th anniversary of the Saima channel. (more)
10 September 06 - 13:36The opening of concert season 2006-2007
On September 6th the Admiralty Navy Band opened the current concert season with our concert at the opening ceremony of the exhibition "Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna".For Commander Karabanov this performance marks the beginning of the 22nd concert season. (more)
03 September 06 - 14:34The Band is back from the summer vacations!
September is a busy month for the Band. Our first performance in the autumn season 2006 is on 6 September at the exhibition hall Manezh. We play at the opening ceremony of the exhibition devoted to Alexander III and empress Maria Feodorovna.On September 7th the Band plays a concert in the Peter and Paul fortress at 19.00. The program is called "Old Russian Waltzes and Marches". This is a continuation of the summer concert series "Admiralty Music in the Peter and Paul Fortress".
On September 9th - a big concert in Vyborg castle devoted to the 150th anniversary of Saima channel.
02 August 06 - 14:54Summer vacations
After the band’s participation in a stream of events, performances and concerts devoted to the Naval holiday that was on July 30, the musicians have a summer leave from August 01 till August 31.September will be a very busy period, the concert schedule is tight but interesting. We look forward to impart news to our friends, guests and visitors of this web.site in a month. (more)
29 July 06 - 04:58Naval patriotic concert
On July 27, last Thursday, there was the last summer concert of the Admiralty Navy Band in the Peter and Paul Fortress in the season 2006. It was devoted to the Naval holiday that is on last Sunday in July. (more)
17 July 06 - 11:41Admiralty Music in the Peter & Paul Fortress
This summer we have started a new project "Admiralty Music in the Peter & Paul Fortress". Every Thursday we play a concert in the historical heart of Saint Petersburg. Only a few steps from the Peter & Paul Cathedral, in the newly restored atrium of the Commandant's House, there are sounds of Admiralty music. Through the glass roof of the atrium you can see the golden spire of the Peter & Paul Cathedral with an angel on top of it.Every concert is a unique excursion to old Saint Petersburg. We play ancient marches, Russian waltzes and, of course, the music of Johann Strauss. (more)