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Botagoz & Bulat Tynybekov concert at Victoria and Albert Museum
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Botagoz & Bulat Tynybekov concert at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Friday Evening Royal College of Music Concert Series.
Bulat
and Botagoz Tynybekov, graduate musicians from the Royal College of
Music perform in the Norfolk House Music Room at the V & A. Concert
starts at 6.30pm and ends at 7.30pm, with a short interval in the
performance.
This concert is possible thanks to kind support of Air Astana which provided musicians with free travel from Kazakhstan to UK.
Abay Qunanbayuli (1845-1904) Kozimnin Qarasy Aittym Salem Qalamqas
Evgeny Brusilovsky (1905-1981) Boz Aigyr
Kazakh-born
musicians Bulat (cello) and Botagoz (violin) Tynybekov recently
graduated the Royal College of Music, supported by the full
presidential Bolashak scholarship. Prize-winners of many international
competitions, they have given concerts in Kazakhstan, Russia, UK and US
(concert dedicated to the Victims of 9/11). As members of different
chamber groups they have performed in different venues of London
including playing in the world-premier of Karl Jenkins’s ‘Tlep’ at the
Royal Albert Hall. In spring 2008 they gave series of concerts
dedicated to the 15th anniversary of Bolashak scholarship, performing
Bruch’s Violin Concerto and Elgar’s Cello concerto with Kazakh State
Philharmonic Orchestra and Astana Symphony. Recent highlights include
participation in music festivals in Germany, Malta, Italy and UK and
recitals at venues such as National Gallery, Royal Asiatic Society of
Great Britain, Royal College of Music and Emmanuel Hall of Cambridge
University. In spring 2008 and in May 2009 Bulat and Botagoz toured
Kazakhstan with acclaimed British pianist Sophia Rahman, sponsored by
Air Astana, the leading air company in Kazakhstan.