Next season «‎Moscow Virtuosi» will hold 5 season tickets: 3 at the Moscow International House of Music and 2 at the Moscow Philharmonic.

Svetlanovsky Hall of the House of Music will be the venue for three concerts by the orchestra on 9 October 2018, 4 February 2019 and 27 April 2019. Mozart’s music will run through the season ticket: several of his piano concerti and compositions for solo soprano will be performed.

The season ticket will open with a joint performance by musicians and a longtime stage partner of the orchestra, the outstanding German pianist and conductor Christian Zacharias. To perform the vocal part of the programme, Anastasia Belukova, soloist with the New Opera Theatre, will join the Virtuosi of Moscow.

The orchestra will conduct the next two concerts under the direction of maestro Vladimir Spivakov. The programme will be decorated by Bolshoi Theatre soloist Anna Aglatova, who will perform arias from operas by G.F. Handel, A. Vivaldi, W.A. Mozart, G. Rossini.

On the final evening, South Korean pianist Yeol Yum Son, winner of international competitions, including the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition, will appear on stage with Moscow Virtuosi. She will perform W.A. Mozart’s Piano Concerti No 13 and 21.

In the Chamber Hall of the House of Music the orchestra will invite listeners to a 4-part trip through European cities as part of the «‎Moscow Virtuosi» subscription in a time machine with stops in London and Paris (20 September 2018), Prague and Berlin (6 November 2018), Vienna and Moscow (4 April 2019), Madrid and Oslo (23 May 2019). This tour in the history of European music will include compositions of different genres and styles, created for different artists (from duet to chamber orchestra) and with different degrees of popularity. Traditionally, subscription programmes are performed without a conductor.

The 2018/2019 season will see the continuation of the audience’s favourite concert series «‎Moscow Virtuosi to Children» in the Svetlanovsky Hall of the House of Music. The author of the idea of a subscription, conductor Evgeny Bushkov recalls: When I was little, I sometimes went to children’s concerts and always suffered terribly! There was a long and boring story there, it was necessary to sit quietly, but the main thing was that the musicians played sluggishly and uninterestingly… And so, when I grew up, I wanted to do concerts that children would be interested in coming to again and again. Because I am sure that if you like music as a child, then you won’t want to part with it later.

A rich programme awaits young listeners: on 8 December 2018 they will take a musical journey in the footsteps of Phileas Fogg (the hero of the popular novel by Jules Verne) «‎Around the world in 80…minutes», on 20 January 2019 they will get acquainted with the concert genre, and on 2 March 2019 they will hear Patterson’s musical tale «‎The Three Pigs» in the author’s retelling of Veniamin Smekhov.

Name subscription of «‎Moscow Virtuosi» in «‎Strong» Concert Hall. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall will open on 29 September 2018 with a concert with the famous violinist Pierre Amoyal. The programme includes music by composers from different countries and epochs: from Johann Sebastian Bach, whose Concerto for Two Violins with Orchestra will be performed by Amoyal together with the orchestra’s concertmaster Alexei Lundin, to Ya. Akutagawa, whose «‎Triptych for Strings» will open the concert.

On 3 December 2018 the orchestra under the baton of maestro Vladimir Spivakov in the programme Moscow Virtuosi – Today and Tomorrow will introduce the audience to two young soloists, winners of international competitions Alexander Dovgan (piano) and Daniil Bulaev (violin).

17 March 2019 «‎Moscow Virtuosi» will once again perform with Christian Zacharias and present a new programme to the audience.

In the new season, the orchestra will continue its cycle of performances in The Concert Hall. S.V. Rachmaninoff («‎Philharmonic 2»). On 2 November 2018, Moscow Virtuosi will present a new programme, Tchaikovsky Gala. The musicians will demonstrate the highest degree of ensemble coherence, performing works without a conductor. On 7 April 2019 the orchestra will perform under the direction of maestro Vladimir Spivakov, and on 5 June 2019, together with the Austrian violinist, successor to the conductor Johann Strauss’ tradition, Peter Huth.