Jaro Medien 2015

West meets East. Classical music meets improvisations.

Participants:

Misha Alperin (idea, producer, composer, Hohner Claviola)

Evelina Petrova-Alperin (accordion, voice, composer)

Oslo Chamber Choir. Conductor Håkon Daniel Nystedt,

Bulgarian vocal family: Sonia Borisova, Tatyana Duparinova, Yulya Koleva, Nadya Vladimirova

Soloists: Sergey Starostin (voice),

Bjørn Løken (percussions)

Sound engineer Tor Magne Hallibakken,

Recorded 24-25 April 2015 in Ris Church, Oslo, Norway.

Mixing in Rainbow studio by sound producer Jan Erik Kongshaug.

Listen to «Prayers and Meditations» on SoundCloud

Mikhail Alperin seeks in its highly sectarian music to an ideal of simplicity that supports a spiritual message. Alperin carries with musical means, helping to sustain the spiritually formative forces of Europe to one another. In his work, traditions meet in the Eastern Orthodox Europe and the traditional folkloric, enriching each other mutually. He manages to build a bridge between aesthetics, ethics and spirituality and introduce elements of the musical language of the East in the concert halls of the West.