Orchestras
Large-scale orchestral ventures and festival projects.
Vremena Goda
Large-scale orchestral ventures and festival projects.
The main initiative for creating this orchestra was the important date in the country's history: the 20th anniversary of Aliyah.
Each time prime musicians from different Israeli orchestras came together for musical projects, there was always talk about how fulfilling it is to make music together. Michael Gurfinkel, an Israeli clarinet soloist and pedagogue, took those conversations to heart and channeled them into reality through new orchestral ventures.
The catalyst for creating the New Symphony Orchestra was a fateful meeting with Arkady Leytush, former Soviet Union and American conductor, music director, and principal conductor of annual Holocaust Remembrance Gala concerts in New York. Following a successful joint recording project, both Leytush and Gurfinkel envisioned further collaboration and the formation of a new orchestra.
Our main mission is to create programs with special repertoire and premiere works that had not previously been heard. Maestro Leytush has a reputation as a world-class orchestrator and is known for introducing newly orchestrated transcriptions, expanding the symphonic repertoire and making each performance unique.
Another aim is to create an orchestra with a unique sound and individual intonation, instantly recognizable among the world's best. We also intend to invite bright soloists, with an emphasis on youth, while also presenting top-level performers already revered by audiences.
The project also seeks to reconnect brilliant musicians who could not find stable placement in their homeland and are now dispersed globally, while creating opportunities for young musicians to learn and perform alongside experienced masters.
The orchestra is available for public performances and recordings for contemporary composers and welcomes world premieres written specifically for this ensemble, while continuing to perform core classical masterpieces.
Classical music remains a major spiritual key in cultural evolution. The long-term vision is that the New Symphony Orchestra of Israel continues to receive support and appreciation from audiences, institutions, and cultural partners.
The Chamber Orchestra \"Vremena Goda\" was founded in April 1993 at the initiative of the Ukrainian violinist Garry Logvin and conductor Dmitry Logvin.
From 1995 to 2009, the orchestra's activity was sponsored with support from Victor Pinchuk's charitable foundation. Since 2009, the orchestra has continued activity within additional Ukrainian cultural support programs.
The orchestra members are leading musicians of the Dnipropetrovsk Philharmonic Society and the Opera and Ballet House. Under Dmitry Logvin's baton, the orchestra has performed hundreds of concerts with repertoire spanning J.S. Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Vivaldi, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Bortnyansky, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and more, alongside popular miniatures by Kreisler, Mancini, Gershwin, and Piazzolla.
This project appears in the legacy catalog as an additional orchestral partner under the chamber orchestra programs presented on the site.
The orchestras section historically grouped major collaborative initiatives together: flagship concert projects, chamber orchestra activities, and international partner institutions.