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"Ensemble NEO risks being shut down as early as this December."


27 August 2023

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Nikolay Shugaev gives interview for Kuriren.nu and criticizes local administration.

Интервью для журнала «Музыкальная жизнь»


12 August 2023

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Интервью подготовила Е. Кривицкая.

Breaking News


23 July 2023

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State Academic Orchestra of North-Caucus appoints Nikolay Shugaev as chief conductor.

Nordic Council Music Prize


31 May 2023

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BIG NEWS

Norrbotten NEO is one of the 13 nominees for the 2023 Nordic Council Music Prize.

Short clip from Konserthuset


07 April 2023

Tobias Broström
Composer weekend

Nikolay’s debut with RSPO academy


07 April 2023

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Tobias Broström
Composer Weekend

Nikolay takes part in Rusk festival this November


24 October 2022

Chamber Music in Jakobstad

22–26.11.2022

Gods and Goddesses

International creativity at the darkest time of the year

Korsholm Music Festival 2022 40 Years of Chamber Music


23 July 2022

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Korsholm Music Festival 2022
40 Years of Chamber Music

Gramophone.co.uk about our Naxos recording…


26 June 2022

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Gramophone.co.uk 📀 📀 📀

“…Nikolay Shugaev is an eloquent soloist in all three works, he and Dmitrii Prokofiev are well matched in the Ghedini, and the Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra provide sensitive support throughout under the direction of Valentin Uryupin. Strongly recommended, then, for Ghedini’s concerto; its unique atmosphere continues to haunt me.” - Andrew Farach-Colton

APRIL RELEASE


07 April 2022

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TOMORROW! 📀📀📀 and all digital audio platforms.

A recording is a sort of magical vial which will forever contain a special musical moment in time. This vial contains all our feelings and thoughts and has the incredible power to keep our memories, knowledge and heritage alive.

Almost two years ago we started this long and beautiful journey in the form of a recording of Italian cello concertos by Casella, Ghedini and Malipiero with our dear friends Valentin Uryupin, Dmitrii Prokofiev and the wonderful Rostov Academic Orchestra. The recording sessions were interrupted by numerous Covid waves and personal challenges, but now the sun is shining and by its light we can share our hope for a brighter future through the music we hold dear.

We are extremely happy to announce that the Naxos label, which supported our project from the beginning, and has announced our album as one of its priority releases for April 2022. Naxos Chairman, Klaus Heymann writes: ‘I hope this release will serve to remind people of our splendid, ongoing Italian Classics series that features repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries. The album's programme of contrasting mid-20th-century Italian cello concertos comprises three fine works that are rarely performed and are sparsely represented in recording catalogues. All the composers were associated with the cello from a young age, which enabled them to not only indulge in virtuoso showmanship, but to explore the instrument’s expressive potential, a quality that is ably explored by young cellist Nikolay Shugaev... This is his debut recording for Naxos.’

I would like to give enormous thanks to Peter Bromley, Naxos’s Head of Production, who liked the idea of this recording and who supervised the project throughout its entire production.

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