The Renaissance Percussion ensemble was founded in 2005 and comprises percussion soloists from the Mariinsky Orchestra. In 2005 the ensemble gave its first concert performances in Russia and abroad and won 1st prize at the International Rachmaninov Ensembles’ Competition in St Petersburg. In 2012, seven years later, the ensemble again took 1st prize at the same competition.
Today the ensemble’s repertoire includes works from various eras and styles. One of the ensemble’s priorities is performing music by Russian and European classical composers in arrangements for melodic percussion instruments written by members of the ensemble Vladislav Ivanov and Arseny Shuplyakov.
The ensemble regularly performs at the Mariinsky Theatre stages as a part of the subscription series.
Arseny Shuplyakov was born in Leningrad in 1982. In 2005 he graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory as a percussionist (class of Sergei Antoshkin). Since 2015 he has studied with the conservatory’s conducting faculty (class of Vladimir Altschuler).
In 2005 together with Vladislav Ivanov he founded the Renaissance Percussion ensemble. In 2005 and 2012 he was a prize-winner, together with the ensemble, at the International Rachmaninoff Competition.
Arseny performs with the Mariinsky Brass Orchestra and joined the Marinsky Orchestra in 2000, becoming the timpani soloist in 2013.
He has composed several works for percussion instruments including Not in the Brazilian Style, In the Embraces of the Desert, 7/8 and Lake Chad as well as various transcriptions for percussion ensemble. In 2001he performed with Pierre Moerlen and the ensemble Gong at Sergey Kuryokhin’s SKIF festival.
Together with the Mariinsky Orchestra he has toured more than thirty countries and collaborated with such conductors as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Krzysztof Penderecki, Christoph Eschenbach, Yuri Bashmet, Plácido Domingo, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Justus Frantz, Pierre Boulez and Tugan Sokhiev.
Since 2016 he is the conductor of the stage wind band of the Mariinsky Theatre.
Vladislav Ivanov was born in St. Petersburg to a musical family. He studied at the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (percussion instrument class of Professor A.V. Ivanov). While still a student at the conservatory, he began to work with the Symphony Orchestra of the St Petersburg Academic Cappella and the St Petersburg Chamber Opera Company. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra.
Vladislav Ivanov frequently performs in chamber ensembles and he has appeared in concerts and recordings with the ensembles Vivat, Percussion!, the Saint-Petersburg Percussion Group, Russian Brass and the Mariinsky Theatre Brass Quintet. Since 2005 he has performed with the percussion ensemble of the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra which won 1st prize at the 2012 Sergei Rachmaninoff Ensembles’ Competition in St Petersburg.
In addition to performing, Vladislav Ivanov produces arrangements of symphony and chamber music for brass quintets and “full brass” orchestras. He has produced transcriptions of Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, The Dance of the Jesters from Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Snow Maiden and Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte. The Mariinsky Theatre Brass Ensemble regularly performs Ivanov’s transcription of Shostakovich’s Festive Overture. Vladislav Ivanov has also written arrangements of various works for percussion instruments, both independently and partnered with vocals, piano and brass instruments.
REPERTOIRE
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture from the opera Le nozze di Figaro (arrangement for percussion by Vladislav Ivanov)
Franz Schubert
Ave Maria (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Gleb Logvinov)
Giuseppe Verdi
“Prayer” from the opera Otello (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Arseny Shuplyakov)
Edvard Grieg
Suites No 1, Op. 46 from music for Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt (arrangement for percussion by Vladislav Ivanov)
Dawn and In the Hall of the Mountain King from Suite No 1 Peer Gynt, Op. 46 (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
Georges Bizet
Overture from the opera Carmen (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
Franz Liszt
Oh! quand je dors, S. 281
Richard Wagner
Funeral March from the opera Götterdämmerung (arrangement for percussion by Arseny Shuplyakov)
Gabriel Fauré
Après un rêve
Clair de lune
Les berceaux
(arrangement for percussion by Vladislav Ivanov)
Pavane (arrangement for percussion by Arseny Shuplyakov)
The romances Clair de lune, Berceuse (arrangements for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
Claude Debussy
Clair de lune (arrangement for percussion by Arseny Shuplyakov)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Song of the Indian Merchant from the opera Sadko (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Anatoly Ivanov)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Hopak from the opera Mazepa (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Arseny Shuplyakov)
October (Autumn Song) from the cycle The Seasons (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
How Fair is This Spot (arrangement for percussion by Arseny Shuplyakov)
Vocalise (arrangement for percussion by Vladislav Ivanov)
Here Is so Nice (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Arseny Shuplyakov)
Vocalise (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
Sergei Prokofiev
March from the opera The Love for Three Oranges
The Montagues and the Capulets and Maskers from the suite Romeo and Juliet (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
The suite Romeo and Juliet (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
Aram Khachaturian
Sabre Dance from the ballet Gayaneh (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Nikolai Moskalenko)
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Aria from Bachianas brasileiras No 5 (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
Georgy Sviridov
Time, Forward! from the eponymous suite (arrangement for percussion by Arseny Shuplyakov)
Time, Forward – March! from the eponymous suite (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Arseny Shuplyakov)
Andrei Petrov
Paraphrase on song Walking the Streets of Moscow
Paraphrase on a theme from the song Walking the Streets of Moscow
Isaak Dunayevsky
The Toast (arrangement for percussion by Gleb Logvinov)
Valery Gavrilin
Second German Notebook
Edward Artemiev
In the Park, music from the film The Relatives (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Arseny Shuplyakov)
The Campaign, fantasy on themes for the film Sibiriade (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
Three Comrades, music from the film At Home among Strangers (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Arseny Shuplyakov)
Music from the film Siberiade, Three Comrades and A Slave to Love
The Song of the Ship from the film At Home among Strangers
Viktor Grishin
Mighty Russia
Nebojsa Živković
Trio per Uno
Chris Crockarell
Brooms Hilda
Manfred (Amadeus) Menke
Eine kleine Tischmusik for percussion quartet
Léo Delibes
Chanson espagnole – Boléro (transcription for percussion ensemble by Gleb Logvinov)
Karl Jenkins
Palladio (arrangement for harp and percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
Alan Menken
Under the Sea, music from the animated film The Little Mermaid (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Viktor Grishin)
Mark Ford
Afta Stuba
The Terem Quartet
Pyotr Ilyich Walking along the Fontanka: fantasia No 2 on themes from the album The Seasons by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
Tchaikovsky’s album The Seasons (arrangement for percussion by Vladislav Ivanov)
Thierry de Mey
Musique de table
The Renaissance Percussion Ensemble
The Way of the Samurai
Vladislav Ivanov
Taiko Rhythms
Arseny Shuplyakov
Lake Chad, vocal fantasia for voice and percussion ensemble by Nikolai Gumilyov
Not in the Brazilian Style
The Russian folk songs
Travushka-muravushka (arrangement for percussion ensemble by Vladislav Ivanov)
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