"Striking" DC Metro "Virtuosic" Festival DCRounding out the evening were a number of songs by two other Russian composers sung by Kazakh-American tenor Timur Bekbosunov, whose voice has a striking ability to maintain similar volumes all up and down multiple octaves. Mr. Bekbosunov’s bio is jammed with contemporary opera, pop and experimental projects (many of them in the Los Angeles area) and he’s a good pick for almost any kind of adventurous music, as well as apparently being something of a stand-up comic. Let’s hope Mr. Bekbosunov gets to do more work with the distinctive Russian Chamber Art Society here in Washington in the future. David Rohde, DC Metro Theater Tenor Timur Bekbosunov, a performer with great acting ability and a vocal instrument that generated a sense of immediacy, splendidly interpreted the works of Slonimsky in the performance of the Six Romances on Poems by Osip Mandelstam. The Danchenko-Stern/Bekbosunov ensemble performance revealed the virtuosic strengths of both musicians in their back-and-forth musical exchange. Bekbosunov captured the lighthearted humor in “There Lived Alexander Gertsovich” to which the audience heartedly responded. H&L Polgar, Festival DC blog
Rounding out the evening were a number of songs by two other Russian composers sung by Kazakh-American tenor Timur Bekbosunov, whose voice has a striking ability to maintain similar volumes all up and down multiple octaves. Mr. Bekbosunov’s bio is jammed with contemporary opera, pop and experimental projects (many of them in the Los Angeles area) and he’s a good pick for almost any kind of adventurous music, as well as apparently being something of a stand-up comic. Let’s hope Mr. Bekbosunov gets to do more work with the distinctive Russian Chamber Art Society here in Washington in the future. David Rohde, DC Metro Theater Tenor Timur Bekbosunov, a performer with great acting ability and a vocal instrument that generated a sense of immediacy, splendidly interpreted the works of Slonimsky in the performance of the Six Romances on Poems by Osip Mandelstam. The Danchenko-Stern/Bekbosunov ensemble performance revealed the virtuosic strengths of both musicians in their back-and-forth musical exchange. Bekbosunov captured the lighthearted humor in “There Lived Alexander Gertsovich” to which the audience heartedly responded. H&L Polgar, Festival DC blog