Irina and Julia Elkina, duo piano
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
The Nutcracker Suite
Overture
March
Dance of the Sugar- Plum Fairy
Russian Dance (Trepak)
Waltz of the Flowers
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Cinderella, Fantasy-Suite for Two Pianos (Transcribed A. Gottlib)
Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
Three Movements from Petrouchka (Transcribed by G. Korchmar)
Russian Dance
Petrouchka’s Room
The Shrove-Tide Fair
About the Artists:
“Simply dazzling” is the way the American Record Guide has described the Elkina Piano Duo.
Having played together since the age of five, Russian-born identical twins Julia and Irina Elkina are praised for their “truly remarkable oneness” by critics who also recognize that “each is a formidable pianist in her own right.”
The Elkina twins won the top prize in the Fourth Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition. They have performed throughout the United States, making their New York debut in 1996 and playing return engagements there and in San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Miami and New Orleans, just to name a few.
The twins have appeared at numerous festivals including Ravinia, the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival and the Minnesota Orchestra’s Sommerfest, and have performed with such conductors as Hugh Wolff and Bobby McFerrin.
The Elkinas have been heard on the National Public Radio and many public radio stations nationwide including the award-winning weekly series Saint Paul Sunday and A Prairie Home Companion.