Selected Events
- May 13, 2023. As part of the project "Spread new music in the world"
Venue: Holy Rosary Cathedral, Vladimir, Russia. A production of Lyrica Classic Entertainment, Inc. With the support of American Embassy in Russia.
Compositions: Same as in concert on March 4.
Performers: Same as in concert on March 4.
- May 3, 2023. Requiem for mezzo-soprano solo and mixed choir a cappella (based on Christian and Jewish traditional texts). A production of Lyrica Classic Entertainment with the support from the US Embassy in Russia. Concert attended by diplomates from US Embassy in Russia.
Venue: International Moscow House of Music Hall, Moscow, Russia. As part of "Spread New Music to the World", dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Performers: The soloist of the Metropolitan Opera and the MusicAeterna countertenor Andrey Nemzer, the Moscow Synodal Choir and the Arielle Vocal Ensemble under direction of Arif Dadashev.
Broadcast: Russian Soyuz TV online.
- March 4, 2023. As part of the project "Spread new music in the world". Concert attended by US Ambassador in Russia, Lynne M Tracy.
Venue: Catholic Cathedral of Immaculate Conception, Moscow, Russia. A production of Lyrica Classic Entertainment, with support from the Amercian Embassy in Russia and the Boni Arte Foundation in Russia.
Compositions: Молитва о Мире (Prayer for Peace), Отче Наш (Lord's Prayer), I Paky Ti Reku, Ave Maria, "Waft her angels through the skies", St. Francis Prayer, Salutatio Virtutum, and Canticum Fratris Solis (in version for 2 sopranos and contralto solo, mixed choir and organ)
Performers: Arielle Choir (conducted by Elmira Ddasheva), sopranos Yulia Petrachuk and Svatlana Polyanskaya, contralto Olga Nadezhdina, organist Marianna Vysotskaya.
- January 9, 2023. First performance of Canticum Fratris Solis in version for mixed choir, 2 soloists and organ.
Venue: St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Moscow, Russia. As part of "Spread new Music in the World". Produced by Lyrica Classic Entertainment, Inc. With the support of American Embassy in Russia.
Performers: soprano Yulia Petrachuk, mezzo-soprano Alexandra Kovalevich, "Encarnacion" Ensemble, organist Marianna Vysotskaya, conductor Michael Kotelnikov.
- January 9, 2023. World premiere of "Waft her angles, through the skies" in memory of Queen Elizabeth II, for soprano and organ.
Venue: St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Moscow Russia. As part of "Spread new Music in The World". Produced by Lyrica Classic Entertainment, Inc. With the support of American Embassy in Russia.
Performers: soprano Svetlana Polyanskaya and organist Marianna Vysotskaya
- Priere de St. Francois d'Assise (St. Francis Prayer) in soprano version included in a music documentary "Roma Verso La Luce" by Alessandro Rossellini, Italy. (from 26:50' to 34:25')
- October 9, 2022. Polish premiere of Ave Maria.
Venue: Zaglebiowsky International Organ Festival. Poland.
Performers: tenor Konrad Artur Cygal and organist Roman Hyla
- October 2, 2022. Venue: Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church, Takoma Park, Maryland.
Compositions: O Gladsome Light, Ave Maria, Akhatist to the Holy Virgin, Salutatio Virtutum, Lord's Prayer, and Canticum Fratris Solis.
Performers: soprano Olga Orlovskaya, soprano Charlene Canty, soprano Yulia Petrachuk, mezzo-soprano Maria Maskhulia, and organist Paul Byssainthe
- April 29, 2022. Venue: Synetic Theater, Washington DC, in benefit concert for Ukraine.
Composition: Молитва о Мире/Prayer for Peace (in Ukraine)
Performers: soprano Yulia Petrachuk and Tatiana Loisha, electric organ
(all proceeds directed to "United Help Ukraine")
- March 20, 2022. Venue: "Spread New Music to World" at Congress Graz Stefaniensaal in Graz, Austria. With a support from US Embassy in Vienna.
Compositions: Prayer for Peace (in Ukraine), Ave Maria, St. Francis Prayer, Lord's Prayer, Akathist to the Holy Virgin, I paky ty reku, Salutatio Virtutum, O, Gladsome Light, and Canticum Fratris Solis
Performers: soprano Yulia Petrachuk (soloist of Carnegie Hall and Great Moscow Hall); soprano Elisabeta Marin (soloist of Wiener Staatoper); mezzo-soprano Hermine Haselböck (soloist of Musikverein Vienna); organist Nicholas Willne
- March 13, 2022. Venue: Our Lady of Angels Chapel in Castonsville, Maryland.
Compositions: Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria, O, Gladsome Light, and Akathist to the Holy Virgin
Performers: soprano Yulia Petrachuk, soprano Olga Orlovskaya, mezzo-soprano Aryssa Leigh Burns, and organist Stephen Harouff. - February 18, 2022. Venue: Anglican Chucrh, Moscow, Russia.
Composition: Ave Maria
Performers: baritone Pavel Bykov and organist Yulia Ikonnikova
- December 6, 2021. A world premiere of Requiem for mixed choir a cappella and a mezzo-soprano solo, dedicated to the memory of the coronavirus victims. Performed by Hungarian State Opera soloist mezzo-soprano Polina Shamaeva and Moscow Synodal Choir under Michael Kotelnikov at Sobornaya Palata, Moscow, Russia
- October 29, 2021. Venue: concert titled "Prayer for Peace" dedicated to the memory of lives lost September 11, 2001. Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Alexandria, Virginia.
Compositions: Ave Maria, I Paky ty reku, Lord's Prayer, Canticum Fratris Solis, Prayer for Peace
Performers: soprano Yulia Petrachuk, soprano Olga Orlovskaya, soprano Simone Brown, mezzo-soprano Katelyn Jackman, and organist Nicholas Will
- May 9, 2021. Italian premiere of Priere de St. Francois d'Assise (St. Francis Prayer).
Performers: soprano Natalia Pavlova and organist Marco Lo Muscio.
Currently available on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaKeYvpx6-U
- April 25, 2021. Lyrica Classic Entertainment presents "Organ Apotheosis part II": Отче Наш (Lord's Prayer), Молитва о Мире (Prayer for Peace), and Canticum Fratris Solis at Our Lady of Angels chapel in Catonsville, Maryland.
- April 18, 2021. "Meet the composer Eli Tamar" webinar presented by Lyrica Classic Entertainment.
- Edgewood Symphony Orchestra presented Canticum Fratris Solis (in orchestral version) on December 26, 2020. The recording is available here
- A world premiere of Отче Наш (Lord's Prayer) at the Rachmaninoff Hall, Moscow Conservatory, on September 26, 2020. Commissioned and performed by the vocal trio "Melody"