Portraits and landscapes

August 20
8:00 PM

Musical Gallery.

The concert program unfolds as a gallery of musical images, bringing together works for harp by French and Russian composers. Each composition draws inspiration from a literary narrative, a poetic image, or impressions of nature and human character. Lyrical miniatures stand alongside folkloric tales: moonlight reflected on a pond, a garden after the rain, the seascapes imagined by composer and naval officer Jean Cras, portraits of a dancer, a dreamer, the lady of an ancient castle, and heroes of Russian fairy tales.
Within the space of the AZ Museum, the concert becomes a unique exhibition in which each musical work is a separate painting, created not with color, but with sound.

Performer:
Oksana Sidyagina is a harpist and creator of original musical projects. At the heart of her artistic practice is the development of conceptual concert programs that combine the classical repertoire, twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, improvisation, and her own compositions. She graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory and the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris. She is the winner of first prizes at five international competitions in Russia, Italy, and France. She performs throughout Russia and across Europe, collaborating with leading musical ensembles and cultural institutions in France, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

In 2022, she launched the Harp Meditation project in Paris, bringing together the classical concert format, sound therapy, and meditative practices. In 2025, she founded the Paris Harp Week festival and released the conceptual album Map of My Imaginary Memories, a sonic diary that weaves together music by John Cage, Arvo Pärt, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Benjamin Britten, and her own compositions. The album is conceived as a journey through an imagined landscape of memory, where the classical repertoire, contemporary music, and original works merge into a unified artistic narrative. She currently teaches at the Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Paris.