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Sunday 29 April Final Concert and Discussion, (M)other Russia Festival/Symposium (www.gold.ac.uk/crm/motherrussiasymposium) The Great Hall, Goldsmiths, London SE14 6NW FREE ADMISSION, NO BOOKING REQUIRED 1:30pm Lunchtime Concert: Pärt: L’Abbé Agathon, text by Isaac of Syria, for soprano and eight cellos, original version, 2004 . UK premiere. Radvilovich: Big Brother, Anti-utopia, texts by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Hermann Hesse and Evgeny Zamiatin, (for baritone, invisible bass, narrators, women’s choir and ensemble, 2007). UK premiere. Raskatov: Ritual, text by Velimir Khlebnikov (for soprano and percussion instruments, 1997). Introduced by the composer. Special guest of the festival, Alexander Raskatov, will talk about his music and ideas, as well as about his opera 'A Dog's Heart' staged in Amsterdam and in London, to be shown also at the La Scala, Milan and at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Gubaidulina: Sonnengesang [Canticle of the Sun], text by St Francis of Assisi (for solo cello, chamber choir and percussion, 1997). UK premiere. Goldsmiths Chamber Choir; Goldsmiths Contemporary Music Ensemble; The TrinityGold Cello Ensemble (directed by Natalia Pavlutskaya), Elena Vassilieva (soprano, percussion instruments); Minna Nygren (soprano); James Schouten (baritone); Valerie Welbanks (cello); Deborah King (narrator); Georgia Matthews (narrator); James Hurst (narrator); Alexander Ivashkin (conductor), Mariano Nunez-West (sound engineer) FREE EVENT 3:00pm Launch of the Archive of Post-Soviet Music at the Centre for Russian Music. Alexander Ivashkin in discussion with the leading Post-Soviet Composers: Vladimir Tarnopolski, Alexander Raskatov, Faradzh Karaev, Dmitri Smirnov and Elena Firsova.