American composer Michael Colina's "Nesting Dolls" will be performed by the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, Misha Rachlevsky, Music Director on January 27, 2006, at 7PM Moscow time, at the Concert Studio of Radio "Kultura", with live audience and national broadcast, as well as simultaneous Internet broadcast on http://www.cultradio.ru/.

The concert can also be heard by following the Concerts in Moscow link at the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin website http://www.chamberorchestrakremlin.ru. Misha Rachlevsky was invited by Radio "Kultura" to create an event celebrating Mozart's 250th birthday on January 27 and this concert will be the result.

Michael Colina's "Nesting Dolls" is from his six movement work "Disturbing the Silence" and is a finalist in the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin's current Composition Competition.

After 25 years of helping others create their music as a multiple Grammy¨ winning jazz composer and producer, Colina is focusing today on the music that he has always dreamed of creating for himself. His most recent works reflect a new, classical direction, one that pulls threads from jazz, classical, and his Cuban-American heritage. Examples of this new classical direction include The Isles of Shoals, a concerto for flute and orchestra; The Idoru Piano Trio for piano, violin and cello; The People, an orchestral work for Richard Kuch commissioned by the Boston Ballet; and a modern dance score, A Time of Crickets, commissioned by Pauline Koner and supported by The National Endowment for the Arts. Colina, born of Cuban-American heritage, studied composition at the North Carolina School of the Arts with Vittorio Giannini, Louis Mennini (father of composer Peter Mennin) and Robert Ward. He continued studies at the Chigiana in Sienna, Italy with Thomas Pasatieri and Roman Vlad. He was the first recipient of the Vittorio Giannini Memorial Scholarship award. Visit him online at http://www.michaelcolina.com/.

Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, founded and led by Misha Rachlevsky, has earned national and international recognition as one of Russia's leading ensembles. Founded in 1991, the orchestra, comprising some of Russia's finest young string players, has carved a niche for itself under the creative baton of its founder and music director Misha Rachlevsky. In addition to an active schedule of presenting concerts and festivals in Moscow, Chamber Orchestra Kremlin tours regularly in North and South America, Europe and the Far East.

For more information about Michael Colina, please contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@worldnet.att.net.

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