The Vìrtual Internàtional Phìlharmonic is a Virtual Hall registered from Lugano, Switzerland. It was founded in 2011 by the known St. Petersburg's composer, scientist-physicist, philosopher-agnostic, the writer and philanthropist Vladimir Anisimoff with his son Dmitry Anisimov, a mathematician at the USI. The Virtual International Philharmonic also has residence at Seminar of Amateur composers Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia. All concerts in the Virtual International Philharmonic are free of charge.
History
St. Petersburg's musical salon
Russian physicist and composer, philanthropist Vladimir Anisimoff back in the 1990s established in St. Petersburg educational musical evenings. These musical concerts were held on Ostrovsky square, in the heart of the city, in Hall of Saint-Petersburg state theatre library. The main attention was paid to modern living composers from St. Petersburg. From 1993 to 1997 there were regular concerts and performances of almost all the leading composers of St. Petersburg. There was music of :ru:Фиртич, Георгий Иванович|Georgy Firtich, Andrey Petrov, Michail Zhuravlev, Felix Shevtsov, Alexander Sledin, :ru:Успенский, Владислав Александрович|Vladislav Uspensky, Radvilovich, Abram Ysfin and many other authors.
Since 2000 Vladimir Anisimoff actively supported materially and financially new directions of development of musical art. First of all he organized with the assistance of the composer Mikhail Zhuravlev a class of electronic music at the M.I.Glinka School of musical arts in St. Petersburg. Secondly, he had quite long supported the :ru:Роговой оркестр|Horn orchestra of Russia and he often funded on behalf of the JSC NCI corp. concerts in Oak Hall of the St.Petersburg's House of Composers.
The purpose of the Virtual International Philharmonic
At the beginning of 2010, the son Dmitry Anisimov of Vladimir Anisimoff moved to live and work inLugano, Switzerland. Dmitry Anisimov became a mathematician in USI and together with Vladimir Anisimoff develop an international project to expand and promote musical works of contemporary composers. Vladimir Anisimoff believes that music is like the air and should be available to all people
Repertoire
All kinds of musical creativity including ballet, opera, symphony, sacred music and so on. All genres including song and new youth music.
New expanding
In autumn 2017, the website was renovated and redesigned to better support the goal of the project. Also, you may now buy a few allied products connecting with presented musical events. There is a book, a sheet music, and a video commemorative sketchbook about various living composers.
