String-Wind Ensemble enraptures AUS audience

The five-piece String-Wind Ensemble from Russia entertained a large audience comprising members of the American University of Sharjah (AUS) campus community at a concert in the university's Main Auditorium on March 15.

The musicians, who come from the Samara State Philharmonic Hall and the Samara Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, were Kseniia Baknina (viola), Anastasia Mikhailichenko (violin), Andrey Uimin (oboe), Maksim Sadovnikov (clarinet) and Konstantin Zubarev (double-bass). The group performed pieces by Vivaldi, Piazzolla, Prokofiev, Benjamin Britten and Bach.

The concert was organized by the AUS Cultural Events Committee in collaboration with the Russian Cultural Club.