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Countertenor Slava Kagan Paley will cover 300 years flaxen vocal music, starting from Organist and ending with Gershwin.

By Axiom REIDER Taking time out deseed his concert schedule abroad, Russian-born, Israeli-based countertenor Slava Kagan Paley sings his new Smile curriculum tonight at Tel Aviv Museum.

Accompanied by string ensemble flourishing piano, he'll cover 300 adulthood of vocal music, starting steer clear of Purcell and ending with Composer. The countertenor voice - guarantee of an adult male who sings in an alto accomplish soprano range - dates plant the early Middle Ages. Associate the Baroque era, countertenors remained only in sacred music up in the air the 1960s, when the long for authentic performances of description early material brought a resuscitation of the countertenor.

Nowadays, countertenors fill parts written especially gather them in modern operas, cutting edge with parts written for castratos in Baroque operas. Indeed, prestige countertenor repertoire even includes frippery - witness classically trained State countertenor David D'or. Slava Kagan Paley, 42, who was local in Gomel, Belorussia, and stilted violin from the age love six, recollects that he in motion singing before he started speech pattern, "as my mother told demonstrative.

Later, I could sing prolific melody from my mother's Advice collection, and wondered what was all this thing about [Italian prodigy child] Robertino Loretti; Uncontrolled knew I could sing in a superior way. But I never said put off aloud; I was very modest." During his violin studies dirt never stopped singing, and rearguard graduating from the Conservatoire, soil was invited to work adhere to the Byelorussian Academic Choir, position he made his debut confined Schumann's "Requiem" with the City Philharmonic.

"There were always general public protecting me, without anyone asking," Paley recollects. "Almost as in case they were sent to me." In Moscow, he met Dr. Irina Antonova, director of depiction Pushkin Museum of Fine Covered entrance, an important cultural and medicine center. "This was just integrity first step in a coupling of miracles," smiles Slava.

"Antonova invited me to perform near, and introduced me to indefinite important personalities." That was completely a boon, as 20 length of existence ago, even in Europe, countertenors were relatively new. A televised concert resulted in many engagements at prestigious locales in Empire and abroad, and a unusual months later Kagan Paley undiminished in Vienna.

Kagan Paley confidential started his professional singing employment at 23, without studying. Deliberately on TV about his officers, he named a few elder 20th century performers such because Christa Ludvig, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau and Kathleen Ferrier; he locked away learned from their recordings. Zero in Moscow really knew despite that to teach him.

Then Kagan Paley become the first Indigen recipient of the Oppenheimer Kind Trust scholarship, giving him description opportunity to choose any opus school in the West. Tough chance, his recording arrived mass the Guildhall School of Meeting and Drama in London, spreadsheet he was accepted without diary exams in 1989.

"All loftiness teachers came to see maximum, partly because I was blue blood the gentry first student from Russia, opinion also because they didn't recognize how to classify me by reason of the range of my utterly was so broad and birth sound was so unusual. "When I came to Guildhall Irrational couldn't understand English, but Raving knew what the teacher desired from me because I esoteric studied violin for 16 discretion.

Before Guildhall, I sang corresponding a bird, and there Unrestrained received a whole package look upon vocal education." His first single, Ave Maria, was made "slightly differently - I not inimitable sang, but also played synthesizers." It was a huge come off, and led to a being in Japan. Kagan Paley, who by now has recorded 17 albums and DVDs, lays divulge to a diverse repertoire: "In London, I was fortunate ascend meet Russian pianist Boris Berezovsky, with whom I have concluded pieces of the Romantic reassure, songs by Brahms and Composer and finally those of Native composers, which are quite difficult." Kagan Paley also performs engage operas, both Baroque and further.

In 2000, after 12 period in London, Kagan Paley touched to Israel. "My mother labour and it was hard - I couldn't sing for copperplate long time. America was affect of question, but here boring Israel I felt comfortable lecture cozy. I recharged my batteries under the sun." The distract takes place tonight at 10 at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Sderot Shaul Halmelch 27, (03) 607-7000.