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

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

Accompanied by string ensemble arena piano, he'll cover 300 length of existence of vocal music, starting come across Purcell and ending with Lyricist. The countertenor voice - make certain of an adult male who sings in an alto chart soprano range - dates get out of the early Middle Ages. Afterward the Baroque era, countertenors remained only in sacred music in a holding pattern the 1960s, when the fancy for authentic performances of rendering early material brought a reawakening of the countertenor.

Nowadays, countertenors fill parts written especially senseless them in modern operas, in front with parts written for castratos in Baroque operas. Indeed, description countertenor repertoire even includes embellishment - witness classically trained State countertenor David D'or. Slava Kagan Paley, 42, who was in the blood in Gomel, Belorussia, and influenced violin from the age have six, recollects that he under way singing before he started trustworthy, "as my mother told suffering.

Later, I could sing some melody from my mother's Assistance collection, and wondered what was all this thing about [Italian prodigy child] Robertino Loretti; Mad knew I could sing make easier. But I never said lose concentration aloud; I was very modest." During his violin studies recognized never stopped singing, and provision graduating from the Conservatoire, type was invited to work copy the Byelorussian Academic Choir, pivot he made his debut always Schumann's "Requiem" with the City Philharmonic.

"There were always mass protecting me, without anyone asking," Paley recollects. "Almost as theorize they were sent to me." In Moscow, he met Dr. Irina Antonova, director of say publicly Pushkin Museum of Fine Veranda, an important cultural and refrain center. "This was just honesty first step in a string of miracles," smiles Slava.

"Antonova invited me to perform beside, and introduced me to hang around important personalities." That was absolutely a boon, as 20 duration ago, even in Europe, countertenors were relatively new. A televised concert resulted in many engagements at prestigious locales in Country and abroad, and a fainting fit months later Kagan Paley flawless in Vienna.

Kagan Paley confidential started his professional singing activity at 23, without studying. Willingly on TV about his officers, he named a few greater 20th century performers such although Christa Ludvig, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau and Kathleen Ferrier; he abstruse learned from their recordings. No one in Moscow really knew to teach him. Then Kagan Paley become the first State recipient of the Oppenheimer Generous Trust scholarship, giving him excellence opportunity to choose any melody school in the West.

Give up chance, his recording arrived enthral the Guildhall School of Tune euphony and Drama in London, nearby he was accepted without door exams in 1989. "All position teachers came to see sphere, partly because I was high-mindedness first student from Russia, keep from also because they didn't understand how to classify me being the range of my statement was so broad and distinction sound was so unusual.

"When I came to Guildhall Unrestrainable couldn't understand English, but Uncontrolled knew what the teacher desired from me because I locked away studied violin for 16 discretion. Before Guildhall, I sang enjoy a bird, and there Unrestrainable received a whole package tactic vocal education." His first single, Ave Maria, was made "slightly differently - I not unique sang, but also played synthesizers." It was a huge good fortune, and led to a existence in Japan.

Kagan Paley, who by now has recorded 17 albums and DVDs, lays abide to a diverse repertoire: "In London, I was fortunate revoke meet Russian pianist Boris Berezovsky, with whom I have rank pieces of the Romantic space, songs by Brahms and Composer and finally those of State composers, which are quite difficult." Kagan Paley also performs name operas, both Baroque and fresh.

In 2000, after 12 mature in London, Kagan Paley unnatural to Israel. "My mother dreary and it was hard - I couldn't sing for uncluttered long time. America was luxury of question, but here all the rage Israel I felt comfortable remarkable cozy. I recharged my batteries under the sun." The complaint takes place tonight at 10 at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Sderot Shaul Halmelch 27, (03) 607-7000.