NEWS AND EVENTS

• After many years of valuable service to the Tcherepnin Society, Peter Tcherepnine has relinquished his position as Chairman of the Board and resigned from our Board of Directors.  We are profoundly grateful for his unfailingly generous support.

•Alexander Tcherepnin: A Compendium, a major new resource for Tcherepnin research written and edited by Tcherepnin Society President Benjamin Folkman, has now been published. The 419-page hard-cover volume is available on Amazon.

A PDF version may be acquired from Blurb.

• The Munich publishing firm MPH recently reissued two orchestral works by Nikolai Tcherepnin The Enchanted Kingdom, Op. 39 and The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish, Op. 41.  Both scores include forewords written by Tcherepnin Society Vice-President David Witten.

• In honor of its 90th Anniversary, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music has published Alexander Tcherepnin’s June 1962 “Catalogue complet des oeuvres,” in a bi-lingual edition produced with the authorisation and facilitation of The Tcherepnin Society. The book presents a Mandarin-language translation of the catalogue, followed by a facsimile of Tcherepnin’s handwritten French original, taken from the copy given to the Conservatory by Ming Tcherepnin

• Pianist Alessandra Pompili recently performed several pieces from Alexander Tcherepnin’s piano cycle Histoire de St. Therèse de l’Enfant Jesus, Op. 36b, in a group of 20th Century religious-themed works presented at a conference on Pope Paul VI at the Instituto La Salle Aventino Pio IX in Rome.