Gergiev’s son graduates in the US
UncategorizedWe are informed that Abisal Gergiev is about to receive his BA in music at the New England Conservatory in Boston.
On April 15 Abisal Gergiev performed a solo recital as partial fulfillment of the degree. He is a student of Professor Wha Kyung Byun, whose American graduate George Li came second in Valery Gergiev’s International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
Abisal, 23, is the apple of his father’s eye. We may expect to see him in this summer’s Tchaikovsky’s Competition. Unilike other young Russians his age, he has not been called to military service. Unlike other Putin intimates, his father seems to have escaped US sanctions.
Might he attend the graduation? With a jump-in at the BSO?
“his father seems to have escaped US sanctions.”
Have you any basis in fact for making this assertion?
remember my last suggestion?
#russiaphobia
I think you should leave him alone. The young man is not responsible for his father’s sins.
He might chose to state his position on the assault on Ukraine (backed by his father). He either supports Putin’s depredations or he doesn’t.
At 23, if he is old enough to be conscripted into the Russian army, he is old enough to express an opinion. He is not a child.
The issues is not whether he’s responsible for his father’s sins, but whether he would have had the opportunities he’s had, had he not been his father’s son.
In Russia people who are studying are not called to military service.
Well, he graduates soon…
Vic, are you so sure? You’re wrong.
What Viktor stated is what I’ve read as well, but it’s Russia, so who knows? In the end, it seems it is who you know that counts.
I have sympathy for vulnerable young men in Russia today.
Not anymore
Yeah, right. Tell that to the dirt-poor ethnic minority boys from the east and south east of the Russian Federation. “I’ve received my call up papers by mistake, I’m a student.” “Oh gosh, sorry. Back to your studies then.”
According to a recent NYT article, a huge number of recruits are HIV+ convicted criminals, who are choosing fast death over slow death (NYT’s words, not mine).
I don’t think we are going to see him in Bakhmut any time soon ….
It’s always interesting and revealing, where the elites (who can afford it) send their own children for education. Meaning which culture they ultimately trust and aspire to.
You are way outdated in your claims. Anyone can go to school anywhere in the US. People with money are the only ones who are paying.
I was talking about the (people of the) world. As you know, the US is only a small part of it.
So overwhelming student loans are taken out by the weathy?
It’s nice to know that if you come to your senses after he croaks you can apologize to his son.
Officially, Gergiev is a musician, not a businessman, despite the rumors (or is it more than that) that he engages in money laundering and other surreptitious undertakings. The Met severed his relationship with him after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and, to my knowledge, he has not appeared in the United States since then. What more is supposed to happen?
“Officially” doesn’t matter.
If “officially” mattered, everyone in Putin’s circle could simply take the title of “prima ballerina at the Bolshoi” to become immune from intentional sanctions.
The orgs who levy sanctions base the decision on what they can discern about a person’s true activities.
Consider that Sergei Rodulgin, officially a cello player, has already been sanctioned…
https://www.rferl.org/a/us-treasury-sanctions-russia-yachts-cellist-roldugin/31880612.html
Not rumors. Navalny’s team has the receipts.
About not being a businessman – this is really funny and kind of cute in its naivete.
maybe the other way around – he is a businessman and not a musician anymore despite the rumors. and, according to some reliable sources in his orchestra – he doesn’t give a sh*t about Europe, US etc. and strongly believes in his Führer.
He should be deported and his degree revoked. Of course the conservatives who shriek about “the border”, Chinese anything etc. have no problem with the likes of him as they mostly share his Putinism.
I would like to know why your so human toward one you d artist!? Why didn’t you suggest the he has to be hang or shot in the back!?
You have sick criminal mind and you are disgusting human trash
The next generation can only do things better.
wish that were true, yet I wonder.
I do not believe New England Conservatory offers a BA in music, but rather a bachelor of music degree. The curriculum is quite different between the two requirements.
So… he’s graduating from NEC?
Could his diploma be traded for the WSJ reporter Russia is holding hostage?
Why not to hang him immediately!?
I’m sick and I’m vomiting out of disgust about some comments on this matter.
This society is crumbling and suffocating in its own blood.
I beg your pardon, but it is not someone’s blood currently, but the blood of innocent people of Ukraine, and the father of this person is actively supporting this war, while his son is finishing his education in the US – the country they are planning to nuke in every evening show on the Russian State TV. “This society” is becoming more and more unprincipled due to such “moral heroes” like you.
That Abisal and his family chose to educate him in USA rather than Moscow Conservatory speaks volumes! Wha Kyung Byun is probably America’s finest piano teacher, and among the best in the world.
Unlikely events of 2023: Abisal Gergiev does a stint on the front line at Bakhmut.
What instrument does he play?
Perhaps he could do duets with Nikolai Lukashenko.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuQTL4qmIsA
Why do you have such hatred for gergiev, and what it has to do with his son?