Lydia & St.Luke's
                Orchestra, USA 2005

CONCERTS (selected)
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2007-2013The Little
                      Merimaid by Lehra Auerbach
Staatsoper Hamburg, Hamburg Ballett.
The Little Mermaid.
John Neumeier, Music by Lera Auerbach

Hamburg, Germany
Leo Lee Arts Center Auditorium, Hong Kong
Canadian International School of Hong Kong
Martinu - Fantasy for Oboe, Piano & String Quartet
Miklos Rosza - Spellbound Concerto for Theremin, Oboe, Piano and String Quartet
John Appleton - Lydia
12 April 2011
Kings Place, St Pancras Hall, London
Experimenting with Percy Grainger.
World premiere  of Percy Grainger’s “Free Music” #1 and #2 and “Beat-less Music” for six Theremins
Lydia Kavina experimenting with Percy
                      Grainger
WDR Funkhaus Köln, Cologne, Germany
“Der Bilderfres” by Fabio Nieder with
WDR Rundfunkchor and Sinfonieorchester Köln

conductor Emilio Pomàricoser
17 February 2011
Sergei Kurekhin Centre for Contemporary Art , St Petersburg, Russia
KIBERFEST - International Kyber Art festival
"Roza Vetrov" - theremin solo,
music to the movie "The Space travel"
Finnish National Opera, Helsinki
Cinderella - A Tragic Tale,
Music by Lera Auerbach

world premier
Choreography by Terence Kohler
October, 2010
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London
"Electronica with BBC Concert orchestra "
"The day the Earth Stood Still" by Bernard Herrmann

6 October 2010,
Royal Festival Hall, London
Christian Mason "Looking for the land that is nowhere" (World premiere)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Patrick Bailey - conductor
29 June, 2010
 Gare du Nord, Basel, Switzerlan
«Ein weites Land» with Camerata Variabile Basel
Premiere of „Neniae“ by Iris Szeghy
6 May, 2010
Kölner Philharmonie, Alter Wartesaal, KologneLydia in
                        Touch Don't Touch with Barbara Buchholz
BKA, Berlin, Germany
"Touch! Don' Touch!" with barbara Buchholz
new compositions for two theremins,
accordion and piano by Michael Hirsch, Juliane Klein, Gordon Kampe, Sidney Corbett, Peter Gahn

Great Hall, Goldsmiths,
Southbank Centre, London
Alfred Schnittke
Concerto for Electric Instruments, 1960 (world premiere)

Alexander Ivashkin, conductor
Madetoja Concert Hall, Oulu, Finland
with Oulu Symphony Orchestra
Howard Shore: Ed Wood-suite
Miklós Rózsa: Spellbound
Anis Fuleihan: Theremin Concerto. First performance since 1945

30 October 2009
Odessa Filarmonic Orcestra
Conductor Hobart Earle
Lera Auerbach: Chimera For Theremin and Orchestra (2006) 
Two Day and Two Nights  Of New Music  Festival
23 April, 2009  Odessa Ukraine
Tonhalle Dusseldorf, Germany 
3-2-1 IGNITION KLANGWELTEN
Goldsmith, Star Trek; Rózsa, Spellbound Concerto
With Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, conducter Simon Gaudenz
12 September, 2009
Performance at TED Global 2009Lydia Kavina at TED
                        Global
With Thomas Dolby and Radio Science Orchestra
Oxford UK, 2009
Châtelet theatre, Paris 2009
"Nuit de l'improvisation",a project of Jean-François Zygel

Concert with Rodrigo LeãoConcert In Barbican Hall, London
Barbican Hall, London 2008

Theremin recital and lecture
Conference "Russia's Musical Revolutionaries". Oxford University, Oxford 2008
Concert for theremin and contratenor. With  Rustam Yavaev
Music of Rossini, Cachinni, Aliabjev, "Spellbound" by M.Rosza, Martinu "Fantasy"
FARINELLI-Fest 2008. Riga, Latvia 2008
With Thomas Dolby and radio Science Orcestra
Institute of Contaemporary Arts ICA, London 2007
Chamber concert at the reception of German President Horst Koehler
Bundespraesidialamt Deutschland, Palace Bellevue, Berlin 2007
First Symphony by Lera Auerbach with Duesseldorf Philarmonica, Premiere.
Conductor John Fiore, Duesseldorf,  November 2006
Testatment by Nicolai Obouhov. Solo on the Sonorous Cross ("La Croix Sonore")
with Netherlands Radio Orchestra under Reinbert de Lewes, Concertgebouw Amsterdam 2006,
'Touch! Don't Touch!' Contemporary Music Project.
 
Lydia Kavina and Barbara Buchholz with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin.
Berlin, Brussel, Weimar, Bielefeld, Mannheim, Aachen, Wuerzburg 2005-2007
The First Aerofonic Suit  by J.Schillinger, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Cond. Michael Barrett at
Caramoor Festival, USA, 2005
Ed Wood suite by Howard Shore, "Spellbound" by M.Rosza,
Ekaterinburg Philarmonic Orchestra. Ekaterinburg, Russia. 2006
The Seasons of the Year, concerto by L. Kavina and "Fantasy" by Bohuslav Martinu with the Boston Modern Orchestra under Gil Rose. Premiere in Jordan Hall, Boston, USA 1997
Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher with National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, conductor Vladimir Spivakov. Moscow International Performance Arts Center,  November 2005
Lincoln Center Festival, New York, USA
ED WOOD suite by H.Shore, world premiere, "Baehlams Fest" by Olga Neuwirt  and C.Wolff's "Exercise" with Orchestra SOSPESSO. 2000
Messiaen. Turangalila with Volgograd Philharmonica, Volgograd, Russia, 2004
Concerts with Reinisches Kammer Orshester at Philarmony Cologne, Germany, 2003
Bohuslav Martinu's Fantasy, Miklas Rosza's "Spellbound Concerto", compositions by L. Kavina in the Kongress- und Konzertsaal, Luzern, Switzerland, 2002
First performance with the theremin of Equatorial by E.Varese with the Orchestra of Young Musician conducted by Christian von Borries. Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany, 1999
Music from the Air, Concert  in the Maly Saal of the Tschaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, 1999
Charles Ives Forth Symphony with BBC Symphony orchestra, Barbican Centre, London 1995
Concerts for Thereminvox and Organ,
St. Petri Church (1994), and Christus Church in Hamburg (1995), and Glinka Museum of Music Culture in Moscow (1997), Catholic Church in Moscow (2005)
"Vox and Thereminvox" with Elizabeth Parcells (soprano) at Musik Hochschule, Hamburg, Germany, 1994



FESTIVALS
Lydia at Electronica Music Festival,
                            Ekaterinburg, 2005
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New Music Festival at Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine, 2012
SPARK international festival of media, arts and design, New Zealand, 2011
Synaesthetic work: " Conversation Between Theremin and Soprano" by David Sidwell (composer) and John Mandelberg’s (video)
Sergei Kurekhin Centre for Contemporary Art , St Petersburg, Russia.  2010
KIBERFEST - International Kyber Art festival
Two Day and Two Nights  Of New Music  Festival , Odessa, Ukrain, 2009
Farinelli Fest, Latvia 2008
Kuhmo Festival, Finland 2008
UK Theremin Symposium, Purcel Schooll of Music, London 2007
Holland Festival  2006,
Martinu festival in Nederhorst den Berg, Holland 2006,
Fruehjahretage fuer zeitgenossische Musik, opening,  Weimar, 2005
"Thermoacoustica", experemental music project of Lydia Kavina,  Moscow, 2006
13th Audio Art Festival in Warsaw , 2005 
Europalie Russia Fesval, with programms: 'Touch! Don't Touch!' and 'Inner Ear and Naked Eye' Brussel, 2005
International Theremin Festival Asheville NC, USA, 2005
newmix festival Paris, 2004
'Les nuits sonoes' Elctronic Music Fesival, Leon, France, 2004
"Music Biennale" Festival. Zagreb, Horvatia, 2003
"Icebreacker" Festival of Russian avantgarde. Seattle (WA) USA, 2002
"Hoeergaenge" Festival of contemporary music in Austria, 1998
Festival of visual arts, Paris, France, 1998
Glastonbary Rock Festival, England, 1997 Performance with Radio Science Orchestra.
The first International Theremin Festival. Portland, Maine. 1997
"International Festival for Electronic Music" in Bourges, France, 1994
"Alternativa" Festival of Contemporary Music, Moscow, 1992, 1995, 2000, 2001
 KlangArt Festival Osnabrueck, Germany, 1995
Charles Ives Festival, Barbican Centre, London, 1996
MicroMay '97 (American Festival of Microtonal Music), NY , 1997
The 2nd International Electroacoustic Music meeting in Brasil. 1997
"Theremin's Days" Conservatory, St.Petersburg.
"Theremin's Days", Tschaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, 1996



THEATRE WORKS
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2007-2009
'The Little Mermaid', Ballet
Music by Lera Auerbach, John Neumeier ballet
Hamburger Staatsopera
Hambur, Germany
2005
'The Little Mermaid', Ballet
Music by Lera Auerbach, choreographer John Neumeier.  Premiere April 15, 2005.
The Royal Danish Ballet
Copenhagen,

2005-2007 "THEREMIN"
Music theater, the story about Leon Theremin, by Kirsten Dehlholm and Willie Flindt.
Production by Hotel PROFORMA, Denmark

Kopenhagen, Arhus, Moscow, Leipzig, Gdansk, Klaipeda, Brescia, Salamanca, Singapore,
2004 "Zoloto Nartov"(The Gold of Nart), Ballet
Music by Vladimir Nikolaev.
Bolshoy Theatre, Moscow, Russian National Orchestra conducted by Alexander Olinichko
1996-2007 'Music of the Spheres', Musical and Light Performance. The classical and modern compositions for theremin by Lydia Kavina, with light and slide Projections by Sergey Zorin. Optical Theatre in the International Roerich Museum, Moscow
1999, 2002 "Baehlams Fest", Opera by Olga Neuwirth 1999 Sophiensaele Vienna, Austria
2002 Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Germany,
2002 Luzerner Theater, Switzerland
 1998 "The Sun in the Sand", Opera by Ralf Gothoni YLA, Finland Television
1998 "the Black Rider", musical by Tom Waits, Halle Kalk, Cologne, Germany.
 1997 "Odysseus 7", Radio Space Opera by Andreas Ammer, FM Einheit and Ulrike Haage. Marstall Theater, Munich
 1997 "Den Ungeborenen Goetern", multimedia opera by Kiyoshi Furukawa ZKM (Zentrum fuer Kunst und Mediatechnologien), Karlsruhe, Germany,
1992-95 "Alice", directed by Robert Wilson, music by Tom Waits Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany




Soundtracks
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"The Machinist" by Brad Anderson, music by Roque Banos, USA-Spain 2004
"eXistenZ" by David Cronenberg, music by Howard Shore, 1998
"Wo ist Erkan Diriduk" by Helmut Schulzeck with music by L. Kavina 1995
"Ed Wood" by Tim Burton, music by Howard Shore, 1994






Video-Appearances
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"Mastering the Theremin" Instructional video by Lydia Kavina and Robert Moog. Big Briar,Inc. Asheville/NC, USA 1995.
"Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey" Documentary by Steven M. Martin, USA 1993.




Radio, TV Appearances
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1998,1999,2000 "Antropologia" by D.Dibrov, NTV, live, Moscow
April 16, 1998 "Morgen Magazin" ARD live, Germany
1998 Radio station of classical music "Orfey", 1998, Moscow
May 15, 1997 Classical Performances, Live Radio Broadcast, WGBH Radio Boston (USA)
March 2, 1997 Elke Pressler: "Dann singt die Seele mit" NDR/SWR/SFB NDR 4 (Germany)
July 8, 1996 "WNYC's Around New York", Live Radio Broadcast, WNYC (USA)
June 11, 1996. John Florence, BBC Radio 2 (UK)
October 27, 1995 Christoph Wagner: "Töne aus der Lüft"; Die erstaunliche Karriere des Theremin-Instruments. Deutschlandfunk (Germany)
May 24, 1993 David Garland's "Spinning on Air"; WNYC (USA)