The STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA directed by VERONICA DUDAROVA is often called "Dudarova's orchestra" as Mrs. Dudarova, the founder. Artistic leader and Chief conductor, one of the world-famous conductors of the 20th century is really a pledge of the orchestra great success and its increasing popularity in Russia and abroad. Being a generously gifted person of profound intelligence and erudition, she is characterized by a brilliant artistic individuality and high professionals skill. Mrs Dudarova’s performances on world-famous are always a great success. Musical critics are unanimous in pointing out to a unique, womanish charm that ornaments any composition performed by the artist. These features appear to be in deep harmony with extremely powerful and strong will impulse that turns the diverse community into unique, subject to her willpower, artistic organism. A musical critic from the Politika Express, Beigrad, wrote: "Veronika Dudarova is a blessed (by God) conductor who is powered to reveal and with equal skill the force, meaning, sound contents of a composition, being without compromise in her requirements and persistent in the implementation of her own idea of a composition. She combines best features of an artist, musician, conductor and producer of sounds."
A Danish newspaper critic pointed out that the way Mrs. Dudarova works with the orchestra may be compared with the interpretation of Naler by von Kara Jan. "I am sure in my saying that none of the Danish orchestras has managed to reach such profound understanding of Maler. Mrs. Dudarova, having the ability to transfer the psychological state In sound, has made the voice of the orchestra practically visible." If you look at Mrs. Dudarova conducting it comes to your mind that this outstanding musician has got some ballet training so much are her gestures full of expressive tensity and sometimes geniality."
A musical critic from Barcelona: "The concert has reached its obvious brilliancy not only due to its expressiveness and tension but primarily because it has managed to create a magic, fascinating atmosphere that is the symbol of excellent performance, harmony and beauty."
A Mexican newspaper wrote: "We are astonished at this remarkable conductor offering an intense, firing and at the same time very intellectual interpretation of music". "Mrs. Veronika Dudarova has a perfect control over the orchestra and is able to transfer her sacred ideas to every orchestra artist." The repertoir offered by NTS. Veronika Dudarova is very wide. It includes practically all styles and directions in musical literature. She is an excellent interpretator of both classical music of the past and, especially, the music of the 20th century. The orchestra performances very often in the concert halls of Moscow. It is the only orchestra that has four regular season-tickets. The reason is the high professionalism of the orchestra and extremely interesting repertoire. Only during the last two seasons the orchestra has performed Requiems by Verdi and Mozart, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, symphonys and concertos by Brahms, the main program-music by R. Strauss, Mahler’s First Symphony, all Wagner’s overtures and symphony fragments from his operas, Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony and his Symphony Dancers, The First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Symphonys and "Manfred" by Tchaikovsky, compositions by Strayinsky, Liadov and others.
The orchestra CD’s with compositions by Kalinnikov, Liadov.Tchaikovsky, Myaskovsky and others enjoy great popularity in many countries.
J.G.Dozortseva
The name of the People’s Artist of the USSR Mrs. Veronika Dudarova is known far and wide in the world of music and among the audience both within the country ahd abroad. Her uncommon natural musical talent, rich inner world, indefatigable passion for music and arts have always been calling her forward to the cherished aim.
Mrs. Dudarovfa is regulary touring conductor. She often goes on her successful tours to many countries of the world. She performed in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romanla, Yugoslavia, Japan, Iran, Turkey, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Cuba with great brilliancy and repercussions in media. One more perculiarity of Mrs.Dudarova and her orchestra is the attention paid to young, certainly gifted musicians-soloists and conductors performing together with the orchestra. For many young musicians the creative cooperation with the great and well-wishing master has become a good practice, important experience, jumping-off place to the big concert stage. It must be pointed out that the orchestra itself consists of mainly young musicians. The conductor doesn’t avoid young, sometimes unexperienced people but, on the contrary, gives them a chance to gain wisdom by expirience. NFS. Dudarova is not only a conductor with the unique natural talent but she is an interesting artistic person, who happily combines many valuable qualities of a musician, personality and artist. It allows her to corsiprehend and interpret scores of any sense and stylistic difficulty. It is typical of her to apprehend phenomena of art in a special way, to be able to distinguish real beauty, to "light up" the essence of a musical composition by her mind and her heart in order to ispiredly and with enthusiasm the spirit, the soul, the feeling, the form, th idea of music to the audience through her determined gestures and through the nerve of her orchestra.
"Sovetskaya Kultura"