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The duo Alexandra and Konstantin saw the New Year in on tour abroad. On the 31st of December the artists wished the Bulgarians a happy New Year from the stage mounted in the central square of Varna. The New Year concert was performed for the audience of many thousands. The musical program, which started after grand firework, lasted till 5 o'clock a.m. The artists from Bulgaria and also from Romania and USA took part in the concert. It was live broadcasted by Bulgarian TV.
At the end of the August the duo Alexandra and Konstanin widened the geography of their performances by visiting Serbia. At the stage of music festival Sunflower 2007 the musicians performed the great concert program, which could be seen not only by the visitors of the open air fest, but also by the viewers of Serbian TV, which live broadcasted the performance of the artists.
Alexandra and Konstantin also visited the capital of Serbia Belgrade and second largest city Novy Sad...
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As the members of “Star team” of the sportsmen and artists Aleksandra and Konstantin – participants of UN charity action, which takes part within the World company “Stop AID. Keep a promise”.
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02.02.2007 - On the 2nd of February in small hall of Minsk Concert Hall the solo concert of A&K took place. The duo sang the songs from new album "Autonomous Navigation", as well as the best songs from the previous discs.
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22.01.2007 - A&K participated at Belarusian final selection to Eurovision 2007 “Road to Eurovision” as a Eurovision stars (Sport Palace, Minsk).
03.12.2006 – Duo “Alexandra and Konstantin” has finished the work with their new video "The Money & The Mountains". The part of shooting was held in one of Minsk flower saloon, and, as it proved, the feathered inhabitants of the shop estimated the work of the artists at their true worth.The working on video for the song "The Money & The Mountains" from their last album “The Autonomous Navigation” was going on about the months. In the role of director was charged Sergei Maevsky, with whom “Alexandra and Konstantin” has already shot the video for "Stairs of Separation" and "Sviaty Vechor".
The shooting took place in the studio of fotomasters Jam Studio and on the stage of Palace of Culture of automobile-building giant – BelAZ plant. By the way, exactly on this stage Alexandra and Konstantin had started their way. But the strongest impressions on musicians were by the first day of shooting, which took place in one of the Minsk flower saloon.
According to scenario, a vocalist Alexandra Kirsanova had to sing among the huge number of flowers and plants. Everybody was surprised when during the shooting the birds in the cages placed nearby became active and sang even louder than phonogram sounded. “We were very pleased that the music of "The Money & The Mountains" song touched the hearts of these little beings,- told Alexandra and Konstantin. – And they began to sing with their godlike voices. We think they liked the mysterious sounds of ocarina”.
By the way, exactly the sounding of ocarina became the original feature of the duo. “Alexandra and Konstantin” used this instrument in different songs, both Belarusian and English.
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14.10.2006.
The duo A&K took part in celebration of Minsk Days in the capital of Kazakhstan – Astana.
The duo A&K took part in celebration of Minsk Days in the capital of Kazakhstan – Astana. On the one of the most prestigious stages – Congress-Hall – before the audience of 3 thousands people the duo sang the Kazakh folk song Karatorgai and few songs from their album “Autonomous navigation”
A&K: - the Karatorgai song has not been taken at random. In 2003 we took part in International Contest “Astana 2003” and specially prepared this song for the contest. And we had luck – we became the laureates and were given the prize for best arrangement. We were very pleased to visit Astana for the second time. Besides, we were advised by producer of Kazakh singer Altyn-ai to take part in big concert, which will be held next May in Alma-Ata.
2.09.2006 – The grandiose concert dedicated to celebration of the Moscow City Day was held on September 2nd on the Red Square. Duo Alexandra and Konstantin were among the Russian and Belarusian artists which took part in this concert.A&K: It is hard to express by words our impressions of the performance. To sing in the very heart of the Moscow, in such a historic place, near the Kremlin walls, before the audience of many thousands - it was so tremendous!
Duo "Alexandra & Konstantin" has won the 2nd prize in the singer contest of the 15th International pop-music festival Discovery 2006,which was held on May 19-21 in Varna, Bulgaria.18 singers from different countries of Europe and Asia - Spain, Italy, Malta, Russia, Turkey, Moldova, Poland, Cyprus, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Bulgaria took part in the contest.
Alexandra & Konstantin represented Belarus in this prestigious contest. They performed 2 songs from new album "Autonomous navigation" - "Stairs of separation" in English and "Sviaty vechor" in Belarusian language as the repertory for the contest. Original arranging of contest songs and singing technique impressed a lot the international jury and Bulgarian public, which greeted the Duo with cheers, compliments and flowers.
Alexandra was chosen the most beautiful singer of the Festival Discovery-2006 and awarded with special prize - magnificent necklace handmade by Bulgarian master Evelina Peneva. Also Alexandra Kirsanova was awarded with special Diploma “Ms. Tourism of Bulgaria”.
On March 23, in Beatles-cafe the duo A&K presented their new album Autonomous Navigation in acoustic concert. The musicians played live one hour solo program, which includes the new songs, and also played the best songs from their previous albums. The duo was accompanied by Karen Karapetyan - violin, percussion, Nickolai Belanovich - drums, and Nickolai Sivkov - guitar. Alexandra Kirsanova surprised the public with the duo singing with first Belarusian participant of Junior Eurovision 2003 Olia Satzuk. They performed the song "Sviaty Vechor" (Christmas Eve) together and delighted the audience very much.
Director of Beatles-cafe Viktor Morozevitch took his part in making the climate friendly and merry, and presented the due with the souvenirs and told an interesting story of founding the Beatles-cafe. He also asked Aleksandra and Konstantin to autograph on one of the walls in cafe near the autographs of world famous groups, which visited this cafe.
In their turn, A&K promised to include into their repertoire several Beatles songs in original interpretation.
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The duo "Alexandra & Konstantin" became one of the winners of the Lithuanian Song Contest, which took place in Palanga within the International
Music Festival Palangos Gaida 2005. The participants from Italy, Spain, Cyprus, Malta, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Latvia, Poland, Russia and Belarus had to sing a popular song written by Lithuanian authors in origin language or in English. Aleksandra and Konstantin chose to sing the composition named "The Antelope", and didn't lose - they took third place.
At the moment, the negations with the Lithuanian part are carrying, and if the authors will agree, the English version of the song will be included in new album of "A&K". Thee are going to release the album in autumn 2005.
Great success in Small hallOn May 26th in Small hall of Republic Palace the duo "Aleksandra and Konstantin" represented their new concert program "The Stairs of Separation". During the concert they played practically all public's favourite songs like "The Pchiolka", "The Yavar", "My Galileo", as well as the quite new songs, among which was the hit "The Stairs of Separation", which gave the name to the whole program.
On March 27, in the "Pierre Smirnoff" restaurant ("Belarus" Hotel, Minsk) the video clip of duo A&K's English song "The Stairs of Separation" was shot. Producer of
the clip is Sergei Maevsky, who also was the producer of A&K previous clip for "Sviaty Vechor" song. Alexandra Kirsanova and Zhanna Leonova are the authors and script writers. According to idea and sense of the song, a main personage meets the hardest choice in her life - to go forward and to brake with the last, or to stay and to mark time. There are two characters of one person - the last and the future - arguing to each other. Zhanna Leonona, who acted as the stylist and visagiste, and who worked on image of Alexandra during Eurovision-2004, created so unrecognizable images of Alexandra, that photographer even didn't recognize her at first.
As the song is titled "The Stairs of Separation", the second part of the shooting took place on the stair of Belarus Hotel. The guests of the hotel immediately gathered to watch it, and even enthusiastically gave their advices.
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1.01 - The duo Alexandra and Konstantin saw the New Year in on tour abroad. The artists wished the Bulgarians a happy New Year from the stage mounted in the central square of Varna. The New Year concert was performed for the audience of many thousands. It was live broadcasted by Bulgarian TV.13.02 – In M ogilev the duo played at the concert together with the winner of Children Eurovision Song Contest Aleksei Zhigalkovich and brake-command All stars.
26.02 – released the concert DVD with acoustic program “Autonomous Navigation” and video for the songs My Galileo, The Money & The Mountains, Stairs of Separation.
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