Magazine “Officiel”

Shapovalov's multimedia show "Night Streets" – it is new classics in colors.

Newspaper “Culture”

Shapovalov aspires to unite universalism and perfectionism, academic forms and up-to-date technologies. His show "Night Streets" became a real revelation of the Moscow Biennale of Performing Arts.

Newspaper “Moskovskaya pravda”

The premiere of the multimedia show “Night Streets” took place at the Moscow International Performance Arts Center on March, 17. Shapovalov was accompanied by the 10 musicians' team - 4 cellos, synthesizers, drums, and trumpet, electric and bass guitars. The hall was totally full: the audience was really curious to hear what music can be offered by a classical performer, who has never studied composition.
The musicians' enthusiasm passed on to the audience. The video and light effects worked as a setting - the emphasis was placed on Shapovalov's music, which is very difficult to describe or to compare with anything.
The different music styles - classics, jazz, rock, pop, avant-garde, - were sown at the fertile field and yielded amazing fresh fruit. There is good reason to believe, that an absolute new trend in musical art was born, and it has a rare set of characteristics - bright, deep, interesting, and at the same time is very comfortable for different audiences' perception.

Newspaper “Vedomosti”
 

At this concert the hall was crowded out. The cellist Denis Shapovalov is well-known and loved by the audience - he puts on his eccentric soutane and comes to perform Don Quixote or any other academic repertoire. He does this marvelously. However, as it turns out, his soul is not totally full only with classical music.
Most of the "Night Streets" program was slow and melodious. Those items, which were made in the spirit of the energetic instrumental rock, sounded very catching. Shapovalov was surrounded by the choir of the 4 cellos and rhythm-section of 6 musicians. The existing group was vivid and well coordinated, and the performance was quite well prepared.
Shapovalov is a modesty model - doesn't call himself a composer, just a music author. He thinks not a banal melody and of course his cello narrates it with a heartfelt cantilena.  Sometimes it growls and dances with syncope, no worse than a bass guitar. Once Shapovalov even funny imitated a train coming announcement. The train was also shown on the screen, as well there appeared views of the city, nature, photo collages. The pieces and video were united with a common message: let's leave the city's fuss and listen to ourselves. Simple, but attractively sincere.
In Russia, we don't have ensembles like Kronos-quartet, which confidently strides from classic to rock and back. Shapovalov ventured and succeeded. Tomorrow he again will play classical music.

Newspaper “News time”

In the Shapovalov's show, which was organized with a good drive and taste, the multimedia load was placed on his cello. The two-part music performance consisted of separate romantic pieces with names like "Above the city", "Lonely tango", etc. Due to Shapovalov's musical opuses we could watch phenomenal cello's capabilities to be a queen of different styles - from classics to blues, from rock to pop, from jazz to psychedelics and minimalism. The concert of the classical musicians, who used different sounds, images and roles, was truly first-rate.