In Irkutsk, as part of the festival, more than 20 outstanding soloists from different countries, stars of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia ballet, as well as the Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Irkutsk Philharmonic orchestra will perform. Guests will enjoy concerts with works by Mozart, Glazunov, Saint Saens, Shostakovich, Verdi, Puccini, and performances by Denis Matsuev, who will present three piano concertos and a new album. Special place in the program will be given to the literary and musical composition Mozart and Salieri, a ballet gala concert and major events of the New Names foundation from master classes to concerts of young talents.

This year, as part of the festival, more than 20 outstanding soloists from different countries will perform with the Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Symphony Orchestra of the Irkutsk Philharmonic. In addition, stars of the ballet of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia will perform for the audience. Residents of Irkutsk will hear violin concertos by Mozart, Glazunov, and Saint-Saëns performed by such remarkable violinists who tour the world as Dmitry Makhtin, Roman Simovic, and Valery Sokolov, Shostakovich’s cello concerto performed by Alexander Kniazev, and excerpts from operas by Verdi and Puccini performed by People’s Artist of Russia, soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre of Russia Vasily Gerello and soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre’s Academy of Young Opera Singers Maria Bayankina. Pianists Alexander Toradze and winners of the large-scale international piano competition in Astana will take part in the festival concerts. The literary and musical composition “Mozart and Salieri” will be presented by the well-known theatre and film actor Nikolai Chindyaykin and composer Sergei Dreznin. The concerts will be hosted by People’s Artist of Russia, Honored Art Worker of Russia Svyatoslav Belza.
Dennis Matsuev will perform three piano concertos: by Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, and Gershwin, present his new album, and also take part in the concert “Music That Heals,” the charity auction “Note C,” and the concert of scholarship recipients of the “New Names” foundation.
The Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan under the direction of Alexander Sladkovsky will take part in the festival. The Bolshoi Theatre ballet will be represented by a gala concert of the theatre’s principal dancers and soloists, who will perform excerpts from such ballets as Raymonda, “The Golden Age,” “The Flames of Paris,” “The Bright Stream,” “Esmeralda,” “Giselle,” “Carmen,” and “La Sylphide.”
In addition, within the framework of the festival there will be an extensive program of the Interregional Public Charitable Foundation “New Names,” of which Denis Matsuev is the President. In the capital of the Angara region, master classes by teachers from leading Moscow universities, a concert of the foundation’s scholarship recipients, and concerts by talented students at the “House of Music” and at the Regional Philharmonic will take place.
Based on materials from the press service of the Government of the Irkutsk Region