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Yury Bashmet international festival opens in Minsk
MINSK, 5 October (BelTA) – The 4th Yury Bashmet international festival opened in Minsk on 4 October with the performance “Carmen Night” on stage of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of the Republic of Belarus
Taking part in the opening ceremony were the Symphony Orchestra of New Russia (Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra) directed by Yury Bashmet, artists of the Belarusian and Bavaria operas, Mariinsky Theater prima ballerina Ulyana Lopatkina, soloists of the ballet of the Bolshoi Academic Theater of Russia, a ballet company of the Opera Theater of Ukraine.
The playbill of the festival includes concerts featuring world music stars, soloists of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of the Republic of Belarus, president’s orchestra of the Republic of Belarus conducted by Viktor Babarikin, state academic symphony orchestra of the Republic of Belarus directed by Alexander Anisimov, symphony orchestra of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater of the Republic of Belarus.
The Yury Bashmet festival provides an opportunity for young talents to perform alongside with great musicians, and this is what distinguishes this festival from others.
A special seminar will be held during the festival for young talents from Belarus and the CIS countries. They will work and perform alongside with the leading professors from London, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Cologne and Madrid. Among the new-generation stars will be Belarusian pianist Rostislav Krimer, a graduate of the national music college and music academies in Helsinki and Cologne, a post-graduate of the Royal Music Academy in London. He is an art director of the festival.
The festival in Minsk as well as the classical music festivals in Salzburg, Austria, and Verbier, Switzerland, the Chopin Festival in Poland and Gerhard Richter December Evenings in Moscow is a world-class festival taking into account the names of its distinguished participants, its concept and international response.
The audience is looking forward to meeting with legendary Yuri Bashmet. The musician’s repertoire includes globally-recognized works. Yuri Bashmet is a professor of the Moscow Conservatory, gives master classes in Japan, Europe, America and Hong-Kong, lessons in Chigiana Academy in Italy and Tours in France. Yuri Bashmet conducts the best symphony orchestras: Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Bayerische Rundfunk, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Wiener Philharmonic, Orchestra Radio France, Orchestra de Paris and others. Yuri Bashmet will conduct the Symphony Orchestra of New Russia at the Minsk festival.
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