Yuri Bashmet is a Russian violist, People's Artist of the USSR, artistic director, soloist and conductor of the Moscow Soloists chamber ensemble. Photo credit: mos.ru (CC BY 4.0)
The Yury Bashmet Winter International Arts Festival starts on Wednesday, January 11, in Moscow, TASS reports. The large-scale event has already become a milestone in the cultural life of the capital. The festival will be the 4th in a row, it will last a month.
The "Don't Leave Your Planet" performance based on Saint-Exupery's story "The Little Prince" will open the festival. The artistic director of the creative team Konstantin Khabensky and maestro Bashmet himself will take the stage of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. The performance will also be shown on Thursday, January, 12.
Traditionally, the main event of the festival program will be a concert dedicated to the birthday of the famous musician. This year, Yuri Bashmet is celebrating his anniversary: on January, 24, he will turn 70 years old.
Another premiere in the festival program is scheduled for January, 27. Mikhail Porechenkov, Igor Vernik, Irina Pegova, Anna Chipovskaya, and Yuri Bashmet are involved in the "Love Story" performance.
The Moscow Jazz Orchestra of Igor Butman will also take part in the festival.
The festival program will be complemented by Sergei Garmash's one-man play A Gentle Creature based on Dostoevsky's story. Part of the festival concerts this year will be dedicated to the anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
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