Moscow Meets Friends International Festival opens today in the Russian capital, TASS reports. Charitable Foundation of celebrated violin player Vladimir Spivakov has been organizing the international festival for almost fifteen years. More than one and a half thousand children will attend the festival this year. They represent fifty Russian regions and several dozens of different countries.
According to Vladimir Spivakov, almost eight hundred applications were sent from all around the world. The whole commission had to work many days to select videos for the main contest. Vladimir Spivakov has explained that the commission looked very carefully at the applicants from the Russian regions. Close attention was turned, first of all, to them.
Young talented musicians from Russia, Spain, China and Mexico will perform together with the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra headed by Spivakov at the Moscow International House of Music.
The festival includes gala awarding ceremony for Spivakov’s Foundation scholarship holders. Traditionally, they will be presented with amazing musical instruments. Besides, young talents will have an opportunity to attend seminars and master classes of successful and established musicians.
The festival events are planned at several city grounds. Citizens of Moscow and people from Moscow Region as well as from St. Petersburg and Tver will enjoy the art of young musicians.
Russkiy Mir
