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The performance of conductor Valery Gergiev will end the Pacific Music Festival, which takes place in Japan, the website of the Ministry of Culture informs. Maestro will stand up for the conductor console of the festival orchestra in three cities. The performance of the musicians is anticipated by the lovers of classical music on the largest stages of Sapporo, Tokyo and Kawasaki.
The famous Russian conductor will present flute player Matvey Dyomin, who won the gold medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, to the public. The program of the concert includes works by Claude Debussy, Dmitry Shostakovich and Jacques Ibert.
A few days ago, the conductor of the Mariinsky Theater Christian Knapp became the head of the Pacific Music Festival orchestra.
The Pacific Music Festival was founded by Leonard Bernstein in 1990. Valery Gergiev has been its artistic director since 2015.
Russkiy Mir reported that Gergiev would travel from Japan to Vladivostok, where he would conduct the concert performance of Charodeika (The Sorceress) opera by Tchaikovsky at the Mariinsky Festival. Its program includes Far Eastern premieres of productions that are being staged in St. Petersburg. In addition, the forum will celebrate two anniversaries of outstanding Russian composers. This year marks 175 years since the birth of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and 180 years to Modest Mussorgsky.
Russkiy Mir
