Select language:

Russian Music Festival takes place in Budapest

 / Главная / Russkiy Mir Foundation / News / Russian Music Festival takes place in Budapest

Russian Music Festival takes place in Budapest


06.10.2020

Photo credit: rs.gov.ru

The Russian Music Festival opened in the first days of October in Budapest, the Rossotrudnichestvo website reports. The Hungarian capital is hosting it for the 3rd year in a row. By tradition, it was timed to coincide with the International Day of Music.

This year's festival program mostly consists of works by Tchaikovsky. This year marks the 180th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian composer.

Young Hungarian performers of the Liszt Music Academy also took the stage. Among them are pianists Marcel Szabo, Tamás Pregun and Adam Balogh, harpist Anastasia Razvalyaeva, violinist Ernö Kalai, organist Zsolt Mate Meisaros.

Over the weekend, the Benedictine Abbey in Tihany became the venue for the festival.

The program of the festival was also supplemented by the Tchaikovsky Planet exhibition, prepared by the Russian National Museum of Music. it is also avialable online.

Russkiy Mir

News by subject

Publications

Marco Maggi: ”Russian to the Bone" 20.01.2024
Italian entrepreneur Marco Maggi's book, "Russian to the Bone," is now accessible for purchase in Italy and is scheduled for release in Russia in the upcoming months. In the book, Marco recounts his personal odyssey, narrating each stage of his life as a foreigner in Russia—starting from the initial fascination to the process of cultural assimilation, venturing into business, fostering authentic friendships, and ultimately, reaching a deep sense of identifying as a Russian at his very core.