RNYSO will perform at the World Youth Festival in Sirius

The Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra will take part in a gala concert in the Great Hall of the Sirius Science and Art Park on March 5 as part of the World Youth Festival. This is the largest youth event in the world, in which during the first week of March 20 thousand Russian and foreign young leaders in the field of business, media, international cooperation, culture, science, education, volunteering and charity, sports, various spheres of public life, will take part. as well as teenagers representing various children's organizations and associations.

The gala concert, which received the symbolic name “Russian Symphony Team,” will open with a performance by the All-Russian Youth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Yuri Bashmet. In the second part, the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra will offer listeners a wide panorama of musical genres and styles - from symphonic miniatures to operatic arias, from virtuoso concert pieces to Neapolitan songs. Among the authors performed are Russian and Italian composers: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Cilea, Curtis. This evening the RNMSO and the All-Russian Youth Symphony Orchestra will perform in the same program for the first time.

The prima donna of the Russian opera stage Khibla Gerzmava (soprano) and the winners of the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition Sergei Davydchenko (piano) and Kim Ke Hee (violin) will shine as soloists with the RNYSO. Dmitry Yurovsky, artistic director and chief conductor of the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater (NOVAT), and chief conductor of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theater named after Dmitry Hvorostovsky, was invited to conduct the orchestra.

The orchestra to perform at the World Youth Festival will also include young musicians (aged 16 to 19 years) - participants in the summer sessions of the Symphony Academy, which the RNMSO has already held three times at the Sirius educational center in Sochi. These are trumpeter Georgy Kobyshev, clarinetist Igor Smaliy, violinists Grigory Miroshnik and Veronika Vyatkina, flutist Elena Bakhanek.