The opening ceremony of the junior wind bands festival will take place August 23 at 11 am on Red Square.
It will feature the participation of Colonel Evgeniy Nikitin, Conductor of the President’s Band, Music Director of the Spasskaya Tower Children and Youth Wind Bands Festival and Honored Artist of Russia, Mr. Anatoliy Zep, Vice-President of the Wind Society of Wind Bands, Percussion and Wind Performers named after Valery Khalilov, Head of the Music Art Section of the Polenov Russian National House of Folk Arts and Honored Worker of Culture of Russia, and Mr. Vladimir Egorov, Deputy Director General of Baskin Robbins.
The finale of the Spasskaya Tower junior festival is carried out with the support of the Russian Ministry of Culture and the Wind Society of Wind Bands, Percussion and Wind Performers named after Valery Khalilov. This year twenty-six music ensembles will step onto the stage of the Children Playground. Six of them are prize-winners of the Third Spasskaya Tower Children and Youth Wind Bands Contest, held this May in Moscow’s Zaryadye Park among the representatives of the Central Federal District. Other seventeen groups come from the South, North-Western, North and Privolzhskiy Federal Districts. Besides, there will be three foreign bands representing Uzbekistan, Donetsk and Israel.
Owing to the bigger amount of applications received this year, the organizers gave way and increased the number of the festival’s days to four. Thus, it will take place from August 23 to 26. Every day the stage of Children Playground will welcome about ten young contestants.
Held within the bigger Spasskaya Tower for Children project since 2014, the festival is growing every year expanding both its geographical footprint and number of participants. So far more than 2000 talented boys and girls representing artistic groups from 18 regions of Russia as well as Israel, Donetsk and Lugansk regions have shown their skills on Red Square, the very heart of Moscow. One of the major tasks set by the organizers is searching for young talented artists and helping them in their development by creating favorable environment and conditions.