FESTIVAL NEWS

On November 16th, 2017 the Sixth International Cultural Forum in St. Petersburg settled that the Wind Society, association for bands and wind and percussion instrumentalists, is to bear the name of Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov, People’s Artist and Honored Arts Worker of Russia, first Music Director of the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival.

Today, November the 17th, Mikhail Bryzgalov, Director General of the Glinka Russian National Museum Association of Musical Culture, has been appointed President of the Valery Khalilov Association of Bands and Wind and Percussion Instrumentalists.

November 16th, 2017 the Mariinsky Theatre hosted a session of the Wind Society, Association for bands and wind and percussion performers, as part of the Sixth International Cultural Forum in St. Petersburg.

The anniversary concert of the Central Military Band of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will take place on November 21 at the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army.

On Saturday, November 4, Central Military Orchestra of the Defense Ministry of the Russian Federation performed in the Zaryadye Park.

On November 4, Central Military Orchestra of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which is a regular participant and visiting card of the International Military Music Festival «Spasskaya Tower», will perform within the framework of the All-Russian campaign Night of the Arts in the Zaryadye park.

The solemn closing of the federal program «Where Art Is Born — 2017» will take place in the Concert hall «Barvikha Luxury Village» tomorrow, October 25, at 19:00.

Young aspiring musicians as well as their teachers, tutors and conductors received congratulations by Russian music stars: People’s Artists of Russia Iosif Kobzon, Igor Butman, Tamara Gverdtsiteli; Zara, Honoured Artist of Russia; «Pyatero», the boyband; Moscow Cossacks Choir, and many others.

The last foot and horse guard mounting ceremony of the season by the Presidential Regiment took place at the Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin on the 14^th of October.

The last horse and foot guard mounting ceremony of the season will take place at the Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin on the 14th of October.