This Sunday, June 23, the Military Bands in the City Parks will come to the east of Moscow. Izmailovskiy Park is welcoming everybody to come at 5 p.m. and spend the day with the famous Central Band of the Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service of Russia.
Permanent participant of the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival, the band will make its debut in the 2019 season of the Military Bands in the City Parks, a very special program carried out by the Festival’s Directorate and supported by the Russian Ministry of Defense and Moscow Department of Culture. Please note, that this time the concert’s been shifted on to Sunday due to the solemn celebrations of the Remembrance Day of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War annually carried out on June 22.
The Central Band of the Border Guard Service is one of the leading music ensembles of the country capable of solving any artistic tasks. Headed by Colonel Andrey Kapralov, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, it features a jazz symphonic band, a wind band, a big band, a string quartet, a wind quintet and a choir as well as a ballet and dance groups. The band is primary engaged in activities carried out by the Russian Federal Security Service and in supporting military ceremonies. It also takes part in various social and cultural events both nationally and internationally. The band works closely with Russian state organizations and artistic unions, actively tours in Russia and abroad, performs on radio and television as well as records albums with popular singers.
Some of the best pieces of Russian and foreign classical music and choreography make part of the band’s repertoire.