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The Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory International Summer School for performers, teachers, composers and musicologists

The Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory International Summer School offers an intensive program of private lessons, lectures, master classes and performances

Japan Before And After

It is heartening that the recent catastrophic events in Japan met with such empathy from the entire world. I would like to let you know that a well-known Ukrainian composer and producer Mikhail Nekrasov, (lyrics by Evgeny Matyushenko) and a talented and popular Ukrainian pop-diva Zlata Ognevich created a song dedicated to our country, its people and the selfless heroes who have been risking their health and perhaps lives but spared no effort at the aftermath of Fukushima power plant incident.

Interview with the creators of the "Arctide Descendants" project

the Iranian singer Hosein Nourshargh and the Moscow Conservatory professor Margarita Karatygina

"Horowitz-Debut" that will take part in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 2011

IX International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz

Interview with Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov

Karen Georgievich presented his new work “Ward # 6” (2009) at the Festival of Russian Culture in Tokyo.

“Tales” by Shulgin in Japan

– Everyone is accustomed to saying that the sky is blue, but your sky has a different color and it is so wonderful…
– What color is my Sky?
– The color of a harp…
– Can the Sky exist without the Sun? Then, what color is my Sun?
– It is the color of Love and a cello is its frame… Everlasting Love like this will turn into cranes and fly along the sunrays from Yesterday to Tomorrow.
– And what is our Today? Today is white lilies and our Eternity…

Classical Festival Takes Precedence over Japanese Traditional Festival

This year, the art and music community celebrates the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birthday. Accordingly, 2010 LA FOLLE JOURNÉE au JAPON “Days of Enthusiasm” Classical Music Festival, held in Tokyo in the beginning of May for 5 successive years, gathered a vast number of listeners and music lovers.

Japanese pianist possessed the Kiev`s hearts by Shulgin`s jazz

On March 19-20, yet another annual jazz festival “Edinstvo” (“Unity”) took place in the Kiev Operetta Theater. Among innovative and talented musicians, who participated in the festival, there was Kumiko Ando, a young Japanese pianist. She performed both her original jazz improvisations and jazz transcriptions of music by a famous Russian composer Alexander Shulgin, based on his new jazz instrumental album “Triptych”.

Announcement of upcoming events

Every summer, a jazz festival is held in Tokyo. Its perennial honorary guest is Hiromi Uehara, a famous jazz pianist and a disciple of Chick Corea, a prodigiously talented, highly recognized and celebrated jazz musician and composer. Chick Corea has won 15 Grammy awards and received 51 Grammy nominations. Over the years, he launched and founded several famous jazz bands, such as Circle, Elektric Band, New Trio, Origin, and others. Chick Corea is quite well-known and popular in Russia and in the Commonwealth of Independent States, however, for the most part, he tours North America, Asia, and Europe. His fans, the fans of outstanding jazz, are trying to keep up with his tour appearances while traveling to different countries.