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  The State Hermitage The State Hermitage Museum and Inter-regional non-governmental organisation, the Creative Alliance of Museum Employees of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast, present the VII International Grand Waltz Music Festival, which will take place on 4 - 14 July 2008. The chairman of the Honorary Committee of the Festival is the director of the State Hermitage Museum and the chairman of Inter-regional non-governmental organisation, Creative Alliance of Museum Employees of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast, Academician Mikhail Piotrovsky. The person who came up with the idea of the festival is its artistic director Yulia Kantor. The festival's main sponsor is Bank of Moscow. The State Hermitage Museum with the participation of the Inter-regional non-governmental organisation, the Creative Alliance of Museum Employees of St Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast, supporting the UNESCO declaration for the renewal our spiritual heritage, developed the concept for an annual Grand Waltz Music Festival, which won the Inter-Museum-2003 Festival held in Moscow in the nomination "The Best Museum Project". The Grand Waltz project unites the largest cultural organizations in St. Petersburg and Vienna under the auspices of the State Hermitage Museum, and enables them not only to strengthen their external cultural connections and demonstrate St. Petersburg culture within Russia and abroad, but also to contribute to the patriotic enlightenment of Russian citizens by acquainting them with timeless, spiritual treasures belong to our nation. As part of the Grand Waltz Music Festival eleven concerts are held on an annual basis in honour of the number of seasons Johann Strauss spent in St. Petersburg. This year the concerts will be held in the Hermitage Theatre, the Armorial Hall of the Winter Palace, the Great Palace at Peterhof, the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoye Selo and, of course, the Rose Pavilion at Pavlovsk, where the great Austrian composer performed. Each concert not only copies the programme of the "Strauss Seasons" but also develops the tradition of chamber music established almost two hundred years ago. Included in the programme of the VII Festival are evenings of symphonic and chamber music, as well as choral. The masters performing at the festival's concerts have already
left a significant mark on the history of musical culture: soloists of
the Mariinsky Theatre, Yekaterina Semenchuk and Irina Mataeva, soloists
of the Dresden State Operetta Isabella Ma-Zach (soprano) and Andreas Schagerl
(tenor), the famous Austrian conductor Peter Gut and well known Russian
conductors - Vladimir Ziva, Alexander Kantorov, Alexei Karabanov and Dmitry
Khokhlov, the double duet Ma.Gr.Ig.Al, and famous instrumentalists - Sergei
Stadler, Yulia Stadler, Viktor Vysotsky, and also the State Hermitage
Orchestra, State Symphony Orchestra Klassica, the Admiralty Orchestra
of the Leningrad Naval Base, State Russian Orchestra named after Vasily
Andreev and St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra. Following the tradition of patronage of the arts, the festival
is sponsored by Bank of Moscow, which has already established itself as
a partner with the State Hermitage Museum. One of the priorities of Bank
of Moscow in its social activities is the preservation of the Northern
Capital's cultural heritage. This is the third festival which Bank of Moscow and the State Hermitage Museum have organized together, renewing the tradition of patronizing the arts and encouraging our peers towards an extremely rich, spiritual inheritance.
Calendar of Events for the VII International Grand Waltz
Music Festival On 1 - 3 July 2008 at the Hermitage Theatre press conferences
will be held dedicated to the opening of the festival. 4 July 2008, Friday, 19.00 5 July 2008, Saturday, 19.00 6 July 2008, Sunday, 19.00 7 July 2008, Monday, 19.00 8 July 2008, Tuesday, 19.00 9 July 2008, Wednesday, 19.00 10 July 2008, Thursday, 19.00 11 July 2008, Friday, 19.00 12 July 2008, Saturday, 19.00 13 July 2008, Sunday, 19.00 |
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