Virtuosos of the planet
Music Festival with
the participation of the stars of performing art - laureates of the first
prizes of international competitions that are the members of the World
Federation of International
Music Competitions (WFIMC).
Annually the
Festival takes place in September in the capital of Ukraine Kyiv on the stages
of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine and the National Opera House of Ukraine
named after Taras Shevchenko.
Participants'
performance is accompanied by the National Honoured Academic Symphony Orchestra
of Ukraine (Conductor: Honoured Figure of Arts of Ukraine and Russian
Federation Volodymyr Sirenko, Laureate of Taras Shevchenko National Premium of
Ukraine) and Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine
(Conductor: Mykola Dyadyura, Honoured Figure of Arts of Ukraine).
The Festival's
programme includes classic and modern instrumental concerts, scenes and arias
from operas, symphonic compositions.In its greeting to
the first Festival dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the World
Federation of International
Music Competitions, the President of WFIMC Marianne Granvig
emphasized a significance of the new initiative of the International Charitable
Fund of Vladimir Horowitz competition "...which will create an extremely useful
platform for young artists, at the same time as being a showcase for the
esteemed International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir
Horowitz, for Kyiv as a cultural centre as well as for the WFIMC".
Organizers of the Festival are the International
Charitable Fund of Vladimir Horowitz Competition, Kyiv City State
Administration, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine.
International experts
recognized that concerts of the International Festival "Virtuosos of the
Planet" are one of the major cultural events in Ukraine.