About festival 2010

From the 1-st till 12-th of June, Moscow will be hosting the most renowned symphony orchestras and most famous maestros at the V Festival of the World's Symphony Orchestras. The unique cultural event is causing a wide resonance for the last four year. The Festival acquainted the public with the world popular orchestras, and once again it showed that the Russian symphonic orchestras can stay among of the best orchestras of the world. It proved its necessity and importance and became the largest cultural event not only in Moscow, but also in Russia in the critics’ and audience’s opinions.

The president of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Medvedev appreciated the Festival at its true value and sent a Letter to the participants and organizers.

The Festival of the World's Symphony Orchestras is dedicated to the Day of Russia. This year the Festival will take place in the Column's Hall of the House of Union again.

The following orchestras performed at the fourth festival in 2009: Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse with Maestro Sokhiev, Budapest Festival orchestra under baton of Ivan Fisher, WDR Sinfornieorchester Cologne with Semyon Bychkov. The Russian part was represented by the Omsk Academic Symphony orchestra with Dmitry Vasiliev. On June 12, The Day of Russia, the Russian National orchestra performed jointly with Maestro Pletnev and a young, talented Mikhail Tatarnikov in the second act. This was a truly magnificent performance to celebrate the Day of Russia and to complete the fourth festival.

The fifth anniversary of the festival of World Symphony Orchestras in 2010, shall be dedicated not only to the Day of Russia, but it will also promote the importance and strength of the diplomatic relations between Russian and Central and Eastern Asia. At the spotlight is the 20-years anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and South Korea. Thus, the following orchestra will participate at the festival: Presidential Symphony Orchestra of Turkey, with Cem Mansur, China National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Michel Plasson, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, with Myung-Whun Chung and Symphonic Orchestra of India with the conductor Alexander Anisimov. The Russian part of the Festival will be represented by the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan, with Fuat Mansurov and the Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra performing under the baton of Alexander Sladkovsky.

Organizers of the Festival are convinced that this cultural event, being unique and having no analogues or parallels in the world concert practice, will promote consolidation of intercommunication between the orchestras worldwide and decorate the music life of Russia. The Festival of the World's Symphony Orchestras is realized with support of the Culture and Art Council at the President of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation. The organizer of the Festival is Symphony and Chamber Orchestras Leaders’ Association (SCOLA).