Bashmet and Matsuev will perform at the festival in Mikkeli

From July 6 to 9 Symphony Orchestra and soloists from the Mariinsky Opera under Valery Gergiev will participate in the International Music Festival in Mikkeli, which this year will be the 20th Time. C Since its birth in 1992, the festival has always been a platform for a dialogue between the Finnish and Russian culture. The creator of the festival known Finnish musicologist and journalist Seppo Heikinheimo initially conceived as a chamber music festival, but the format is very fast, changed purchasing a whole different level. Since 1993, the artistic director of the festival in Mikkeli (now called "Gergiev Festival" known), was Valery Gergiev, and one of the main players - the Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre. This year's festival program includes chamber, symphonic, vocal-symphonic and organ music. The concert will be guest stars - Yuri Bashmet, Denis Matsuev, Alexander Toradze. And Yuri Bashmet will perform at the festival twice - orchestra "Soloists of Moscow" by Yuri Bashmet will perform Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, Yuri Bashmet to perform as a soloist Concerto for Viola and Orchestra Alfred Schnittke. Denis Matsuev is the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra plays Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto - performances in last season applaud great concert halls of the United States and Canada, and the recording of which was made Mariinsky label. One evening, the first two piano concertos - Shostakovich and Prokofiev -. The Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra Alexander Toradze, the famous Russian pianist, who will perform her piano studio in the U.S., where trained pianists from around the world In Shostakovich's First Piano Concerto Trumpets perform Timur Martynov - one of those musicians, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, which is not only brilliant in the orchestra, as well as solo. Young pianist Miroslav Kultyshev already well to the public, "Gergiev Festival" known in Mikkeli, eighteen piano pieces by Tchaikovsky. The outstanding Finnish musicians at the festival organist Kalevi Kiviniemi virtuoso violinist Mervi Millioyya and baritone Jorma Hinninen and bass Jaakko Rihyanen perform. By popular demand, the festival audience and the press is completed opera gala concert. It is arias and scenes from the opera "Eugene Onegin" and "Iolanta" by Tchaikovsky played by Victoria and Sergey Yastrebova Skorokhodova and instrumental music for the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Felix Mendelssohn and the opera "Midsummer Night's Dream" feature Benjamin Britten. Premiere of the latest at the Mariinsky Theatre on 21 and 23 July.