Armenian musicians perform at Kusturica's Kustendorf festivalJuly 18, 2019 - 12:40 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian musicians have performed at the festival of Russian music Kustendorf Classic in the Serbian ethnical village of Drvengrad, organized by filmmaker Emir Kusturica. Cellist, People’s Artist of Armenia Narek Hakhnazaryan, the “Mariinka” baritone Yefim Zavalny, violinist, the founder of the Almazian Symphony orchestra Khachatur Almazyan participated in the closing ceremony of the festival. The cellist, People’s Artist of Armenia Narek Hakhnazaryan, the “Mariinka” baritone Yefim Zavalny, violinist, the founder of the Almazian Symphony orchestra Khachatur Almazyan participated in the closing ceremony. For three days, students of music schools and academies from Russia, Serbia and Belarus competed in the skill of performing Russian classical music. As a result, the main prize of the festival - the Golden Matryoshka in the younger age group of 13 - 17 years old was won by Valery Makarov from Samara, the Silver matryoshka went to Alexander Tyan from St. Petersburg, and the Bronze was awarded to Miroslav Battalion from Minsk. Among the participants of the age group of 17–25 years, Mikhail Zhivoyinovich from Eastern Sarajevo became the best, Anastasia Mikhnovets from Minsk was awarded the Silver matryoshka, Anna Savkina from Moscow won the Bronze matryoshka. This year, the violist and conductor Yuri Bashmet took part in the festival, accompanied by the Kustendorf symphony orchestra, performed the work of Harold in Italy by Hector Berlioz, and the outstanding baritone of the Mariinsky Theater, Vasily Gerello, performed old Russian romances and Neapolitan songs. Kusturica had earlier ixpressed the idea that in the future the number of countries participating in the Kustendorf Classic festival of classical music created by him could expand. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |