III international festival of performers on old string plucked instruments "Sadko". The first day 2015-10-09

Moscow regional Philharmonic society with the support of the Ministry of culture of the Moscow region presented the III international festival of performers on old string plucked instruments "Sadko". The festival was held from 9 to 11 October 2015 in Krasnogorsk, Zvenigorod and Moscow.

After a long break (the second festival was held in 2006) the project brought together more than 100 musicians from China, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Armenia and regions of Russia: Karelia Republic (Petrozavodsk, Russia), Komi Republic (Syktyvkar, Russia), Pskov and Moscow. The singers presented national musical instruments: a psaltery zvonchatykh and keyboards, Komi-Permyatskiy sigudek and Brogan, Chinese Erhu and liuqin, the Armenian Canon, the Karelian Kantele, and many others.

The opening ceremony, which was held on 9 October in DC "suburbs" of the city of Krasnogorsk, became a bright beginning of the festival. The headliner of the program was the State orchestra "the gusli players of Russia" Moscow regional Philharmonic. As welcome guests of the festival musicians performed the national anthems of each of the participating countries. The original symbol was the tree on which the representatives of the teams tied the ribbon with the image of the flag of their country.

In the opening ceremony and the press conference preceding the festival, was attended by the Deputy Minister of culture of Moscow region Roman Vasilyev, Director of Moscow regional Philharmonic Ilgiz Yanbukhtin, artistic Director of Moscow regional Philharmonic, people's artist of Russia, composer Maxim Dunaevsky, artistic Director of the State orchestra "the gusli players of Russia", people's artist of Russia, Professor Yury Evtushenko.

Special guest of the opening ceremony was a theater and film actress, television presenter, singer, Honored artist of Russia Nonna Grishaeva. Orchestra "the gusli players of Russia", a song she performed from to/f "Cheerful children" to the music of Isaac Dunaevsky words by Vasily Lebedev-Kumach "Heart".

Decoration of the concert were the visual and plastic composition, light and shadow performance, as well as sand installation. Images like in a kaleidoscope, succeeded each other, bewitching the audience. The program was attended by Children choir Studio "Scarlet sails" (Krasnogorsk).

Photo – Michael Bila Tserkva