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The International Moscow Jazz Festival starts on Monday, June, 19, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. The opening ceremony will be held at the Zaryadye Concert Hall. I
The festival will take place outdoors at various venues in the capital. The Hermitage Garden will be the centerpiece, where famous Russian musicians, the Thai Chiangmai Street Jazz Collective and Eddie Gomez from the United States will perform. Also among the participants are Russian pop singer Polina Gagarina, opera soloist Grigor Werner and the trio of Andrey Kondakov, and many others. Igor Butman and the Moscow Jazz Orchestra prepared a joint program with operatic bass Ildar Abdrazakov. The legendary Oleg Lundstrem jazz orchestra will take to the stage.
More than 1,000 musicians from different countries are taking part at the Moscow Jazz Festival. According to the artistic director of the forum Igor Butman, among them there will be musicians from Indonesia, the USA, Turkey, Thailand, Israel.
The concert program will be followed by an educational one. A course of lectures and master classes by famous cultural figures has been prepared for the forum.
The participants of the festival will be top 100 of the best youth jazz bands that have won the All-Russian qualifying competition. Among them are both student and professional groups, the musicians aged 18 to 35 years old.
Students of the Academy of Jazz will also take part in the festival.
The jazz festival in Moscow was organized for the first time last year. It was dedicated to the centenary of Russian jazz. The number of listeners exceeded 250,000 people.
Igor Butman said that the festival brought together leading jazz musciains from Russia and the world. He noted that Russia is worthy of creating such an international jazz review. In his opinion, the festival proved that Moscow is one of the world's largest jazz capitals.
Russkiy Mir
