Today started the sale of the ticket`s for the concerts of the II International music festival «Eurasia». Mostly the concerts of the Festival are included in the season tickets of the Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic.

№12 – «On the banks of the Danube»
№13 – «Maestro»
№14 – «Premier»
№№15a & 15b – «Premier league»
№16 – «The Ninth wave»
№17- «European Baroque»
№18 – «The Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra & MAITRES»
№22a –«Steinway Soirees»
№25 – «Choral Assemblies»
№44- «Hot format»
№46 –«Сulture shock»

Now you can choose to buy a ticket for one concert or to buy the season ticket, including 5 or more concerts from the list.

The impressive number of musical critics and journalists from different countries are being expected for the visiting of II International music festival Eurasia which will take place on October 2013 in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

Became known that the Festival will be attended by the columnists of Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung and Financial Times, the journalists of one Swiss radio station and some other representative of European mass media.

Also is expected the visit of two music columnists working for the Chinese mass media. They will arrive to the Festival together with Hong Kong Chinese orchestra.

The Conference «Orient & Occident: challenge and response” (The Ural Federal University) will take place within the framework of the II International Music Festival Eurasia on October 12th, 13th 2013. Ludmila Kovnatskaya’s report topic is East Britten: at the edge of two worlds, Appolinaria Avrutina’s topic is The Ottoman and modern Turkish music literature, Tamila Jani-zade’s topic is Musical interaction of the Muslim East and the West in the Middle Ages and today, Irene Chudinova’s topic is About the sacred dance of the Byzantine liturgy.

October 5 at the II International Music Festival “Eurasia” will be a concert of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra of National Instruments.

October 5 at the Second International Music Festival Eurasia a concert of Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra of National Instruments will take place, The Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the orchestra is Mr. Huichang Yan. The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra of folk instruments is one of the most famous Chinese orchestras, carefully preserving the ancient tradition of performing of the Middle Kingdom.

The famous orchestra performs equally well as traditional Chinese music as well as contemporary compositions. About a hundred musicians of the orchestra are arranged in four sections – bowed, stringed, wind and percussion instruments. They use traditional Chinese instruments, as well as their modern counterparts. As a cultural ambassador of China the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra is a frequent guest on the numerous music festivals around the world.

Festival guests will be able to become familiar with the ancient philosophy of the world due to the music of Chinese composers. For example, the play Chan Ming-chi Zen Chen Qi (1998), in his deep philosophical basis is the key concepts of Chinese thought: Qi – the energy, the main life force that is present in every living being, and Chen – the practice of Zen, leading to the Truth and enlightenment.

The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra is widely known in the USA, Canada, Singapore, Japan, Macao, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia. The Orchestra have performed in Moscow in 2007, and their first visit to Yekaterinburg will be in October 2013.

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Famous Moscow pianist Alexey Lubimov plays a special concert at the 2-d International Music Festival Eurasia 2013 on Oct. 6th. Especially for the Festival Alexey Lubimov who is widely known by his original programs presents a special project named The Way of Water. The Way of Bamboo.

Compositions of American composers John Cage and Morton Feldman will be performed. A unique instrument bamboo organ shō mixed with video art, acoustics, electronics, drums – this is an incomplete list of exotics, which will appear that night on the stage of the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic. A Japanese musician Naoyuki Manabe is the highlight of the program of the Concert.

Today is became known the names of participants of the conference «Orient & Occident: Challenge and Reply» wich will take part during the time of the 2-d International Music Festival Eurasia October 12-13 in 2013.

It is an assistant Professor of faculties liberal arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg state University, Member of the the Union of writers of St. Petersburg, turkologist Apollinaria Avrutina. She is also has been a literary translator from Turkish language. Among her language works are the translations of the books of Orhan Pamuk, Nazim Hikmet, Ahmed Hamdi Tampinar. She is the Laureate of the international competition of translations of turkish poetry «AK Thorne» in 2012.

Associate Professor of music history in Gnesins Academy of music (Moscow), candidate of art criticism, the senior researcher of the state Museum named in honor of M.I. Glinka, a specialist in medieval Islamic music and author of several fundamental works, including the «Poetics of music in Islam. The body, the thing, the ritual» Tamila Jani-zade.

Professor of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, a specialist in the music of Great Britain and expert in compositions of Benjamin Britten Ludmila Kovnatskaya.

The candidate of art history and the senior researcher at St.Peterburg`s Institute of history of arts, author of the books dedicated to the traditions of Znamenny chant and Byzantine Church monody, specialist for the Church musical culture of the Orthodox traditions Irina Chudinova.

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