BREST, 3 January (BelTA) – Two additional concerts have been scheduled at the 31st edition of the January Music Nights classical music festival in Brest from 9 to 12 January, BelTA has learned from the artistic director and chief manager of the festival, Honored Art Worker of Belarus Lilia Batyreva.
A daytime instrumental music concert at the Shirma Music College on 10 January will be headlined by famous Polish clarinetist, professor of the Gdansk Academy of Music Andrzej Wojciechowski and the winner of international competitions, young violinist from Moscow Anna Savkina. The concert will also feature the laureates of international and national competitions guitarist Yevgeny Navarko, accordionist Pavel Zabrodotsky, cembalist Sofia Pyzhik, students of the Music College and Brest Children's Music School of Arts No. 1
Another daytime concert will be held at the church at Moshensky Street on 11 January. The concert line-up includes a symphony brass band from Brest's sister-cities - Ravensburg and Weingarten. A team of 46 musicians led by conductor Harald Hepner will present their program "The Magic of World Music". They will also show this program on the stage of the Brest Academic Drama Theater on the second day of the festival on 10 January.
January Music Nights will feature more than 200 performers from 10 countries, including Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Georgia, Italy, France, Germany, China, and Japan.
Almost all the artists confirmed their participation in the festival, said Sergei Panasyuk, the head of the culture department of the Brest Oblast Executive Committee. Most of them will come to Brest for the first time. The tenors of the Italian La Scala Gianni Mongiardino, Aldo Caputo and Jingwei Zhang are among them. They will open the music festival on 9 January. The highlight of the festival will be the concert by popular Italian guitar virtuoso Tom Sinatra, the nephew of the legendary American singer, actor and showman. The Brest audience will enjoy his hits in the second part of the concert on 10 January. Connoisseurs of classical music will definitely like Kiev Youth Chamber Choir Sofia directed by Aleksei Shamritsky, Japanese pianist Naoko Aburaki and other performers. Many compositions will be performed at the Brest festival for the first time.
The organizers of the festival are the Brest Oblast Executive Committee, Brest city authorities, the Culture Ministry and the Brest Regional Musical Society.
