The festival "Musical Olympus" in St. Petersburg is going to happen! The festival will go on for 4 days and the program will include both new and well-known artists.

We wish good luck to all participants and are very happy to finally meet everyone offline!

Buy tickets to the festival at the www.bileter.ru

Yesterday, as part of the visit to Moscow, Maestro Daniel Barenboim visited the Music and Opera theatre Helikon-Opera. The artistic director and founder of the theatre, Dmitry Bertman, personally gave a tour around the historical building, which was renovated by the theatre, and presented unique exhibits that are housed in the museum of the theatre. The theatre troupe welcomed the legendary musician, performing in his honor an excerpt of the opera by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka "Ivan Susanin".

We remind you that on May 26th, the only solo recital of Daniel Barenboim, organized by the Musical Olympus Foundation, will take place in the Great hall of the Moscow conservatory.

On Monday, May 24, at 15:00 Moscow Time, a press conference will be held with the six-time Grammy winner and winner of many international awards, a brilliant conductor and pianist - Daniel Barenboim.

On the12 February 2021 at 14:00 Irina Nikitina participates as a key speaker in the public talk on the topic " What is happening in the music world? Is there a future for live concerts?". The event is organised in the framework of "St. Petersburg Book Lighthouse. Music of meanings" festival. During the discussion, the most critical issues about music will be discussed. Why does a modern person need "live" music? Artificial intelligence is already capable to create musical compositions and performs them, it improvises better than an average composer and musician. How does music affect the psyche of a modern person? What is happening now with the big concert agencies?

The host of the meeting is Andrey Konstantinov, musician, Honored artist of Russia, member of the Terem-Quartet ensemble. The broadcast of the event can be viewed at YouTube https://youtu.be/ycd-yWY1XDA

On the 24 September 2020 Irina Nikitina participated as a key speaker in the Matryoshka Dialogue public talk, organized by the Swiss Russian Forum Foundation. Together with the award-winning saxophonist Valentine Michaud they discussed how Corona has changed the cultural events' landscape, its effects on music, music performances. What challenges musicians all over the world are facing now, how they can be supported, in what ways and formats further development of this field is possible.

Irina Nikitina participates in "Matrioshka Dialog" arranged by Swiss Russian Forum.