Pianist and international prizewinner Vadim Rudenko from Moscow will perform April 2, that is on the 62nd anniversary of Rachmaninoff's death, at the Novgorod music-culture center, which is named after the great composer.
Moreover, pianist Valeria Dovgaya and vocalist Olga Vinogradova from St. Petersburg will perform at the music-culture center during the Rachmaninoff memorial festival.
Each concert will feature Sergei Rachmaninoff's works, city-hall officials noted.
The music-culture center will also host an exhibition called "Rachmaninoff for Russia" during this memorial festival.
This exhibition will offer copies of documents highlighting Rachmaninoff's charitable activities with regard to Russian йmigrйs abroad.
Moscow-conservatoire professor Vladimir Chinayev is to attend the Rachmaninoff memorial festival, offering master classes to Novgorod performers and music teachers during four days in a row.
The Rachmaninoff memorial festival is to end April 8 in Veliky Novgorod. These memorial festivals take place on a regular basis, city-hall officials noted. An unusual granite monument was unveiled in Semenovo in spring 2003 (that is, during the then memorial festival). That monument is, in fact, a slanted gray granite slab featuring a music-stand with the main theme of Rachmaninoff's famous No. 2 piano-and-orchestra concerto.
