The State Hermitage and the Hermitage Music Academy with the support of the Committee on Culture of St Petersburg Government present
9th International Festival
Greater Hermitage Music
July 9-13, 2009

July 9. 20:00
Courtyard of the New Hermitage
(open stalls, entrance from the side of the Winter Ditch (Zimnaya Kanavka)

"Blues for Four"
The Festival opens with the concert with participation of modern jazz coryphaei Andrey Kondakov (keyboard) and Igor Butman (saxophone) that takes place in the courtyard of the New Hermitage. The following musicians are also going to take part in the concert - Andre Sumelius (percussion), Dmitry Kolesnik (contrabass), Andrey Ryabov (guitar), Alexander Berenson (trumpet)

July 11. 19:00
St Petersburg Chapel

Ethnic Jazz Evening
Performers: Mynta ensemble - Suranjana Ghosh (tabla, India), Santiago Jimenez (violin, Cuba), Daniel Carlsson (saxophone, Sweden), Christian Paulin (bass guitar, Sweden), Max Ahman (guitar, Sweden), Sebastian Printz-Werner (percussion, Sweden).
The ensemble from Sweden Mynta united in itself musicians from Sweden, Cuba and India.
Jazz compositions of the band are based on combination of various national music traditions.

July 13. 19:00
The Armorial Hall of the Winter Palace

The Winter Palace, the Armorial Hall (entrance from Palace Square, open from 18:30)

The soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre Vasily Gerello together with Armonia Orchestrino musicians present a new Neapolitan Songs programme.

The Chairman of the Artistic Council of the Festival is director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky
Artistic director, director of the festival - a composer Sergey Evtushenko

Official partners of the Festival:
Philips Company
Onego Shipping Company

General Information Partners:
Interbusiness club style magazine
Tvoe TV St Petersburg
Radio Hermitage
Radio Roks
Radio Baltika

Partners of the Festival:
Royal company, SAS airline

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