On 15 February 2007, the State Hermitage and the Hermitage Academy of Music held a joint press conference to present information about the 4th International Festival of the Musical Hermitage. The festival is supported by the Committee on Culture of the Government of St Petersburg. It will be held from 19 through 25 February 2007 in the Hermitage Theatre.

Journalists' questions were answered by: Vladimir Matveev, Deputy Director of the State Hermitage; Sergei Yevtushenko, Artistic Director of the Musical Hermitage Festival; the opera singer Galina Gorchakova; jazz composer and performer Andrei Kondakov; and Anna Mileshina, Director of Public Relations of the Heineken group of companies in Russia - General Partner of the Festival.

	Sergei Yevtushenko		Andrei Kondakov
	Galina Gorchakova		Anna Mileshina

At the press conference

Vladimir Matveev, Deputy Director of the State Hermitage