Kazan will host the IV International Festival of L'arte del arco - «The art of bow"

This year the festival " The Art of  bow" will be held   March 16 - 20, in  Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny and Nizhnekamsk. As assured the artistic director of the festival conductor Rustem Abyazov  in a festival program - only the best performers.

"All of our soloists, without exception, can be called headlinere of  the festival. Every year we try to introduce the best soloists of the music world  to  the Kazan audience. On the first evening of the festival  on the scene will appear  Gilles Apap – a violinist, representing France and the United States. He is a guest of the biggest festivals. Besides the fact that Gilles brilliantly plays instrument, he  is still quite relaxed on a stage. Gilles Apap, if I am not mistaken, playing    all violin concertos  by  Mozart. For this concert, he composed his ethno-jazz cadence. This is something magical! ", - the maestro R. Abyazov said.

At  the Kazan Festival Gilles Apap will perform Mozart's third violin concerto (of course, with his cadence) and "Gypsy Airs"  by Sarasate, who, judging by the stated time, too, will be performed with the creative "additives" by  musician. Special gift to the public - Celtic traditional music arranged by Apapa. At the opening of the festival with star guests on stage will come  the  students  of  Secondary Special Music School at the Kazan Conservatory Maria Kacharina and Alexander Vayssbekker.

Another star guest  of  L'arte del arco -  a  violinist Dmitry Makhtin, who is  known and beloved   in Kazan.

The festival "The Art  of  bow" will  be  attended   by  the Swedish violinist Hugo Tichchiati, who have already conquered the Kazan audience at the previous festivals. In Kazan, the first time in his performance  Distant Light and by  Vasksa and  orchestral version of the second part of the famous violin sonata   by Frank will sound.

A  cellist Boris Andrianov will come to  the festival. Today he is in the top five of the best cellists in the world.

Rustem Abyazov intends to keep his promise about the invitation to the festival "The Art  of  bow" a concert   contrabassist.  In Kazan a musician Ian Grigovsky  will arrive from Slovakia.

"If you remember, we started with the violin. Then we thought: "Why do not we show the public  violas and cello?" Then I promised that the time will come and we will include in the program a double bass. It is also the same  a full string bowed instrument! "-  R .Abyazov said.

In the festival program - Mozart, Bartók, Vivaldi, Piazzolla, Paganini, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Bottesini and others.

Star guests will give the traditional master-classes for beginners and professional musicians. Classes will be held during the festival at  the first music school of Kazan and the Kazan Conservatory, the press service of the orchestra  informs.