Aliya Vodovozova from Kazan was praised by the famous maestro Valery Gergiev

Our  girl compatriot has   successfully performed as a member of the youth orchestra of the International Music Festival Pasific Music Festival.

The Pacific Music Festival has been held since 1990 and was founded by Leonard Bernstein. The main goal of this event is to support young performers.  Head  of the festival from 2015 is  Valery Gergiev. The orchestra of the festival is played by 90 musicians aged 18 to 29 years, who are selected according to the results of auditions around the world. Within a month they improve their skills under the guidance of conductors and musicians of famous symphony orchestras, and then present prepared programs on the main sites of Japan.

This year the tender commission has  received tens of thousands of applications. As a result of the selection, 92 young musicians from 17 countries of the world were invited to the orchestra. For example, of the more than 300 flutists, only four received an invitation to a prestigious music festival. Aliya Vodovozova, our compatriot, was among them.

The result of the musical forum were four concerts in different cities of Japan. The performance of a young performer from the Republic of Tatarstan was highly marked by the famous maestro Valery Gergiev.

On October 7  Aliya Vodovozova will play for the Kazanians will  perform her solo concert  at  the State Grand Concert Hall  after S.Saidashev. She will be accompanied  by  State Symphony Orchestra of Tatarstan under direction of Alexander Sladkovsky.

Information: Aliya Vodovozova graduated with honors from the Gnessin Music School, the Moscow Conservatory after  P.I. Tchaikovsky and now continues her studies at the graduate school of the Berlin Higher School of Music after  H. Eisler. Aliya Vodovozova is a scholarship grant student of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan R.N. Minnikhanov.