VITEBSK, 4 March (BelTA) – Performers from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Poland and Germany will take part in the concerts of the 27th International Festival of Ancient and Contemporary Chamber Music which is due in Polotsk on 13 March - 2 May, BelTA learnt from the Concert Hall in St. Sophia Cathedral.

The Music of Kings program will open the festival. People’s Artist of the Republic of Belarus soloist of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theater Oksana Volkova (mezzo-soprano) will perform for the first time at the Concert Hall in St. Sophia Cathedral. Oksana Volkova is the first Belarusian singer that performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Oksana Volkova and the Partita Band will present baroque masterpieces (Johann Bach, George Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Alessandro Marcello).

Russian and foreign choral music lovers are invited for a concert of one of the country’s leading bands, the State Chamber Choir of Belarus (conductor – Honored Artist of Belarus Natalia Mikhailova) on 20 March.

The concert, Great Bach, will take place on 23 March to celebrate the composer’s birthday. The best organ and chamber works of the outstanding composer will be performed by organ player Ksenia Pogorelaya, Jamilya Amandurdyeva (mezzo-soprano) and the chamber orchestra Evrora Centr (conductor Rail Sadykov).

A concert-rhapsody on 30 March will gather fans of soloist of the Concert Hall of St. Sophia Cathedral Ksenia Pogorelaya. Among the guests of the program will be the chamber orchestra Evrora Centr, the Vitebsk Children Art School Choir (conductor Vitaly Rauzo) and organ player Joachim Eichhorn (Germany).

On 3 April Polotsk will welcome piano music lovers for a performance of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Nina Seryogina and her students Enrique LaPaz (Spain) and Valentina Bondarenko (Belarus).

A spiritual music concert by Polish composers will take place on 13 April. On 25 April Gloria Bruni’s Requiem A Roma will be premiered by the soloists of the Academic Choir and the Symphony Orchestra of the Belarusian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (conductor – Wilhelm Keitel, Germany). The work was composed in 2000 following the request of the Vatican and has already been performed in Italy, Poland, Germany, Austria, Israel. The soprano part in the requiem in Polotsk will be performed by Gloria Bruni herself.

The festival will be wrapped up by a concert of People’s Artist of Ukraine Igor Borko and Honored Artist of Ukraine Valeriya Balahovskaya (piano, organ) on 2 May.