The State Hermitage Museum & Hermitage Music Academy
Saint Petersburg Committee for Culture
present
X International festival Music of the Great Hermitage

3-14 July 2010
Artistic director of the Festival - composer Sergey Yevtushenko

July 3rd / 7 p.m. / Big italian Skylight og the New Hermitage
Dvortsovaya emb., 34 (Entrance to the Hermitage Theatre)

Early music ensemble Laus Consentus (Italy)presents the program THE COLOUR OF THE SUN - Music at Caravaggio's time

Music of Italian composers XVI-XVII c.

Renata Fusco - soprano
Maurizio Piantelli - theorbo
Massimo Lonardi - archlute

Tickets from 600 to 1000 rub.
1h. 15 min, without break
Under support of Italian Culture Institute in St.Petersburg

July, 8th / 7 p.m. / Big italian Skylight og the New Hermitage
Dvortsovaya emb., 34 (Entrance to the Hermitage Theatre)

Meridion Guitar Quartet (Sweden)
Per Norden, Erik Strand, Peter Hallen & Rasmus Vamos
classical & contemporary guitar music of Germany & Spain (Telemann, Albeniz, Torroba)

1h. 15 min, without break
Tickets from 500 to 800 rub.

July 11th / 8 p.m. / New Hermitage Courtyard
Entrance from the Winter channel

'Jazz-Rock Cafe':

Andrey Kondakov - keys
Randy Brecker - trumphet (USA)
jacob Kremenski - guitar
Andrey Svetlov - bass
Laurent Robin - drums (France)

Tickets: Open parterre from 1000 to 1600 rub., without seat - 600 rub. This is open air performance - don't forget Petersburg weather, always keep your umbrella with you!

July 14th / Great Courtyard of the Winter Palace
Entrance from Dvortsovaya square

La Bastille party together with French Culture Institute in St.Petersburg

Party starts at 6 p.m with performnces and on 9 p.m. concert of the French band Lo'Jo

All the tickets without seats - 500 rub.

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