Summer Festivals

The International festival of folk art "Sestroretskoe podvorie" take place every year on 11-15 June in Sestroretsk town of Saint-Petersburg's Kurortny District. Amateur bands from many countries gather to participate in this festival.

This year the opening ceremony will take place on 12 June 2005. The aim is to attract public attention to problem of preservation and development of cultural traditions of different countries, to promote all forms and genres of traditional Russian folk art. The program of festival includes: "evenings of Friendship", round tables, disco nights, excursions to Saint-Petersburg.

The festival has been held since 1996. Since then the festival participants were folk bands from Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, Sweden, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Turkey, Slovenia, Georgia and Russian republics.

We would like to invite folk bands from members of UBC to participate in the International Festival of folk art "Sestoretskoe podvorie".

Revival of traditions.
Since 2002 a scientific conference "Sestroretsk in musical culture of Saint-Petersburg" has taken place in Sestroretsk every year. The conference is organised together with Institute of Art History of Russian Academy of Science. In the program of the conference there are lectures of the history of culture of Saint-Petersburg and series of summer concerts of classical music in the memory of Sestroretsk's summer musical seasons, which were very famous at the beginning of XX century.

Within the framework of the festival "Musical Sestroretsk. Revival of traditions" over 100 concerts of chamber classical music have taken place since 2002. Among participants were: young famous musicians, laureates of international music competitions such as the Chopin's International competition. Saint-Petersburg-Duet International competition and others.

The program of "Musical Sestroretsk. Revival of traditions" corresponds to the hundred years old summer concert seasons in KURZAL of the "Sestroretsky Kurort" the oldest SPA of Saint-Petersburg. Such great singers and musicians as tenor I. Sobinov, young symphonic orchestra of Count Sheremetiev and others considered it an honour to take part in these events.