From July 04 to 07, the VI Boris Berezovsky International Music Festival "Summer Evenings in Yelabuga" takes place in Tatarstan. The artistic director of the festival is the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Boris Berezovsky.
Opera singer and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan Aida Garifullina will be a special guest of the festival this year.
Famous musicians, orchestras and collectives will also perform on the stage. These are the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan (Ilya Derbilov will act as conductor), the State Chamber Choir of the Republic of Tatarstan under the direction of Milyausha Tamindarova, the Igor Lerman Chamber Orchestra, the Blues-rock trio Blues Doctors, the trio Elegato and Aidar Salakhov, the Tatar ethno-folk group Alpar, the ensemble Fynyaf, the Russian singer, composer Tina Kuznetsova with the folk group Zventa Sventana, Cuban singer - winner of the New Wave competition and participant of the Voice show on Channel One, Iliana Sanchez with the jazz group Rhythms of Havana, opera singer Albert Jalilov and many others.
"Summer evenings in Yelabuga" are not only concert programs, but also unique meetings and master classes:
– literary hour of the poet, Honored poet, Honored Artist of Russia, theater and film actor Vlad Malenko;
– a master class on creating works in the technique of lipstick from the artist and art critic, children's writer and member of the Union of Writers of Russia Ksenia Fedorova
– piano master class from the professor of the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky Yuri Martynov;
– literary hour of the writer, producer of cultural projects, member of the St. Petersburg Writers' Union Irada Berg.