March 9  

10:00 onwards Participant registration

Kazan Conservatoire Main building, B. Krasnaya, 38

18:00 – Opening ceremony of the competition and draw

   Opening of the exhibition on work and art of V.P. Pletnev

Rachmaninov hall, Kazan Conservatoire Piano Faculty, Pushkin str. 31

March 10

  10:00 – 1 round: auditions in «Bayan-accordion», «Dombra-balalaika-mandolin», «Traditional folk instruments» nominations*

March 11

         10:00 – 1 round: auditions continued (if necessary).

March 12

         10:00 – 2 round: auditions in «Bayan-accordion» , «Domra-balalaika-mandolin», «Traditional folk instruments» nominations*

March 13

         13:00 – Announcement of results, award ceremony

Malyi zal (The Small Hall), Kazan Conservatoire Main building, B. Krasnaya, 38

         15:00 – Gala concert rehearsal

Saidashev Big Concert Hall (Svobody square)

18:30 – Saidashev Big Concert Hall – Gala concert: prize-winners and jury members of the competition with the Symphony Orchestra and the Folk Instruments Orchestra of the Kazan State Conservatoire.

The Gala concert will premiere Mikhail Pletnev’s Tatar Rhapsody for bayan and symphony orchestra.

Soloist – Abuzar Faizullin, Recognized Artist of the Republic of Tatarstan. Conductor – Mikhail Pletnev, People’s Artists of the Russian Federation.

March 14

         10:00 – Round table “V.P. Pletnev’s work and art in the context of the folk instruments performance culture of Russia”.

Rachmaninov hall, Kazan Conservatoire Piano Faculty, Pushkin str. 31

* Place and time of the auditions in different nominations will be clarified after the all the applications will have been received.