I address this message to those who loves guitar!
This wonderful instrument charms and fascinates, and fills the hearts of listeners and players with joy.
The Second Alexander Frauchi International Guitar Festival & Competition will start in Moscow in November 2011. According to the tradition the competition will take place in The Gnesins Academy of Music on November 6 – 12, 2011.
Enthusiasts of guitar art, music community, masters of guitar, journalists are looking forward to this event as 7 evenings will be devoted to guitar, when the entire palette of resources of this instrument will become evident.
It will be possible to listen to guitar solo, duet and quartet, in combination with other instruments, as well as with the orchestra. Wonderful players and experts: Aniello Desiderio and Quartetto Furioso (Italy), Marcin Dylla (Poland), a balalaika player Andrew Gorbachev and Tatyana Khaninova (piano), a flutist Tatyana Larina and the best students of Alexander Frauchi: Dmitry Illarionov, Eugene Finkelshtein, Dmitry Murin, Dmitry Tatarkin, Vladimir Mityakov, Julius Karauskas (Lithuania) and Vladimir Dotsenko (Ukraine) will play.
This festival has become true thanks to participation and full-scale assistance of people of high culture, moral principles, those who love guitar. I express special appreciation to Mr. Alexander A. Avdeev, the Minister of Culture of Russian Federation, to Ms. Galina V. Mayarovskaya, Rector of The Gnesins Academy of Music for their help in organization of the competition, and to all who took part in preparations and implementation of The Second Alexander Frauchi International Guitar Festival & Competition in Moscow.
Respectfully,
Ms. Mary Latinskaya-Frauchi,
Art Director of the competition-festival