Int’l music festival to kick off in Azeri region
BAKU – An international music festival featuring performances by the world’s prominent musicians will be held in Azerbaijan’s northern Gabala region from Friday, July 15, till August 5.
A contest of pianists will take place as part of the annual event, the culture ministry said.
The festival will bring together musicians and bands from Russia, Britain, Israel, USA, Norway, the Netherlands, Italy, France, and Germany. Among others, performing at the event will be Yuri Bashmet and Novaya Rossiya (New Russia) symphonic orchestra, Boris Berezovsky, Denis Matsuyev, Sergei Krylov, Anna Samuil, Sergei Leyferkus, Oksana Yablonskaya, Dmitry Yablonsky, and Massimiliano Pisapia.
The Heydar Aliyev Foundation, headed by Azerbaijan’s First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva, has already organized two international music festivals in Gabala – in 2009 and 2010.
This story is published by AzerNEWS Weekly under a project funded by the Foundation for State Assistance to the Development of the Media under the President of the Azerbaijan Republic.
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