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PROGRAMME

Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve RBC Radio and "MYRA Center"

The program is curated by Irina Sevastyanova, a musicologist and researcher at the Center for Electroacoustic Music of the Moscow Conservatory. Admission to all events is free.


Together with RBC Radio, the MYRA Center becomes a vibrant meeting place throughout the festival - a space for friends and like-minded music lovers to come together and talk about music. Lectures, discussions, and meetings with musicians invite visitors to immerse themselves in the world of classical music, exploring its context, contrasts, and many facets while gaining new knowledge and unforgettable impressions in Suzdal.

July 10 • 5:00 PM

Lecture “War and Peace”: Introduction. Part One

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July 11 • 5:00 PM

Lecture “War and Peace”: Introduction. Part Two

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July 12 • 2:00 PM

Electroacoustic Music Concert by Yura Ginzburg

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July 13 • 2:00 PM

Open Dialogues: Blending Styles

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July 13 • 4:00 PM

Open Dialogues: The Orchestra's Expeditions

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July 14 • 4:00 PM

Lecture “Gigantomania in Music: Operatic Sagas, Symphonic Titans, and a Piece That Lasts a Thousand Years”

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July 15 • 4:00 PM

Listening Session

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July 16 • 1:00 PM

Open Dialogues: Inside the Orchestra

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July 17 • 1:00 PM

Open Dialogues: Where Does Classical Music End?

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July 18 • 1:00 PM

Open Dialogues: The Art of Transcription

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Lecture “War and Peace”: Introduction. Part One

MYRA Center, Suzdal, 5 Kremlyovskaya St.

July 10, 2026 • 5:00 PM

Description

Sergei Prokofiev worked on his opera War and Peace, based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel, for more than twelve years—right up until his death—continually revising the score while unsuccessfully seeking to have it staged. “Nothing but thorns, no stars,” musicologist Svetlana Petukhova said of the opera’s fate. War and Peace became both one of the composer’s greatest theatrical disappointments and one of his most monumental achievements.

In the first lecture, Elina Andrianova will explore how War and Peace came into being and how it relates to Prokofiev’s other works. We will also discuss how the score brings together two eras: the time of Tolstoy and the time of Prokofiev himself.

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About the Speaker

Elina Andrianova is a composer, co-founder of the Nevma music publishing house, and editor of the online edition of the scholarly journal Musical Academy. She is the author of public lectures and articles on 20th- and 21st-century music. Elina lectures at venues across Russia, from Moscow to Irkutsk, and collaborates with institutions and festivals dedicated to contemporary music.

Lecture “War and Peace”: Introduction. Part Two

MYRA Center, Suzdal, 5 Kremlyovskaya St.

July 11, 2026 • 5:00 PM

Description

Sergei Prokofiev worked on his opera War and Peace, based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel, for more than twelve years—right up until his death—continually revising the score while unsuccessfully seeking to have it staged. “Nothing but thorns, no stars,” musicologist Svetlana Petukhova said of the opera’s fate. War and Peace became both one of the composer’s greatest theatrical disappointments and one of his most monumental achievements.

In the second lecture, we will examine the opera’s key episodes and characters, explore how the music interacts with the text, and try to understand how Prokofiev envisioned both “war” and “peace.”

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About the Speaker

Elina Andrianova is a composer, co-founder of the Nevma music publishing house, and editor of the online edition of the scholarly journal Musical Academy. She is the author of public lectures and articles on 20th- and 21st-century music. Elina lectures at venues across Russia, from Moscow to Irkutsk, and collaborates with institutions and festivals dedicated to contemporary music.

Electroacoustic Music Concert by Yura Ginzburg

4 Staraya St., Kideksha

July 12, 2026 • 2:00 PM

Description

Electronic music largely emerged from the academic tradition. Academic composers experimented with magnetic tape, editing, looping, and the creation of electronic instruments—laying the groundwork for genres such as Berlin techno, ambient, and electronic music as we know it today. The program features works that reveal the connection between the academic tradition and synthetic sound.

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About the Speaker

Yura Ginzburg is a clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist renowned for his experiments at the intersection of classical, electronic, and early music.

Open Dialogues: Blending Styles

MYRA Center, Suzdal, 5 Kremlyovskaya St.

July 13, 2026 • 2:00 PM

Description

Meeting with musician Yura Ginzburg
Moderator: Irina Sevastyanova

Today’s music scene is unimaginable without the intersection of different genres, eras, and traditions. These influences are felt even in the world of classical music, where concerts increasingly become performative experiences and mastering a single instrument is no longer enough for performers. In conversation with Yura Ginzburg, we will discuss how the boundaries between genres are expanding, the new skills today's musicians need, and whether it is possible to bring together the seemingly incompatible.

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About the Speaker

Yura Ginzburg is a clarinetist and multi-instrumentalist renowned for his experiments at the intersection of classical, electronic, and early music.

Open Dialogues: The Orchestra's Expeditions

MYRA Center, Suzdal, 5 Kremlyovskaya St.

July 13, 2026 • 4:00 PM

Description

Meeting with conductor Vasilisa Markina
Moderator: Irina Sevastyanova

Join conductor Vasilisa Markina for a conversation about studying conducting, working with children's and adult orchestras, the challenges of performing outdoors, and the artistic concepts behind different concert programs. Markina is the chief conductor of the Vladimir Governor’s Orchestra and the organizer of numerous musical projects, including the large-scale Symphonic Expeditions—a series of open-air concerts held across the Vladimir region.

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About the Speaker

Vasilisa Markina is the chief conductor of the Vladimir Governor’s Symphony Orchestra. Under her direction, the orchestra regularly performs concert programs and takes part in the Symphonic Expeditions, the ALMA MATER festivals, the New Names Festival in Suzdal, Summer of the Lord, and the Taneyev Festival. Markina’s newest initiative is the Children’s Symphony Orchestra, bringing together talented students from music schools and schools of the arts across the Vladimir region.

Lecture “Gigantomania in Music: Operatic Sagas, Symphonic Titans, and a Piece That Lasts a Thousand Years”

MYRA Center, Suzdal, 5 Kremlyovskaya St.

July 14, 2026 • 4:00 PM

Description

What determines the scale of a musical work? Why can some compositions last for hours—or even days—while others require centuries to be fully performed? Why do composers call for hundreds or even thousands of performers, send musicians into the sky aboard helicopters, or strive to create musical mysteries on a global scale?

In this lecture, we will explore the phenomenon of totality in the history of music, revisiting the creators of symphonic titans, operatic sagas, and monumental historical works—from Baroque composers to Prokofiev, Stockhausen, and contemporary operatic series. Through these ambitious artistic visions, we will consider where the line between spectacle and ritual lies, and how scale shapes the listener’s experience.

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About the Speaker

Tatyana Yakovleva is a musicologist, lecturer, senior instructor, and leading specialist at the Scientific and Creative Center for Contemporary Music at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. She is also the co-founder and curator of the Gnesin Contemporary Music Week festival-laboratory.

Listening Session

MYRA Center, Suzdal, 5 Kremlyovskaya St.

July 15, 2026 • 4:00 PM

Description

In different eras, we hear reproduced music in very different ways. The gut strings of an early 20th-century cello produced a sound unlike that of today’s metal strings. Playback devices have evolved as well: Edison’s phonograph sounded nothing like a vinyl record player from the 1960s.

The standard shellac record appeared at the same time jazz was still marching through the streets of New Orleans in the 1890s. It evolved with the introduction of microphone recording during the heyday of traditional jazz in the Roaring Twenties and quietly faded away in the era of rock ’n’ roll and the emergence of new improvisational music in the 1960s. This journey through time will be brought to life with a 1930 gramophone and original jazz records released between 1924 and 1954. The session will be presented, narrated, and DJed on historic equipment by Fyodor Sofronov, associate professor at the Moscow Conservatory and collector.

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About the Speaker

Fyodor Sofronov is a composer, musicologist, educator, Candidate of Arts, and Associate Professor at the Moscow State Conservatory.

Open Dialogues: Inside the Orchestra

MYRA Center, Suzdal, 5 Kremlyovskaya St.

July 16, 2026 • 1:00 PM

Description

Meeting with Ilya Repenak

The Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra (RNYSO) has become a remarkable phenomenon in Russia’s concert life. Established as an academy to help young musicians develop their skills, it quickly grew beyond the scope of an educational project. Over eight seasons, the orchestra has performed with some of the world’s leading conductors and soloists. Today, no major premiere is complete without the RNYSO, and its repertoire spans an extraordinary range of music—from the Baroque period to contemporary works. In this conversation, RNYSO Artistic Director Ilya Repenak will discuss how the orchestra operates without a permanent chief conductor, how musicians are selected, who shapes its artistic programs and secures funding, and what the organizers see as the orchestra’s future.

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About the Speaker

Ilya Repenak is the Artistic Director of the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra (RNYSO).

Open Dialogues: Where Does Classical Music End?

MYRA Center, Suzdal, 5 Kremlyovskaya St.

July 17, 2026 • 1:00 PM

Description

Meeting with clarinetist Igor Fyodorov

Can a contemporary composition stand alongside the masterpieces of the 19th century? What should be considered jazz classics? How does the aesthetics of sound change across different musical styles, and what can performers learn from musicians who play traditional ethnic instruments? Join one of Russia’s leading clarinetists, Igor Fyodorov, for a conversation exploring these questions.

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About the Speaker

Igor Fyodorov is an outstanding Russian musician, a soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic, and one of the few clarinetists in the world devoted exclusively to a solo concert career. His unique repertoire seamlessly combines works by Mozart and Poulenc with jazz standards.

Open Dialogues: The Art of Transcription

MYRA Center, Suzdal, 5 Kremlyovskaya St.

July 18, 2026 • 1:00 PM

Description

Meeting with cellist Borislav Strulev

Join cellist Borislav Strulev for a conversation about creating new versions of musical works through fantasies, transcriptions, and orchestrations. Many such pieces are part of his repertoire. Together, we will explore the history of this tradition and remarkable examples from different eras, discuss how classical musicians approach improvisation, and consider where an electric instrument can take the place of the traditional cello.

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About the Speaker

Borislav Strulev is a Russian-American cellist and graduate of the Manhattan School of Music. He was one of the first cellists to perform jazz and crossover music on the instrument. He collaborates with musicians and actors around the world, works in film music, and is active as a producer and artistic director of music projects.

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