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October 2025
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01 October, Wednesday 6:00 pm
Grand Hall
International Music Day
Marathon Concert
On the 50th anniversary of the event

01 October, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Violin and piano music evening

Ryu Hee Yoon - violin (South Korea)
Lee Som Seung - piano (South Korea)
J.-S. Bach: Sonata for violin and harpsichord; Messiaen: Fantaisie for Violin and Piano; Grieg: Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano; Tchaikovsky: Valse-Scherzo; Mendelssohn: Sonata for Violin and Piano

01 October, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Russian musical culture in the era of Peter the Great

Mikhail Aleinikov - lecturer

02 October, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"Musical capitals of the world"

Russian Saxophone Quartet
Vladimir Koznov - soprano-saxophone
Gannady Poluyaktov - alto-soprano
Stanislav Pyalov - tenor-saxophone
Ilya Bogomol - baritone-saxophone
Rossini: Fantasy on themes from operas; Tchaikovsky: Scherzo à la russe; Albéniz: "Song of Love", "Lullaby", "Summer"; Lyadov: Prelude, Waltz, Mazurka; Podgaits: Quartet; Shostakovich: Jazz Suite No. 1; Piazzolla: Fugata; Gershwin: Fantasy on a Theme from the Symphonic Poem "An American in Paris"; Granados: Lullaby from the cycle "Romantic Scenes"; Bernstein: "West Side Story", fragments

03 October, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Albina Shagimuratova presents the laureates of
the XXVII International Glinka Competition of Vocalists

Conductor - Andrei Anikhanov
Albina Shagimuratova - soprano
Ekaterina Savinkova - soprano (III prize)
Ekaterina Begunovich - soprano (II prize)
Valentina Pravdina - soprano (IV prize)
Ekaterina Lukash - mezzo-soprano (I prize)
Ivan Borodulin - countertenor (III prize)
Danil Sakharov - tenor (IV prize)
Miroslav Molchanov - bass (IV prize)
Overtures, arias and scenes from operas
Mozart; Donizetti; Rossini; Bellini

04 October, Saturday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Concert in the Foyer | First Concert of the Season

04 October, Saturday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"The Unquenchable Constellation..."
For the anniversary of the artist

Svetlana Kryuchkova - artistic word
Akhmatova; Tsvetaeva; Mandelstam; Pasternak; Petrovykh

04 October, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Piano Duo
Masterpieces of World Art
On the 50th Anniversary of International Music Day


Alina Fedoseeva - piano

Piano duet DueLL


Piano duet
Irina Vasilieva - soprano
Olga Yermakova
Piano duet

Sergey Oskolkov
Piano duet


"Spectrum-Duo" Piano Duo
Marina Klimova
Nadezda Medvedeva
Chopin: Rondo for two pianos; Mendelssohn: Andante und Allegro assai vivace; Mozart - Liszt: Memory of Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" for two pianos; Rachmaninoff: Suite No. 1 for Two Pianos; Poulenc: Elegy for two pianos; Strauss - Chasing: Fantasy on themes from the operetta "Die Fledermaus"; Shostakovich - Belov: "Ballet Music" for two pianos

05 October, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Mozart. Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"
On the 270th anniversary of the composer's birth

Conductor - Vyacheslav Valeyev
Dmitrii Khrychev - cello
Mozart: Symphony No. 41; Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Suite No. 4 "Mozartiana"

05 October, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Gypsy Strings Time

Ildar Kazakhanov - guitar
Gasan Bagirov - guitar
Victor Rapotikhin - violin
Vladimir Kozlov - contrabass
Reinhard: “Clouds”, “Minor Swing”, “Daphne”, “Tears”, “Gypsy Swing”; Schmitt: “Bossa Dorado”; Reinhard, Grapelli: “Dzhangology”; Harris, Young: “Sweetie Sue”; Youmans: “Tea for Two”; Bonfa: “Black Orpheus”

05 October, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Unusual instruments"

Impulse Percussion
Bizet: Overture to "Carmen"; O. Petrova: "Fa salt" for kitchen utensils; Nazarko: "Fantasy on Russian themes"; Grig: "In the Cave of the Mountain King" for big drum; Joplin: "Ragtime" for washboard; Vivaldi: "Le quattro stagioni" for scythe, tape recorder, wind machine and thunder; Semenov: "Concertino for Big drum"; J. Strauss: Polka "Blacksmith", Polka "Champagne", Polka"In the Pavlovsky forest", Polka "Hunting", Polka"Anna", Polka "Railway"; Anderson: "Piece for Typewriter", Polka "Plasterer"

06 October, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Mikhail Vorotnoy
Evening of Piano Music

Beethoven: Sonata No 8; Mendelssohn: Variations sérieuses; Schumann; Liszt: Mephisto Waltz; Rachmaninoff: Musical Moment in B-flat Minor, Op. 16 No. 1, Etude-painting in F sharp minor, Op. 39 No. 3, Etude Tableau Op. 39 No. 8, Etude Tableau Op. 39 No. 9, "Melody"; Prokofiev: Sonata No 7

06 October, Monday 6:00 pm

"Music is the sister of painting"
Images of music in Italian Renaissance painting

Olga Maho - lecturer

07 October, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Symphonic arrangements of The Beatles songs
On the 85th anniversary of John Lennon's birth

Conductor - Alexey Nyaga
Maria Zaisteva - cello, laureate of the International ARD Competition (1st prize, 2024)
Alexander Malich - presenter
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1, Cello Concerto; Symphonic arrangements of The Beatles songs

07 October, Tuesday 6:00 pm

"Concerts without music"
Ferenc Liszt and the first solo piano concert in Russian history

Olga Radvilovich - lecturer

08 October, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Literary and musical performance "Our Chekhov"
On the 165th anniversary of Anton Chekhov's Birth


Conductor - Valeria Putrya
Alexandra Kulikova - author and performer
Rachmaninoff; Glière; Tchaikovsky; Shashina

09 October, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Sviridov. Symphony
Rachmaninov. Piano Concerto No. 2

St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Alexander Titov
Oleg Vainstein - piano

09 October, Thursday 6:00 pm

"Entertained with music and dancing"
The musical life of the Russian nobility

Natalia Sidorova - lecturer

10 October, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Astor Piazzolla
"Remolino" Ensemble

"Remolino" Ensemble
Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, Concerto for orchestra, Tango

10 October, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Ravil Islyamov (violin)

Ravil Islyamov - violin
Svetlana Ponomareva - piano
Dvořák: Sonatina for violins and piano in G major; Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances; Islyamov: Three romances for violin and piano; Rimsky-Korsakov - Zimbalist: Fantasy on themes from the opera "The Golden Cockerel" for violin and piano; Chausson: Poème for violin and orchestra; Saint-Sa¸ns: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso; Sibelius: "Souvenir" for violin and piano, Novelette for Violin and Piano; Bizet - Waxman: Fantasy on the themes of “Carmen”

11 October, Saturday 7:00 pm
Grand Hall
Beethoven. Violin Concerto
Soloist – Kristóf Baráti

Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Alexander Sladkovsky
Kristóf Baráti - violin (Hungary)
Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Bruckner: Symphony No 4 "Romantic"

11 October, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Alexander Dedik and his students
Vocal evening

11 October, Saturday 12:00 pm

"There are few of us, the chosen ones, the idle happy ones..., the only beautiful priests"
Music in the lives of the heroes of A.S. Pushkin's works

Nadim Aidarov - lecturer

12 October, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 9

Conductor - Valery Ovsyanikov
Anna Denisova - soprano
Natalia Entelis - presenter
Khachaturian: "Masquerade", Suite from music for Lermontov's drama; Glière: Concerto for Coloratura soprano and orchestra; Shostakovich: Symphony No.9

12 October, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Sviridov. Suite from the music to the film "Time, Forward!"

Tauric Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Mikhail Golikov
Sviridov: Small Triptych for Orchestra, "Time, Forward!" Suite; I. Dunaevsky: Potpourri from the music for the film "Circus", "Volga-Volga", "Jolly Fellows"; Khachaturian: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia, Dance of the Gaditanian Maidens and Spartacus's Victory from the ballet "Spartacus"; Eshpay: Fanfares; Rybnikov: Music for the film "You Never Dreamed"; Dashkevich: Music for the film "Bumbarash"; Gladkov: Potpourri from the music for the film "Gentlemen of Fortune"

12 October, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"He's a genius, just like you and me."


Evgenia Chernysheva
Anna Puchkova
Polina Kozyritskaya - viola
Ruslan Tleubaev
Polina Lapteva - soprano
Ivan Vasiliev - baritone
Valery Kaula - bass
Elena Spist - piano
Alexander Galitsky - presenter
Mozart; Glinka

12 October, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"PRO legacy"

Divertissement Chamber Orchestra
Ilya Ioff - violin, artistic director
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 7, Sonata for Violin and Piano; Raskatov: "Seasons-Digest"; Tchaikovsky: Serenade for string orchestra

14 October, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Sviridov. "Pushkin's Wreath"
"Kursk Songs"

St. Petersburg Concert Choir
Conductor - Vladimir Begletsov
Sviridov: Chants and prayers for a cappella choir, "Pushkin's wreath", "Songs of Kursk", cantata

14 October, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Songs without words"

Valery Kuleshov - piano
Mendelssohn; Schubert – Liszt: Song transcriptions; Rachmaninoff – Wild: Song transcriptions

14 October, Tuesday 6:00 pm

"Breathing the same breath as Leningrad"
Philharmonia in 1941-1945

Julia Kantor - lecturer

15 October, Wednesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Russian Rock

Ekaterina Nagornaya - violin
Tatiana Komissarova - viola
Margarita Vaganova - piano
Yoel Gonzalez - percussion (Cuba)
Sekret: "Hello", "Sarah Baraboo"; Kino: "Blood type", "Changes!"; Chaif: "Let everything be the way you want (17 years old)"; Nautilus Pompilius: "I want to be with you"; Chizh & Co: "Polonaise", "About love"; Korol i Shut: "The Forester", "The Sorcerer's Doll", "I'll jump off a cliff"; "SerGa": "What do we need?"; Alisa: "Heaven of the Slavs"; Auktyon: "The Road"; Aria: "Paradise Lost", "Carefree Angel"; Sukachov: "My grandmother smokes a pipe"; Russian folk (Cossack) song: "Love, brothers, love"

15 October, Wednesday 6:00 pm

"There was a great concert from the Italian capella"
Music at the court of Empress Anna Ioannovna

Natalia Bakhareva - lecturer

16 October, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Rachmaninoff. Piano Concerto No. 3
Sviridov. Poem in Memory of Sergei Esenin

Mikhailovsky Theatre Choir
Conductor - Alexander Soloviev
Ivan Bessonov - piano
Sergey Kuzmin - tenor

17 October, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Liszt. Piano Concerto No. 1
Brahms. Symphony No. 2

Conductor - Vladimir Altschuler
Valery Kuleshov - piano
Weber: Der Freischütz Overture; Liszt: Piano Concerto No 1; Brahms: Symphony No.2

18 October, Saturday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"The Greats. Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff"

Ilia Kozlov - violin
Natalia Neskoromnaya - cello
Timofei Kalmykov - piano
Tchaikovsky: "Melody" from the series "Memories of a dear place", "Méditation" from the series "Memories of a dear place", Waltz-Scherzo; Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata, Prelude in Es-dur major, Op. 23 ¹ 6, Etude-tableau Op. 39 No. 6, Etude Tableau Op. 39 No. 9; Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio "In Memory Of The Great Artist"

18 October, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Cello Concertos

Chamber Orchestra
Dmitrii Khrychev - cello
J.-S. Bach; Vivaldi; Boccherini

19 October, Sunday 3:00 pm
Grand Hall
"The Golden Cockerel"

Conductor - Mikhail Leontiev
Anna Mikhalkova - presenter
Rimsky-Korsakov: "The Golden Cockerel", Suite; Tcherepnin: "The Tale About the Fisherman and the Fish"

19 October, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
"There is music above us"
(Baroque era)

"Tempo di barocco"
Elena Serova - chembalo
Nadezda Khadzheva - mezzo-soprano
Anastasia Kaneeva - flute
Polina Udalova - violin
Lan Chi Pham - violin
Elizaveta Berezhnova - viola
Dmitry Kirillov - cello
Sergey Bliznetsov - oboe
Julia Gorbatova
Nikolai Stranatkovsky - trumpet
Natalia Entelis - presenter
J.-S. Bach; Handel; Purcell; Vivaldi

19 October, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Offering to St. Petersburg": from Peter the Great's Kants to the present day

Optina Pustyn Male Choir
Alexander Semyonov - artistic director

20 October, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Piano quartet "Beletage"

'Bel Etage" Piano Quartet

Maxim Larionov - violin
Oleg Larionov - viola
Nikolai Matveev - cello
Mozart: Trio for piano, viiolin and viola in E-flat major `Kegelstatt`; Tchaikovsky: Pezzo capriccioso for Cello and Orchestra (Piano) in B Minor, Hungarian dance from the ballet "Swan Lake".; Waxman: Carmen Fantasie; Dvořák: Piano Quartet No 2

20 October, Monday 6:00 pm

"You know that I love you..."
"The young man playing the lute" and the echoes of Caravaggio's art in 17th-century Italian painting

Olga Maho - lecturer

21 October, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Andrey Anikhanov
Soloist – Dinara Aliyeva

Sviridov: Musical illustrations to Alexander Pushkin‘s “Snowstorm”; Tchaikovsky: The scene of Tatiana's letter from the opera "Eugene Onegin", "The Battle of Poltava", a symphonic intermission from the opera "Mazepa", Maria's Lullaby from the Opera "Mazepa", Arioso and Lisa's Aria from the Opera "The Queen of Spades"; Rachmaninoff: "Dance of the Gypsies" from the opera "Aleko", Ïåñíÿ Çåìôèðû èç îïåðû «Àëåêî»

21 October, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Music of Wanderings"

Peter Laul - piano
J.-S. Bach: Capriccio on the Departure of the Beloved Brother; Beethoven: Sonata No. 26; Mendelssohn: Fantasie; Schubert - Liszt: "The Wanderer", "Aufenthalt", "Wasserflut", "Der Lindenbaum"; Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy

21 October, Tuesday 6:00 pm

"Here they carry such a fire in their chest that they forget both snow and frost"
Hector Berlioz and the first solo piano concert in Russian history

Valeria Velichko - lecturer

22 October, Wednesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Rachmaninoff in jazz style

"Phonograph-Jazz-Quintet"
Sergey Zhilin - piano
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Elegy in Es-mol, Op. 3 No. 1, Jazz Fantasy on Themes from Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, Compositions on the theme of Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra in C minor, Op. 18, Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5, Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14, "In the Silence of the Secret Night", Romance, Op. 4 No. 3, Prelude in E-flat major, Op. 23 No. 6, Composition based on "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini"

22 October, Wednesday 6:00 pm

Emil Cooper

Nadezhda Markaryan - lecturer

23 October, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
"Enjoy life!"
On the 200th Anniversary of the birth of J. Strauss II

"Klassika" St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Alexander Kantorov
Waltzes, polkas, and marches
J. Strauss II

23 October, Thursday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Georgy Sviridov
On the 110th anniversary of his birth

Vladimir Baykov - bass
Margarita Ginz - violin
Andrey Ivanov - cello
Ivan Alexandrov - piano
Sviridov: Sonata for piano, Trio for piano,violins and cello, "Sailor's Song" for bass and piano, Songs with lyrics by Robert Burns for bass and piano

23 October, Thursday 6:00 pm

"God preserves everything"
Musical Theater of Kuskovo and Ostankino estates

Anastasia Alexandrova - lecturer

24 October, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Shostakovich. Symphony No. 4
Conductor – Nikolay Alexeev

24 October, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
"Both duet and solo"

Ksenia Gavrilova - piano
Alexander Kashpurin - piano
Debussy: Twelve Preludes, Book I; Prokofiev - Ancelle: Suite from the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" for two pianos

25 October, Saturday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Haydn. Symphony No. 13
Symphony No. 53 "L'imp?riale"

Conductor - Yaroslav Zaboyarkin
Georgy Kovalevsky - presenter

25 October, Saturday 12:00 pm

"And the sound of his song in the young soul remained - without words, but alive..."
Heroes of M.Y. Lermontov's works and music in their lives

Nadim Aidarov - lecturer

26 October, Sunday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Shostakovich. Ballet suites
On the 50th Anniversary of the Philharmonic's Name Change

Conductor - Petr Maximov
Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from the "Sleeping Beauty", Excerpts from "Swan Lake"; Shostakovich: Ballet suites

26 October, Sunday 3:00 pm
Small Hall
Heroes of fairy tales in music
The Ugly Duckling, the Nutcracker, Cinderella, the Dwarf, Baba Yaga, Snow White and other characters


Anna Vikulina - soprano
Elena Spist - piano
Marina Beschastnykh - violin
Yuri Polosmakov - piano
Irina Smuckul - presenter
Prokofiev; Grieg; Tchaikovsky; Mussorgsky; Slonimsky

26 October, Sunday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninov

Julian Semenov-Bridey - piano
Chopin: Two mazurkas, Waltz, Nocturne, Five preludes, Ballade No. 4; Debussy: "Estampes"; Rachmaninoff: 6 Musical Moments

27 October, Monday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
V.V. Andreev State Academic Russian Orchestra

Andreev State Academic Russian Orchestra
Conductor - Dmitry Khokhlov
The lead vocalists will be announced later
Arias, duets and scenes from operas by Russian and foreign composers

27 October, Monday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Olesya Petrova
Vocal evening

Olesya Petrova - mezzo-soprano
Anastasia Rogalyova - piano
Romances
Medtner; Taneyev; Sviridov; Dunaevsky

28 October, Tuesday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Conductor – Yuri Bashmet
Soloist – Boris Berezovsky

New Russia State Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Overture-Fantasia, Piano Concerto No 1, Symphony No 6 "Pathétique"

28 October, Tuesday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Violin music evening

Petr Fedotov - violin
Stanislav Soloviev - piano
Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3; Wieniawski: Brilliant Polonaise in A major, Polonaise de concert in D major, Op. 4; Ysaÿe: Elegic Poem for Violin and Piano; Gershwin - Frolov: "Porgy and Bess" Fantasia

28 October, Tuesday 6:00 pm

"Breathing the same breath as Leningrad"
Philharmonia in 1941-1945

Nadim Aidarov - lecturer

29 October, Wednesday 6:00 pm

"The century of songs" — music during the reign of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna

Aisulu Shukurova - lecturer

30 October, Thursday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Vasilisa Berzhanskaya (soprano)

"Quantum Satis" Chamber Orchestra
Sergey Filchenko - artistic director
Arias from operas, instrumental concerts
Vivaldi; Handel

31 October, Friday 8:00 pm
Grand Hall
Ilya Papoyan
Piano Evening
Opening of the XVI International Chamber Performance Festival “Silver Lyre”

J.-S. Bach; Rachmaninoff

31 October, Friday 7:00 pm
Small Hall
Three Great Sonatas

Vladimir Slovachevsky - cello
Daniil Kharitonov - piano
Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata; Shostakovich: Sonata for Cello and Piano; Prokofiev: Cello Sonata