Festival

The annual Ildar Abdrazakov International Music Festival was founded in 2018 and is now one of Russia's largest and most dynamically developing music forums. The festival aims to identify, support, and promote talented youth in Russian regions. The festival's map steadily expands, encompassing new cities each year. Over six seasons, concerts have been held in 19 cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Kazan, Almetyevsk, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Tyumen, Astrakhan, Vladivostok, Khanty-Mansiysk, Murmansk, Petrozavodsk, Krasnoyarsk, Surgut, and others. In 2024, the Seventh Festival ceremoniously opened in St. Petersburg, and the regional route will cover several regions and five new cities: Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Satka, Miass, and Orenburg. A special stop on the route will be the district center Alexandrovka — the homeland of Ildar Abdrazakov's father. The festival will conclude with a grand gala concert in Ufa.

The Festival's program includes events featuring world-renowned vocalists and young opera singers, performances and charitable programs, as well as an educational component comprising series of masterclasses, open rehearsals with world opera stars, and creative meetings with musical figures.

Over the years, Lawrence Brownlee, Claudio Sgura, Luciano Ganchi, Veronica Dzhioeva, Vasily Ladyuk, Sergey Skorokhodov, conductors Speranza Skuppucci, Alexander Sladkovsky, Fabio Mastrangelo, Mikhail Tatarnikov, and many others took part in the festival. Its artistic director Ildar Abdrazakov is an invariable participant in all concerts and masterclasses.