Today, Denis Matsuev is arguably the symbol of Russian piano school, with its great traditions, highest concert standards, conceptual novelties, and deepness of interpretations. Career-wise, Matsuev was a quick starter. In 1998, he won the 9^th Tchaikovsky Contest in Moscow. Today, Denis Matsuev is a darling of the prestigious venues of the world, and is a constant partner of leading symphony orchestras. Despite being so extremely popular abroad, his priority task is developing and promoting philharmonic art here in this country. To this end, the large part of his concert programmes – and premieres – are being performed in his motherland. The musician takes part in world-famous festivals, and he is either director of or inspiration for the few music forums and educational projects. He took responsibility for the work of the interregional charity fund “Noviye Imena n.a. I.N.Voronova” – he himself was its disciple, and now he’s the president of the institution.

Dmitri Jurowski, the youngest member of the famous musical family, started his musical education at the age of six at the Cello Department of the Moscow Conservatoire Musical School. After his family moved to Berlin, he continued his cello studies. In 2003, he started to take conducting classes at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin. As an opera conductor, Dmitri Jurowski performs at the Lyric Opera in Chicago, Opera Bastille in Paris, Grand Theatre in Geneva, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa, La Fenice in Venice, Massimo Theatre in Palermo,Comic Opera and State Opera in Berlin, etc. As a symphonic conductor, Dmitri Jurowski has worked with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the orchestras of La Fenice and the Turin Royal Theatre, the Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra in Parma, etc. In the summer of 2010, Dmitri Jurowski made his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre. He has toured with the Bolshoi Theatre’s production of Eugene Onegin to the Royal Opera House, the Real Theatre in Madrid, and the Lucerne Festival. Since 2011, the maestro has been the Chief Conductor of the Flemish Royal Opera and the Chief Conductor of the “Russian Philharmonic” Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, Dmitri Jurowski took over the position of Musical Director and Principal Conductor of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.

The State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov” is one of the oldest symphony ensembles in the country. In 2021, the Orchestra celebrates it’s 85th anniversary.Over the years, the State Orchestra was directed by Alexander Gauk (1936–1941), Natan Rakhlin (1941–1945), Konstantin Ivanov (1946–1965), Evgeny Svetlanov (1965–2000), Vasily Sinaisky (2000–2002), Mark Gorenstein (2002–2011), Vladimir Jurowski (2011–2021) and Vasily Petrenko (2021–2022). In 2005, the ensemble was named after E. F. Svetlanov. Since 2021 Vladimir Jurowski has been holding the position of Honorary Conductor of the Orchestra. The orchestra’s concerts were held at the most famous concert venues in the world including the Great Hall of the Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, the Column Hall of the House of Unions, the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Pleyel in Paris, the Colon National Opera in Buenos Aires, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. In 2013, the orchestra for the first time performed in the Red Square in Moscow.Having visited abroad for the first time in 1956, the orchestra has since represented Russian art in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Denmark, Italy, Canada, China, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, USA, Thailand, France, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, South Korea, Japan and many other countries.