From October 19 to 21, 2026, the Tyumen Philharmonic will host concerts as part of the “Vladimir Spivakov Invites…” Festival, organized with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation as part of the All-Russian Philharmonic Seasons program. The three-day festival led by Vladimir Spivakov was first held in Tyumen in March 2018, when soloists Timofey Vladimirov, Vasily Ladyuk and Vadim Eilenkrig performed at the Philharmonic alongside the maestro and the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia (NFOR).
This year, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia will once again be the principal ensemble featured in the festival’s programs. At the festival’s opening concert on October 19 at the Gulyaev Concert Hall, the maestro and the orchestra will be joined by pianist Vladimir Vishnevsky, winner of the Vladimir Krainev International Piano Competition and the S. V. Rachmaninoff International Competition, and a scholarship holder of the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation.
The festival will conclude on October 21 with an opera gala featuring Anna Aglatova, a leading soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, and Alexey Neklyudov, a soloist of the E. V. Kolobov Moscow Novaya Opera Theatre and a guest soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre. The programs for these evenings feature outstanding masterpieces by the great composers, including Schubert, Grieg, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Cilea and Massenet.
On October 20, audiences can look forward to an unusual program celebrating the 100th anniversary of legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis: Symphonic Kind of Blue. The project was conceived and is led by trumpeter Vadim Eilenkrig, who has reimagined compositions from Davis’s iconic album Kind of Blue in a symphonic setting as a tribute to his idol. The program also includes Korngold’s symphonic suite drawn from his score for the film The Sea Hawk, performed by the NFOR, along with selected compositions by Miles Davis and Vadim Eilenkrig. The concert will feature renowned jazz musicians from Eilenkrig Crew, with Arsentiy Tkachenko, Deputy Artistic Director of the NFOR, conducting.