The 2021/2022 concert season promises to be very busy and diverse for the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia. Among the most important events of the coming season there are the following:
– the 11^th edition of the Moscow Music Festival “Vladimir Spivakov Invites...” at the Moscow Performing Arts Center and the Zaryadye Hall featuring world opera stars Hibla Gerzmava (soprano), Lise Davidsen (soprano, Norway) and Stephanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano, France), violinist María Dueñas (Spain), pianists Nikolai Lugansky and Lucas Debargue (France), members of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House Aygul Akhmetshina (mezzo-soprano) and Alan Pingarrón (tenor); 
– tours in Russia, Italy, Austria and Uzbekistan (specifics below);
– Christmas Festival of sacred music in the Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow Performing Arts Center;
– the final round and gala concert of the winners of the Vladimir Spivakov Violin Competition in Ufa;
– Professor Lev Kontorovich's Jubilee concert at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. 
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Vladimir Spivakov and the NPR will give two charity concerts in Uzbekistan, which will take place in the square at the Alisher Navoi State Academic Bolshoi Theater in Tashkent on May 23 and in Registan Square in Samarkand on May 25. The concerts will feature Ekaterina Morozova (soprano) and Uzbekistan-native Bekhzod Davronov (tenor), both soloists of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia. The program consists of excerpts from operas by Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Mascagni and Cilea.

The concerts are organized by Alisher Usmanov's Art, Science and Sport Charity Foundation together with the Art and Culture Development Foundation under the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The concerts are free for students of the Uzbekistan State Conservatory, R.M. Glière Music School, V.A. Uspensky Music School and other educational institutions in the capital city and other regions, cultural workers and teachers, media figures, bloggers, wards of inclusive resource centers and special boarding schools for disabled children. The NPR members will give master-classes for students of music colleges.
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May 21, 2021 | Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow Performing Arts Center
Concert to Andrey Skharov's 100th Anniversary (1921–1989)
Soloist – Vladislav Sulimsky, baritone
Academic Grand Choir “Masters of Choral Singing”
Conductor – Vladimir Spivakov
Barber. Adagio for strings
Shostakovich. “The Execution of Stepan Razin” – Poem for bass, choir and orchestra
to text by Evtushenko, Op. 119
Rachmaninoff. Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Rachmaninoff. “We praise Thee” from the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31
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