Concerts of the "Japanese Spring" of the St. Petersburg House of Music will start in Yakutsk

The St. Petersburg House of Music, under the leadership of People's Artist of Russia, Professor Sergei Roldugin, and the Yakut Philharmonic Society will host the Japanese Spring festival program at the Oyunsky Sakha Academic Theater in Yakutsk as part of the Russian Musical Team cycle. The event will take place on May 6 in Yakutsk at 18:30 local time (12:30 Moscow time).

The concert will feature soloists of the House of Music, laureates of international competitions: Sofia Devutskaya (violin), Maria Bolkonskaya (cello), Sofia Zhilina (flute), Ivan Kosheev (piano), Fedor Osver (oboe), Philip Sozdatelev (clarinet), Alexander Bodosov (trombone), Marat Fatkhutdinov (saxophone) and George Akimov (percussion instruments).

The program of the event includes works by Japanese composers Michio Miyagi, Toru Takemitsu, Kazuo Fukushima, Makoto Shinohara, Maki Ishii, Ryo Noda, Takashi Yoshimatsu, Toshio Hosokawa, Yosuke Fukuda, Masayoshi Fujita.

The Japanese Spring Festival is a tour by the soloists of the House of Music, who perform chamber music by Japanese composers in various compositions. The program started on the second stage of the House of Music in the Nikolaevsky Palace in St. Petersburg on March 11, Sirius on April 15 and Rosa Khutor on April 16. Further concerts will be hosted by Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (May 15), Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (May 18), Blagoveshchensk (May 20), Khabarovsk (May 23) and Vladivostok (May 26). After that, the festival will return to central Russia — a concert will be held at the Tula Philharmonic on June 1.

"Japanese Spring" was the response of the St. Petersburg House of Music to the annual performance of its soloists at the annual Festival of Russian Culture in Japan. The leading young musicians of Russia are being received with great success by the leading Japanese concert venues. The festival in Japan is held with the support of the Russia-Japan Society and under the patronage of Mikhail Shvydkoi, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation.

The projects are aimed at promoting young Russian performers in the field of academic music, expanding their participation in international concert life, as well as strengthening the principles of openness and mutual respect in the field of musical art.

The Musical National Team of Russia is a unique concert series by the St. Petersburg House of Music, which is attended by young Russian soloists, laureates of recent international competitions, as well as Russian participants of the International Tchaikovsky Competition before competitive performances. Concerts are held in Russian Philharmonic halls both in their own cycles and subscriptions, as well as individual performances.

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On April 21, the soloist of the St. Petersburg House of Music, Fedor Osver, won first place at The Muri Competition 2026 in the Swiss city of Muri. Varvara Petrova took the second place, and Pedro Moreira took the third. In the finale, each of the musicians performed his own performance of Mozart's Concerto for Oboe in C Major, K. 314.

Osver's teacher Alexey Utkin, in turn, noted that the musician was preparing for the competition and performed independently, without the personal presence of his teacher at the competition. The teacher emphasized that Osver had never missed classes in recent years without a valid reason, and called the main qualities of the laureate diligence, talent and modesty.