Concerts of the Japanese Spring Festival will be held in Khabarovsk and Vladivostok.

The St. Petersburg House of Music will host the Japanese Spring festival program in Khabarovsk on May 23 and Vladivostok on May 26 as part of the Russian National Music Team cycle.

The concerts of the program feature soloists of the House of Music, laureates of international competitions: Alexey Shpakov (piano), Peter Khudonogov (flute), Arseniy Gazizov (double bass), Roman Markelov (saxophone), Alexander Bodosov (trombone), Georgy Akimov (percussion instruments) and winner of the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition Fedor Osver (oboe).

The program of the event includes works by Toru Takemitsu, Makoto Shinohara, Tetsuo Kawakami, Takashi Yoshimatsu, Yuko Yubayashi, Toshio Hosokawa, Yosuke Fukuda, Utako Yuzi, Masayoshi Fujita, Fumihiro Ono.

"Japanese Spring" was the response of the St. Petersburg House of Music to the annual performance of its soloists at the festival of Russian Culture in Japan. The leading young musicians of Russia are being received with great success by the leading concert venues in Japan. The festival 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. During the season, the project's concerts are also held in Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Sochi, Voronezh, Kirov, Tula, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Yalta - in creative collaboration with various concert venues and collectives.

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On April 21, the soloist of the St. Petersburg House of Music, Fyodor 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.