On May, 28 within the social programme of the XIX International Musical Olympus Festival a concert of classical music was organized for the detainees of the detention facility No.1 Kresty. Young Russian musicians, students of the special musical school-lyceum at the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg Conservatory, long-standing partner of the Musical Olympus Foundation, performed at the concert: Andrey Kolesnik (accordion), Aleksander Generalov (trombone), Artur Sayadyan (bayan), Yekaterina Sultanova (violin), and Sophia Kaliyanurova (clarinet). They presented to the audience a short but very impressive programme featuring the works by Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Shchedrin, Rossini, and Piazzolla.

The social programme of the Musical Olympus Festival aims to support the people in difficult life situations through classical music. The concerts are organized in detention facilities, hospitals, elderly care centres, and hospices. 

“Music should be there, where there is need for emotional and spiritual support.  It really helps and heals, we have proof of that,” says President of the Musical Olympus Foundation Irina Nikitina. By taking part in such social concerts musicians also become more responsible. “True artists, participants of the Musical Olympus Festival, will never differentiate between social concerts and those with experienced audience and critics,” adds Irina Nikitina.

The concerts of classical music at the detention facility No. 1 Kresty are organized within the Musical Olympus Festival already the third year in  row.