On March 2, the Musical Olympus Festival gala concert took place at the Berlin Philharmonie and was great success. The performance featured Russian pianist Ilya Maximov, percussionist from Italy Simone Rubino, Ukrainian violinist Alexey Semenenko and Korean soprano Seyoung Park. Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, a singer from Russia that had been also announced in the program unfortunately could not come to Berlin.

As always at the Musical Olympus concerts the audience voted on their favorite artist and Simone Rubino received the ‘Audience Favorite Award’ for his incredible performance of works by A. Gerassimez, B. Hamilton and I. Xenakis for solo snare drum, vibraphone and percussions.