Audience Award at the 17th International Musical Olympus Festival – a handmade silver Easter egg by a famous jeweler Vladimir Mikhailovwent to a Japanese conductor Yuki Kakiuchi, supported by the majority of the audience. Voting was carried out at each concert through question lists. The organizers received a total number of over one thousand filled-in question lists from the audience. As the Audience Award winner, Yuki will be the first to receive an invitation to participate in an international Musical Olympus festival concert program.

The final – seventh – concert of the Musical Olympus Festival took place on June 3 at the Grand Hall of the D.D.Shostakovich St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonia. That night accompanied by the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra were soloists from the USA (Tori Huang, piano), Spain (Ana Maria Valderrama, violin) and Moldova (Olga Busuioc, soprano). The orchestra was under the baton of a Japanese conductor Yuki Kakiuchi. The musicians performed the works by Rossini, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Dvorak, Kalman, Mozart and other composers.

On June 1 the Hermitage Theatre hosted the sixth concert of the 17th International Musical Olympus Festival main program. That night the Hermitage Theatre saw performances of young musicians from Russia, Switzerland and Republic of Korea. The concert opened with the performance by St. Petersburg ESSe-Quintet (Kirill Evseev, balalaika prima; Dmitry Gogolev, domra alto, domra small; Daria Chernykh, balalaika kontrabass; Ksenia Kvochko, accordion; Mikhail Krylov, accordion). In the second part there were performances by Simon Wiener (violin, Switzerland) and Haeran Hong (Republic of Korea, soprano). The musicians performed the works by Budashkin, Kramar, Tsintsadze, Glazunov, Massenet, Verdi, Mozart, Donizetti and other composers. The artists were accompanied by the State Hermitage orchestra under the baton of a Russian conductor Mikhail Agrest.

On May 30 the Musical Olympus Foundation held a concert for patients of the St. Petersburg Children's Hospice. The children were visited by young artists: Anastasia Subrakova (violin), Mikhail Shaffartsik (violin) and Konstantin Klochin (accordion). They performed classical and Russian folk works, as well as their own compositions. The performance was joined by a young patient of the hospice, Gavrila. He is just ten years old. Gavrila played the keyboard for the participants and guests of the concert, and also sang Ave Maria. Gavrila was accompanied by his teacher, accordionist Konstantin Klochin. At the end of the concert the artists and audience together performed a song from the ‘Gena the Crocodile’ cartoon – ‘Let the pedestrians run clumsily over puddles’ and the Foundation members presented young patients with classical music discs of the Musical Olympus Festival.

The fifth concert of the 17th International Musical Olympus Festival was held on May 29 at the Grand Hall of the D.D.Shostakovich St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonia. Participating in the concert were the soloists Ivan Podyomov (oboe, Russia) and Julian Steckel (cello, Germany). The musicians were accompanied by the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, conducted that night by Dimitris Botinis (Greece). The artists performed the works by Dvorak, Strauss, Ravel.

A concert of classical music took place on May 28 at the №2 St. Petersburg House of Veterans within the social program frameworks of the International Musical Olympus Festival. That day the veterans saw performances by young Russian musicians, such as Sophia Viland (flute), Alexandra Korobkina (violin) and Ksenia Gavrilova (piano). The artists performed the works by Charles Marie Widor, Igor Frolov and other composers.