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Best young talented pianists play this night in Zaryadye Hall. Six students of the leading Moscow music educational institutions – Gnessin school, Central Music School of the P. I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, and Children Music School of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory – will perform an hour long set list of virtuosi pieces by Rachmaninov, Schubert, Liszt, Scriabin, and Barber. The concert is organized at the initiative of General Partner of Zaryadye Hall Julius Baer with the participation of the organizers of Verbier Music Festival and Verbier Music Festival Academy.

Special prizes were established for the participants of the concert by Julius Baer, Verbier Music Festival and Verbier Academy, and Zaryadye Hall:

Joint prize of Verbier Festival and Julius Baer
A trip to Verbier Festival in the summer of 2021 and 2,000 CHF
The laureate will be chosen by Martin Engström, the Founder, Musical and Executive director of the Verbier Festival, and Stephen McHolm, the Director of the Academy & Unlimited (Cultural Engagement) of the Verbier Festival. The winner would be announced 30 minutes after the concert.

Julius Baer Special Prize
3,000 CHF
The laureate will be chosen by a Representative of Julius Baer and Zaryadye Hall CEO Olga Zhukova. The winner would be announced 30 minutes after the concert.

Zaryadye Hall Prize
Zaryadye Hall CEO Olga Zhukova announces the winner 30 minutes after the concert.

“The mission of Zaryadye Hall is to support and develop young talents, to grant gifted kids a unique opportunity to perform in one of the world’s best concert halls”, – Zaryadye Hall CEO Olga Zhukova says. “We were enthusiastic about the great idea of such a concert organized in cooperation with Julius Baer, Verbier Music Festival, and the Verbier Academy. Hopefully, the event will become a tradition”.

“Our cooperation with Zaryadye Hall emphasizes the interest of Julius Bear – the leading Swiss wealth management group – to work in Russia. This joint beautiful project stands in line of our partnerships with many outstanding cultural institutions around the world”, says Ewgeni Smuschkovich, Subregion Head Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. “We are enthusiastic about the expansion of our partnership with Zaryadye Hall and Verbier Festival and support of up-and-coming Russian pianists”.

Founded in 1994, Verbier Festival is one of the most prominent and prestigious festivals in the classical music realm. Every July in the small resort town Verbier, young talents and great world musicians gather to perform music. Among them are world famous Valeri Gergiev, Martha Argerich, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Mikhail Pletnev, Evgeny Kissin, Yuri Bashmet, Joshua Bell, Mischa Mayski, James Levine, Thomas Quasthoff, and many others. Within 17 days, the Academy offers dozens of workshops, lectures, open rehearsals and concerts, that is why the Festival is often referred as a kind of laboratory where future world stars are discovered and nurtured.

About 40,000 people visit the festival annually. Many real music fans and professional musicians are among them, so young artists are exposed to wider international audience.