Organizing Committee

Chairman of the Organizing Committee
Valery Gergiev
Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theatre


Co-Chairpersons
Alexander Avdeev
Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation
 
Lyudmila Shvetsova
First Deputy of the Mayor of Moscow


Members of the Organizing Committee
Andrey Belyaninov
Head of Federal Customs Service of Russia

Mikhail A. Bryzgalov
Director General of the Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture

David Geringas
Cellist, Winner of the IV International Tchaikovsky Competition

Alexander Golutva
Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation

Oleg Dobrodeyev
CEO Public Television and Radio Broadcasting Company

Konstantin L. Ernst
General Manager of First Channel ORT

Kirill Fisherman
Director of regulatory Department of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

Vladislav Fronin
Editor in chief of The Russian Newspaper

Sergey Khudyakov
Head of the Culture Department of Moscow
  
Yury Laptev
Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation

Denis L. Matsuev
Member of the Council on Culture of the Russian President, 
President of the "New Names" Foundation, 
Pianist, Winner of the XI International Tchaikovsky Competition

Viktor Petrakov
Deputy Director, Head of the Conservation of Cultural Property, 
Federal Service for Supervision of Law for the Protection of Cultural Heritage

Richard Rodzinski
General Director, International Tchaikovsky Competition

Sergey I. Rozanov
Vice-chancellor of the Moscow State Conservatory

Mikhail V. Seslavinsky
Head of Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications

Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin
Composer

Alexander Sokolov
Acting Chancellor of the Moscow State Conservatory

Sergey V. Stadler
  
Alexey A. Shalashov
Director of the Department of Contemporary Art and International Cultural Links at the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

Sergey Shumakov
Chief Editor of TV 'Culture', director of Public Television and Radio Broadcasting Company

Elena Zubareva
General Manager of the Moscow Philharmonic Society