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