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The InClassica International Music Festival continued yesterday evening with a performance by the lauded US pianist Kit Armstrong who took to the stage alongside the Russian National Orchestra who performed under the baton Armenian conductor Sergey Smbatyan. In a concert full of musical greats, the artists delivered a programme with works by the revered composers Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

In celebration of its first week of concerts, InClassica has presented a special concert featuring the participation of renowned Russian violinist Sergei Dogadin, who joined up with famed conductor Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra to put forward a varied programme including works by Camille Saint-Saëns, Alexander Glazunov, and Composer-in-Residence, Alexey Shor.

Egyptian soprano Fatma Said joined forces with Felix Korobov and the Russian National Orchestra at the InClassica International Music Festival's 6th evening, presenting a varied concert full of seminal works from the opera canon at the UAE's famed Dubai Opera, with works by Handel, Mozart, Rossini, and Puccini, among many others all forming part of the programme. 

Russian pianist Denis Kozhukhin appeared at the InClassica International Music Festival on on Wednesday 1st September, where he was joined by the Russian National Orchestra under the baton of conductor Gergely Madaras. Together, the musicians presented a concert that included works by Composer-in-Residence Alexey Shor, as well as pieces by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov featured at InClassica on Tuesday 31st August, with the soloist joining Hungarian conductor Gergely Madaras and the Russian National Orchestra in a performance at the Dubai Opera which included works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonín Dvořák, and contemporary composer Alexey Shor.

The InClassica International Music Festival moved on to its third evening on Monday 30th August, with a spectacular concert featuring three living legends of the music world - Maxim Vengerov, Steven Isserlis, and Roustem Saïtkoulov - who presented a diverse programme featuring works by Joseph Hollman, Maurice Ravel, Alexey Shor, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

Sunday 29th August marked the second day of the InClassica International Music Festival, a uniquely ambitious classical music festival taking place in Dubai that welcomes 37 world-renowned soloists, seven leading orchestras and twelve esteemed conductors for a celebration of world-class music-making. The festival is organised by the European Foundation for Support of Culture (EUFSC) in collaboration with SAMIT Event Group, and represents the largest such event to have taken place in the Middle East. InClassica’s second concert featured the world-famous French chamber ensemble, Trio Wanderer, who performed a rousing and joyous programme at the Dubai Opera, playing works by Schumann, Saint-Saëns and the event’s Composer-in-Residence Alexey Shor. 

The highly-anticipated InClassica International Music Festival, organised by the European Foundation for Support of Culture and SAMIT Event Group, has finally arrived, with proceedings kicking off on August 28th in the form of a piano recital by the celebrated Canadian artist Marc-André Hamelin, held at the illustrious Dubai Opera.

Book tickets to the InClassica International Music Festival 2021 Love classical music? Then you need to get the InClassica International Music Festival 2021 on your radar. Running until Sunday September 26 with a series of different shows happening at both Dubai’s Coca-Cola Arena and Dubai Opera, the festival features both young up-and-coming talent and some of the world’s most established and famous musicians. 

35 competitors compete to move on to next stage On August 15, the hotly-anticipated Classic Piano International Competition launched at the Music Hall of Dubai’s Jumeirah Zabeel Saray Hotel, welcoming numerous talented young pianists from across the globe to participate in a celebration of tenacity, technical excellence and profound musicality.