The feast will be with us.

The Concert of Chamber Music has completed the traditional festival under the "French - Belarusian Music Meetings" title.

The idea to make this festival has been born two years ago. Since these times the best performers of two countries have made many concerts in each other's culture centres. The December programme consists of the piano and sonate music, and the cellist Jerom Perno's sole debute on the stage of Chamber Room in Minsk. The viola musician Iness Karsanti and piano musician Jerom Dukro, both young but very famous performers, have arrived together with him. They have visited Belarus half way between their tour in India, Arab Emirates, and West European countries.

Jerom Perno has made a series of master classes in the Republic's musical college at the festival time. The musicians' creative contacts will continue, there was signed the agreement at the summer of this year on cooperation with Paris City's 18th District's Conservatory.

To complete the story, we can say that the "French - Belarusian Music Meetings" festival has been made by the France's Embassy in Belarus, the France's Foreign Affairs Ministry's French Association of Artistic Activity, the our Republic's Ministry of Culture, and BelGosPhilarmonia which is the biggest Belarus musical organization.

Alla Kazakova.
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