Anna Atroshchenko and Svetlana Nekhay will represent Belarus at the children's music competition "Vitebsk-2011"

May 4, Minsk / Tatyana Pastushenko - BELTA /. Two young singers - Anna Atroshchenko (10 years old) from Minsk and Svetlana Nekhay (8 years old, Borovlyany) - will compete for the top prize at the IX International Children's Music Competition "Vitebsk-2011", which will be held during the XX International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk". This was reported to BELTA correspondent by the press secretary of the Ministry of Culture of Belarus, Anna Smolyanskaya. The titled artist Alena Lanskaya will represent Belarus at the "Vitebsk-2011" International Pop Song Performers Competition. Alena has won competitions such as "Atlantic Breeze-2010" (USA), "Sarandev-2008" (Bulgaria), "Cup of Europe-2009" (Russia), "Spivohrai-2010" (Ukraine). Alena is also a laureate of the "Young Talents of Belarus" competition and a first-degree laureate of the V International Festival "Youth for the Union State" (Russia). This year, the performer also applied to participate in the international competition of young popular music performers "New Wave-2011", but the jury members considered her pop performance not original enough. The expert group and professional jury that selected the contestants were formed from leading specialists in the field of musical pop art, and famous cultural and art figures. The judging panel included Irina Dorofeeva, Vasily Rainchik, Alexander Tihanovich, Eduard Zaritsky, Sergey Sukhomlin, Oleg Eliseenkov, and representatives of the Ministry of Culture of Belarus. A year ago, Damir Kedzo from Croatia won the Grand Prix of the XIX International Pop Song Performers Competition "Vitebsk-2010". The Grand Prix of the VIII International Children's Music Competition "Vitebsk-2010" was won by the vocalist Mario from Romania. -0-