The "Bells of Sophia" Organ Music Festival will open in Polotsk on October 29

The XXII International Organ Music Festival "Bells of Sophia" will be held in Polotsk from October 29 to December 3, BELTA was informed by the National Polotsk Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve.

Musicians from Belarus, Germany, Russia, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Poland will take part in the Polotsk festival, the concerts of which are held in the concert hall of St. Sophia Cathedral. The program features six concert programs of various musical genres.

The festival will be opened by a concert featuring the renowned Polotsk organist Ksenia Pogorela, musicians of the chamber orchestra "Europe-Center" (conductor - Rail Sadykov), and soloists of the National Academic Grand Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus. The celebration of organ music will continue with a performance by musician Nikolai Gershak from Germany. The program includes concerts by Russian performer Tatyana Suchkova-Gavrilova (mezzo-soprano), People's Artist of Abkhazia Marina Shamba (organ), organist Albert Visserhof from the Netherlands, and Swedish musician Jörgen Lindström. "Bells of Sophia" will be concluded by Mateusz Rzewuski from Poland and the musical chapel "Sonorus".

Belta. Photos by Anton Stepanishchev, "Vitebskiye Vesti".