The sympho-rock program of the Presidential Orchestra will unite music lovers of different generations in Vitebsk today

July 11, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The sympho-rock program "Uragan" (Hurricane) by the Presidential Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus will bring together music lovers of different generations today at the "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk" festival, the forum's directorate informed a BELTA correspondent. The ensemble, conducted by Viktor Babarikin, will perform rock classics by artists such as Scorpions, Queen, Guns'n'Roses, Metallica, Deep Purple, and Aerosmith at the "Vitebsk" Concert Hall. The music that captivated young people from the 70s to the 2000s will be played. The orchestra musicians are quite young (their average age is 30), but at the same time, many of them are already laureates and diploma winners of prestigious competitions. In the "Uragan" program, solo instrumental parts will be performed by Egor Dzygun and Vlad Mazurkevich (guitar), Nikolay Piskarev (trombone), Anna Terekhova (tenor saxophone), Sergey Lapko (alto saxophone), Andrey Mavrin (drums), Sergey Kuntsevich (bass guitar), and Yaroslav Neverkovich (keyboards). The popular Belarusian singer and TV presenter Georgy Koldun will perform rock masterpieces. The vocal part of "The Final Countdown" (written by Europe) will be performed by soloist Evgeny Slutsky. The program will also feature a young vocalist, the winner of the children's television competition "Ya - Poyu" (I Sing), Nabil Zaruk, who will perform one of the most popular pieces of the second half of the 20th century, Albinoni's "Adagio". "The professionalism of the orchestra musicians, the high performance level, and the live sound are the components of the sympho-rock program 'Uragan'," the directorate emphasized. The day, packed with concerts, also includes solo performances by Alexander Rosenbaum and Irina Allegrova at the Summer Amphitheater, as well as the late-night program "Songs of Summer," where Sergey Lazarev, Konstantin Legostaev, Zhanna Friske, Dmitry Koldun, Eurovision-2009 winner Alexander Rybak, Irina Bilyk, and other artists will perform their hits. The concert will be hosted by Timur Rodriguez. -0-