18.08.2025
From August 6th to August 11th the Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra went on tour to Harbin (China) as participant of the Harbin Summer Music Festival.
On August 6th the Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra performed along with the Harbin Symphony Orchestra at the Harbin Concert Hall. The performance led by the conductor of the Harbin Symphony Orchestra Tan Muhai had a great success.
On August 9th the Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra performed at the Volga Manor and on August 11th - at the Harbin Grand Theatre.
During the tour the Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra presented to the audience several compositions of Russian classical music - Pyotr Tchaikovsky's masterpieces marked the 185th birthday of the composer, while the performed compositions of Dmitri Shostakovich were dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
The creator, permanent artistic director and conductor of the orchestra Mikhail Benyumov noted that Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra have long, deep and cordial friendship with Harbin colleagues and audience, who are always looking forward to the orchestra's visits. The universal language – the language of music – is building friendship and bringing peoples of different countries together. Mikhail Benyumov also added that the Chinese audience loves Russian music and is even ready to sing along famous Russian songs – they did so during this tour when the orchestra performed the "Moscow Nights".
It was already the 3rd visit of Krasnoyarsk orchestra to Harbin. The first concert was in 2015. The visit in China in 2015 and the return visit of the Harbin Symphony Orchestra in Krasnoyarsk allowed expanding the participation geography of the International Festival of Chamber and Orchestral Music Asia-Siberia-Europe, held in Krasnoyarsk.
