The XXIII Asia-Siberia-Europe festival has come to an end in Krasnoyarsk. A total of ten concerts took place on various stages in the regional centre, with musicians and composers from Italy, France, China, Austria and other countries taking part in the event.

Austrian symphonic music was the star of the final concert, "Old and New Vienna." It opened with Christoph Ehrenfellner's original symphony, for which he personally acted as the conductor, and then followed with the outstanding Russian violinist Nikita Borisoglebsky, who performed Mozart and Schubert.

This year, the unique multi-genre music festival traditionally introduced viewers to new and unusual instruments – for example, the lute, a medieval baroque string instrument, and its variety called the theorbo, as well as with the traditional Chinese instrument pipa; and since the Asia-Siberia-Europe programme also celebrates folk and ethnic creativity, Mongolian national instruments such as the morin khuur played their roles in the interactive exposition of the mega-project.

Larisa Markosyan, Honored Artist of Russia, Director of the Festival of Chamber and Orchestral Music "Asia‑ Siberia‑ Europe":

— The festival, as you can see, is growing constantly. There are more and more concerts, more and more stars, and even though the journey to our city is more and more difficult and expensive, we still never lose the bar, but maintain it dutifully.